Idag publicerades ett debattinlägg om korruptionen i biståndet och förslag på hur det kan åtgärdas i SvDs nättidning. Artiklen skirvs under av Indevelop's VD Catharina Schmitz.

Läs artikeln: Det går att komma åt korruption inom biståndet

The Department for International Development of the UK (DFID) has recently established a Framework Agreement to facilitate the procurement of services in the Governance and Security sector. Indevelop, as member of a consortium led by KPMG, has been successfully selected as eligible provider of peace-building and state-building services under the referred Framework. The geographic scope of the services is global and includes the 28 priority-countries in Asia and Africa in which DFID maintains a bilateral programme.

The Framework Agreement was awarded for 2 years, with two possible extensions of 12 months each. Typical assignments will include:

• Undertaking strategic socio-political assessments relating to fragile and conflict-affected environments
• Promoting women's participation in all responses to conflict and fragility, drawing on UN resolution 1325
• Fostering state - society relations;
• Analysis and community-level action to effectively tackle and respond to gender inequality and Gender Based Violence
• Development of multi-sector policy and programmes to tackle gender inequality
• Capacity-development support for the building of capable and legitimate institutions; for example, gender training with government officials and CSOs
• Promotion, monitoring and evaluation of value for money and results in programme interventions, including collection of gender disaggregated data, and specific results delivered for women and girls

Indevelop will be contributing its expertise in the fields of Gender Equality, Peace and Security, Capacity-development and Policy Advise for the correct implementation of this contract.

Sedan 2006 har vid Indevelop på uppdrag av Lunds Universitet genomfört två kurser inom ramen för masterprogrammet "Lund University Master Programme in International Development and Management" (LUMID). Programmet är för närvarande det näst mest sökta masterprogrammet vid Lunds universitet och hade till årets kurs ca 800 ansökningar. Omgång 6 har i likhet med tidigare program ca 45 antagna studenter från ett tjugotal olika länder.

Joakim Anger och Bengt Linde, Indevelop, har sedan starten varit involverade i utvecklingen och ansvariga för genomförandet av två delkurser.

15 poängskursen under vårterminen syftar till stärka studenternas kompetens i projektledning, projektdesign, uppföljning och utvärdering samt ledarskapsfrågor. Kursen behandlar också översiktligt biståndets aktörer och trender.

Kursen fungerar också som en förberedelse för fältterminen där Indevelop också har ansvar för kursledning. Studenterna befinner sig under fältterminen i en värdorganisation för parallell praktik och genomförande av akademiska uppgifter.

For information in English, se www.lumid.lu.se  or contact Joakim Anger at joakim.anger@indevelop.se  or joakim.anger@keg.lu.se

Indevelop as lead firm in a consortium with Karolinska Institute, Lund University, IHE, RFSU and AEDES, have been awarded a new framework agreement with Sida in the field of International Health including HIV and AIDS.

The consortium will be sole provider of short term consultancy services to Sida within the scope of the framework, which includes the areas of Health systems, Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR), Social determinants of health, Non Communicable Diseases and HIV and AIDS.

Contact person is Johan Dahlstrand

On March 29th 2012 the Swedish Government approved two important decisions that will help to further strengthen the Swedish develop cooperation efforts on global health. 

Sweden appoints the world's first Global Health Ambassador

Anders Nordström has been appointed as Ambassador with special responsibility for Sweden's engagement in global health issues. In a press release, the Minister for International Development Cooperation, Gunilla Carlsson, noted that the appointment is an expression of the importance that the government places on global health issues. The Government allocates approximately 4 billion Swedish kronor each year for health-related development assistance. Read the press release (in Swedish)

HIV / AIDS strategy with LGBT perspective
The government also adopted a regional HIV/AIDS strategy for sub-Saharan Africa. The main focus of the strategy is on reducing the number of new HIV infections with particular focus on mother-to-child transmissions.

A second focal area of the strategy is to safeguard the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) persons in Sub-Saharan Africa. This work will be complementary to Sweden's ongoing multilateral and bilateral efforts to address the needs of LGBT persons, who are often subject to discrimination and acts of violence in their communities. 

Indevelop's Catharina Schmitz will be a keynote speaker on the Union of the Baltic Cities Seminar on Gender Budgeting in Helsinki April 20th 2012.

Gender Budgeting is an application on gender mainstreaming in the budgetary process.

The Union of the Baltic Cities is a voluntary, proactive network mobilizing the shared potential of over 100 member cities for democratic, economic, social, cultural and environmentally sustainable development of the Baltic Sea Region.

Joakim Anger from Indevelop will be presenting the Outcome assessment and lessons from Swedish Development Cooperation with Macedonia 1999 -2012.

At Sida, 4 May, 9:00-12:15

To register, please contact thomas.nystrom@sida.se

Utvecklingssamarbete mellan Sverige och Makedonien inleddes 1999.  2009 gav Regeringen Sida i   uppdrag att fasa ut samarbetet under perioden 2010-2012 . Som en del i utfasningen har Sida uppdragit åt Indevelop att utvärdera samarbetet i sin helhet ("Outcome assessment and lessons from Swedish Development Cooperation with Macedonia 1999 -2012").

