Category: Projects

• Title of the mission: IDENTIFICATION OF YOUTH CAPACITY BUILDING NEEDS IN BURKINA FASO, MALI, NIGER AND SENEGAL AND MECHANISMS ENABLING THEM TO BECOME ACTORS FOR PEACE AND THE RULE OF LAW
• Countries of intervention: Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger
• Client: UNESCO
• Period: July-August 2021

Mission objective

Consult the relevant stakeholders in Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger and Senegal, including young people, to identify the capacity building needs of the latter as well as the mechanisms necessary for them to engage as actors for peace and the rule of law in their community, using a gender-responsive approach.

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• Tire de la mission: IDENTIFICATION DES BESOINS EN RENFORCEMENT DES CAPACITES DES JEUNES AU BURKINA FASO, AU MALI, AU NIGER ET AU SENEGAL ET DES MECANISMES LEUR PERMETTANT DE DEVENIR DES ACTEURS POUR LA PAIX ET L’ETAT DE DROIT
• Pays d’intervention: Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger
• Client: UNESCO
• Période: Juillet-Août 2021

Objectif de la mission

Consulter les parties prenantes concernées au Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger et Sénégal dont les jeunes, pour identifier les besoins en renforcement des capacités de ces derniers ainsi que les mécanismes nécessaires pour qu’ils puissent s’engager en tant qu’acteurs pour la paix et l’état de droit dans leur communauté, selon une approche réactive en matière de genre.

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• Project: Youth Empowerment through TVET in The Gambia
• Country: The Gambia
• Client: UNESCO
• Period: January-March 2022

The evaluation team will aim to achieve the following objectives:
i) Assess the appropriateness of the project strategy and design in relation to outcomes and progress made;
ii) Assess the strategic positioning of the project within the UN system and the broader landscape of TVET-related actors and programmes, taking into account relevant enabling policy frameworks to which the work of the project responds;
iii) Assess how the project aligns with The Gambia’s needs, as well as SDG targets, relevant international policies and norms, and UNESCO strategic objectives and Global Priorities;
iv) Assess contributions towards gender transformative change;

v) Assess managerial arrangements and work planning; finance and co-finance, risks to sustainability (financial, socio-economic, institutional framework and governance, environmental, etc.);
vi) Evaluate the current exit strategy and likelihood of sustainability of activities and preliminary project gains; and
vii) List obstacles the project confronted, and lessons learned moving forward.

• Project title: Support the capacity of the Government and national stakeholders to establish credible transitional justice processes and mechanisms that promote reconciliation and sustainable peace in The Gambia.
• Country: The Gambia
• Client: UNDP
• Period: June-July 2021

The evaluation had five key objectives:

1. To assess the contribution of the project activities to the realization of project objectives and outcomes by determining how relevant, efficient, effective, and sustainable the project is.
2. To identify and provide analysis of the factors that have either positively or negatively affected/impacted the project beneficiaries.
3. To recognize any possible catalytic effects of the project.
4. To assess the project’s contribution towards national strategies on transitional justice and human rights, as well as peacebuilding, including its contribution towards strengthening Government-led coordination and planning in this sector.
5. To provide recommendations for improving UN support to transitional justice and human rights in The Gambia, including the country’s sustainable peace agenda on transitional justice and human rights.

• Client: OREZONE
• Country: Burkina Faso
• Intervention period: April-May 2022

The objective of this activity is to (i) cover all the sections and observe the environmental and social issues involved, (ii) assess the issues, risks and potential environmental and social impacts related to the planned operations, (iii) inform the sheets and forms for the environmental and social selection of the sub-projects, (iv) contact and exchange with the technical departments of the town halls of the sites hosting the sections and (v) validate the results of the screening, make the classification and determine the environmental and social work necessary always with a view to preserving the tranquility of the neighboring / adjoining populations.

• Client: OREZONE
• Pays: Burkina Faso
• Période de l’intervention: Avril-Mai 2022

L’objectif de cette activité est de (i) parcourir l’ensemble des tronçons et observer les enjeux environnementaux et sociaux en présence, (ii) apprécier les enjeux, risques et impacts environnementaux et sociaux potentiels liés aux opérations envisagées, (iii) renseigner les fiches et formulaires de sélection environnementale et sociale des sous-projets, (iv) prendre contact et échanger avec les directions techniques des mairies des lieux d’accueil des tronçons et (v) valider les résultats du screening, faire la classification et déterminer le travail environnemental et social nécessaire toujours dans le souci de préserver la quiétude des populations riveraines/mitoyennes.

