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ASSIGNMENTS/PROJECTS UNDERTAKEN BY EURO AFRICA CONSULT LTD. STAFF AND ITS ASSOCIATE CONSULTANTS
Client: IUCN
Assignment date: January – February 2018
Project: End of Project Evaluation of IUCN’s Project in Kenya and Uganda (Phase 2)
Description: The Company was contracted to carry out an end of Project Evaluation of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)’s “Building Resilience and Adaptive Capacity of Communities in the ASALs of Kenya and Uganda River Catchment areas”.
Scope of Work: Part of the evaluation, which used OECD/DAC criteria of relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, impact, strategic fit with other programmes and to draw out lessons, was to develop a Concept Note for the third phase of the programme to be funded by the Austrian Development Agency (ADA) and other development partners.
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ASSIGNMENTS/PROJECTS UNDERTAKEN BY EURO AFRICA CONSULT LTD. STAFF AND ITS ASSOCIATE CONSULTANTS
Client: Caritas Germany and PACIDA
Assignment date: December 2019 – April 2020:
Project: End of Project Evaluation of a BMZ-funded Project (19 days)
Description: The project was to build drought resilience and adaptive capacity of Arid and Semi-Arid (ASAL) communities through improved food security, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WaSH), animal health and husbandry methods, while strengthening local government and community structures to support sustainability of project outcomes.
Scope of Work: The objective of the evaluation was to assess the impact of the project by comparing baseline survey indicators and those indicators at end of the project. Attribution of impact and lessons learned were assessed and the OECD/DAC criteria of project relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, impact, sustainability, coherence with other projects, lessons learned, etc. was the methodological framework used.
Contract Value: Euro 1.315m
Client: Caritas Germany and PACIDA
Assignment date: May-June 2018:
Project: Mid Term Evaluation of a BMZ-funded Project
Description: Mid Term Evaluation of a BMZ-funded Project: Euro Africa Consult Ltd. was contracted to undertake the mid-term evaluation of the project described in (6.1) above using the same OECD/DAC criteria, drawing lessons learned from implementation and making an assessment of whether the project was achieving its objectives and headed in the right direction.
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Assignment date: Aug. 2015 – Dec. 2015
Project: IGAD Goat Value Chains Study in NE Kenya
Description: Euro Africa Consult Ltd. and Fair &Sustainable Advisory Services BV of the Netherlands were contracted by IGAD headquarters in Djibouti to undertake a goat’s value chain study and its importance household economies in the pastoral and agro-pastoral areas of Mandera, Wajir and Garissa counties of NE Region of Kenya.
Scope of Work: The assignment included 6 consultants. The consultants, plus a total of 24 data enumerators were deployed to collect data through stakeholder consultations and a survey of 1200 households. The assignment brought out interesting ideas on youth and women empowerment in goat value chain development as well as underscoring the need to address pastoral livelihoods risk management such as drought, conflict, disease, inadequate water and market volatility risks to enable vulnerable households to rebuild their herds in order to engage in livestock markets. Devolution of resources and decision-making to the counties is beginning to have positive effects but governance and accountability have not significantly changed. Pastoral and agro-pastoralists have not seen improved service delivery in extension and animal healthcare services. Focus in livestock marketing in pastoral areas should not be on developing international livestock export markets due to low benefits for the poor.
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Client: Solidarites International
Assignment date: June- November 2015
Project: Baseline Food Security and Livelihoods Survey Study for Solidarites International in Marsabit County
Description: The Company carried out a baseline livelihoods study for the Support to Horn of Africa Resilience (SHARE) project implemented by Solidarites International and funded by the European Union Delegation in Nairobi, Kenya. The assignment involved working with communities in targeted locations and with different stakeholders, including relevant county government departments in Marsabit County, to provide an M+E framework based on results-based management and to align the project to the EU’s SHARE program inKenya, alongside the Ending Drought Emergency (EDE) program indicators in Kenya and the Marsabit CountyCIDP.
Scope of Work: The assignment was undertaken by four consultants and involved a Community Based Resilience Assessment (CoBRA) exercise with communities; a Household Economy Analysis (HEA) survey across 369 households; a stakeholder perception survey and a SHARE, EDE, CIDP project integration assessment, all of which resulted in benchmarks and M+E reporting structures and instruments for the Project.
