Our Projects
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Year 2008
Country Angola Botswana Ethiopia Kenya Lesotho Malawi Mozambique Rwanda South Sudan Sri Lanka Sudan Tanzania Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe
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Microdata Management Toolkit Training
Research and Evaluation PROJECTS
The Microdata Management Toolkit developed by the World Bank Data Group for the International Household Survey Network aimed to promote the adoption of international standards and best practices for microdata documentation, dissemination and preservation. To this effect, Kimetrica conducted hands-on microdata management training for the National Bureaus of Statistics in 15 African countries. In Sri Lanka, Kimetrica trained national staff in improved methods for data capture, documentation, data storage and dissemination of microdata and metadata related to national surveys, such as household and expenditure surveys, population census and health surveys. The training included an introduction to the Organisation for Economic Co-ordination and Development's (OECD) Microdata Management Toolkit, an easy-to-use system for survey data management.
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Year 2008
Country Ethiopia Kenya Uganda
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Contingency Planning and Fund Management
Information Management PROJECTS
Since the early 1990s, the World Bank has promoted drought mitigation policies and strategies in east Africa. An important element in this support has been the development of drought preparedness and contingency plans at national and district levels, complemented, in some cases, by plans for natural resource management and drought response programs. In support of these efforts, Kimetrica’s early warning experts and software development team worked together to create tools for collaborative disaster management. Consultations with government officials in Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda led to the development and piloting of contingency planning and emergency fund management tools, based on Kimetrica's Crisis Toolkit™ web-service application. The toolkit included early warning and response triggers, scenario development and assessment and reporting functions.
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Year 2008
Country Burundi DRC Kenya Rwanda South Sudan Tanzania Uganda
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Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting System; Great Lakes Cassava Initiative
Information Management PROJECTS
The Great Lakes Cassava Initiative (GLCI) was implemented to strengthen the capacity of local partners in preparing for and responding to the Cassava Mosaic Disease and emerging Cassava Brown Streak Disease pandemics that threatened food security and incomes of cassava-dependent farm families in six Great Lake countries: Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda. The project linked with existing breeding programs, farmer evaluations of new varieties, and integrated crop management options to train 3,000 farmer groups in improved farming techniques to increase crop yields. In support of the project’s monitoring and evaluation (M&E) system, Kimetrica's survey team conducted surveys of over 9,000 households in six countries to establish a monitoring, evaluation and reporting system for the GLCI. To facilitate M&E across multiple countries, Kimetrica's software team created a web-based system, allowing for the fast collection of time-sensitive data at the farmer level. Combined with data collection tools to help track the spread and mitigation of Cassava Mosaic Disease across the project area, the M&E system provided Catholic Relief Services and its partners with a near real-time M&E system for project management and impact measurement.
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Year 2007
Country DRC Kenya South Sudan Tanzania Uganda
Client
Technical Assistance in Agricultural Relief Programing
Research and Evaluation PROJECTS
East Africans face multiple hazards, such as droughts, floods, conflicts, crop and livestock diseases, and unstable market conditions. These hazards often result in crises which are exacerbated by the region’s characteristically high rates of food insecurity. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization's (FAO) emergency response often focuses on providing seeds and tools to mitigate food insecurity created by man-made and natural disasters. To help FAO better address and target emergency needs in east Africa, Kimetrica’s food security team developed specialized strategies to strengthen agriculture relief activities. Focusing on east and central Africa, the services included developing strategic plans and funding proposals. Strategies for the expansion of cassava and sweet potato production were developed for South Sudan and the Great Lakes Region. In addition, contingency plans were established and integrated in the FAO regional advisors' disaster management program.
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Year 2007
Country Ethiopia Kenya Somalia South Sudan Sudan Uganda
Client
Tackling Food Insecurity in Kenya: A Report to the United Nation’s Horn of Africa Initiatives
Research and Evaluation PROJECTS
The Horn of Africa is one of the most food-insecure regions in the world. In 2007, more than 40 percent of the region’s population was undernourished and, in Eritrea and Somalia, the proportion was as high as 70 percent. As part of the World Food Programme’s contribution to the United Nation’s strategy for addressing food insecurity in the Horn of Africa, Kimetrica conducted an analysis of factors affecting food insecurity in the region, with particular emphasis placed on response mechanisms and processes carried out by UN organisations. The study was based on consultations with over 30 individuals and organizations, and a review of policy and project documentation. Kimetrica's research team provided an analysis of existing practices and capabilities for dealing with food insecurity, focusing on acute or transient food insecurity. The report proposed changes to the UN disaster response system, including methodological reforms to the needs assessment, coordination, funding and implementation processes.
