Name: Landell Mills
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Project Sudan

21/09/19 - 19/12/21

Creative Strategy and product development for EFP C4D programme

BackgroundThe overall goal of the UNICEF Country Programme 2018-2021 is to contribute to national efforts to enable all children and adolescents in Sudan, especially those in the most vulnerable situations, to have their rights progressively fulfilled and to develop to their full potential in an inclusive and protective environment. The project’s primary beneficiaries are families with children under five years old, alongside local, state and federal communities, in order to raise general public awareness of the eight Essential Family Practices listed below.

Project Objectives
The purpose of the contract is to develop a creative communications strategy to establish a robust, replicable monitoring system, a mechanism for the collection, storage and curation of data, and the dissemination of information in order to positively influence behaviour through innovative communication tools. These communication tools should facilitate discussion around UNICEF's Eight Essential Family Practices (EFPs), which are designed for families with children under 5 years old. The Eight EFPs are:
Exclusive breastfeedingComplete immunisation by age 18 months
Handwashing with soap and waterOpen defecation free (ODF)Sleeping under insecticide treated bed netsUse of oral rehydration solution for diarrhoeaRecognising signs of pneumonia and seeking early care
Birth registration and certification
Under the facilitation of the Chief of Communication for Development (C4D), and with guidance from the C4D team, partners and Programme sections, Landell Mills has been contracted to produce:a creative communications strategya strategy brief
a variety of communication toolsProject Results
The communications strategy should lead to the following results
Development of a creative communications and media strategy and associated brief.Community discussion about the Eight Essential Family Practices (EFPs) is facilitated.Increased intra-community knowledge about the Eight EFPs.Communities are encouraged to adopt positive practices relating to the Eight EFPs.
Improved awareness of the relevance and importance of the Eight EFPs at state and federal levels through events and public forums.

Project Guyana

09/09/19 - 29/02/20

Mangrove Forest Reserves

The Guyana coastline, which forms the north-western part of the South American coast between the deltas of the Amazon River to the southeast and the Orinoco River to the northwest, extends some 425 km from the Waini River to the Corentyne River. Guyana, which gained its independence in 1966, has a total population of approximately 747,884 (Guyana Population and Housing Census 2012 Preliminary Report). The low-lying coastal plain of Guyana is a narrow strip of fertile land up to 40 km wide and has both the highest population density and the greatest level of economic development. The coastal strip has rich marine-alluvial soils and has been cultivated for centuries with crops of sugar and rice, and some coconut. Nearly 90% of Guyana's population live on the coastal plain. About one third of the population live on land which is protected from inundation at high tides and storms by man-made sea defences constructed over several centuries, by sand dunes created naturally by wind and sea, and by mangrove forests.

Guyana is prone to natural disasters, mainly related from flooding, both from the sea and inland storm waters. These events may affect coastal urban and sub-urban communities, rural farming communities as well as hinterland communities.

The EU has supported the sea defence sector since the 7th EDF. There has been a progressive approach from emergency works to preventative maintenance, with institutional capacity and policy work being developed in parallel. With a sector policy in place, assistance progressed from the project approach to budget support under the 10th EDF programme. The 11th EDF takes a broader disaster risk management (DRM) approach through Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM), including measures restoration and conservation of mangrove ecosystems which play a critical role in coastal protection. This budget support programme has these legislative measures included as indicators in the Action Document. These have been further elaborated as performance indicators for disbursement in the Financing Agreement and can be summarised as follows:

Improved consolidation of mangrove defences and monitoring of protected areas.Establishment of 2 mangrove reserves - "specially protected area" or "forest conservation area"

The Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC) is responsible for the administration and management of all state forest land. The work of the Commission is guided by the Forestry Act and a National Forest Plan that has been developed to address the forest policy. The Commission develops and monitors standards for forest sector operations, develops and implements forest protection and conservation strategies, oversees forest research and provides support and guidance to forest education and training. The GFC is governed by a board of directors appointed by the President. The board is responsible for the performance of the functions conferred on the Commission by the Act.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was legally established by the Environmental Protection Act in 1996. It has the responsibility to take the necessary measures to manage, conserve, protect and improve the environment. The Agency takes actions to prevent and control pollution; assess the impact of economic development on the environment; and ensure the sustainable use of Guyana's natural resources. The EPA is under the umbrella of the Department of Environment, Ministry of Presidency.

