Nancy Mutunga, FEWS NET Kenya 
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Project
Client
The UK Department of International Development (DFID) & The Republic of Kenya, Office of the President and Ministry of Home Affairs Department of Children’s Services
Year
2008
Description
The Cash Transfer (CT) programme is designed to support the poorest households in Kenya that contain Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVCs). As a major backwash of the HIV epidemic in Kenya, the huge social problems resulting from the mortality phase of the epidemic are epitomized in the estimated 2.4 million OVCs in the country.
Project
Client
The UN Food and Agricultural Organization
Year
2008
Description
Kimetrica was contracted to undertake baseline household and community surveys, develop computerized tools for cassava and planting material system management, and develop analytical models for disease surveillance and programme management.
Project
Client
The United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM)
Year
2008
Description
Kimetrica undertook a study to assess the potential impact of UNIFEM interventions in peace building and the prevention of sexual violence in northern Uganda. The project included a review of the project’s log-frame, M&E indicators, expected outputs and outcomes, as well as the existing quantitative and qualitative indicators of change.
Project
Targeting Options for Social Protection in Zambia
Client
CARE International
Year
2008
Description
Following on Kimetrica’s study of the targeting of cash-based social protection projects in Zambia, Kimetrica was contracted to develop targeting models and tools and conduct a training of Government of Zambia technical staff in targeting methods. The project included the following:
Project
Microdata Management Toolkit Training
Client
Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Year
2008
Description
Training of National Bureaus of Statistics in Microdata Management. This global activity is intended to help developing countries better capture, document, store and disseminate microdata and metadata related to national surveys ranging for Household and Expenditure Surveys to Population Census to Demographic and Health Surveys. The Microdata Management Toolkit developed by the World Bank Data Group for the International Household Survey Network aims to promote the adoption of international standards and best practices for microdata documentation, dissemination and preservation.
Project
Great Lakes Cassava Initiative: Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting System
Client
Catholic Relief Services, under a Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Project
Year
2008
Description
The Great Lakes Cassava Initiative is intended to mitigate the impact of cassava mosaic disease on food security among rural households across a large swath of Central and East Africa. While the disease has been around for more than 100 years, in the last 20 years new, more virulent strains are wiping out cassava across the Great Lakes Region. As cassava is a primary staple food for more than 20 million people in the region, mitigating the impact of the disease on food security is a major undertaking requiring coordinated management and monitoring among dozens of local and international organizations.
Project
Minimum Dataset for the Trading of Agricultural Produce
Client
Catholic Relief Services
Year
2008
Description
The work involves developing a system for capturing and managing real-time price and commodity information for farmers and farmer groups in Africa.The project is developing a system for capturing, storing and disseminating information on agricultural prices and volumes to farmers and agricultural cooperatives in Africa. The overarching objectives are to facilitate the capture and compilation of real time information for farmer groups, partners, CRS and traders. The key project goals are to:
Project
Independent Monitoring and Evaluation Study for CARE Zambia
Client
CARE International
Year
2007
Description
Study of the targeting of cash-based social protection projects to inform scaling up activities in Zambia.The study is intended to determine the costs and accuracy of alternative targeting approaches in Zambia and simulate the effects of scaling-up cash-based social protection activities. The work includes a realistic cost-benefit estimate of the alternative targeting mechanisms under different funding scenarios. In addition to the development of decision models, the project relies on a Kimetrica directed household survey of over 2,000 households in CARE's target districts.
Project
Technical Support to Strengthen Agricultural Relief Activities
Client
The UN Food and Agricultural Organization
Year
2007
Description
Kimetrica provided expert advisory services to the FAO's Senior Emergency Adviser for Africa on strengthening agriculture relief activities within TCEO interventions in the region. The work included the development of proposals for supporting the reintegration of returnees in DRC and Burundi. Further, our consultant facilitated the development of the FAO Plan of Action for Uganda.
Project
Tackling Food Insecurity in Kenya: A Report
to the UN's Horn of Africa Initiative
Client
The World Food Programme
Year
2007
Description
In support of the Secretary General of the UN’s Horn of Africa Initiative, Kimetrica conducted an analysis of factors affecting food insecurity in Kenya, with particular focus placed on response mechanisms and processes undertaken by United Nation Organizations. The report is based on extensive consultations with over 30 individuals and organisations in Kenya and a review of policy and project documentation. It provides an analysis of the current practices and capabilities for dealing with food insecurity, focusing on acute or transient food insecurity.