Sverige har varit en av de större givarna i Makedonien och det totala svenska stödet uppgår till ca 600 MSEK. Stödet har i huvudsak fokuserat tre områden; demokrati och mänskliga rättigheter, jordbruk samt miljö. Utvärderingens huvudsyfte har varit att belysa gjorda resultat samt dra lärdomar från samarbetet. Utvärderarna har särskilt studerat fyra samarbeten; två inom jordbrukssektorn, ett inom demokrati och mänskliga rättigheter samt ett inom miljö.

Den 20 april presenteras studien på en workshop i Skopje och ett avslutande seminarium äger rum den 4 maj 2012 på Sida i Stockholm . Centrala frågeställningar är de bestående resultaten och lärdomarna av samarbetet inklusive för- och nackdelar med de valda ansatserna samt styrkor och svagheter med EU-anslutning som den primära drivkraften för utvecklingssamarbetet. En utförlig sammanfattning av rapporten kommer att skickas ut den 27 april.

Seminariet äger rum på Sida - Hörsalen, den 4 maj, kl 09.00-12.15

Preliminär Agenda:

09.00-09.30 Kaffe och bulle serveras utanför hörsalen

09.30-09.40  Sida hälsar välkomna samt kort introduktion

09.40-12.00 Presentation av studien, Indevelop, i tre block med efterföljande diskussion- och frågestunder

12.00 - 12.15  Slutsatser

The Department of Economics at the University of Zambia is carrying out an interesting Public Private Partnership (PPP) Pre Market Assessments aligned with the new health policy encouraging private provision of health care service delivery in Zambia. Professor Dick Jonsson, Indevelop employed Technical Adviser says "we expect to have a research report available in June this year".

The Health Store Foundation founded in Kenya in 1999 tries to increase the Child and Family Wellness (CFW) franchise network. CFW is operating a healthcare franchise network in Kenya (with 76 outlets serving approximately 500,000 people in 2010). Nurses and community health workers own and operate CFW clinics and shops targeting a short list of prevalent diseases that cause over 70% of illness and death in sub-Saharan Africa (e.g., respiratory infections, malaria, dysentery) in addition to treating a range of other health care needs (e.g. skin infections, dressing of wounds, etc.).  The outlets concentrate on prevention, detection, and treatment of diseases using standardized procedures and reaches out to the communities through events (e.g., malaria prevention and sale of bed nets), school health screenings, and participation at community gatherings (e.g., church, town meetings, etc.).

Health Store Foundation is expanding the CFW branded franchise system to more countries in sub-Saharan Africa including Zambia under the Private Public Partnership (PPP) initiatives. The Business Innovation Facility in Zambia with support from Dfid, has agreed to provide funding and support towards CFW's exploration of the Zambian market. The Department of Economics was asked to be in charge of a Pre Market Assessment project with the purpose to provide information facilitating decisions whether to set up twenty private health facilities in Zambia. These decisions include CFW franchisee profile, outlet format, site profile, menu of products and services, etc.  In pursuit of these key decisions, the market assessment is divided into the following deliverables:

1. Detailed information on health workers including categories, availability, and regulations governing each category.
2. Overview of disease prevalence and situation of access to essential drugs, basic healthcare, and prevention services.
3. Registration requirements and operating environment for The Health Store Foundation® or local affiliate entity.
4. Information on health insurance.
5. Detailed information relevant to unit economics of a franchised unit and franchisor support costs.
6. Consumer insight/willingness to pay survey.

Professor Dick Jonsson
Technical Adviser
Department of Economics, University of Zambia

Thank you to everyone who joined us yesterday to celebrate a successful relocation! Our housewarming party featured great company from the development sector: Swedish state agencies, Sida, academia, consultancy companies, organizations, service providers and consultants, and of course Indevelop's wonderful staff!

Our favorite jazz band "Dr. Thomson and the Jazz cure" entertained with their lovely sound and even inspired some dancing.

The evening's highlight was the quiz featuring development questions. Our winners, and their prizes were:

Alicia Månsson won an autographed "Bush Wives and Girl Soldiers" by Indevelop's very own Dr. Chris Coulter

Stefan Dahlgren won Helena Thorfinn's newly best seller "När Floden tar oss"

John Viner and Johan Noren each won a box of Human Rights cards

We look forward to continued collaboration throughout 2012 and beyond!

Indevelop is seeking contact with Health Systems Experts with an interest in a long term advisory position in Africa at a Ministry of Health.  On behalf of one of our clients we will be recruiting an experienced health system advisor for a long term position in Southern Africa from August 2012.   

We are looking for persons with extensive experience from reform work within the sector. The person should have a minimum of 10 years experience of relevant work. Experience from development cooperation is needed and reform work in development/ transition countries. Working language is English.

Currently we are interested in getting in contact with interested candidates, more details will be available within a few weeks.  

Remuneration etc. will be in accordance with Sida standard conditions.

Contact Johan Dahlstrand