Past Work
We provide research, capacity building, and technical assistance in various development areas.
Financing the Just Transition: Powering Asia's Sustainable Energy Future
Client: Fair Finance Asia, Stockholm Environment Institute
Date: December 2022
Service description: Project Evaluation
Fair Finance Asia together with Stockholm Environment Institute and research partners Profundo Netherlands and Strategia Development Research Institute (SDRI) launched a new study showing that Asia is experiencing an ‘energy addition’ not a just energy transition based on financialflows since Paris Agreement.
The study culminates with two broad and overarching conclusions:
Asia is experiencing an ‘energy addition’ rather than an energy ‘transition’ due to the slow uptake of climate and energy policies adopted by Asian policy makers, financial regulators, as well as banks, and investors in Asia and beyond. This means that increasing volumes of renewable energy generating capacity are added to currently dirty and fossil-intensive grids, leading to no net change in global greenhouse gas emissions.
The ‘justice’ element of Asia’s prospective energy transition (or ‘addition,’ as argued above) is still wanting and comes as an after-thought policy measures from national climate and energy policies, which suggests that whatever manifestation of an energy ‘addition’ or ‘transition’ that evolves has the potential to pose major and disadvantageous threats to under-privileged, under-resourced, and vulnerable minority groups across the region.
End-of-Project Evaluation Study of the Sustaining Education Reform Gains (SERG)
Client: Save the Children
Date: September 2022
Service description: Project Evaluation
End-of-Project Evaluation Study of the Sustaining Education Reform Gains (SERG) Project of Save the Children Philippines.
FFA Just Energy Transition follow up study
Client: Oxfam in Cambodia and Fair Finance Asia
Date: July 2022
Organizational Capacity Needs Assessment for Mindanao Development Authority (MinDA)
Client: GIZ Mindanao Development Authority
Date: April 2022
Service description: Capacity and Training Needs Assessment
Conduct a capacity and training needs assessment to strengthen and improve areas in the organization that need improvement. The results will further be used to develop the organizational capacity development plan of MinDA.
UNFPA Phase 3 - Implementation of Information Management for ST Rai Humanitarian Response
Client: United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
Date: February 2022
Service description: Field data collection, implementation of information management systems
Implementation of Information Management for ST Rai Humanitarian Response
Systematic Integration of Socio-Emotional Learning (SEL) into Interventions for Children-in-Conflict-with-the-Law (CICL) and Children-At-Risk (CAR)
Client: Oxfam in Cambodia Client: United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Philippines, Philippine Department of Education (DepEd), Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), and Juvenile Justice and Welfare Council (JJWC)
Date: March 2021
Service description: Module Review and Development, Capacity Building, Monitoring and Evaluation
Enhance the capacity of DepEd and JJWC in developing and implementing an integrated intervention towards enhancing socio-emotional skills among CICL/CAR
Finalization of the Common Operational Datasets (CODS) – Phase 1 to 3
Client: United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
Date: August 2021
Service description: Finalisation and operationalisation of the COD for NGAs and CSOs’ utilisation
Launch, implementation, and integration of the COD in popular humanitarian data platforms and platforms of key partners, a five (5) minute training video on how to use the CODs, and final report including summarized data of users and their feedback on using the tool.
Family Strengthening (FS) Program Evaluation - Cebu & Antique
Client: Consuelo Zobel Alger Foundation
Date: August 2021
Service description: Project Evaluation
Evaluation of the Family Strengthening (FS) program in Antique and in Cebu City and compare direct FS implementation (Contracting Party and Local Government Unit) and partner-led implementation.
In-depth Research on Potential Influencing Opportunities in the ASEAN
Client: Oxfam in Cambodia and Fair Finance Asia
Date: July 2021
Service description: Market Research
Provide a report on the actual decision-making process in ASEAN on different aspects of sustainable finance
Gender Analysis of European Union Areas of Intervention in Mindanao and Helpdesk Function
Client: The Delegation of the European Union to the Philippines
Date: January 2021
Service description: Project Evaluation, Helpdesk Function
Study the differences in the conditions, needs, participation rates, access to resources, decision-making powers, etc. between girls/women and boys/men to inform and help EU programmes in Mindanao to implement more gender-sensitive activities
“Development of Voluntary Guidelines on Sustainable Packaging towards Reduction of Marine Litter and Promoting Packaging from Alternative Materials through Market-based Approach”: Market Readiness Study for Sustainable Packaging
Client: Philippine Center for Environmental Protection and Sustainable Development, Inc. (PCEPSDI)
Date: April 2021
Service description: Market Readiness Analysis
Identify packaging products to be the pilot product category for ecolabelling and recommend 3 packaging materials, selected based on the readiness of suppliers and consumers.
Field Testing of Common Operational Datasets for Emergencies
Client: United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Philippines
Date: September 2020
Service description: Orientation and Learning Sessions
Provide technical assistance to organizations (virtual orientation and technical use of the COD) and ensure that learnings from the COD Field testing is captured
Development of Common Operational Data Sets for Population Dynamics and Reproductive Health
Client: United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Philippines
Date: January 2020
Service description: Data Mapping
Data Document System based on consolidated and indicator-specific Excel matrices containing various fully-aggregated population dynamics and reproductive health indicators and Manual of Operations for said system
End of Program Evaluation of the Child Abuse Prevention and Intervention Network (CAPIN) in Negros Oriental
Client: Consuelo Zobel Alger Foundation
Date: November 2019
Service description: Evaluation Study
Provide a thorough evaluation highlighting lessons learned and good practices that can be shared with local stakeholders
Documentation of School and Community Good Practices on Disaster Risk Reduction and Management (DRRM) in Situations of Armed Conflict
Client: United Nations Children’s Fund (Philippines) and Philippine Department of Education
Date: December 2018
Service description: Research and Documentation (Case Studies)
Development of research framework for the identification of effective DRRM practices in areas of armed conflict in the Philippines and documentation and analysis of selected schools’ DRRM best practices
Knowledge Management Workshop and Toolkit Development for Forest Foundation Philippines
Client: Forest Foundation Philippines (FFP) and Evident Strategic Research and Consulting, Inc.
Date: June 2019
Service description: Knowledge Management Toolkit and Delivery of Custom-made Training Workshops
Improve knowledge management practices in FFP focal locations and provide a structured toolkit for knowledge management
“Transforming Tourism Value Chains in Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States to Accelerate More Resource-Efficient, Low Carbon Development Project”: Local Market Readiness Analysis for Sustainable Procurement
Client: Philippine Center for Environmental Protection and Sustainable Development, Inc. (PCEPSDI)
Date: August 2018
Service description: Market Readiness Analysis
Determine the local market’s potential responsiveness to an increased demand of sustainable products/services, targeting the prioritized products/services
“AIPA for ASEAN Integration Project”: Consultancy to Develop Organizational and Human Capacity Development Plans for AIPA Secretariat
Client: ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Assembly and GIZ Philippines
Date: September 2018
Service description: Needs Assessment
Determine the organizational needs to establish sustainable mechanisms and promote human capacity development plans for selected AIPA member parliaments
Development of knowledge management product for the MOVE UP project
Client: Plan International (Philippines)
Date: October 2018
Service description: Knowledge Management Development
Improve knowledge management practices in MOVE UP project locations and provide a structured toolkit for knowledge management
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