| Establishing and Strengthening of MCS System in Fisheries | Albania | 31/12/2011 | Establishing and Strengthening of Monitoring, Control and Surveillance (MCS) System in Fisheries
The overall objective of the project is to establish a sustainable fisheries sector by strengthening the capacity of authorities to protect marine resources and enforce appropriate fishing management practices. To achieve this, a central national system of water area surveillance will be established in the framework of the European Common Fisheries Policies (CFP).
Results to be achieved:
- Strengthen the Fishery Directorate’s capacity to manage MCS in fisheries. Build effectiveness in prevention of damage to marine resources and coastal ecosystems due to inappropriate or illegal fishing practices through restructuring and training of staff;
- Ensure compliance of all authorities with the legal framework and EC Regulations;
- Establish a functional Information Communication Plan and Vessel Monitoring System within the Coastal Guard and Ministry of Environment Forestry and Water Administration;
- Establish and ensure the compliance of responsible fishing principles and norms within the fishermen community.
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| Land Administration and Management Project: Component A | Albania | 01/02/2011 | Land Administration and Management Project: Component A: Security of Tenure and Registration of Immovable Property Rights / Public Awareness Campaign
The objective of the campaign is to raise public awareness on the first registration activities and mobilize support for the implementation of government reform of the immovable property registration system.
In the initial phase, the PAC will sensitize the public at large to the rationale and importance of immovable property first registration, the role, the rights and obligations of the owners of the immovable properties in the procedure and the cost to the individual.
During the second phase, the PAC will gradually shift its messages from awareness raising to educating the public regarding the government’s plans to improve the registration systems and, while new digital information archives and registries are put in place, encourage the citizens, municipal authorities as well as state and private enterprise managers and owners to register their properties in the revamped registration system.
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| Raising the institutional capacities of environmental NGOs | West Balkans (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, FYROM, Montenegro, Serbia, Kosovo | 01/11/2009 | Raising the institutional capacities of environmental NGOs in the Western Balkans
The specific objective of the contract is to contribute to the increase of the environmental NGOs capacities in some thematic fields of the EU environmental legislation, in general capacities related to civil society’s role.
- The project works to transfer some of the best practices of EU Member States environmental NGOs to the beneficiary countries NGOs, through a programme of capacity building / training sessions and capacity building exchange activities.
- Three (3) training programmes will be developed and delivered in the region, with the participation of at least three (3) participating NGOs from all beneficiary countries.
- An Email network will be implemented to facilitate contacts between the consultant and the NGOs, as well as between the NGOs themselves.
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| Rapid Environmental Assessment for Industrial & Energy Parks | Albania | 01/07/2008 | Rapid Environmental Assessment for Industrial & Energy Parks at Porto Romano, Durres
The Rapid Environmental Assessment followed on from a previous consultancy, which prepared a ’Roadmap’ for the development of the area east of Porto Romana and northeast of Durres in Albania as a strategic industrial estate that concluded that the area was eminently suited for this purpose.
The goal of the project was to undertake a Rapid Environmental Assessment of an Industrial and Energetic Park at Porto Romana, Durres, reporting to a combination of the Ministries of Economy, Trade and Energy (METE) and Environment, Forestry and Water Administration (MOERWA), in a two phase project.
Phase I involved desk and site research to ‘provide an overview of the environment of the site and its likely evolution, highlighting existing problems with implications for the use of the site for the industrial and energetic parks and any changes likely to result from their development, whilst also identifying the environmental instruments, obligations and regulations relevant to their development.
The aim of Phase I was to identify the environmental risks inherent in developing the Parks and the measures that might be used to mitigate them, prioritising impacts on residents of the area, people who live near it and visitors, strategic locations for economic activity in the area after making due allowance for current land uses, and the identification of opportunities for changes in the settlement pattern within the area and adjacent to it, demand for logistics/storage facilities, measures needed to reduce the likelihood and impacts of flooding in this low lying area and restrictions on access.
Phase II comprised two main activities:
- production of reports (draft and then final report after the following); and
- participation in proposed public hearings and an investors’ conference to be organised by METE and MOEFWA.
The final report included responses to comments and suggestions made at the Conference/Hearings and all comments received from the public were listed in an annex to that report which also gave the team’s response to each comment.
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| Sustainable and Integrated Development of the Tirana-Durres region | Albania | 01/07/2007 | Tirana-Durres region provides the largest contribution to the Albanian GDP, and its sustainable development is thus, extremely important on the national level.
