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United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Study visit This project is part of a series of projects in collaboration with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). The first project has started in 2022, in which the UNODC aims to train 180 Egyptian judges of First Instance to enhance their technical capacities in order to improve the access to justice for women (G2G22EG01). Whereas the project G2G22EG01 predominantly focuses on Gender Based Violence (GBV), this project widens it scope by also focusing on people with disabilities. Considering that both women and people with disabilities face obstacles to access the judicial system. This project (G2G23EG01) will aims to train 7 to 10 Egyptian judges, by showcasing Dutch regulatory mechanisms and procedures and experiences. Aiming to provide the Egyptian judges know-how on efficient interagency coordination to support women and people with disabilities.
Resilient NOLA inclusive platform – a pilot project Short general project overviewThe aim of the project is to contribute to increasing resilience and resilience of New Orleans. We also want to validate that our approach can make a significant contribution in other urban deltas. "Given the scale of the ambitions and the major challenges facing the city, it is necessary to make the most of the resources available (money, manpower and expertise). The plans are in place, but in order to achieve them, it is essential to engage those involved as best as possible.Therefore, there is a need to:1. make all efforts supported to make the plan visible and discoverable;2. to be able to give insight into the realised impact.Once residents see that the path taken will result in successes that also affect them personally, the support and support for the chosen course will increase significantly.In order to achieve the intended approach, it is important that strategies and mechanisms are implemented that:1. show all initiatives that have already been initiated;2. clearly articulate the specific demand from within the community;3. channel the best ideas and projects;4. connects the best resources together in order to innovate. to get off to a flying start;5. measure and visualise the impact;6. share the success stories and best practices.The Resilient NOLA Platform is a new approach for us that 1%Club structurally uses to increase community engagement and accelerate the impact within social ecosystems. With the pilot project, we want to validate our suspicion that our approach can make a significant contribution to increasing the impact generated within New Orleans; specifically to increase urban resilience within the region.Initial activities and results of the projectActivitiesThe objectives and outcomes of the pilot are achieved through a set of activities divided into 7 categories:1. Strategy-building;2. Implementation;3. Launch;4. Activation;5. Support;6. Evaluation;7. Scaling up.OutcomesThe outcome of the pilot is an implemented Resilient NOLA platform that will be active from the end of 2017 used by citizens, NGOs, businesses and local authorities.
Badges for trade mission Côte d'Ivoire Manufacturing of badges required for the trade mission Côte d'Ivoire.
EcoCajou – Cashew processing in Northern Côte d'Ivoire This project aims to contribute to a competitive and inclusive cashew sector in Kabadougou, Northern Côte d'Ivoire.By improving efficiency, the project will create 1,000 permanent jobs with fair working conditions for the workers, of which over 60% are female.In addition, it will provide a stable income for 3,300 smallholder farmers, processors and service providers, and contribute to the development of an ecologically sustainable cashew production.
Visiting programme Corporate Social Responsibility and transparency Sensitizing policymakers of the Iranian central government and key officers of state-owned companies to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Increasing their knowledge and sensitizing them on how (Dutch) companies are implementing CSR standards and how an understanding of the CSR-requirements of (Dutch) businesses could improve the ease of doing international business with Iran.
WASH Officer Uganda UNHCR The WASH Officer Uganda UNHCR will •	Coordinate countrywide on-going processes for WASH in line with the Comprehensive Refugee Framework (CRRF) and the Global Compact on Refugees (GCR).•	Facilitate shift to utilities in coordination with relevant stakeholders, including the Uganda Ministry of Water and Environment (MWE), UNICEF, the National Water & Sewerage Corporation (NWSC), Umbrella Authorities, the Uganda Office of the Prime Minister (OPM), District Local Governments (DLG’s), humanitarian and development partners.•	Provide technical advice and coordination support to enable response to immediate WASH needs for both camp dwellers and specific host communities for both domestic and agricultural use.•	Monitor on-going activities related to shift to utilities, including strengthening Umbrella Authority projects, and ensure inclusion of refugee hosting districts are incorporated in planning, in line with Water and Environment refugee Response Plan’.
Shiraka Training Programme Administration of Justice 2019 The objective of this annual course is for civil servants working in the field of administration of justice to share their knowledge and skills enabling them to lead and inspire the modernisation of judiciary and prosecution services in their home countries. The course also aims to strengthen participants’ ties with the Netherlands and the Dutch government; especially between Dutch civil servants and their counterparts in the target countries.
Fact-finding mission Egyptian energy sector The project aims to support the Egyptian government in implementing its plan for accelerating its renewable energy supply by assessing the needs of the Egyptian energy sector and the possibilities for providing Dutch expertise.
