devinitorg/iati-policy-markers huggingface dataset:
Stärkung ohrenmedizinischer Dienste in den Provinzen Pinar del Río, Isla de la Juventud, La Habana und Guantánamo, Kuba Strengthen of ENT-services in the provinces of Pinar del Río, Isla de la Juventud, La Habana und Guantánamo, Cuba Die Lebensqualität von hörbehinderten kindern und Jugendlichen ist verbessert Die Lebensqualität von hörbehinderten kindern und Jugendlichen ist verbessert Die Lebensqualität von hörbehinderten kindern und Jugendlichen ist verbessert Die Lebensqualität von hörbehinderten kindern und Jugendlichen ist verbessert
Stärkung der Selbstverwaltungskapazität lokaler Akteure in der kirchlichen Entwicklung Strengthening the Self-Management Capacity of Local Actors in Ecclesial Development Kleinprojekteprogramm zur Integration selbsthilfeorientierter diakonischer Dienste in Kirchen unterschiedlicher Denominationen. Microproject Programme for the Integration of a self help oriented welfare and social system into churches from various denominations. Kleinprojekteprogramm zur Integration selbsthilfeorientierter diakonischer Dienste in Kirchen unterschiedlicher Denominationen. Microproject Programme for the Integration of a self help oriented welfare and social system into churches from various denominations.
Promoting Improved Production Technologies Among Smallholder Farmers in Ghana Via Interlinked Credit and Index Insurance Contracts This study was a 3-year program of research, outreach, and education designed to promote use of index insurance to expand access to credit and increase adoption of improved production practices among African smallholders in the Northern region of Ghana. ACET conducted Randomized Control Trials (RCT) to test whether index insurance backed contingent credit can reduce impact of widespread agricultural loan defaults in the wake of adverse systemic events, allowing lenders to expand access to credit among smallholders and reduce interest rates. The work entailed coordination of 300 farmer based organizations, 12 rural banks, and one insurance company. The study found that index-insured agricultural loans increased access to credit for smallholder farmers, which enabled the adoption of more productive agricultural technologies. Smallholder farmers
Engagement Management- Advisory All activities undertaken by staff and consultants under engagement advisory. Administrative Administrative
Aid Management and Fiscal Policy for Inclusive Growth This year 2017, we completed our 21-month multi-country study on Managing and Mobilizing Financial Flows for Development with funding from the Gates Foundation. The study  assessed the responses of  external development finance recipient countries and the issues they must address with development partners to maximize their future development outcomes in terms of inclusive growth and transformation. The study was timely considering the changing development finance landscape. The study – which covered Burkina Faso, Ghana, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia - provided key policy lessons that will help improve the practices of national authorities and development partners. Completed activities included organizing a policy learning event in Accra, Ghana on 10-11 April 2017 to help countries develop a shared understanding of the critical changing
landscape in development finance and what it means for Africa and how they can collectively influence dialogues on financing for development. We also  collaborated with the Center for Global Development (CGD) and the
International Monetary Fund’s Fiscal Affairs Department (FAD/IMF) to hold a peer learning seminar for selected sub-Saharan African (SSA) Ministers of Finance. The goal was to help shape the voice of African finance
ministers for upcoming meetings especially those organized by the G-20. Internally, these events also provided a platform to kick-start dialogue with countries about the Resource Mobilization and Management Chapter. We also
extended our influence beyond study countries and organized and or participated in international events. These include the third Development Finance Forum from 31 May to 1 June 2017 in Accra Ghana spearheaded by the
World Bank and an Economic Transformation Seminar hosted by Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung in Germany on 10th to 11th May, 2017. The study to assessed the responses of  external development finance recipient countries and the issues they must address with development partners to maximize their future development outcomes in terms of inclusive growth and transformation.
INCLUDE PLATFORM-Educated Unemployed Following previous work in 2016, ACET organized a follow up dialogue in February 2018 on how the government will translate employment policies in to jobs to address the youth unemployment and skills challenges in Ghana.
Modernizing Agriculture in Ghana Project The proposed assignment aims to prepare a baseline in a sample of 25 districts in the 10 regions of Ghana, including an updated MAG Performance Measurement Framework (PMF), with a particular focus on qualitative baseline indicators (disaggregated by gender). This information would be used as a point of reference in measuring the value-added and results achieved by the MAG program over the 2017–2022 period.