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Year 2007
Country Kenya Tanzania Uganda
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Farmer Cooperative & Trader Information System
Information Management PROJECTS
Catholic Relief Services (CRS) works globally to help increase farmers’ incomes through higher production and expanded market opportunities. Working through farmers' groups and cooperatives, CRS provides training support, including extension services and marketing strategies. To enhance the ability of farmers' groups to compete in the marketplace, Kimetrica’s software development team created a web-service application for capturing and managing real-time price and commodity information for farmers and farmers' groups in Africa. The software application included modules for capturing, storing and disseminating information on agricultural prices and volumes to farmers and agricultural cooperatives. The service provided real-time price and produce data, information for reporting at the country and regional levels, a platform for the real-time exchange of information between farmers and traders, and the ability for farmers to access greater markets with their produce.
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Year 2007
Country Kenya
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External Monitoring and Evaluation: Oxfam GB’s Drought Risk Reduction Program in Northern Turkana District, Kenya
Research and Evaluation PROJECTS
In 2007, UK's Department for International Development's (DFID) strategy in Kenya included funding support to NGOs, such as Oxfam GB, to support local communities in identifying their drought risk profiles; developing disaster management plans; and implementing mitigation strategies and projects. As part of DFID’s analysis of the program's success, Kimetrica conducted an independent evaluation of Oxfam GB's social protection activity to inform both program management and DFID's country strategy. Kimetrica's evaluation team assessed the program's costs, technical performance, implementation capacity issues, beneficiary satisfaction, and the use of cash transfers by beneficiaries. The study provided recommendations to DFID and Oxfam GB on ways to improve program management to enhance the performance and impact of social protection transfers.
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Year 2007
Country Ethiopia Kenya Somalia South Sudan Uganda
Client
Impact Evaluation of Relief and Rehabilitation Operations in East Africa
Research and Evaluation PROJECTS
Following the United Nations' multi-million dollar Horn of Africa relief effort in 2006, Kimetrica's evaluation team undertook a multi-country study to assess the impact of emergency relief on vulnerable pastoral and agro-pastoral households in Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan and Uganda. Conducting over 4,000 household and key informant interviews, Kimetrica analysed emergency response impact in five core areas: agriculture inputs, land tenure, HIV/AIDS support, livestock management and livestock disease control. The study found that relief is often delayed by procurement bottlenecks and logistical constraints that can have a negative impact on vulnerable households. The study's findings provided helped the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization better address future emergency interventions, and Kimetrica's recommendations were used to develop follow-on approaches to humanitarian relief programing.
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Year 2006
Country Botswana Kenya Mali
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Knowledge Management System: Indigenous Vegetation for the Rehabilitation of Degraded Rangelands in the Arid Zone of Africa
Information Management PROJECTS
The Management of Indigenous Vegetation for the Rehabilitation of Degraded Rangelands in the Arid Zone of Africa Project addressed one of the greatest environmental problems of the arid and semi-arid lands (ASALs) of Africa – land degradation. The project’s main goal was to develop a web-based information portal for knowledge management (KM). The project combined community-based indigenous knowledge, the findings of scientific research, and past practical experience to rehabilitate degraded ecosystems and conserve biodiversity within an internet-based information system. The system facilitated an exchange of knowledge and experience and fostered the development of conservation models and best practices, which could be transferred elsewhere on the continent. The KM system was the only comprehensive information system available for researchers, policy makers and project implementers to access information on drylands, and collaborate and share information through forums and discussion boards.
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Year 2006
Country Kenya
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Emergency Food Security Voucher System
Information Management PROJECTS
In Kenya, lack of access to seeds, rather than a lack of local availability, is often a major constraint to planting. Realizing this, Catholic Relief Services (CRS) developed an innovative voucher system to help families obtain seeds. Rather than purchase commercial seed and distribute it to farm families, vouchers were issued that could be redeemed for commercial seed from stockists or for traditional seed from local grain traders. This was the first time that CRS implemented this type of voucher system, and the first time such a system was used in east Africa. To help support this program, Kimetrica developed a software system for cash and food security voucher management. The software included data collection forms to capture beneficiary and retailer information, as well as reporting forms and project management controls to allow CRS to collect information on relief activities at the community level, and run summary reports at the country level. The voucher system provided both CRS and its beneficiaries with a secure means of managing and obtaining seeds. The approach formed the basis of follow-on voucher programs that evolved into national social safety net mechanisms in Kenya.