WISE Development Ltd Examples of Assignments undertaken by WISE Associates since 2000: PROGRAMME MANAGEMENT & SUPPORT: includes programme appraisals, design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation / routine reviews, programme impact assessments
Country / type of work		Agency & date		Description		* Under-taken by
Sub-Saharan Africa
Tanzania	Govt of Tanzania; BEST programme Feb 2008		Development of M&E framework for second phase of BEST programme				CP
Tanzania Evaluation & Lesson learning		CARE Oct – Nov 2005		Evaluating and documenting lessons learnt from two livelihood programmes in Mwanza District.			CP
Mali & Tanzania Strategic Impact Inquiry into gender equity & women’s empowerment		CARE Jan – Oct 2006		Team leader of two-country study (Mali and Tanzania) of impacts on women’s empowerment of Community Based Micro-Finance schemes, as part of C-I’s ongoing (3 year) Global Strategic Impact Inquiry into Women’s Empowerment.			CP
Tanzania Design and deliver a Masters programme		University of Dar es Salaam / Durham University Jan 2005 - ongoing		Member of an international team designing and delivering a masters programme with the University of Dar es Salaam on Entrepreneurship. This is geared to develop change agents amongst those professionals in the Tanzania who are involved in the enterprise sector.			PR
Zimbabwe OD review and planning		NIZA May to December 2003		Media Monitoring Project Zimbabwe (MMPZ), Organisation Development Consultant Conducted interviews within MMPZ and NGO partners, facilitated strategic planning and report writing			MS
Uganda Participatory Action Learning System (PALS)		Kabarole Research & Resource Centre May – Aug 2003		Project design and training for Kabarole Research and Resource Centre. Following earlier work on PALS with KRRC in 2002, to further develop PALS as a sustainable and empowering system for action learning, train staff and grassroots workers and help monitor effectiveness. To write PALS Manual,			LM
Zimbabwe Programme design & OD Appraisal		DFID May/ June 2003		Design of the Farm Community Trust, Zimbabwe's Vulnerable Farm Workers' Relief and Recovery and Empowerment Project Memorandum, Team Leader Design and OD appraisal of DFID funded programme, preparation of Project Memorandum for DFID Harare			MS
Zimbabwe Output to Purpose Review		dfid April 2003		Team Leader Output to Purpose Review of DFID Zimbabwe support for Humanitarian Relief programmes: Farm Community Trust Zimbabwe; SCF-UK Emergency Preparedness Project; World Food Programme.			MS
Nigeria Output to Purpose Review		dfid January/February 2003		Conducted Institutional review and evaluation of Change Agent programme, negotiations with Ministry of Health, team leader and responsible for Output to Purpose Review of DFID support			MS
Malawi Design of impact assessment system		Concern Universal Nov 2002		Concern Universal’s Micro-finance Organisation (CUMO): design of socio-economic impact assessment system			CP
Zimbabwe Institutional Appraisal		dfid Oct 2002		Institutional Appraisal/Impact Assessment of the Zimbabwe Wills and Inheritance Laws Project with Ministry of Justice, Responsible for conducting Output to Purpose Review			MS
Uganda Programme evaluation and M&E training		HIVOS / Kabarole Research & Resource Centre Sept – Nov 2002		Programme Evaluation and M and E training, Uganda Evaluation and training for Kabarole Research and Resource Centre, funded by Hivos. To evaluate Hivos support for small enterprise development in the area. To give staff and partner training to set up a PALS monitoring and evaluation system.			LM
Lesotho Design of Safety, security & access to justice programme		dfid March to August 2002		Worked with Permanent Secretary and internal change management team in Ministry of Justice in the design and OD appraisal of DFID funded programme, prepared Project Memorandum for DFID			MS
Zambia Institutionalisation of gender policies & practices		CARE Feb – March 2002		Research into institutionalisation of gender supportive policies and practices in CARE Zambia’s economic activity development programmes			CP
Zambia Programme scoping mission		DFID April 2000		Scoping mission to assess potential to support local agencies involved in urban livelihoods in Copperbelt region where large scale retrenchment is taking place in copper mining industry			CP
Malawi Impact Assessment		CARE Sept – Oct 2001		Impact Assessment of CARE’s CRIMP programme involving analyses of impacts on household livelihood strategies through participatory monitoring, evaluation and learning methodologies.			CP
South Africa Development of impact indicators		DFID May – June 2000 May 2001		May/June 2000; with follow-up training workshops May 2001: Development of baseline indicators and data collection methods for ongoing social impact study of the national Small Business Development Project (comprises 5 NGO’s providing enterprise training and support services across South Africa			CP
Central, South and South East Asia
