Eastern and Southern Africa

This pre-feasibility study aims to support the University of Nairobi to develop its science and engineering complex. It must formulate its future directions, which will be fine-tuned by a feasibility study. At this stage, the study includes a general diagnosis of the demand for competences on the labour market and of those existing, and a forecast of future competences in specific fields. It also includes a roadmap for the establishment of the complex, covering infrastructures, equipment, human resources and the training to be delivered.

The purpose of this contract is to support the Kenyan Department of Justice in the implementation of the newly adopted Legal Aid Act and to support the overall coordination of and collaboration between actors in the Programme for Legal Empowerment and Aid Delivery (PLEAD). The objective of the PLEAD, of which this contract is a part, is to develop an integrated approach at the central and local levels aimed at achieving equality for all before the law, through improved access to and the expeditious delivery of justice, particularly in high-risk counties in Kenya.

The mission consisted of training five (5) officials from Madagascar's Ministry of National Education on the subject of ''Ongoing and ex-post evaluation of programmes and projects: principles and tools''.
As expected by funding agencies and as part of the project or programme cycle, evaluations are frequently carried out and should be a highlight of the development process. However, they are still too often implemented in haste, by actors and contributors who have little understanding of their usefulness. Having initially focused mainly on the results of the action, evaluation now leans towards intervention strategies, the direct and indirect effects of interventions and the changes brought about.

The assignment involved individual coaching for the Secretary General of the Comoros Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, the Environment, Tourism and Handicrafts on the subject of ''Ministerial management of public policies''.
In each country, governments draw up and publish a medium-term strategic document setting out the main objectives to be achieved in terms of economic and social development. This document is broken down into ''sectoral public policies'', which are implemented by the various ministries in their respective fields. Consequently, in application of the principles of results-based management (RBM), the senior managers of the ministries are responsible for guiding, steering and evaluating the day-to-day action of their administration in the service of "public policies", and the aim of this training was to build the capacity of this official in these key areas.