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Client: Solidarites International
Assignment date: April- May 2015
Project: Mid-term review of the DFID-funded Community Resilience Project of Solidarites International in Marsabit County of Northern Kenya
Description: The Company undertook the mid-term review of a Community Drought Resilience Project in Marsabit County funded by DFID and implemented by Solidarities International. The objective of the assignment was to assess progress in implementation and the integration of the project into the resilience agenda in the county and in Kenya’s ASALs as part of the EDE and SHARE programs.
Scope of Work: The mid-term review also provided suggestions for improved project steering e.g. the need to establish a Project Steering Committee to provide advice and policy direction as well as linkage to other stakeholders.
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Client: World Food Programme
Assignment date: April-June 2014
Project: World Food Programme- Kenya PRRO Study
Description: Euro Africa Consult Ltd. won the contract to carry out a World Food Program study on graduating food aid household beneficiaries from household food insecurity to household food security. The Company designed the methodology and executed the assignment with outputs used by the WFP-IFAD-FAO partnership to design a much larger resilience program that links food secure households from the relief program to commercial farming and Value Chain Development in 6 counties of Makueni, Tharaka Nithi, Kitui, Kwale, Kilifi and Taita Taveta Counties of Kenya.
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Client: Swiss Development Cooperation
Assignment date: April – May 2014
Project: Swiss Development Cooperation Project Evaluation in Garissa and Isiolo Counties
Description: Euro Africa Consult Ltd. provided one consultant to team up with another from the Netherlands to review the Swiss Development Cooperation-supported Water for Livestock project in Isiolo and Garissa counties in northern Kenya.
Scope of Work: The project aimed at improved rangeland and natural resource management and to support pastoral and agro-pastoral households to have more water for livestock and human use but in a way that is conflict sensitive; no harm to the environment; improving natural resource use and enabling better water and natural resource management by communities. Several water technologies had been tried by ADESO and the Kenya Red Cross Society & IUCN, the main implementing partners of the Swiss Development Cooperation (SDC).
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Client: EU Delegation
Assignment date: Jan. – Feb. 2014
Project: Feasibility Study for an EU-funded water and roads infrastructure development project in the ASALs of Northern Kenya
Description: The Company provided a consultant to a two-person consultancy team hired by the EU Delegation in Nairobi, Kenya to undertake a feasibility study for supporting a 15m euro project under the Ending Drought Emergencies (EDE) Pillar 2 programme.
Scope of Work: The assignment included designing the methodology, agreeing on the counties to visit, formulate the methodology, collect data, prepare a fiche report, facilitate a stakeholders’ workshop and prepare the final report.
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Client: American Friends Service Committee
Assignment date: Oct-Nov. 2012
Project: Evaluation for American Friends Service Committee
Description: One consultant from Euro Africa Development Consultants (a precursor to the current Company), undertook an end of project evaluation of the emergency support program for vulnerable households and individuals in the Daadab refugee camps in northern Kenya funded by the American Friends Service Committee and targeting nearly 200,000 Somali refugees from the influx following the Horn of Africa drought crisis.
Scope of Work: The Project had various components including cash transfer to the most vulnerable families as well as targeting those with special needs such as physical impairment.
Client: Oxfam
Assignment date: July -Aug. 2012
Project: Oxfam’s Post-Drought Needs Assessment for Northern Kenya
Description: One consultant from Euro Africa Development Consultants (a precursor to the current Company), undertook a drought impact assessment on northern Kenya following the poor performance of the April-June 2012 rains in order to determine the fragility of livelihoods and the potential for sustained recovery from the crisis of 2010-11 in the Horn of Africa
Client: IDDRSI
Assignment date: May – June 2012
Project: Preparation of Kenya Country Programme Paper for IDDRSI
Description: One consultant from Euro Africa Development Consultants (a precursor to the current Company), joined a team of 5 other consultants to prepare the Kenya Country Programme Paper (CPP). Each of the 7 IGAD-member countries prepared its own CPP, which were later used in the preparation of the IDDRSI Programme Framework.
Scope of Work: The consultant from our company prepared the Institutional Development component within the CPP for Kenya. This was under USAID funding through ILRI.