The global objective of the assignment is to support climate change adaptation through an Integrated Coastal Zone Management approach and thereby protect the population in vulnerable, flood prone areas under sea level.

The specific objectives of this assignment are to:

1. Draft a Mangrove Forest Reserve Management Plan for two locations

2. Provide technical support to key stakeholder for the establishment of two mangrove reserves.

Project Angola

04/09/19 - 31/01/20

Short-term Assistance to support the formulation of actions in ACP regions under the Intra ACP Climate Services and Related Applications Programme

The adverse impacts of climate change are a major challenge to socio-economic development globally. The countries of the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group of States are particularly vulnerable to the consequences of climate change, including water stress and scarcity, food insecurity, diminished hydropower generation potential, loss of biodiversity and ecosystem degradation, increased incidence of disease burden, destruction of infrastructure and high costs of disaster management as a result of increased frequency and intensity of droughts, floods and landslides.

'Climate services',as defined by the Global Framework for Climate Services, include the timely production, translation, provision and use of climate data, information and knowledge for informed societal decision-making regarding climate risks. Enabling access to climate information and providing user-friendly climate services will help decision makers at all levels, including end users, in a wide range of sectors including agriculture and food security, disaster risk reduction, sustainable water and health, development and implementation of climate change adaptation strategies to reduce desertification and promote the conservation of biological diversity.

The Intra-ACP Climate Services and Related Applications Programme adopted in January 2018 (EUR 85 million over 6 years) aims to support the climate services value chain with technical assistance, financial assistance, infrastructure and capacity building to improve wide access and use of climate information, and to enable and encourage the generation and use of climate services and applications for decision making processes at all levels. Improving the quantity and quality of climate services offered by regional climate centres and hydro-meteorological organisations in ACP countries and increasing knowledge and information services will lead to their certification by the UN World Meteorological Organisation.

Under the action, the main expected results are:

Output 1) Interaction between the users, researchers and climate services providers in ACP regions is structured;Output 2) Provision of climate services at the Regional and National level is effectively guaranteed and secured;Output 3) Access to Climate Information is improved;Output 4) Capacity of ACP regions is enhanced to generate and apply climate information and products relevant to their particular concerns;Output 5) climate-informed decision-making is enhanced and climate services are mainstreamed into policy processes at regional and national levels.The actions will be implemented by the ACP Secretariat, the UN specialised agency World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC), the Agence Française de Développement (AFD), the African Union Commission, the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), AGRHYMET Regional Centre, the Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology (CIMH), the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) and the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP).

The global objective of Landell Mills contract is to formulate actions under the Intra-ACP Climate Services programme adopted in 2018 (decision 038-833) in Short-term Assistance to support the formulation of actions in ACP regions under the Intra ACP Climate Services and Related Applications programme.

The specific objective of the assignment is to produce the description of the actions, including the Logical Framework and Budget (and other annexes where necessary) of each of the ACP regional organisations benefitting from the Intra-ACP Climate Services programme:

1. Agence Française de Développement (AFD) on behalf of the Indian Ocean Commission (IOC) [EUR 6 million];

2. The African Union Commission (AUC), including ACMAD and ECCAS [EUR 22 million];

3. the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) [EUR 8 million];

4. AGRHYMET Regional Centre [EUR 8 million];

5. The Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology (CIMH) [EUR 9 million];

6. The Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) [EUR 8 million]; and

7. The Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) [EUR 9 million].

Project Jamaica

03/09/19 - 02/09/22

Visibility for Addressing Environmental and Climate Change challenges through Improved Forest Management in Jamaica

The project is focused on the development of a structured and coherent communication on Improved Forest Management for Jamaica (IFMJ) Action, in order to deliver a coherent and articulated message on the EU Development Cooperation in Jamaica.

