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Created: Monday, 31 August 2020 09:25
Days before the COVID-19 pandemic was fully declared, Bente Consulting signed two contracts with Swedish Development Advisers to undertake organizational reviews of two Norad-funded environmental and rights-based CSO programs in Brazil and Ecuador:
1. Organizational Review of Ecociencia/Amazonia Network of Georeferenced Socio-Environmental Information (RAISG). The review will aim at establishing Ecociencia / RAISG’s financial management, cost efficiency and results management, and evaluate achievement of reported results. The review shall describe, analyse and assess the following aspects of the organisation under review: 1) Organisational structure; 2) Governance; 3) Cost efficiency; 4) Financial management; 5) Results management; 6) Civil society strengthening. The review will include field visit and interviews with Ecociencia's head office and Coordinadora de las Organizaciones Indígenas de la Cuenca Amazónica (COICA) in Quito Ecuador, and in Brazil with Instituto Socioambiental (ISA) in São Paulo and Coordenação das Organizações Indígenas da Amazônia Brasileira (COIAB) in Manaus.
2. Organizational review of Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazônia (IPAM) and Instituto do Homem e Meio Ambiente da Amazônia (Imazon). The review should focus on benefits and challenges related to efficiency and cost effectiveness at central level and the current organizational structure with field offices. The study shall give an in-depth view of how IPAM and Imazon is working on all levels. The field office to be visited for in depth study shall be decided in agreement with Norad. The review shall describe, analyse and assess the following aspects of the organisation under review: 1) Organisational structure; 2) Governance; 3) Cost efficiency; 4) Financial management; 5) Results management; 6) Civil society strengthening. The review will include field visits in Brasil, visiting the organizations based in Brasilia, Porto Alegre and Belem.
Bente Consulting will provide the team leader, but the reviews are by August 2020 still on standby untill field visits can be undertaken.
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Created: Wednesday, 15 January 2020 10:11
The final evaluation of the Swedish-Dutch financed Land Management and Administration Capacity Building Programme – GESTERRA – in Mozambique was commissioned by the Embassy of Sweden in Maputo (Sida). The programme was implemented from 2013 to 2019 in a changing institutional environment. It contributed to important land policy processes, including planning for an autonomous land management institution and decision to revise the legislative framework. It has established gender inclusive methodologies for land registration, supported the establishment of digitized land registration and strengthened the capacity at provincial level. Recommendations focus i.a. on further roll-out and decentralisation as well as securing an inclusive process in the coming revision of the legislative framework. Download and read the final evaluation report from Sida's website.
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Created: Friday, 10 January 2020 12:27
As a spin-off of the midterm evaluation of the Swedish financed Women in Financial Inclusion and Capabilities project implemented by Financial Sector Deepening Zambia undertaken in April - June 2019, Bente Consulting was hired as a "thought leader", i.e. process consultant to facilitate the drafting of a Concept Paper for a second phase of the WIN-project. This included participation in a pre-design workshop with partners from private and financial sector, government and civil society, as well as drafting of the paper. The second phase of the WIN-program is designed to contribute to systemic and lasting market systems change in the area of inclusive finance, with particular benefit to poor and vulnerable women through a market systems development approach. The Concept Paper was presented to the Embassy of Sweden in Lusaka for further appraisal in January 2020.
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Created: Friday, 10 January 2020 12:10
Bente Consulting participates in a 15 months evaluation study of the application and effects of a Human Rights Based Approach in Swedish development cooperation. The study assesses the HRBA process and performance in terms of reduced poverty and improved human rights situation. The evaluation study includes 4 case country studies - Albania, Cambodia, Colombia and Kenya. Bente Consulting leads the case study in Albania which will take place from 19-31 January 2020. The case study will explore in detail the application of HRBA in three strategic sectors supported by Sida: Economic development, Human rights and democracy, and Environment. The evaluation will explore how HRBA is applied in different activities and by different actors; how staff and cooperation partners understand and perceive HRBA; and what works well, less well and why? After the field work, a case country report will be presented, and later a synthesis report comprising findings from all four case country studies will be presented and published by Sida.
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Created: Friday, 13 September 2019 07:26
The mid-term evaluation of the Sida-financed Women in Financial Inclusion and Capabilities project implemented by Financial Sector Deepening Zambia was commissioned by Embassy of Sweden in Lusaka. The project is dynamic, agile and complex. It addresses pertinent problems of access to financial education and services for women and youth. Interest from private sector market operators, banks, financial institutions and mobile networks proves the relevance to the M4P-approach. The project demonstrates promising evidence of networking and dynamic exchange among involved actors at different levels and provides digital solutions to women’s and youth’s financial inclusion. Download and read the Win project evaluation report here.
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Created: Monday, 15 April 2019 08:03
Under the headline of "Youth in Development" tools for youth engagement and youth mainstreaming are now available at Danida's Aid Management Guidelines website until May 7th, 2019. Click here and have a look! You are welcome to provide comments for the final editing, which is undertalen by Danida.
Promoting development with and by young people – not just for young people - has never been more acutely needed. The world is currently home to the largest generation of youth ever, most of whom live in developing countries. Young people constitute an enormous development potential, and meaningful inclusion of youth is key to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. However, development practitioners are often faced with the difficult task of how to incorporate youth into programmes, instruments and day-to-day activities; how to move from policy to practice.
The youth engagement and youth mainstreaming tools were developed by Bente Consulting in collaboration with Next Generation Advise and Skinny Dog Films.