Client: DFID-Kenya
Assignment date: Jan – March 2012
Project: Disaster Risk Management Review for DFID-Kenya Programme
Description: Review and assess the status of disaster risk management in Kenya on behalf of DFID-Kenya and make recommendations aimed at more proactive management of disasters, particularly emanating from drought-related crises, instead of the reactive approach the government of Kenya seemed to be relying on
Client: CORDAID
Assignment date: Dec. 2011 – January 2012
Project: CORDAID Community Managed Disaster Risk Reduction
Description: Evaluation of Community-based Disaster Risk Response approach and methodology and its benefits as implemented by five CORDAID-supported NGOs in Moyale, Marsabit, Turkana and Samburu districts.
Client: CORDAID
Assignment date: Dec. 2011 – January 2012
Project: CORDAID Community Managed Disaster Risk Reduction
Description: Evaluation of Community-based Disaster Risk Response approach and methodology and its benefits as implemented by five CORDAID-supported NGOs in Moyale, Marsabit, Turkana and Samburu districts.
Client: Oxfam
Assignment date: August 2011
Project: Oxfam Evaluation of the Drought Management Initiatives (DMI) project
Description: Evaluation of DMI-supported water infrastructure development project implemented by Oxfam and Partners in Turkana and North Pokot districts.
Client: Concern Universal Kenya
Assignment date: April 2011
Description: Developed a Strategic Plan for Concern Universal Kenya (NGO)
Client: WEAEP
Assignment date: Feb-March 2011
Project: Mid Term Review
Description: Facilitated Women and Girls Empowerment Project in Western Kenya’s (WEAEP) Strategic Planning Process and subsequent Strategic plan
Client: Oxfam
Assignment date: January 2011
Project: Environmental Impact Assessment
Description: Environmental Impact Assessment of DMI-funded projects implemented by Oxfam and Partners in Turkana and North Pokot districts
Client: Woman Kind Kenya
Assignment date: September 2010
Description: Developed a Strategic Plan for Woman Kind Kenya (NGO in Garissa)
Client: Oxfam GB
Assignment date: September 2010
Project: Assessment of Community-based Drought Contingency Planning
Description: Assessment of Community-based Drought Contingency Planning in the Water & Sanitation Sector in Wajir County – Oxfam GB Country Office
Client: Concern Worldwide
Assignment date: Aug 2010
Project: Livestock Emergency Guidelines & Standards Training of Trainers
Description: Concern Worldwide Kenya Office – Livestock Emergency Guidelines & Standards Training of Trainers in Moyale Kenya
Client: Concern Worldwide
Assignment date: Aug 2010
Project: Livestock Emergency Guidelines & Standards Training of Trainers
Description: Concern Worldwide Kenya Office – Livestock Emergency Guidelines & Standards Training of Trainers in Moyale Kenya
Client: FAO Kenya
Assignment date: January-October 2010
Project: Livestock marketing study
Description: Livestock marketing study for Kenya under an FAO Kenya Country Office Contract
Client: FAO Kenya
Assignment date: October 2009
Project: Community-Based Animal Health Service Delivery
Description: FAO Kenya Office: A review of community-based animal health service delivery systems in Kenya
Client: WEAEP
Assignment date: July 2010
Project: Mid-term Review
Description: Mid-term Review of WEAEP’s Women and Girls Empowerment Project in Western Kenya
Client: VSF-Belgium
Assignment date: June 2009
Project: improving Community Response to Disasters in Northern Kenya
Description: Under a VSF-Belgium contract, undertook a study on improving Community Response to Disasters in Greater Marsabit and Wajir Districts of Northern Kenya
Client: WEAEP
Assignment date: July 2009
Project: Mid-term Review
Description: Snapshot Review of WEAEP’s Women and Girls Empowerment Project in Western Kenya
Client: FAO Kenya
Assignment date: May-July 2009
Project: Review Emergency Water
Description: FAO Kenya study to review Emergency Water Trucking during droughts in the ASALs of Kenya
Client: COMIC Relief
Assignment date: April 2009
Project: EPAG Livelihood Program Evaluation
Description: Undertaken EPAG Livelihood Program Evaluation funded by COMIC Relief
Assignment date: March 2009
Description: Support to the Ministry of Special Programs in the Office of the President in Kenya to formulate a national disaster management policy
ASSIGNMENTS/PROJECTS UNDERTAKEN BY EURO AFRICA CONSULT LTD. STAFF AND ITS ASSOCIATE CONSULTANTS
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Assignment date: April-June 2007
Project: Social Safety Nets Programming (social protection) for the lowlands of Ethiopia