DRRS DRC 2024 – UNICEF WASH Emergency Specialist This is an assignment at the request of UNICEF. Since March 2022, fighting between local armed groups in the Rutshuru, Nyiragongo and Masisi regions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has forced large numbers of civilians to flee their homes. More than 2.5 million people have been internally displaced in North Kivu. Since the beginning of January 2024, fighting between armed groups has spread to several regions, leading to large-scale internal displacement. More than 72,000 displaced people are living in extremely dangerous conditions due to overcrowding caused by the influx of newly displaced people to villages along the Sake-Bweremana axis. To this end, the WASH sector requires an experienced WASH specialist to support the UNICEF Goma office WASH team to ensure quality and timely humanitarian response in the North Kivu.
PADEO Systems Analysis Lebanon has been struggling amidst a web of economic and political crises that rapidly worsened since late 2019 and led to raging unemployment and hyperinflation. Lebanon’s limited internal production capacity and focus on the services sector resulted in a major trade deficit and heavy reliance on imports for products.This project serves to map, analyse and identify Lebanon’s main productive sectors and subsequently deep dive into one specific production system to identify leverage points that should be addressed to unlock new jobs and economic growth in Lebanon.
Next Phase Nature Based Solutions pilot in the North Manilla Bay This assignment focuses on generating a series of profiles (drawings), a comprehensive cost estimate, and addressing legal aspects crucial for contractors to determine their pricing for project realization. Specific attention needs to be given to the operation and maintenance of the pilots. The specified locations are situated in the municipality of Malolos within the Northern Manila Bay coastal area of the Philippines. This initiative represents a critical advancement in the 'Reduce Exposure to Flooding' priority measures outlined in the Manila Bay Sustainable Development Master Plan (MBSDMP).
Manila Bay Sustainable Development Master Plan – Databases for follow-up projects Manila Bay's infrastructure investment plans in the Philippines are frequently haphazard, neglecting crucial development requirements such as sanitation, water quality enhancements, and disaster risk reduction. The developing Manila Bay Sustainable Development Master Plan (MBSDMP) does address these limitations. Currently, different donors and companies are, as a result of the MBSDMP, preparing several follow-up projects and technical assistance projects in these fields in Manila Bay. A well-organized database has been created for the Technical Assistance projects under development and companies interested in investing in Manila Bay as part of the PSD Toolkit project. In a workshop, these databases, including explanations on using the data for the Terms of Refence inputs for future projects, will be disseminated to donors, companies and parties active in Manila Bay.
Scoping Study PSD Haiti This project aims to map the potential for economic cooperation and the PSD applications between the Netherlands and the northeast region of Haiti.
Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association (ZELA) Resource Governance Zimbabwe The project aims to improve resource governance by organising activities that will strengthen public organisations, parliament, civil servants and local communities.
Assessment of the potential for a Water Retention Strategy for key areas in the Mekong Delta What are the results of the project?The “deep lying” upper Mekong Delta (MD) is characterized by annual river flooding and occasional extreme flooding. It is made up of the Plain of Reeds (PoR) in Long An and Dong Thap, and the Long Xuyen Quadrangle (LXQ) in An Giang and Kien Giang provinces. These areas have experienced significant dike building for expansion of a third annual rice crop and to protect homesteads and human settlements from flooding, which has reduced flood water retention capacity and enhanced extreme floods in 2011. This also causes a decrease in rice yields due to soil degradation and a lack of sedimentation.Many agree that the trend of reducing water retention potential must be reversed in the context of effects of climate change and sea level rise, upstream developments such as dam building, and unsustainable practices such as groundwater extraction (that causes land subsidence), and sand mining in river beds (that causes river bank and coastal erosion). But not all stakeholders fully agree, and how to increase water retention is not entirely clear.There have been proposals to formulate a Water Retention Strategy (WRS) for the PoR and LXQ, or a sub-strategy that would be part of a larger Mekong Delta Master Planning. This should facilitate controlled river flooding and natural sediment disposure in the wet season; reduce salinity intrusion in the middle delta and function as a buffer of fresh water against drought; counteract land subsidence and increase soil fertility and biodiversity; and flood-based livelihoods would allow farmers to escape the poverty trap of rice production.The large-scale transformation of the water retention capacity of the PoR and LXQ would be consistent with long-term visions such as a “safe, prosperous and sustainable” Mekong Delta by 2100, according to the “agro-business industrialization” scenario in the Mekong Delta Plan (MDP). This assignment focused on questions and knowledge gaps related to increased water retention potential in the PoR and LXQ. It addresses water retention history and potential, the rationale for a water retention strategy, livelihood adaptation, agricultural practices and the integrated retention potential.