The results to be achieved by the Project are following:
- A realistic Master Plan in conformity with the future demographic growth of the area that regards the growing needs for industrial, commercial, infrastructure, residential, social, and recreational activities, and in line with the protection of resources and environment, is being provided as a useful and applicable tool to policy and decision makers of the region.
- The awareness and interest of policy makers from the central and local government is increased and clear commitments with respect to the implementation of the Plan have been demonstrated by the end of the project
- Public awareness among investors and population regarding the need for urban regulation have been expressed through increased participatory action during the design and finalisation of the Plan
- Skills and understanding of the economic value of planning and regional development principles among technical and administrative staff from the government agencies is improved
- Environmentally sensitive and protected areas defined following public consultation principles
- Principles and guidelines on public investment in infrastructure such as roads, sewage, power, and water revised and updated
- Preliminary measures for remedying the existing errors having a visible and significant negative impact on development defined and accepted by the Government
The Project’s main Beneficiary is the Ministry of Public Works, Transport and Telecommunications. The other major government stakeholders are the Ministry of Interior, the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Environment, the Ministry of Economy Trade and Energy, the Prefectures of Tirana and Durres, the Institute of Urban Studies. The local government will be presented by the municipalities and communes of the region.
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| Global Framework Contract – Lot 6: Environment | Worldwide | 01/01/2007 | Landell Mills is part of a four company consortium to provide services as requested to the European Commission, acting on behalf of beneficiary states. Services are comprised of selected short term missions in the field of environmental monitoring, protection, legislation and capacity building. |
| Technical Assistance to Serbian Food Chain Safety Laboratories | Serbia | 01/12/2006 | Project overall goals:
- To assist the upgrading of the Serbian network of Food Chain Laboratories.
- To support the alignment of the management, procedures and practices in Serbian Veterinary, Phytosanitary and Food-safety Laboratories with European Union standards and best practice.
Project activities:
- Supervision of the refurbishment and renovation of the network of Food-Chain Laboratories.
- Support the establishment and operationalisation of the Food-Chain Laboratories Agency.
- Strengthen the managerial and technical systems of individual laboratories in the Food-Chain Laboratories Network.
- Assess and advise on the needs for further institutional strengthening, and upgrading of the equipping and physical infrastructure of the network of Food-Chain Laboratories.
The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management is the key strategic partner for the Food Chain Safety Laboratories project and has nominated seven veterinary institutes and fourteen agricultural stations to integrate the regional network of Food Chain Safety Laboratories.
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| Support to Rural Investment and Services Project (S-RISP) | Moldova | 01/03/2006 | Working in partnership with the Government of Moldova and the Worlds Bank, DFID has appointed Landell Mills to manage this project which consists of two elements: consolidation of DFID’s previous Sustainable Rural Livelihoods Pilot Project (SRLPP), and implementation of the Rural Business Development (RBD) of the World Bank’s Rural Investment and Service project (RISP), which is the first phase of the Rural Support Services Development Programme.
The goal of the project is to increase rural incomes and to reduce poverty in Moldova. The purpose of the project is to strengthen business development and support services in rural communities. The project has the following main components:
- Output 1: Creation of effective self-owned and sustainable rural businesses/farmers organizations including:
- Creation of 900 individual and 600 group businesses/farmers organisations;
- Increasing the number of members of Farmers Organisations;
- Increasing marketing opportunities for agro-food producers;
- Increasing income for owners/members of newly created businesses;
- Increasing access to credit from commercial banks.
- Output 2: Moldovan Development Agencies providing effective support services to new rural enterprises and farmer organizations:
- Delivering in-service training, mentoring and operational support for staff and development agencies;
- Output 3: Improved access to legal advice and support in safeguarding legal ownership status (including alternative dispute resolution mechanism):
- Establishing and starting TPACs in all SRL pilot areas and co-operating closely with network of arbitration lawyers supporting dispute resolution and protection of ownership rights;
- Output 4: Improved access to savings and credit provision through existing and new Savings-and Credit Associations:
- Supporting and training for existing SCACs;
- Demand driven support for creation of new SCACs
- Output 5: Evidence based approaches and policies for support of rural livelihoods and community development made available to the World Bank, Government of Moldova and other development partners:
- Capacity building in local NGOs, providing support services to rural citizens and their communities;
- Partnerships between local government, the private sector and civil society demonstrating potential for improved service delivery to rural communities in SRL pilot areas;
- Examples of revitalisation and maintenance of social sphere assets by community involvement and business development.