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Client: CARE INTERNATIONAL/IDS -UK
Assignment date: April-June 2006
Project: Scoping Study for a comprehensive regional food security programme in COMESA countries
Description: Participants from all over Africa were invited to prepare and present papers on how their countries had responded to droughts and what lessons were available for wider dissemination
Scope of Work: One consultant now working for Euro Africa Consult Ltd. prepared and presented a paper on Kenya’s experience with Drought Early Warning System and its capacity to trigger response
Contract Value: USD 18,000
ASSIGNMENTS/PROJECTS UNDERTAKEN BY EURO AFRICA CONSULT LTD. STAFF AND ITS ASSOCIATE CONSULTANTS
Client: VSF-Germany South Sudan
Assignment date: May – August 2016
Project: Design of M+E system for VSF-Germany South Sudan Program
Description: Euro Africa Consult Ltd. provided one senior consultant in M+E and Knowledge Management to facilitate the development of a results-based framework based on the logical framework for VSF-Germany’s Food Security Program funded by the EU in WARRAP county of South Sudan. The consultant also trained staff of VSF –Germany and those of government and implementing partners on reporting from a logical framework perspective.
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Assignment date: March –April 2016
Project: Final Evaluation of the Food Security through enhancing sustainable agriculture project
Description: Euro Africa Consult Ltd. provided one senior consultant in M+E to undertake the final evaluation of the “Food Security through Enhancing Sustainable Agriculture Project” funded by the EU in WARRAP state of South Sudan.
Scope of Work: The evaluation used the criteria of assessing relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, impact, coherence and sustainability of the four-year project’s results and immediate impacts. The consultant trained field enumerators to conduct the household food security assessment in order to compare with baseline data and to determine attribution of the achievements to the project. The consultant also trained Data Entry Clerks on how to key in household questionnaires to be analyzed using statistical software. VSF Germany was very happy with the work done by our company and the EU appreciated the level of effort from the consultant.
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Client: FAO
Assignment date: May-June 2011
Project: Design of a Food Security Project For The South Sudan Government
Description: Design of a food security project for the South Sudan government to be implemented by FAO and funded by the European Union
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ASSIGNMENTS/PROJECTS UNDERTAKEN BY EURO AFRICA CONSULT LTD. STAFF AND ITS ASSOCIATE CONSULTANTS
Client: COMESA
Assignment date: April 2007
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Description: Support to integrating regional livestock trade and pastoralism into COMESA’s policy and strategic frameworks including into the AU CAADP process
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ASSIGNMENTS/PROJECTS UNDERTAKEN BY EURO AFRICA CONSULT LTD. STAFF AND ITS ASSOCIATE CONSULTANTS
: World Vision International
Assignment date: March –April 2016
Project: World Vision International Somaliland Final Evaluation of a Livelihoods Project
Description: Euro Africa Consult Ltd., won the contract from World Vision International, Somalia Program to undertake the final evaluation of the Odweyne Area Rehabilitation Program in Togedheer Region, Somaliland. This was a four-year project funded by the EU and aimed at assisting the 2011-2012 drought victims after they lost most of their productive assets due to one of the severest droughts recorded in over 50 years in the region. Activities included rangeland rehabilitation; development of sustainable water sources; livestock disease control; capacity development of local governance structures; cash transfer activities for cash-for-work initiatives in the project; etc.
Scope of Work: Our consultant undertook the evaluation using standard criteria of evaluation looking at relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, coherence, impact, sustainability and the mainstreaming of cross-cutting issues such as community participation, environment, gender, HIV and AIDS and people with living with disabilities into programming. He trained field enumerators, carried out a household assessment, consulted with key stakeholders and project partners and looked into the sustainability of project structures and processes.
