WISE Development Ltd

WISE Development Ltd

Examples of Assignments undertaken by WISE Associates since 2001:

MULTI-COUNTRY / GLOBAL REACH:

Country /

type of work

Agency & date

Description

* Under-taken by

Economic Development: includes private sector development (PSD), SME and entrepreneurship development, trade and market issues, sustainable livelihoods, micro finance, fair trade, agribusiness, business development & support services (BDS)

Piloting in Ethiopia and Kenya for global application

Gender & Value Chains

ILO

Jan – April 2007

Continuation of work for ILO Oct-Nov 2005 on developing a Guide for integrating gender in Value Chains Analysis; now piloting the guide in two SSA countries, reviewing and finalising for global application.

Global application

Gender & micro-finance module

IFAD, FAO & World Bank

Nov 2006 – March 2007

Designing and writing a web module on gender and micro-finance as part of a Gender & Livelihoods Manual.

Multi-national application with piloting in 2 SSA countries

World Bank / IFC / FIAS (WISE in partnership with The Law & Development Partnership)

Sept 2007 –

March 2009

Development of a methodological toolkit for assessing gender dimensions of investment climate reform; includes review and lesson learning of series of Gender & Growth Assessments conducted in SSA 2004-7, and piloting of toolkit in two SSA countries.

UK / Sri Lanka / Bangladesh / India / Sudan / Zimbabwe

Designing impact assessment methodology

Practical Action

(formerly ITDG)

June – Aug 2006

UK: Facilitator of a) “Markets and Livelihoods Group” workshops for IDS Livelihoods Network (June in UK), and

b) PA’s 5 Country Team Leaders “Market Programmes and Impact Assessment” Workshop (Aug in Sri Lanka)

International

Training for pro-poor development

ILO Geneva

March 2006

March 2006 – September 2006 Training for Pro-poor Development update and revise an earlier draft paper for ILO for final publication. Includes presenting a paper at a workshop in Turin on Training Best Practices.

US & Vietnam / International

Piloting “Integrated Approach to Impact Assessment”

IFC & Mekong Private Development Facility (MPDF)

March – May 2006

Piloting the Integrated Impact Assessment Approach in the context of MPDF’s work with Binh Dinh Province on improving the business enabling environment; findings presented to IFC Conference in Washington in May

CP & PR

International & Ethiopia

Gender main-streaming in value chains analysis

ILO Geneva

Oct - Nov 2005

Conducted capacity building review and drafted a Guide for integrating gender in Value Chains Analysis, including preliminary work in Ethiopia.

UK / International

Developing guidelines for assessing impact of BEE programmes

DFID

Jan – April 2005, and Dec 2005

Jan-April 2005: Developing Guidelines for Assessing Impact of Enabling Environment programmes which became the “Integrated Approach to Impact Assessment.” Paper on IIAA was key note presentation at Annual Conference of Committee of Donor Agencies’ SED Committee, Cairo, Dec 2005

CP (Team Leader, with PR and other WISE assoc’s)

International

Programme evaluation and tools development

ILO Geneva

Aug 2004 – March 2005

Team leader – working with the small enterprise team at ILO Geneva headquarters to evaluate their small enterprise development programme of the past 5 years, put in place an evaluation framework and develop a set of impact assessment tools for their enterprise development interventions

US / India / Uganda

Design of Participatory Action Learning System (PALS)

Trickle Up US (USAID)

July 2004-Feb 2005

Designed PALS methodology for enterprise training and assessing impact of Trickle Up’s poverty-targeted grant scheme; wrote a training Manual; piloted and trained staff in US, West Bengal and Uganda.

International

Developing best practice guidance manual & training

ILO Turin & Geneva

June 2003 - ongoing

One of three senior business consultants developing a best practice guidance manual and delivering an international training programme on enabling environment issues for small business development policy makers and practitioners.

Tanzania, Ethiopia and Zambia

ILO Geneva & Irish Aid

Dec 2001 – April 2003

Senior consultant /joint team leader for a three country, 18 month action research programme looking at the role and relevance of gender for enterprise development and job creation in Ethiopia, Zambia and Tanzania. Included practical recommendations, and already the Tanzanian Government have integrated gender issues into their new Small Enterprise Policy, which includes financial reform and introduced new business services.

Enterprise Development Impact Assessment Information Service

(EDIAIS)

DFID

Nov 2000 – Dec 2005

Establishment and maintenance of DFID-UK’s Enterprise Development Impact Assessment Information Service (EDIAIS). Joint venture between WISE Development and Institute for Development Policy & Management (IDPM), University of Manchester. Included commissioning international research in cutting edge methodologies for impact assessment; extensive consultation with DFID's country-based staff and partner-organisations; arranging and chairing an international conference on best practices in impact assessment (Nov 2003).

