WISE Development Ltd

Examples of Assignments undertaken by WISE Associates since 2001:

 

OTHER AREAS OF THE WORLD (eg China, North Africa, Caribbean, Far East Asia, South & Latin America)

 

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)

 

Morocco

 

Research on homeworkers

CERED / CIDA

 

Aug 2002

International consultant to Moroccan research project to produce a Methodological Note on strategies for homeworkers (in French), including 10 days fieldwork in Morocco.

 

LM

Jordan

 

Programme evaluation

 

DFID / Jordanian Govt / JOHUD

 

Jan – March 2002

Evaluating the performance of JOHUD (a large national non-government organisation based in Jordan) as a provider of credit and business development support services to poor rural communities throughout Jordan and a r- assessment of their role in this area.

 

PR

China

 

Trainer & gender adviser to Business Support centres

DFID / Durham University

 

1999 - 2002

State Owned Enterprise Restructuring and Private Enterprise Development Project. My role was trainer and gender adviser to six  business support centres in Liaoning and Sichuan Provinces. Involved three key visits to develop the action plan of interventions and to train the business counsellors and advisers about start up support and ideas generation.

PR

Jordan

 

Institutional capacity building programme

DFID / Govt of Jordan / Swansea University

 

1997 - 2000

Senior enterprise consultant with a multidisciplinary team led by Swansea University on 6 year institutional capacity building programme with the Ministry of Social Development.  Involved a range of activities for putting in place appropriate pro poor BDS services throughout the country, and the development of an IG policy for the Ministry. 

 

PR

 

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

 

 

Grenada

 

Design of public sector reform programme

DFID

 

November to December 2001

 

 

Worked directly to the Prime Minister and internal team in PM’s Office on the design and OD appraisal of DFID funded programme, preparation of Project Memorandum for DFID

 

MS

Jordan

 

Institutional capacity building programme

 

 

DFID / Govt of Jordan / Durham University

 

1997 - 2000

Senior enterprise consultant with a multidisciplinary team led by Swansea University on 6 year institutional capacity building programme with the Ministry of Social Development.  This involved undertaking a range of activities for putting in place appropriate pro- poor BDS services throughout the country the development of an IG policy for the Ministry. 

PR