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Client: ACF, ADRA, CARE, COOPI, Danish Refugee Council, Oxfam and World Vision
Assignment date: Aug. – Sept. 2012
Project: Proposal formulation and development for Somalia Resilience Program
Description: One consultant from Euro Africa Development Consultants (a precursor to the current Company), joined another consultant to prepare a USD 80 m Somalia Resilience Program proposal to be funded over a three-year period by multiple donors and implemented by a Consortium of 7 NGOs i.e. ACF, ADRA, CARE, COOPI, Danish Refugee Council, Oxfam and World Vision.
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ASSIGNMENTS/PROJECTS UNDERTAKEN BY EURO AFRICA CONSULT LTD. STAFF AND ITS ASSOCIATE CONSULTANTS
Client: Oxfam Mauritania
Assignment date: January – May 2003
Project: Evaluation of drought intervention and recovery project (30 days)
Description: Oxfam and local implementing partners had implemented different drought intervention and recovery activities in drought affected regions of Mauritania following the 1999-2002 drought in the Sahel Region in North-West Africa.
Scope of Work: Two consultants, one now working with Euro Africa Consult Ltd., undertook the End of Project Evaluation, documented lessons and made recommendations for future programming.
Contract Value: USD 18,000
ASSIGNMENTS/PROJECTS UNDERTAKEN BY EURO AFRICA CONSULT LTD. STAFF AND ITS ASSOCIATE CONSULTANTS
Client: FAO Regional Office for Eastern and Southern Africa
Assignment date: May 1999
Project: All Africa Workshop on drought management and lessons for future measures (14 days)
Description: Participants from all over Africa were invited to prepare and present papers on how their countries had responded to droughts and what lessons were available for wider dissemination
Scope of Work: One consultant now working for Euro Africa Consult Ltd. prepared and presented a paper on Kenya’s experience with Drought Early Warning System and its capacity to trigger response
Contract Value: USD 6,000
ASSIGNMENTS/PROJECTS UNDERTAKEN BY EURO AFRICA CONSULT LTD. STAFF AND ITS ASSOCIATE CONSULTANTS
Client: IGAD and the European Economic Commission (Brussels)
Assignment date: June-September 2004
Project: Scoping Study for a comprehensive integrated regional food security programme in COMESA
Description: Participants from all over Africa were invited to prepare and present papers on how their countries had responded to droughts and what lessons were available for wider dissemination
Scope of Work: One consultant now working for Euro Africa Consult Ltd. prepared and presented a paper on Kenya’s experience with Drought Early Warning System and its capacity to trigger response
ASSIGNMENTS/PROJECTS UNDERTAKEN BY EURO AFRICA CONSULT LTD. STAFF AND ITS ASSOCIATE CONSULTANTS
Client: ICCO/CORDAID
Assignment date: March – May 2002
Project: Scoping Study for a comprehensive regional food security programme in COMESA countries
Description: Participants from all over Africa were invited to prepare and present papers on how their countries had responded to droughts and what lessons were available for wider dissemination
Scope of Work: One consultant now working for Euro Africa Consult Ltd. prepared and presented a paper on Kenya’s experience with Drought Early Warning System and its capacity to trigger response
Contract Value: USD 18,000
ASSIGNMENTS/PROJECTS UNDERTAKEN BY EURO AFRICA CONSULT LTD. STAFF AND ITS ASSOCIATE CONSULTANTS
Client: PACIDA
Assignment date: March – April 2018
Project: Institutional & Organizational Assessment of PACIDA
Description: The Company provided four consultants to undertake an institution and organization capacity assessment of PACIDA, an NGO working in Kenya and Ethiopia, with multiple-donor funding for humanitarian and development work.Scope of Work: The objective of this assessment was to look at the of PACIDA in terms of governance, structure, project management and implementation, financial and resource mobilization, staffing, organization and management of various departments and the impact of its projects and programmes over a 6 year period, 2012- 2017.
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ASSIGNMENTS/PROJECTS UNDERTAKEN BY EURO AFRICA CONSULT LTD. STAFF AND ITS ASSOCIATE CONSULTANTS
Client: AuSAID
Assignment date: March 2009
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Description: Under AuSAID contract provided technical and program advisory services in the water and sanitation sectors for NGOs implementing the APAC Program in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Uganda, Kenya, Zambia and Malawi
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