Priority partners
IOD-PARC International
Organisation Development-Performance Assessment Resource Centre http://www.iod.uk.com
http://www.parcinfo.org
IOD-PARC provides organisation development and monitoring and evaluation support to companies, government bodies and charities that are trying to improve what they do and how they do it. IOD-PARC has worked in over 50 countries on over 400 projects. We currently have 20 permanent consultants and a network of over 200 associates.
The PARC (the Performance Assessment Resource Centre), is a one-stop resource centre for performance assessment, monitoring and evaluation, established in March 2001 with support from the UK Government's Department for International Development (DFID). The aim of the Resource Centre is to improve performance assessment in international development practice. Work carried out together includes an evaluation of the Partnership between IFAD and the African Development Bank, as well as an evaluation of the African Development Bank's Decentralization strategy and policy. Information about these evaluations is available here:
www.ifad.org/evaluation/jointevaluation/docs/annex4.pdf
www.afdb.org/fileadmin/uploads/afdb/Documents/Evaluation-Reports/30758647-
EN-EVALUATION-DECENTRALISATION.PDF
Kabell Konsulting and IOD-Parc are also jointly part of the Core Team for the Second Phase of the Evaluation of the Paris Declaration (see below)
Aide à la Décision Économique http://www.ade.be
ADE, created in 1990, specialises in assisting private and public decision-makers in the formulation of rational economic decisions and in monitoring their implementation. In accordance with its mission statement, ADE intervenes at every stage of the decision-making process from data collection, processing and analysis for diagnostic study through to advice on strategic orientation. It provides assistance throughout the cycle, support for project execution including any studies required to that end, monitoring of interventions, and evaluation of projects, programmes and policies.
Work carried out together includes an
innovative
evaluation of the channelling of funds through UN, WB and EIB, commissioned by the EC:
- the Evaluation of EC aid delivery through the UN family, released in May 2008; and
- the Evaluation of EC aid delivery through the WB and EIB, released in November 2008.
ADE and Kabell Konsulting collaborated on latter report which was rated as "Very Good" by the Joint Evaluation Unit. See links below.
http://www.ade.be/News/news.asp?nwsCode=64
http://ec.europa.eu/europeaid/how/evaluation/evaluation_reports/2008/1255_
docs_en.htm
Oxford Research
http://www.oxfordresearch.dk/page/view/46
Oxford Research is a specialized knowledge company focusing on the areas of industrial and regional development and welfare. Within these areas we work with knowledge and innovation systems, development of municipalities and regions, and social, educational, and labour market policies. Oxford Research carries through evaluations and analyses, and offers consultancy on strategy. We also pass on our knowledge at different kinds of seminars. We combine academic depth, excellent communication and strategic understanding. Oxford Research was established in 1995 and has now companies in Denmark, Norway and Sweden. Oxford Research is a part of The Oxford Group.
Kabell-Konsulting and Oxford Research
worked together on
an evaluation of Regional Support to Southern Africa:
http://www.um.dk/en/menu/DevelopmentPolicy/Evaluations/Publications/
ReportsByYear/2008/2008+07+regional+support.htm
International Management Partners
www.im-partners.dk
International Management Partners (IMP) is established by partners with wide experience within establishment, financing and management of companies in Latin America, Africa and the Middle East. IMP assists companies in developing their international activities - particularly in difficult markets and developing countries. Among their core competencies are: assistance under the B2B and PPP programme, Feasibility studies and business plans; Corporate Social Responsibility, Environmental management, cultural understanding and project management.
IMP both creates the opportunity by identifying partners, performing feasibility studies and other investigations as well as assist in raising the necessary financing and makes the business plan come true through advice on the management of new partnerships, expectations and training in strategy, organization and other management tools.
Work carried out together include development of indicators for Public Private Partnerships for Danida an organizational assessment of CABEI, and management advice to the Environmental Protection Fund in Egypt.
capacitate www.capacitate.dk capacitate offers analysis and strategic advice to public and private organizations within the field of governance and international development. Main areas of expertise include change management processes, organisational reengineering, corporate governance, and capacity development. capacitate builds on the considerable capacity of Lars Udsholt and his teams in Hanoi and Copenhagen.
Work carried out together include the evaluation of Danish Regional Support to Peace and Security, Regional Integration and Democratization in Southern Africa:
http://www.um.dk/en/menu/DevelopmentPolicy/Evaluations/Publications/
ReportsByYear/2008/2008+07+regional+support.htm
Verner Kristiansen Aps
www.vernerkristiansen.dk
Based in Copenhagen. Verner Kristiansen draws on extensive experience in international development when advising private and public sector partners on a broad range of topics from development planning, communication strategies and impact assessments. Assignments include long term international development planning as well as quick impact interventions to develop new concepts using participatory methods.
Recent joint projects with Kabell Konsulting include the development in 2008 of a Joint Financing Arrangement to support the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) in the Horn of Africa. The JFA is now being implemented in a first phase of harmonized Development Partner support to IGAD's delivery of its mandate to become a Regional Economic Community promoting peace, stability and economic development in the Horn of Africa.
Ideas2action www.idethandling.com
Ideas2action focus on three key areas: Managing for results including M&E, public participation and the cultural encounter. Managed by Bjørn Nygaard, key services include evaluative work, facilitation and training.
Individual consultants: MBONIGABA Cyprien
Curriculum Vitae
A former professor at the University of Burundi, a former minster of transport and telecommunications, CEO of a number of public-private enterprises, a high level civil servant, inter alia, Cyprien Mbonigaba has contributed in many different capacities to the development of his country. He is now a full time consultant and has worked with Dorte Kabell on setting up a M&E system for a World Bank funded Leadership Development Programme.
The Paris Declaration Team
The Paris Declaration, signed in 2005, is one of the most significant policy declarations in t he world of development cooperation and one of the biggest challenges in the field of development evaluation. Compared with previous joint statements on aid harmonisation and alignment, it provides a practical, action-oriented roadmap with specific targets to be met by 2010 and definite review points in the years between.
The evaluation of the implementation of the Paris Declaration is an integral part of the Declaration itself. The first phase of the evaluation, which was presented at the HLF in Accra , is an early evaluation and focuses on ways of improving and enhancing implementation, rather than giving any definite judgement about effectiveness. The second phase of the evaluation is more summative and will provide information about the end impacts and effects of increased aid effectiveness.
Kabell Konsulting carried out in 2007-2008 the First phase of the Evaluation of the Implementation of the Paris Declaration, and the Team Leader Bernard Wood presented the report to the High Level Forum in Accra in September 2008:
www.accrahlf.net/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/ACCRAEXT/0,,contentMDK:21783964
~pagePK:64861884~piPK:64860737~theSitePK:4700791,00.html
Kabell Konsulting was also chosen, through international competitive bidding, together with IOD_PARC to conduct the Second phase of the Evaluation, as part of a team of international consultants:
Bernard Wood (Team Leader)
Florence Etta
Julian Gayfer
Dorte Kabell
Franscisco Sagasti
Mallika Samaranayake
All documents related to the Evaluation of the Implementation of the Paris Declaration, Phase 1 and 2, can be found here:
www.oecd.org/document/60/0,3343,en_21571361_34047972
38242748_1_1_1_1,00.html |