Sri Lanka Women’s Empowerment in Sustainable Livelihood programming		CARE Sri Lanka Sept-Oct 2008		To assess programme in SE Sri Lanka for promoting sustainable livelihoods and addressing underlying causes of poverty, in particular that experienced by women: reviewing programme progress, assessing staff capacity, drawing out lessons and contributing to next phase of programme			CP
Nepal Impact Assessment		PACT, Nepal Sept 2006 – Feb 2007		Designing appropriate impact assessment methodology for five year assessment of PACT’s Women Ending Poverty Programme, Nepal, in particular examining the program’s contribution to women’s ability to combat poverty in their families and communities.			LM
Vietnam Piloting Integrated Impact Assessment Approach		IFC / MPDF March – May 2006		International Finance Corporation (Washington) & Mekong Private Development Facility (Vietnam): Team Leader 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
India Developing M&E framework		DFID March 2006		Developing a framework to monitor & evaluate DFID-I’s Support to Public Management & Service Delivery Improvement Programme in Andhra Pradesh			CP
Vietnam (for Asia Region) Documenting regional workshop on gender & diversity		CARE (Asia Regional Office) Dec 2005 – Jan 2006		Facilitation and documentation of Gender Equity Exchange and Synthesis workshop in Vietnam, bringing together all C-I’s Asian country offices to discuss programmatic and organisational dimensions of gender equity and diversity.			CP
India Participatory review. Evaluation & web design		Concern Worldwide Dec 2003		Evaluation and web design for ANANDI, funded by Concern Worldwide. Participatory Review using PALS methodologies to assess and document the achievements and challenges of Anandi's women's empowerment programme. To train staff in PALS and make practical recommendations for more systematic participatory action learning in their annual fair. Also design a website based on this and other ANANDI material.			LM
Central & Eastern Europe, including transition economies & Former Soviet Union Republics
Ukraine Training in M&E		DFID March 2004		Training course in basic monitoring and evaluation, and impact assessment techniques for DFID’s programme partners in private sector development			CP
UK, rest of Western Europe, North America & Canada, Australia & New Zealand
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.			CP
UK Social audit		Newcastle City Council Sept 2005 - ongoing		Head of team undertaking Social Audit evaluation of a regional enterprise programme.			PR
UK Manual on Participatory evaluation		DFID / PARC Feb – March 2005		Desk Review for PARC, funded by DFID. To write a Mini-Manual reviewing debates and good practices in participatory evaluation methodologies.			LM
UK Design of Guidelines for Assessing Impact of Business Enabling Environ-ment Programmes		DFID Jan – April 2005 And Dec 2005		For DFID’s Investment, Competition and Enabling Environment Team: Developing Framework and Guidelines for Assessing Impact of Enabling Environment programmes: Paper 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 assocs)
UK Impacts of gender mainstreaming		DFID Nov 2004 – Feb 2005		For 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			CP
US Developing Poverty Targeting Tools		USAID Nov 2003 – Sept 2004		Desk Review for IRIS and University of Maryland, funded by USAID. Member of three person team based at Maryland University, US to mainstream gender and develop participatory tools for monitoring USAID’s poverty targeting initiative for micro-enterprise.			LM
UK Development of 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 assocs)
UK Review of gender mainstreaming		DFID / SDD March – April 2003		Review of Gender Mainstreaming within DFID Reviewed a selection of DFID programmes to identify examples of good practice in gender mainstreaming.			HM
UK Impact of wardens scheme on black and ethnic minority groups		Office of Deputy Prime Minister / SDD Oct 2002 – May 2003		Carried out an evaluation of the extent to which the Neighbourhood Wardens Scheme addressed the needs of black and ethnic minority groups. Held discussions with project management staff, wardens and community members in Birmingham, Hackney and Swansea. Presented findings to the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister..			HM
UK Gender review of training programme		DFID / SDD Oct 2002 – April 2003		Gender Review of DFID’s Training Programme Attended a selection of DFID’s training courses, reviewed training material, and held discussions with participants and training facilitators. Used the results of the review to provided recommendations for strengthening the gender mainstreaming component of all DFID’s training courses.			HM
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			SG
Canada Assistance to Libraries		British Columbia Libraries Association 2001		Researched and developed website training modules for “Working With Volunteers” project			SG
UK 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)
Multi-country / global reach
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)		CP
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			CP
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 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.