CP (Project manager)

SG (web site manager)

LM (principal researcher)

Gender Mainstreaming Impacts

DFID

Nov 2004 – Feb 2005

DFID – UK (Evaluation Dept): Thematic paper on design of study to research impacts of gender mainstreaming in context of business enabling environment programmes; presented to Beijing +10 conference by DFID reps.

Design of impact assessment framework

DFID

July – Oct 2003

Team Leader for “Research Study to design a framework for assessing socio-economic impacts of migrants’ remittances on poverty reduction in developing and transitional countries”

CP (and other WISE associates)

International

Desk review: Enabling environments for Women’s Enterprise

ILO Geneva

March – April 2001

Desk Review for Investing in Social Enterprise Programme, funded by ILO. Wrote overview paper of debates, evidence and frameworks for enabling environments for women's enterprise development. Reviewed secondary sources material from Africa, Asia, US and Europe; also reviewed gender mainstreaming in ILO and other development agencies.

International

Women’s Empowerment & Micro finance – desk review

ILO Geneva

Dec 2000

Women's Empowerment and Microfinance:

Desk review and prepared training material on gender and microfinance for Social Finance Unit. This included overview article and detailed case studies from Africa and production of ILO internal training material.

International / Zimbabwe, Cote d’Ivoire, India, US

Training for Micro Credit Summit Campaign

UNIFEM

Feb 2000 – Nov 2002

Gender mainstreaming in the Microcredit Summit Campaign, Zimbabwe, Cote d'Ivoire, India, US.

Training and Desk Reviews for UNIFEM, conducted a series of gender trainings for the Microcredit Summit Campaign Regional meetings in Africa and Asia and for the Microcredit Summit +5 in New York. Also wrote a Manual and series of Position Papers.

Set up Social Devt Dept for engineering consultancy

Roughton International

June 1999 – Feb 2000

Head of Social Development Department for International Transport Consultants, UK

Set up and ran a Social Development Department for a firm of international engineering consultants who focus on the transport sector. Advised on inclusion of social development and social responsibility to project planning, implementation and monitoring, and wrote issue papers on the emerging role of social policy and social analysis in infrastructure projects. Prepared project proposals.

International / UK / Ghana / Ethiopia / Zimbabwe, Nicaragua / Bolivia / India

HIVOS / DFID / ICCO / Novib

Oct 1998 – Oct 2002

Conference facilitation, desk review and documentation for various donors:, Action Aid UK, Opportunity Trust Zimbabwe, Puntos de Encuentro Nicaragua and Finrural Bolivia. Involved review of academic, NGO and donor literature on micro-finance, gender and empowerment, designing and facilitating three regional workshops in Ethiopia, Ghana and India, and publication of workshop outcomes. A Southern Africa workshop was also held in Zimbabwe in partnership with Opportunity Trust, Zimbabwe and funded by Hivos.

Institutional Development: including public management reform policies and strategies, civil society engagement and strengthening, organisational development, human resource and capacity development, training and skills development, support for decentralisation, local and community institutional strengthening

Global

Gender based violence in programming

UNIFEM / OPM (UK based)

Aug-Oct 2008

To Develop a Knowledge Asset on “Integrating Violence Against Women and Girls in National Development & Funding Frameworks”: researching and writing material for a web-based resource for UNIFEM staff and other development practitioners

UK based / global application

Governance & Transparency Fund

DFID (through KPMG/Harewelle)

2008-ongoing

Assessor for DFID’s Governance & Transparency Fund (managed by KPMG & Harewelle): scrutinising proposals and using DFID criteria, based on CAR, providing systematic governance assessments for long listed and then short listed candidates for DFID funding decisions.