• Client: Korea Rural Economic Institute (KREI)
• Country: Ghana
• Period: August-September 2021

The overall objective of this consultancy is to prepare products that document the extent to which the subject project’s outcomes and impact have been achieved: What is the impact of the project on rural development and improvement of the irrigation system for vegetable production in the target community?

• Client: International Republican Institute (IRI)
• Countries of the assessment: Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Togo
• Period: September-November 2021
• Number of experts assigned: 4 key experts and 10 research assistants

As violent extremist organizations expand their zones of influence in the central Sahel and increasingly threaten northern border communities in the Littoral States, IRI seeks to integrate the best practices and lessons learned from rigorously evaluated community-led prevention and countering violent extremism (P/CVE) interventions in target border communities into a regional P/CVE strategy ratified by Burkina Faso, Ghana, Côte d’Ivoire, Togo, and Benin through coordination with the Accra Initiative and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).

• Client: International Republican Institute (IRI)
• Countries of the assessment: Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Togo
• Period: September-November 2021
• Number of experts assigned: 4 key experts and 10 research assistants

As violent extremist organizations expand their zones of influence in the central Sahel and increasingly threaten northern border communities in the Littoral States, IRI seeks to integrate the best practices and lessons learned from rigorously evaluated community-led prevention and countering violent extremism (P/CVE) interventions in target border communities into a regional P/CVE strategy ratified by Burkina Faso, Ghana, Côte d’Ivoire, Togo, and Benin through coordination with the Accra Initiative and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).

• Client: HEIFER International
• Region of the intervention: Sahel region
• Period: November-December 2021

The overall objective of this consultancy is to conduct a comprehensive scoping study of the Sahel and develop a five-year strategic and operational plan that will enable Heifer International to implement its interventions and mandate in the Sahel. For the purpose of this study, the Sahelian belt covers, in whole or in part, the following countries: Mali, Burkina Faso, Northern Nigeria, Senegal, Mauritania, and Norther Cameroun. The outcomes and recommendations from this study should enable Heifer to decide on which of these countries to focus resources.

The scope of work for the Consultant will include but not limited to the following objectives, in coordination with Heifer Senegal and other Heifer Stakeholders:
• Undertake a situational analysis of relevant ongoing development programs and interventions to date in the region;
• Carry out an exhaustive stakeholders’ mapping and analysis in the Sahel, the axes of which are in line with Heifer’s missions. This mapping will include the activities of private sector, bilateral/multilateral agencies, key challenges that stakeholders face, as well as their lessons learned;
• Collect and analyze all the specific information on the Multiple uses of water, Livestock, Agriculture, Governance, etc. (production players, production systems and areas, actual supply or production, factors limiting the quality of production, associated costs, and added value, on all links in the chain: from production to end market for all value chains, etc.) in the Sahel;
• Through a consultative process and application of appropriate tools of analysis, identify focus areas, the thrust areas of interventions, long term goals, strategic objectives, key result areas for Heifer International. The thrust areas will focus on key value chain opportunities in the Sahel: collection and analysis of relevant market information, exploration of potential market channels which, if fully exploited, could contribute to the production and market efficiency, identification of the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats at the level of these two value chains, in particular at the level of production and marketing systems (SWOT analysis) and proposal of improvement strategies taking into account the associated costs, added value and investment needs in key sectors of these value chains;
• Propose a strategy for achieving the strategic objectives and key results by highlighting: the strategic axes, the strategic lines of action and the implementation plan, the monitoring-evaluation framework;
• Propose monitoring and evaluating strategies (including the theory of change, result framework, key performance indicators, etc) and mechanisms to ensure the effective implementation of the strategic plan;
• Develop a Resources Framework for the plan period. This will include the Budget and potential sources of funding and a well-defined strategy for partnership and resource mobilization;
• Hold stakeholder meeting(s) and inception workshop(s) in the Sahel to validate the draft Strategic Plan; and
• Finalize Strategic plan and submit to Heifer International