The project aims to embrace past and current EU action for the forest sector in Jamaica, and promote the general EU development co-operation policy and communication messages.

Specific objectives in the ToR include:

Increase awareness of the EU, its actions and achievements of the IMFJ and partnership between the EU and GOJ development actionsLaunch and build awareness of the actions & achievements of the forest sector and success stories in Jamaica and within the communities living in the forest dependent areas with strong focus on first person storytelling style to highlight the impact of actions implemented.

The project will increase visibility awareness of the EU, the achievements of the IFMJ and the partnership between the EU and Government of Jamaica (GoJ) development action. It will also have a strong focus on positive current and future impacts of EU-supported development projects in Jamaica.

The project’s main activities, as described in the ToR, are as follows:

Task 1: Development of the EU Budget Support Visibility Plan

This includes the articulation of strategic and targeted communication activities. Identification of the appropriate tactics and tools (according to the available contract budget, Forestry Department resources if necessary and market prices in Jamaica) to reach the target groups, including radio/tv, social media, printed material, flyers, billboards etc.

Task 2: Implementation of communication related activities

The contractor will initiate and follow up the implementation of the strategy and work plan including overseeing procurement and implementation of provided services for all forms of media including social media and preparation of all agreed media and communication products in strict collaboration with the Forestry Department and EU Delegation.

A Behavioural Change Strategy will be implemented where appropriate. This will include:

Integrated, Sustainable and Innovative Communication and Public Relations Campaigns Dissemination of engaging messages by all stakeholders involved in Jamaica National Forest Management and Conservation plan (2016-2026), to establish a robust brand identity in the recipients’ minds.

We aim to engage with the general public, as well as targeted communities and government-level organisations, in order to highlight the scale and impact of EU development assistance upon the Jamaican forestry sector
The target audience, as per the ToR, is as follows: general public (with sub groups of civil society/local authorities/women/journalists/media, visually and hearing impaired/ students –all levels of education system); youth, farmers, community members, stakeholders in the forest sector (private forest owners, non-governmental organisations, community-based organisations, government agencies, private sector organisations, service organisations, other government ministries, departments and agencies, consumers, judiciary, political directorate) and beneficiaries of the cooperation.

Project

19/08/19 - 31/01/25

Review (Results-Oriented Monitoring – ROM) System for External Aid Interventions Lot 1 – ROM for Asia and Pacific, Latin America, Caribbean, and Centrally Managed Thematic Interventions

Landell Mills has been appointed as partner to ICCS (as lead firm) as well as Komis, Ecorys and AETS by the Directorate-General for International Partnerships (DG INTPA) under a Main Contract in respect of Results Oriented Monitoring (ROM) system for external aid interventions financed by the European Union EuropeAid/139798/DH/SER/Multi. The ROM system is the external monitoring system of the European Commission. It aims at enhancing the European Commission's (EC) accountability and management capacities with a strong focus on results and supports EU Delegation and Headquarter services by providing an external opinion on project implementation.

Overall project objective: To improve the performance of EU-funded interventions by strengthening design, monitoring and evaluation systems at intervention and institutional level.
Project purpose: (i) To provide an external, objective and impartial assessment on the performance of selected ongoing INTPA, NEAR, and FPI interventions (ii) To provide technical support to EC services in the formulation of intervention logics and related logical framework matrices (Logframes) as well as in the design of monitoring and reporting systems, and (iii) reporting systems at intervention level.
To support results reporting at institutional and intervention level.
Project Activities: 1. Total Quality Management, 2. Implement the ROM review cycle, 3. Support Design of Logframes and Monitoring Systems (SDL), and 4. Provide support to Results Data Collection

All projects which were subject to the ROM services are financed by the EC (DG INTPA, DG NEAR, FPI) and some of them are co-financed by other donors (e.g. UN Family and EU member states development cooperation agencies). The majority of the interventions (more than 80%) which are monitored are grants. The ROM reviews follows a very specific methodology (i.e. INTPA ROM Handbook) in which the reporting is preceded by a detailed analysis of the OECD-based monitoring and evaluation criteria. In particular the analysis focuses on 8 ROM criteria: Relevance, Coordination, complementarity and EU added value, Intervention logic, Monitoring & Learning, Efficiency, Effectiveness, Sustainability, Cross-cutting issues, and Communication and visibility. The ROM interventions take place in more than 120 countries across the world.