Global Delivery Initiative Case Studies GDI seeks to bring development practitioners together to share and leverage delivery know-how and operational knowledge. It is an initiative of the World Bank and has for the past few years when it was started, created a common set of methodologies for capturing and using delivery know-how and a common taxonomy for identifying and analyzing delivery challenges. We signed a contract with GDI to deliver 3 case studies in 2018. The case studies on the World Bank’s Transport Sector Project in Ghana and Liberia, and the Power Sector Project under Africa-China Program of the Bank are due in the first quarter of 2018. Case studies were completed and shared with the GDI team for review and completion For the first quarter of 2019, we initiated work for the second papers including desk research and stakeholder mapping, and submitted a budget for field visit to be approved by the GDI team. ACET submitted a draft annotated outline for the second paper in preparation for a case clinic. In May, ACET undertook a stakeholder consultation on Road, Bridges Maintenance, and Management in Mozambique with contractors, policy makers, and World Bank staff. This was followed by a stakeholder consultation in Tanzania in July 2019 with a focus on the Southern African Trade Facilitation study. Lastly, ACET returned to Tanzania in August to undertake the field research for the Bus Rapid Transit case study. First draft reports of all case studies have been completed and submitted to GDI for review. Following the completion of the stakeholder consultation in Tanzania in July 2019 and the field research for the Bus Rapid Transit case study in Tanzania in August, the team held a case clinic workshop to review comments from stakeholders. The second draft report for all the three case studies were also completed and submitted this quarter. In Q4, the project team submitted the third drafts of all the three case studies for review, comments and approval by the external task team leaders for finalization. In Q1, the project team submitted the fourth drafts of all the three case studies after external review. They also submitted same to the Task Team Leaders (TTL) for clearance. The clearance process is done to validate the case studies and provide further inputs, if any to the project team.
In Q2 2020
The report was finalized and the project officially closed in June. To develop three case studies
Engagement Management-Research Engagement management for research activities. These are annual administrative costs associated with our research management
Warehouse Receipts and Financial Practices: The Case of Ghana This was a one -year joint project with IFPRI
which started in July 2016 and closed in June 2017. The goal of this study was to assess the potential economic
benefits of warehouse receipts, not only to farmers, but, more generally, the agricultural marketing chain. The
study included theoretical research, a survey of stakeholders in the Ghanaian agricultural commodity marketing
chain with a direct interest in storage and warehouse receipts, and a technical report. Governments, Donors, Farmers
Impact of Artisanal and Small Scale Mining on Agriculture: This project, which started in January 2016, sought to explore the effects of artisanal mining on agriculture and translate recommendations from the study into actionable plans. The scope of work involved conducting analytical and field research, engaging policy makers, mining and agriculture sector stakeholders in three countries (Burkina Faso, Ghana and Sierra Leone). To this effect, the project teams hosted validation workshops in the respective countries in February 2017. These
workshops brought together key people to review and validate the report findings and recommendations.12 The final country reports have been synthesized into a single report and has been posted on the ACET website This study explores whether the practices and activities of ASM can sustainably provide livelihoods complementary to those in smallholder agriculture in communities where both are widespread. Thus, the spotlight is primarily on ASM (and not on smallholder agriculture) because of the serious threat that unregulated artisanal mining poses to agriculture and food security in affected communities. Extractive industry, policy makers, donors.
Good Export Practices This is a one-year project (May 2021-April 2022) funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) on Good Export Practices. The Buenas Practicas Exportadoras (BPE) or Good Export Practices Program is an export capability-building program for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), active in a strategic sector of the economy, and producing differentiated goods. It is based on the findings of the work by Artopolous et al. (2011 and 2013) that one of the main barriers hindering firms from exporting is a lack of foreign market knowledge. The program builds upon the insight that management matters and that the diffusion and adoption of good export practices is crucial for export performance.
This project is in the initiation stage. ACET has signed an MOU with GEPA, reviewed 20 practices, and put out a TOR for a consultant. The project is a partnership between University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, HEG-Genève, Switzerland, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina and ACET.

Q2 2021
The project is currently at diagnosis phase and training materials for Ghana have been developed and customised. Training of consultants for the technical assistance phase has been completed as well. With regards to the selection of participating firms, ACET received a total of 220 applications with 197 selected. Since it is a prerequisite to select 200 participating firms in other to complete the diagnosis phase, preparations are underway to select 3 additional firms in Q3. Training of consultants for the diagnosis of firms is ongoing.

Q3 2021
Training of consultants for the diagnosis of firms has been completed. A total of 180 participating firms have been selected for the program, out of which 90 firms are currently being offered the technical assistance to enhance their capacity to export. The technical assistance phase ends in January 2022 following which the impact of the technical assistance will be assessed by comparing the status of the group that received the assistance to the remaining 90 that were not offered any support.
Local Content and Value Addition This study provides a comparative analysis of natural resource sector development in eight African countries. The study looks at national policies and strategies together with legislation to encourage local content and value addition. It also looks at the institutional frameworks and guidelines to ensure compliance in the mineral, oil and gas sectors. Additionally, the study documents the experiences of countries promoting the use of local inputs. This deepens linkages along the resource production value chain and adds value to the resources extracted, thereby benefiting growth and advancing development goals. The eight countries studied are Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ghana, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa and Zambia. The objective of this study is to establish the nature of the policies, laws and institutions that regulate local inputs into extractives projects in the region, trends that emerge from policies of 8 countries (Angola, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Mozambique, Nigeria, South Africa and Zambia) and the response by multi-national corporations to these policies.
Agriculture and Financial Inclusion” and “Youth Learning and Skills Development for Employment This was a grant received from the Mastercard Foundation to support our work on Agriculture and Financial Inclusion and Youth Learning and Skills Development for Employment within the Pan African Coalition for Transformation. This grant covered three key activities focused on convening stakeholders to discuss the challenges and research opportunities covering the two issues identified:
(i)	Conduct stakeholder consultations with up to 10 countries, private sector partners, think tanks and regional organizations, and other stakeholders in the agriculture space.
(ii)	Convene one chapter meeting in Kenya (champion country) to engage stakeholders around the topic of agriculture and financial inclusion and also agree on objectives for the chapter.
(iii)   Launch of the Youth Employment and skills chapter.

All these activities have been duly completed by the end of the second quarter of 2018 The objective of this grant was to support the operationalization of two PACT chapters in 2017: Agriculture & Financial Inclusion and Youth Employment & Skills. African policy makers, donors, CSOs,, private sector
Intra-African Talent Mobility Partnership Project This project commenced in 2014 when ACET was engaged by the World Bank to act as the West-Africa secretariat for the Intra-African Talent Mobility program. The project sought to establish a “Schengen” type mechanism for the movement of talent within Africa. Over the past few years, the West-Africa Program – composed of Benin, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, and Sierra Leone have been working towards the development of a framework agreement (MoU) covering priority areas to ease the movement of skilled persons across their countries. In 2016, countries concluded capacity building workshops and signed the MoU on the sidelines of the ECOWAS annual meeting in December. In the presence of the President of ECOWAS and other government representatives, countries committed to implementing a number of recommendations as stipulated in the MoU’s schedule of commitment. The Government of Cote d’Ivoire, together with ACET have taken the lead in 2017 to  seek further funding to operationalize the activities in the pilot countries. Ghana, Benin, Sierra Leone, Cote d'Ivoire
Think Africa- African National Development Banks This is a collaboration between ACET and ODI to undertake multi-country case studies on the developmental activities and impacts of National Development Banks as part of the AFD/IDFC research initiative on Public Development Banks

Q2 2021
The following activities have been undertaken this review period:
•	Inception Report completed;
•	Global Literature review completed.
•	Country level literature reviews ongoing;
•	Questionnaires developed for the interviews and focus group discussions;
•	Key banks and some stakeholders for the Ghana case study contacted;
•	Stakeholder Matrices being developed for Rwanda, Tunisia, and Cote d’Ivoire

Q3 2021
In Q3, stakeholder matrices for all countries (Rwanda, Tunisia, Cote d’Ivoire) were finalized. Country-level literature reviews and focus group discussions have been conducted, and first drafts of the country-level reports have been developed. In September 2021, ACET convened a validation workshop on the developmental activities and the impacts of National Development Banks in Ghana.  the second draft of the country-level report for Ghana is expected in the next quarter after comments from the workshop have been integrated. The team is also preparing for a validation workshop on the Rwandan case study in October 2021.   

Q4 2021
ACET and ODI have collaborated to undertake multi-country case studies on the developmental activities and impacts of National Development Banks as part of the AFD/IDFC research initiative on Public Development Banks. 

In October 2021, ACET convened a validation workshop on the developmental activities and the impacts of National Development Banks in Rwanda. Second drafts of the Ghana and Rwanda reports have been finalized with comments from the workshops have been integrated into the report. Final case study reports have been completed and a synthesis report will be produced during the first quarter of 2022
The Future of Work in Africa As part of a mid-term review of its Jobs for Youth in Africa (JfYA) strategy, the AfDB has commissioned a study to assess and understand the challenges and opportunities for African countries as we approach the Fourth Industrial Revolution. The study has identified and evaluated the impact of the Fourth Industrial Revolution on future job creation and skills development and propose areas for intervention and financing
African Transformation Index 1 The first African Transformation Index, launched in 2014 along with the ATR, was well received by stakeholders. Since then we have received both positive and constructive feedback from stakeholders that will inform the re-evaluation, re-design and upgrade of the next index. Following consultations with the World Bank and others in 2017, a number of areas were identified for revision and work initiated to address these. 

In 2018, we secured the necessary funding to design, upgrade and develop an upgraded ATI -  the ATI 2. This new product will be based on feedback from our key players and is planned to be launched in 2020. ATI 2 will expand the DEPTH framework by developing specific indices for transformation pathways such as overall environment for growth and transformation, skills and technology transformation among others.

We have engaged a data scientist and a senior economist to support the development of ATI 2. Work will commence in February 2019. To update ATI 1 and launch ATI 2
Trade and Labor Market Outcomes in Developing Countries Awarded by the Swiss Program for Research on Global Issues for Development in 2014, the objective of this project is to thoroughly analyze the challenges and opportunities created by globalization in developing countries. Following the completion of five of six modules and 13 papers in 2015, the team shared the results of the studies at three workshops in La Paz, Nairobi and Geneva; and two joint workshops with ILO throughout 2016. To date eight papers and 21 working papers have been completed. In 2017, the team submitted a proposal for funding that is currently pending approval.
Skills and Jobs for the Future in Africa (MasterCard) This study is ongoing and is focused on evaluating skills and jobs for the future in Africa with a focus on secondary education. It includes a literature review, case studies in Ghana and Senegal, and meetings with stakeholders in these countries. The first draft report is ready and undergoing review at the Mastercard Foundation. Analysis and background paper on skills and jobs for the future in Africa through the lens of secondary education.
Ghana 40-year development framework- Support to NDPC As part of our ongoing strategy with the Government of Ghana,
ACET was invited by the National Development Planning Commission in 2016 to develop 8 thematic reports
(ranging from tourism to local content) as part of its 40-year national development plan. The project was put on
hold during the 2016 elections, and completed in April. A final report has been submitted to the new government
for action Ghana National Development Planning Commission
Emerging Public Leaders Ghana ACET was engaged by the Global Development Incubator (GDI) Group from Washington to provide technical assistance for the launch and implementation of the Emerging Public Leaders Ghana (EPL Ghana). The program was designed around the President's Young Professionals Program (PYPP) of Liberia, giving new graduates an accelerated career path in the civil service of Liberia. In the first half of 2018, ACET, the Sponsors of Education Opportunity Africa and EPL Ghana recruited 21 EPL fellows for placement in appropriate roles. The contract for the project ended in August 2018 To launch and implement the EPL Ghana program
Dissemination of ACET work (Outreach & Partnership) Dissemination of ACET work which involves participating at conferences in various capacities

During 2017-2018, ACET Communications delivered on the following activities laid out in the 2017-2019 communications strategy:
- Created significant media buzz around the launch and dissemination of the second African Transformation Report.
- Published a series of blogs and articles on the ACET website and on partner websites.
- Launched a new online bulletin, African Transformation Today in December 2017, a second issue in March 2018 and a special issue on ATF2018 in August.
- Significant increase in ACET mentions in both traditional and social media.
- Increased the download of our African Transformation Report from 933 in 2017 to 3080 in 2018. 
- Citations of our reports amounted to 19 in both 2017 and 2018.  
- Organized about 11 events/workshops during the 2018.
Resource Mobilization and Management The OE fund was used to support the acquisition of a consultant to refine and execute a long-term funding strategic plan. This consultant was also be responsible for advising on and developed a TOR for a fundraising resource to work with ACET for the long-term. The focus this year has been to broaden ACET’s network of grant donors.We have recruited a consultant for support in (1) developing a strategy for long-term financial sustainability, and (2) ramping up fundraising activities for ATF 2020 as well as for TLP-related activities. ACET recruited a consultant to support the development of a long-term financial sustainability strategy in q3. The consultant will also support ACET fund raising activities for ATF 2020 as well as for the Transformation Leadership Panel. In Q4, ACET secured funding from the McGovern Foundation for the African Transformation Forum and commenced engaging with other prospective sponsors for the Forum. We also submitted a multi-year proposal to the Open Society Foundation to support policy research and advisory support on climate. Additionally, as part of a consortium, ACET won a DFID project – Strengthening the Use of Evidence for Development Impact that began in October 2019 and will run through 2024. Likewise, as part of a consortium, we won a DFID funded project on “Ghana Jobs and Economic Transformation which will begin in January 2020 and run for approximately five years. With Vivid Economics, ACET was awarded a project from the United Kingdom Department of Trade to study non-tariff measures in Ghana. The project will begin in January 2020. We also won an award from WUSC (Canada) on investing in Women in Ghana. The project will begin in February 2020. ACET also continues to secure additional bilateral financing for the Think Africa Trust Fund, and we will leverage the Transformation Leadership Panel (TLP) to crowd in donors to ACET programming.
Q2 2020
Resource mobilization activities this year have been intense and diversified. ACET currently receives support from a hybrid of foundations and bilateral donors where the grants include program funds and core funding. We also have an increasing number of donor funded projects where ACET is a consortium member (STEG, SEDI, JET, etc.).  

Q3 2020
Our resource mobilization strategy continues to be diversified with incoming funds from foundations, bilateral donors and consortium projects.