International

Developing best practice guidance & training manual

ILO Turin & Geneva

June 2003 - ongoing

International. One of three senior business consultants developing a best practice guidance manual and delivering an international training programme on enabling environment issues for small business development policy makers and practitioners. Client ILO Turin and Geneva

Canada

International Librarianship: Issues & Innovations

University of British Columbia School of Library Archival & Information Studies

2001, 2003, 2005

Guest Lecturer (alternate summers) on Masters course Summer School in International Librarianship: Issues & Innovations

Canada

Assistance to Libraries

British Columbia Libraries Association

2002- ongoing

“Assistance to Libraries Project” of Libraries Across Borders Group: co-ordinating research, developing guidelines and processes for disseminating funds to Canadian, Aboriginal and developing country library and information services

Programme Management & Support: includes programme appraisals, design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation / routine reviews, programme impact assessments

Multi-national application with piloting in 2 SSA countries

World Bank / IFC / FIAS (WISE in partnership with The Law & Development Partnership)

Sept 2007 –

March 2009

UK (but with participants from nine countries)

Royal Institute of Public Administration (RIPA)

Dec 2007

Associate Director of Studies: co-ordination an delivery of course on Monitoring & Evaluation for government officials of development countries.

UK / Sri Lanka / Bangladesh / India / Sudan / Zimbabwe

Designing impact assessment methodology

Practical Action

(formerly ITDG)

June – Aug 2006

UK: Facilitator of a) “Markets and Livelihoods Group” workshops for IDS Livelihoods Network (June in UK), and

b) PA’s 5 Country Team Leaders “Market Programmes and Impact Assessment” Workshop (Aug in Sri Lanka)

International

Global Strategic Impact Inquiry

CARE (US)

Feb 2005

Facilitation of workshop to launch 3 year Global Strategic Impact Inquiry on Gender Equity and Women’s Empowerment, with 4 pilot country teams: Niger, Bangladesh, Ecuador, Yemen

UK / International

Developing guidelines for assessing impact of BEE programmes

DFID

Jan – April 2005, and Dec 2005

CP (Team Leader, with PR and other WISE assoc’s)

International

Social Analysis guidelines

World Bank

June 2004

Wrote guidelines for World Bank practitioners and consultants on social analysis for community driven development projects. World Bank, June 2004.

Impact of gender mainstreaming

DFID

Nov 2004 – Feb 2005

For DFID’s Evaluation Dept: Thematic paper on design of study to research impacts of gender mainstreaming in context of business enabling environment programmes (presented to Beijing +10)

International

Evaluation of SME programme

ILO Geneva

Aug 2004 – Mar 2005

International. Team leader – working with the small enterprise team at ILO Geneva headquarters to evaluate their small enterprise development programme of the past 5 years, put in place an evaluation framework and develop a set of impact assessment tools for their enterprise development interventions

International: US, India, Uganda

Development of Participatory Learning System

(PALS)

USAID

July 2004 – Feb 2005

Training and project design for Trickle Up-US. To design TUP PALS methodology for enterprise training and assessing impact of their poverty-targeted grant scheme; to write a training Manual; to pilot and train staff in US, West Bengal and Uganda.

International

Desk Review –poverty reduction, training & skills develoopment

ILO Geneva

Dec 2003 – April 2005

Poverty Reduction, Training and Skills Development.

Desk Review for ILO. To write an overview of debates and evidence concerning the interrelationship between poverty reduction, training and skills development focusing particularly on innovative methodologies in poverty targeted training in enterprise and empowerment skills.

Framework for assessing impact of remittances

DFID

July – Oct 2003

“Research Study to design a framework for assessing socio-economic impacts of migrants’ remittances on poverty reduction in developing and transitional countries”

CP (Team leader, with other WISE assoc’s)

Enterprise Development Impact Assessment Information Service

(EDIAIS)

DFID

Nov 2000 – Dec 2005

CP (Project manager)

SG (web site manager)

LM (principal researcher)

Social Development: includes empowerment approaches, gender issues, community based interventions, social analysis and strategies, poverty assessments, social protection, health and education programmes, participatory research and methodologies

Global

Gender based violence in programming

UNIFEM / OPM (UK based)

Aug-Oct 2008

International / US

Gender Strategic Impact Enquiry

CARE (International – US)

Feb 2005

Facilitation of workshop to launch CARE International’s 3 year Global Strategic Impact Inquiry on Gender and Women’s Empowerment, with 4 pilot country teams (Niger, Ecuador, Yemen, Bangladesh)

International

Social Analysis Guidelines

World Bank

June 2004

Wrote guidelines for World Bank practitioners and consultants on social analysis for community driven development projects. World Bank, June 2004.

India & Kenya

Social assessment of education programme

Sight Savers International

March – May 2001

Undertook the social development component of a review of integrated education programmes for the blind / visually impaired for a large international NGO. Held open-ended discussions with visually impaired children and adults, parents, teachers and community members.

Eritrea & Mauritania

Social Assessment into affects of desert locust

DFID / OPM

Dec 2001 – Feb 2002

Carried out social research into the effects of the desert locust on poor farmers in order to