The ROM review data are stored in internal databases which are updated after each ROM review, but also databases and information systems of the EC, such as the ROM module and OPSYS to which ROM Global has actively participated in their upgrade and maintenance. Concerning OSPYS, ROM Global provided hands-on assistance to the Operations Managers on how to encode the Primary Interventions, the logframes, and the values of the related indicators in order to ensure that the data are fully updated and serve the purposes of the contracting authority. For this purpose, 5 Quality Managers of ROM Global worked directly with the OM on OPSYS. ROM Global has actively participated in communication activities aiming to raise awareness to stakeholders about monitoring and evaluation (e.g. the Monitoring and evaluation Framework for the DEAR grants of the CSO/LA Programme), but also training and communication activities involving the contracting authority and Member States agencies.

Reviews cover all of the following sectors:

a. Education and Culture, Health, Social Protection

b. Rural development, Nutrition and Food security

c. Migration

d. Water and Sanitation, Environment and Natural Resources

e. Democracy and rule of law, Gender equality, Human rights

f. Civil society, Local authorities

g. Sustainable cities, Transport infrastructure and Digitalisation

h. Energy and Climate change

i. Investment climate, Private sector development, International trade

j. Nuclear safety and security, Conflict prevention

k. Financial intermediaries and financial products

l. Statistics and data measurement

Project Ukraine

30/07/19 - 30/05/20

Evaluation of the European Union's humanitarian assistance in Ukraine, 2014-2018

Link to final report available at: https://ec.europa.eu/echo/sites/echo-site/files/evaluation_eu_humanitarian_assistance_ukraine_2014-2018.pdf

This evaluation provided a retrospective assessment of the European Commission's (DG ECHO) interventions in response to the protracted humanitarian crisis in Eastern Ukraine (2014-2018), in order to help shape the EU's future humanitarian approach in the country. This external, impartial and independent evaluation was designed to provide an evidence-based judgment of the extent to which these humanitarian actions were relevant to the needs of target populations; coherent with humanitarian principles, DG ECHO policies and the response of other donors; effective in relation to EU humanitarian goals; efficient in terms of cost effectiveness and budget allocation; sustainable in terms of results, nexus linkages and exit strategies; and have achieved EU added-value.

The objective was to conduct an independent assessment, that:

Promotes accountability by providing independent assessments based on judgment criteria, stakeholder consultations, and triangulated evidence;Facilitates learning by exploring how activities were implemented and achieved their results; andSupports decision-making by providing initial evidence at the Desk Phase, emerging findings in the Field Phase, and working with stakeholders to formulate relevant and useful recommendations in the Final Report Phase.

The evaluation covered:

all interventions funded by DG ECHO in Ukraine between 2014 and 2018;the areas of Protection, Health, Basic Needs (through multi-purpose cash transfers and non-food items as appropriate), Food Security and Livelihoods, Shelter and WASH; andareas which targeted vulnerable people living close to the conflict's contact line, IDPs in government-controlled areas, and affected persons inside the non-government controlled areas It consulted a wide range of actors in Brussels, Kyiv and in field locations, including DG ECHO staff at HQ, regional and country levels; other EU actors; national and regional stakeholders; implementing partners; and other humanitarian and development donors including EU Member States and agencies. These stakeholders were also the main users of the evaluation reports.

Project Seychelles

11/06/19 - 22/12/19

Strengthening capacity to improve trade-related SPS conformity and capacity building for competitive fisheries export in Seychelles

Project Malawi

29/05/19 - 22/12/19

Targeted support to the Regional Multidisciplinary Centre of Excellence (RMCE) for the implementation of the key trade and business climate components of its APEI programmes

The Regional Multidisciplinary Centre of Excellence (RMCE), dedicated to helping the economic integration process of its five like-minded and reform-oriented member-states, namely Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Seychelles and Zambia, through their Accelerated Program for Economic Integration (APEI), sought the intervention of TradeCom II to provide targeted support for the implementation of three key trade components of its APEI Programmes. TradeCom II contracted Landell Mills to carry out this work, in direct collaboration with the RMCE's main office in Mauritius.