Scoping Mission Serbia (DRR15RS02) In May 2014 the Balkans were hit with the heaviest rainfall measured in 120 years of weather measurement. Serbia’s flood protection turned out to be insufficient to deal with this extraordinary amount of rainfall and considerable damage was done by the resulting flooding. The DRR-Team was requested for support by the Serbian Flood Office. The focus was advice on the Serbian accession to the European Union and in particular to the Water Framework Directive, Flood Directive Urban Waste Water Directive and the Nitrates Directive as well as expert assistance in civil protection capacity building at municipal level. The geographical focus was the Kolubara basin and the city of Obrenovac.
Technical assistance dairy Service, Training and Innovation Centers This project aims to strengthen and realize the initial outcomes of the Strengthening Education in Agricultural Development project (SEAD) program by Nuffic. The SEAD project has established a Service, Training and Innovation Centre (STIC)- called the Alpha Milk Factory - for dairy education in Musanze. In order to let the STIC fully thrive, in-depth training on dairy processing will be provided on the following topics:a)	Dairy, its chemistry and microbiology;b)	Yoghurt processing;c)	Ghee processing;d)	Quality control and quality assurance (cleaning);e)	Machine operations;f)	Tailored product development support;g)	Development of standard operating procedures (SOPs), good manufacturing practice (GMP), Good Hygiene Practices (GHP) and Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP);h)	Support on certification by Food and Drug Authority (FDA);i)	Coaching of the production manager.Furthermore, further support on business development will be given, in order for the private partner Alpha Milk to establish a profitable business.
From waste to value (Phase I) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) in Developing Markets.Circular innovations for fast growing cities in Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Nigeria and Senegal.Phase I: Feasibility study.
DRRS Mozambique 2023 - Teamleader In February 2023, Mozambique suffered from heavy and persistent rains due to the passage of cyclone Freddy. Due to strong winds and ongoing heavy rainfall, there was an above normal flow in the river basin throughout the country, isolating several districts, especially in the central region. This resulted in deaths, displacements and the destruction of socio-economic infrastructure, worsening the already critical humanitarian situation in-country.Mozambique has requested technical assistance through the DRRS programme. The aim is to reduce the risk of natural disasters caused by water through the definition of short, medium and long-term prevention and mitigation measures. This will be done by demonstrating the added value of an inclusive integrated approach by organizing a collaboration workshop with local authorities, funding organizations and diverse stakeholders, stressing the wider context of cyclone and flood threat in Mozambique and emphasizing the importance of sustainably achieving resilience for cities, communities, economies and ecologies.
Solar energy systems to supply productive power via Smart Grids for rural development With 5%, the rural electricity rate in Madagascar is very low. Prices for electricity are between 100% and 400% of the European prices. By supplying a complete (currently non-electrified) rural village with solar energy, a solid base of demand of energy is assured to ensure the return on investments. The project generates energy through solar modules and distributes this through an innovative smart grid directly to its customers. This increases efficiency and guarantees that the supply and demand is optimally balanced. An Independent Power Producer (IPP) is established by the Dutch applicant The Sun and Wind Factory Africa B.V. and the local partner BushProof, to act as a vehicle for the distribution of solar energy in the fishermen village Andavadoaka. This provides business opportunities for the village.Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)The solar energy project reduces CO2 emissions. The joint venture commits itself to offer equal opportunities for the people in the company, independent of gender, origin, culture and age. A CSR policy was developed. Also, collaboration with a university will be organised to transfer knowledge.Impact•	Employment and working conditionsThe project created about 10 medium-/high-level and 4 basic-level positions. In the spin-off phase this will be increased to 18 medium-/high-level and 10 basic-level positions.A lot of attention has been given to safety aspects in terms of training and equipment.Specific hazard measures has been taken, especially for working with batteries (acid, heavy loads, etc.). Protective clothing and lifting equipment for heavy loads were provided.Working conditions are according to internationally accepted levels. Wages are about 200% of the minimum loan. Service engineers can earn bonuses on top of their normal wages. Working hours follow national legislation of 6 days per week or less. Staff is properly paid for overtime.Medical insurance is provided, trainings on health and preservatives have been made available.•	Innovation / Transfer of knowledgeHigh level technical knowledge of large scale solar systems is new for Madagascar as well as of smart grid technologies. Designing, engineering, installation and maintenance are of importance.•	Chain effectsBy providing the possibility to customers to buy solar plants, the impact of the project will go beyond the joint venture's own solar park.•	EnvironmentElectricity through solar solutions replaces traditional sources of energy as petrol fuelled lamps and the use of generators. It diminishes the emissions of carbon and releases the pressure on the environment.•	Position of womenElectrification can have positive impact on women, for it creates better health conditions in houses where kerosene lamps and candles are used. Setting up a solar park with an Independent Power Provider (IPP) status for the annual sales of 224 kWh in the rural fisher village Andavadoaka and providing energy utility services for the sales and maintenance of one to two solar plants per year to othe
Technical support to programmatic deployment in the Netherlands – Mozambique with focus on Beira (EKN17MZ01) Technical support to programmatic deployment in the Netherlands – Mozambique with focus on Beira.