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| Global Framework Contract – Lot 1 : Rural Development and Food security | Worldwide | 01/01/2005 | Landell Mills led a five-company consortium to provide services as requested to the European Commission, acting on behalf of beneficiary states. Services are comprised of selected short-term missions in the field of rural development & food security, covering the sectors of agriculture (including diversification), livestock, fisheries & forestry.
Examples of recent framework missions are:
- Audit & evaluation of the foreign facility for budget support of the food security programme in Mozambique
- Evaluation of Cape Verde’s Multi-Annual Food Security Programme
- Evaluation of the water harvesting schemes component of the EC funded programmes in Ethiopia
- Mid-term review for NGO projects financed by Food Security budget line in the Democratic Republic of Congo
- Mid-Term and Final Reviews of the second cycle of the 2 year Food Security Programme 2002 in Kyrgyzstan
- Feasibility study on Agriculture and Food Security Information Systems in Rwanda
- Audit of Agricultural Productivity Improvement Programme in Malawi
- Evaluation of the Food Security Programme in Somalia
- Provision of information management support and training in project implementation and planning to the Ethiopian government under its Federal Food Security Strategy (FFSS).
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| Technical monitoring/display monitoring and dispute resolution services | Albania | 01/12/2004 | Technical monitoring/display monitoring and dispute resolution services for the systematic mass, first registration of immovable property, Korca, Maliq
The specific objective of this contract is to provide technical monitoring, and dispute resolution services in support, of the contractor selected by the European Commission to complete first, accurate mass systematic first registration of immoveable property in four cadastral zones of Korça.
Landell Mills provides technical monitoring of the Contractor selected by the European Commission to carry out First Registration. This involves:
- Conducting eight technical inspections of work already conducted to verify the accuracy of computerized data of property owners and index map
- Carrying out public information and dispute resolution services (recruiting 30 field mediators/independent monitors)
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| Programme on Tropical Forests and Other Forests in Developing Countries | Multi-country | 01/05/2004 | Programme on Tropical Forests and Other Forests in Developing Countries: Evaluation of grant applications submitted in response to the call for proposals relating to environment and forests
The Programme had a budget of 31 mln EUR allocated for grants with a minimum amount of 500,000 EUR and a maximum amount of 3.5 mln EUR for environmental and forestry projects in developing countries. The Programme aimed at non-governmental and non-profit sector.
The following actions were supported within the environmental part:
- Support developing countries’ participation in and implementation of Multilateral Environmental Agreements
- Capacity building
- Promoting the role of civil society
- Pilot actions
- Follow-up to the World Summit for Sustainable Development, Johannesburg 2002
And within the forestry sector:
- Good governance in forests
- Climate change and forests in developing countries
- Value of forests in developing countries
Applications were submitted in three languages: English, French and Spanish. The experts had a wide-ranging expertise in environmental and forestry sectors, 1/3 had fluent knowledge of English, 1/3 – of Spanish and 1/3 – of French.
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| EU-ACP Business Assistance Scheme (EBAS) | ACP Countries | 01/07/2003 | Landell Mills, as head of a 5-member consortium, has been responsible for the management of the EU-funded EBAS scheme. EBAS was a cost-sharing instrument designed to be available to all ACP states under the Lomé IV Convention. This matching grant scheme has helped businesses & intermediary organisations (trade associations, chambers of commerce, etc.) finance expansion projects & meet up to 50% of the costs of services facilitating an increase in competitiveness. EBAS had a grant fund of Euro 20 million & was operational from 1999-2003.
The overall objective of EBAS was to reinforce the competitiveness of ACP enterprises. To achieve this, EBAS strived to promote the market for business consulting services by encouraging private enterprises & business associations to procure the services of outside professional consultants or service providers to improve their business performance.
Through the use of consulting services, EBAS shared the cost of services for:
- enterprises seeking to increase their competitiveness; for example, by improving productivity, market position & skills;
- business associations & other intermediary organisations seeking to improve the services they can provide to their members.
The programme was subject to a full internal evaluation to ascertain the benefits generated by the programme among the enterprises supported, with a view to informing EC private sector support policy.
Its external independent evaluation was highly favourable and the Scheme is among eleven projects featured in the EC’s recent publication entitled 'Making trade work for development: putting theory into practice. Case reports of European Union trade development projects around the world' ( http://www.europa.eu.int/comm/europeaid/reports/making_trade_work_2003_en.pdf).
The French-speaking countries of West Africa, including Benin, were supported by a regional office based in Abidjan. EBAS supported 15 SMEs and Intermediary Organisations in Benin to the value of 550,000 Euros.
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