The purposes of the support programme were defined as follows:

1. To contribute to the facilitation of the free movement of business persons and professionals among the APEI countries;
2. To enhance and deepen cooperation in trade in services;
3. To enhance the business climate for increased investment and trade among APEI Member States.

To achieve these purposes, the Landell Mills Technical Assistance Team was required to:

1. Contribute to the facilitation of the free movement of business persons and professionals among the APEI countries by developing a Framework for the implementation of the APEI Travel Card for Professionals and Business Persons;
2. Enhance cooperation in trade in services and sharing of information through (i) the design of a draft Framework for the monitoring of the implementation of a future MRA on architectural services and (ii) the provision of a Compendium of Regulations on architectural services;
3. Enhance the business climate for increased investment and trade and promote intra-private and public dialogue in APEI Member States through (i) the design of a Business Facilitation Framework for APEI Member States, (ii) the mapping of the state of play of priority sectors that could be facilitated by private-public dialogue, (iii) creating a matrix of offers and requests for capacity building, and (iv) the design of a Framework for capacity building and institutional development to enhance trade and investment focusing on the critical sectors highlighted.

The substantive outputs in each of these three areas (technical reports) had to be supplemented by thematic peer review and training workshops to ensure ownership of the results by APEI country stakeholders and to generate discussions on the way forward.

Project Belgium

02/05/19 - 31/12/23

Methodological Knowledge Sharing (MKS)

The overall objective of this contract is to provide support and technical assistance to the Directorate General for International Cooperation and Developments (DG DEVCO) to improve quality, coherence and effectiveness of EU interventions in international cooperation through increased knowledge, reinforced capacities, enhanced working methodologies and skills of EU staff in Headquarters and Delegations.

The specific objectives of the project are as follows:

Support to knowledge creation: developing/updating of methodological guidance and analytical tools related to the different themes and sectors of EU international cooperation, and the different phases of EU interventions in international cooperation (from programming to evaluation).Support to knowledge transfer: maximising the uptake of knowledge created and learning through the organisation of learning activities tailored to EU strategic priorities and participants' needs (e.g. face-to-face training activities and their follow-up, webinars, micro learning, learning videos, etc.).Support to knowledge sharing: maximising collaboration and exchanges of experience/stories between services/individuals, contributing to the creation of active communities of practice. This area also includes the management of Capacity4dev (the corporate on-line collaborative knowledge sharing platform).

The MKS project will achieve these objectives by delivering the following results, as stated in the ToR:

User-friendly methodological guidance and analytical tools are developed, updated, edited and disseminated.EU Staff learn how to use the methodological guidance and analytical tools and effectively use them in their daily work.Knowledge sharing is enhanced through a well performing and user-friendly online platform (Capacity4dev) and through the promotion of innovative knowledge sharing activities (including publication of articles, support to Communities of Practice)

The target audience of the project is ‘European Commission staff (in particular DG DEVCO, but also open to other staff, notably DG NEAR, FPI, ECHO and EEAS HQ) and staff working in EU Delegations.’ Secondary target groups include ‘staff of Member States, partner governments, implementing partners and contractors managing EU financed actions.’

Activities related to knowledge sharing may well also ‘benefit a broad range of stakeholders within the development practitioners' community.’

Project Staffing

KE 1: Team Leader/Quality Coordinator

KE 2: Activities Coordinator

KE3: Learning Experience Designer

NKE 1: Content Management Curator

NKE 2: Capacity4dev IT Business Manager

NKE 3: IT Support/Web master

NKE 4: Cap4Dev Digital Content Assistant/Journalist

NKE 5: Activities Assistant

NKE 6: Knowledge Sharing & Dissemination Strategy Expert

Project Nigeria

15/04/19 - 14/08/23

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