| Irrigation Project in Ghana | ||
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MASDAR has been shortlisted for a major land use planning study covering 30,000 ha around the Bui Irrigation project in Ghana. Proposal preparation is currently underway and a multidisciplinary team of consultants will be required. For further details see "Work Opportunities"
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| Decentralised Planning & Capacity Building in The Gambia | ||
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MASDAR is currently providing consultancy services in Decentralised Planning and Capacity Building to the Community Driven Development Project. This assignment is to increase the knowledge and understanding of central level stakeholders in Decentralised Planning Processes and to strengthen the capacity of key line departments at central and LGA level.
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| Social Development Policy in Botswana | ||
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MASDAR and DEV (University of East Anglia) are undertaking a contract with UNICEF in Botswana to undertake a situation analysis of social development programmes. They will then review the current rationale for social development policy in the country and make recommendations based on international best practice.
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| M&E Mobilisation in Ghana | ||
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MASDAR is now in the data collection phase of an M&E project for the Millennium Development Authority in Ghana. Spanning the next 3 years this will collect and analyse data for this US$430 million programme. Phase 1 of the assignment lasts until April 2010.
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Smallscale biogas production in The Gambia
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In The Gambia MASDAR has established a demonstration village at Sintet to promote small-scale biogas and the use of improved stoves and fuel-briquettes made from waste materials.
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Social Protection in Southern Africa
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Reducing poverty, hunger and malnutrition remains the overriding development challenge across Africa. MASDAR is proud of the leading role it has in managing the Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme (RHVP) funded by DFID and AusAid.
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| Solar powered irrigation in The Gambia | ||
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In The Gambia a MASDAR irrigation engineer designed 25 appropriate irrigation schemes for horticultural production. He evaluated many different systems and pumps of which solar-powered submersible pumps were by far the most popular.
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Agricultural Marketing in Malawi
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In Malawi MASDAR has commenced Phase II of our Marketing Assignment with the Smallholder Crop Production and Marketing Project. This phase covers the next 15 months and will train farmers in "farming as a business" and various aspects of improved, irrigated farming.
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