Demonstration of human, environmental and animal-friendly laser technology BCG wants to convince Peruvian farmers and food processing companies in Peru through a demonstration project added value of the laser technology developed by BCG itself to combat bird pests. Unlike current ones methods, such as the use of chemical agents, the laser technology of BCG is human, environmental and animal friendly. The laser technology can keep (agricultural) areas completely autonomous. The laser is not for the human eye perceptible, but comes across to birds as a physical threat and thus activates the birds' survival instinct.As the laser is present in a marked area for a longer period of time, the birds will consider the area unsafe and avoid this area.The laser has a range of up to 2,500 meters. To be effective and safe on both large and small distances, it is extremely important that the pointing of the laser beam is accurate. For that reason the system has a positioning, monitoring, and correction system (PMCS) of military precision. The PMCS includes, among other things, optical encoders, a self-calibration system and micro stepper motors. In addition to the PMCS, the system also includes a patented Horizon Safety System (HSS). This system ensures ensure that the laser beam is switched off if it exceeds a certain angle, for example for safety reasons.In addition to the built-in safety system, there is also a built-in maintenance system preventing system downtime. This system monitors the use of the system, and in particular the critical and essential system components. The system actively informs the user when maintenance is required and when parts need to be replaced before the system actually breaks down. The laser is set up in the target area and by means of two electric motors that are controlled by (self-developed) software, the laser covers the area autonomously and dynamically. Especially the dynamic nature is important, as this prevents habituation in the birds. The autonomous aspect makes the system non-labour-intensive and ensures that (agricultural) land can be kept free of birds 24/7, without human intervention. For landowners with large, often remote, plots of land, this is an ideal solution.The products that BCG wants to demonstrate in Peru:• AVIX Autonomic GEN 2: fully automatic bird chase system (newest product).• Unique selling points of BCG technology.• Human, environmental and animal-friendly technology.• Cheaper, more effective and safer than alternative methods.• More efficient production of crops, good for the international competitive position of farmers.• Perfect connection to (international) human and environmental guidelines.• Reduction of negative side effects, because chemistry, noise or exclusion is no longer used.
Plastic use in the flower sector of Colombia Sustainability in the floriculture sector is a growing concern in Colombia, particularly around plastics. Within the sector, there is a need for more knowledge and know-how around sustainability practices. This study presents the current situation and possible solutions related to circularity practices related to plastic packaging in the Colombian flowers sector. It also explores the possibilities for cooperation between Dutch and Colombian stakeholders.Furthermore, this study forms the basis for a pilot on the topic, by providing recommendations for follow up actions.
DRRS Brazil 2024 – Scoping mission Porto Alegre Rio Grande do Sul, and specifically the city Porto Alegre, is facing serious water problems. The heavy rain and floods over the last weeks of 2023 and in 2024 have caused a humanitarian crisis in the city, leaving several neighbourhoods frequently without water and electricity. The topic has become a serious priority for the mayor and the city council.
Integrated Ayeyarwaddy Delta Strategy (IADS) Phase B The second phase of the Integrated Ayeyarwady Delta Strategy, which served as important preparation for future investments in the water systems around Yangon. The objectives of the study were twofold:1.    To develop, test and operationalize a hydrodynamic model of the hydraulic system in and around the Yangon area that will inform urban and rural development planners and decision makers on the present level of water security, the impact of proposed interventions on water security and possible measures to enhance water security and mitigate negative impacts of proposed development plans.2.   To inform decision-makers and stakeholders on water security issues identified for consideration in further water security assessment, analysis and planning for investments.
Access to Modern Energy – Lightning for Learning Lightning for Learning:Since 2014 UNICEF Sudan has been working on a successful e-learning programme. Children in remote communities, far away from the nearest school, learn basic literacy and numeracy skills through a tablet based game. Children learn in a community center where both lighting and tablets are powered by solar systems.Building on this project, UNICEF Sudan and Practical Action will pilot a more market oriented approach, by distributing 30 solar lights to 10 remote communities (300 in total). The lights can be used by children to study at home or by women to start income generating activities from home. Moreover, the lights provide a phone charger, increasing connectivity within these remote communities.The solar lights are owned by women in the community, who will in turn provide them to households for a set fee, providing a source of income and revolving funds to extend the use of solar systems. Practical Action will train the women in entrepreneurship and basic accounting, while UNICEF will teach youth in maintenance of the solar lights, in doing so creating job opportunities.Through our approach we believe we can build momentum in order to scale up the use of solar energy and other types of modern energy sources beyond Lightning for Learning.