WISE Development Ltd

WISE Development Ltd

Examples of Assignments undertaken by WISE Associates since 2000:

STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENT: including country and regional strategies, national and multi-country policy reviews, reform proposals and assessments, non-country specific / broad development programmatic issues & frameworks

Country /

type of work

Agency & date

Description

* Under-taken by

Sub-Saharan Africa

Rwanda

Programme design and support

EU (with Law & Development Partnership)

June – Sept 2008

Rwanda Justice Sector Support Project:

Analysis of support needs for development of justice sector institutions

Immaculee Habiyambere (Director, WISE Rwanda & UK WISE Associate)

Ghana

Stakeholder analysis for PSIA

Govt of Ghana

(WISE in partnership with Sync Consult, Ghana)

Feb-May 2008

Conducting Stakeholder and Risk Analysis for Natural Resources and Environment Programme, as preliminary study to full Poverty & Social Impact Assessment

CP and Judith Ofori (WISE Associate)

Ghana

Social Protection Strategy

Govt of Ghana & DFID

May 2005

Government of Ghana (with Sync Consult, Ghana; funded by DFID Ghana): Resource person for development of Social Protection Strategy, advising and reviewing outputs of local consultancy team

Sierra Leone

Programme Review and Evaluation

dfid

january-February 2005

Review of INSIGHT Governance Programme

Team leader for review and evaluation of DFID funded INSIGHT programme concerned with civil society’s capacity to engage with government on poverty reduction and rights

Malawi

Design of National Gender Programme

DFID

July – Aug 2004

Provided support to the Ministry of Gender in refining their National Gender Programme. Held consultations with a wide range of key stakeholders to define and prioritise national gender objectives. Designed a draft logical framework for a gender programme and presented to the Ministry for finalisation.

Ghana

PSIA

DFID

Feb – Mar 2004

With Sync Consult (local consultancy team) carried out social analysis of vulnerability and exclusion as part of PSIA; included stakeholder consultations, validation & dissemination workshops

Malawi

Safety Nets / Public Works Programme

Govt of Malawi and CARE

Apr-May 2004

Social Development Adviser in Team researching and presenting policy paper for GOM’s Safety Nets Unit on “Study to inform selection of an appropriate wage rate for public works programmes in Malawi”

Uganda

M&E for GoU’s Competitiveness Strategy

Govt of Uganda and DFID

Nov 2004

Review of Government of Uganda’s Medium Term Competitiveness Strategy Monitoring and Evaluation Framework, consultation on same with stakeholders, making recommendations for it’s improvement and implementation

CP (& other WISE Assoc-iates)

Ghana

Poverty Social Impact Assessment (PSIA)

DFID / Govt of Ghana / Sync Consult (Ghana)

Feb – March 2004

PSIA on tackling vulnerability and exclusion in Ghana. Carried out social analysis of vulnerability and exclusion in the context of Ghana. Facilitated stakeholder consultations, validation and dissemination workshops. Presented preliminary findings to government stakeholders.

Rwanda

Gender & Poverty Policy & Strategy

DFID / GOR / unifem

June/July/November 2003

Government of Rwanda Gender and Poverty Policy to Action Strategy and the UNIFEM Gender and Poverty Strategy and Implementation Plan, Strategy Design Consultant

Strategic planning, mentoring, policy development, production of reports, influencing UNIFEM Kigali to work with MIGEPROF, working with GoR and NGOs

Mozambique

Civil Society Support Strategy

DFID / SDD

July 2003

Conducted a scoping exercise to assist in the design of a civil society support strategy, with a focus on addressing monitoring and evaluation of the Poverty Reduction Strategy. Provided a draft logical framework for the strategy.

Rwanda

Design of Gender Strategic Plan

dfid

November 2002 to March 2003

Design of Ministry of Gender Strategic Plan, Team Leader and Organisation Development Consultant to the Ministry of Gender

Facilitated Secretary General and Directors of MIGEPROF through design and production of MIGEPROF Strategic Plan in line with PRSP

Tanzania, Ethiopia & Zambia

Action research programme

ILO Geneva / Irish Aid

Dec 2001 – April 2003

Senior consultant /joint team leader for a three country, 18 month action research programme for the ILO looking at the role and relevance of gender for enterprise development and job creation in Ethiopia, Zambia and Tanzania.

Malawi

Anti Corruption Strategic Plan

dfid

Sept 2002

Malawi Anti Corruption Bureau: Organisation Development Consultant for the design of the ACB Strategic Plan

Facilitated Director General and Directors in the design and production of the ACB Strategic Plan

Southern Africa region

Gender Planning

World Food Programme

1999-2001

Facilitated a series of capacity building workshops for WFP staff and government counterparts in five countries in Southern Africa in the design of logical frameworks, with a focus on setting gender specific indicators for monitoring.

Central, Southern and Eastern Asia

Central Asia

Analysis of rural & urban change processes

DFID / ERM

Dec 2003

Provided an analysis of significant changes occurring in the region in labour markets and investment patterns, livelihood diversification, urbanisation patterns, rural-urban linkages and related social and political changes.

Central & Eastern Europe, including transition economies & Former Soviet Union Republics

Albania

Growth & Econ Development Strategy

Govt of Albania / World Bank / IDS Sussex

July-Nov 2000

Social development consultant in team conducting Stakeholder Analysis and Design of Participatory Processes for Development of Republic of Albania’s Growth & Economic Development Strategy (=PRS)

UK, rest of Western Europe, North America & Canada

Review of Women’s Enterprise Strategy

Dept of Industry & Small Business Service

Aug 2005 – Mar 2006

UK. Running Women’s Enterprise Strategy review sessions with all regional development agencies in the UK in preparation for impact assessment of the 2003 women’s strategic framework policy intervention.

Impact Assessment Framework

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 & other WISE Assoc-iates

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)

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)

Facilitation of Colloquium

DFID

Nov – Dec 2001

Facilitation of DFID’s Social Development Department’s 2001 Colloquium, with topic of “Social Development Perspectives of PRSPs”

Multi-country / global reach

Mali & Tanzania

Global Strategic Impact Inquiry

CARE International

(US)

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.

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)

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

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)

Enterprise Development Impact Assessment Information Service

(EDIAIS)

DFID

Nov 2000 – Dec 2005

CP (Project manager)

SG (web site manager)

LM (principal researcher)

International

Global Strategic Impact Inquiry

CARE

Feb 2005

Facilitation of workshop to launch Global Strategic Impact Inquiry on Gender, with 4 pilot country teams (Bangladesh, Ecuador, Yemen, Niger)

Impact Assessment Framework

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 & other WISE Assoc-iates

Tanzania, Ethiopia & Zambia

Action research programme

ILO Geneva / Irish Aid

Dec 2001 – April 2003