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Value Chain Analysis in
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MASDAR is currently preparing a major
proposal to provide a Technical Support Team to the IFAD-funded
Smallholder Agribusiness Promotion Programme in Zambia.
The role of the TST will be to undertake value chain analysis
for 8-10 commodities and then to devise intervention plans which
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Oil Palm Master Plan Study
in Ghana |
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MASDAR has now mobilised a
multi-disciplinary team to prepare a Master Plan Study for the
Oil Palm Industry in Ghana. Working with the "Programme
for the Promotion of Perennial Crops" the study aims to provide
a basis for proper targeting of support to the industry over the
next 15 years. The study will involve a 7 person MASDAR
team and will be undertaken over the next 5 months. |
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Social Development Policy
in Botswana |
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MASDAR and DEV (University of East Anglia) have completed their assignment for UNICEF to develop a social
development policy framework for Botswana. UNICEF rates
this as "excellent work, which contained the best situational
analysis of the Botswana social protection environment ever
produced" and complimented the team on the excellent quality of their work. |
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M&E in Ghana |
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MASDAR has mobilised the second phase of the
M&E data collection assignment for the Millennium Development
Authority in Ghana. Base data in the fields of Land Tenure
Facilitation, Community Services and Procurement Capacity
Activities were collected last year. The same MASDAR team
has now been remobilised to complete a second round of data
collection. The data is proving invaluable to the
management of the US$ 450 million programme in determining
effectiveness and impact of project interventions.
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Social Protection
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Building on the success of
social development assignments throughout the SADC region,
MASDAR has submitted proposals for the evaluation of Child
Grants in Lesotho (for UNICEF) and a major household survey for
the World Bank in Zambia. |
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Support to Coops in Malawi |
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MASDAR has been requested to provide staff to
help farmer groups and irrigation water users to organise
themselves into registered cooperatives and to provide training
on the establishment, registration and operations of
cooperatives.
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GIS Consultancy in Saudi
Arabia |
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MASDAR's sister company emapsite has commenced work on a major
consultancy assignment in Saudi Arabia to undertake baseline
studies of coastal and marine resources along the Red Sea Coast.
MASDAR is providing management support services to emapsite on
this exciting new development.
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Decentralised Planning &
Capacity Building in The Gambia |
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MASDAR is completing its consultancy services in Decentralised
Planning and Capacity Building to the Community Driven
Development Project. A final report on Decentralised
Planning Processes has been prepared and a very successful and
well attended, workshop has been held.
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Smallscale biogas
production in The Gambia
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In The Gambia MASDAR has established
a demonstration village at Sintet to promote small-scale biogas
and the use of improved stoves and fuel-briquettes made from
waste materials.
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Social Protection in
Southern Africa
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Reducing poverty, hunger and
malnutrition remains the overriding development challenge across
Africa. MASDAR is proud of the leading role it has in
managing the Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme (RHVP)
funded by DFID and AusAid.
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Solar powered irrigation
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In The Gambia a MASDAR irrigation
engineer designed 25 appropriate irrigation schemes for
horticultural production. He evaluated many different
systems and pumps of which solar-powered submersible pumps were
by far the most popular.
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Agricultural Marketing in
Malawi
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In Malawi MASDAR has commenced
Phase II of our Marketing Assignment with the Smallholder Crop
Production and Marketing Project. This phase covers the
next 15 months and will train farmers in "farming as a business"
and various aspects of improved, irrigated farming.
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