Project
Client
UK Department for International Development (DFID)
Year
2007
Description
Kimetrica is undertaking an independent survey to add value to Oxfam’s own M&E system and ensure that lessons and experiences are captured and made available to DFID’s Hunger Safety Net Programme tender to ensure a level playing field for organizations bidding on its tender. Part of the information basis for the evaluation will come from a review of Oxfam’s surveys, studies and reports. The primary goal of this activity includes assessing the relative cost-effectiveness, technical performance, implementing agency and partner capacity, linkages to complementing programmes, beneficiary satisfaction, use of transfers and impact with regard to poverty reduction. Kimetrica has undertaken this project in the understanding that it will also analyse the causes of performance deficits and propose options for project improvement, if warranted. The project will make recommendations to DFID, Oxfam GB and the KFSM on its contribution to the evolving social protection system.
Project
Enhanced Demographic Data Management Tools
Client
United States Agency for International Development
Year
2007
Description
Following the success of Kimetrica's pilot project which developed a
methodology and trial software for extracting population data, including age
and sex cohort estimates, for user-defined and non-administrative polygons,
USAID/ FEWS NET has contracted Kimetrica to develop a fully functioning
analysis tool for FEWS Net and partner staff. The project has three main deliverables:
1.Web-based and stand-Alone DDM Tool Functionality
2.Expand the Number of Adjusted Landscan Datasets
3.Training in the use of the DDM tool and data.
Project
Impact Surveys
of Relief and Rehabilitation Operations in the Horn of Africa
Client
The UN Food and Agricultural Organization
Year
2007
Description
Kimetrica is designing and implementing surveys in
Ethiopia, Somalia, Uganda and Sudan to assess the impact of five core FAO
interventions. These are:
1.Seeds and fertiliser and other crop production support packages,
2.Land tenure and management related interventions
3.Support HIV/AIDs victims (Uganda only)
4.Livestock: restocking and de-stocking
5.Livestock disease control
Project
Client
United Nations Office for Project Services
Year
2007
Description
Kimetrica is developing a knowledge management system for the capture and dissemination of biodiversity conservation and dry land ecosystem restoration in arid and semi-arid zones of Africa.The project combines 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.
Project
Scoping, Design and Development of Project M&E System
Client
The UN Food and Agricultural Organization (Pakistan)
Year
2006
Description
Undertaken in two phases, the project involved a detailed scoping mission to determine the monitoring, evaluation and management needs of the client and its partners. The second phase involved the full design and development of an integrated M&E tool.
Project
Proof of Concept: Improved Demographic Data Management
Client
United States Agency for International Development
Year
2006
Description
With funding support from USAID’s Famine Early Warning System, Kimetrica staff developed a methodology and trial software for estimating populations at risk or impacted by natural or human caused disasters. Using sophisticated software techniques and specialized data from Oak Ridge National Laboratories, the proof of concept demographic data management software is able to provide early warning analysts and humanitarian relief responders with accurate estimates – down to 1 km square grids – of the total population affected and age and sex breakdowns.
Project
M&E Management Tools for Emergency Food Security Voucher System
Client
Catholic Relief Services, Kenya
Year
2006
Description
Developed a management information system for CRS’s pilot food voucher programme. The tool provided a powerful management tool, allowing relief manager to better target beneficiaries and measure impacts.
Project
Global Landscaping Survey of Micro Insurance
Client
Micro Insurance Centre
Year
2006
Description
In support of a global survey on the state of microinsurance in the world’s poorest countries, developed an on-line database tool – including questionnaires, data entry formats, on-line data analysis – to allow researchers to post data and then run powerful queries to report on project findings, in both tabular and map form.
Project
Client
Oxfam/GB
Year
2006
Description
In support of the Report on the Status of Pastoralism (ROSP), Kimetrica developed an on-line questionnaire and discussion forum to assist Oxfam GB in understanding the range of information available on pastoralism within the four countries of the Horn/Eastern Africa (Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda).