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Bamboo Stakeholder Workshop in Houaphanh Province, Lao PDR |
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5 - 8 May - Prosperity Initiative visited Sam Nuea City and Viengxay District in Lao PDR to gain a better understanding of the bamboo sector in Houaphanh Province and assess options to develop a baseline survey and associated qualitative work. The Team, which included Dr. John Marsh, Executive Director; Dr. Bob Baulch, Lead Economist; Ngo Viet Hung, Business and Investment Lead; and Sihattha Rasphone, Lao PDR Coordinator, established a formal relationship between Mekong Bamboo managers and the Houaphanh local authorities and provided an opportunity to review project progress and work plans with GRET.
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DCED Standards Meeting in Jakarta |
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18 - 19 May - Prosperity Initiative's Lead Economist, Bob Baulch, attended a three day meeting of the Donor Committee for Enterprise Development (DCED) results measurements initiative in Jakarta. The DCED and its partners are developing minimum standards for quantifying achievement in private sector development. Prosperity Initiative is one of seven NGOs worldwide that has agreed to undergo a DCED audit to assess the impact and effectiveness of its work to reduce poverty.
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Coconut Industry Benchmarking Trip to Philippines |
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19 - 25 May - Members of Prosperity Initiative's Sector Feasibility Team conducted a benchmarking study in the Philippines to investigate the major companies and institutions involved in the world's largest coconut industry. Provincial officials from Ben Tre, Viet Nam's leading producer of coconut products and one of Prosperity Initiative's main partners, also attended.
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Prosperity Initiative Begins Lao PDR and Cambodia Bamboo Handicrafts Project |
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On 26 March, the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) signed a contract with Prosperity Initiative to implement the project Improving Bamboo Handicraft Value Chains for Women's Economic Empowerment in Cambodia and Lao PDR. The project is one of several around the world under the World Bank Gender and Development Action Plan's Results Based Initiative (RBI) which seeks to pilot, measure and ultimately scale up proven interventions for women's economic empowerment. UNIFEM are the World Bank's implementation partners, while the International Centre for Research on Women (ICRW) lead the impact assessment component for the World Bank's RBI globally. Prosperity Initiative will manage the Lao and Cambodia project, which aims to create jobs and increase income for bamboo handicraft producers through innovations in the sector and introduction of new business opportunities. The $620,000 project will work with approximately 1,500 households in target provinces in both countries, where more than 80% of the people involved in the subsector are women. The work will focus on improvement of processing productivity, improved market linkages and design. |
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Prosperity Initiative Signs MOU with Thanh Hoa Province |
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On 5 March 2009, Mr. Nguyen Trong Quynh, Head of the Provincial People's Committee Office, and Mr. Kim Ngoc Hiep, Vice Head of the Foreign Relations Department, met with Prosperity Initiative to sign an MOU between the Thanh Hoa Provincial People's Committee and Prosperity Initiative. This MOU confirms the shared objectives of the Thanh Hoa People's Committee and Prosperity Initiative to support the development of a diverse, sustainable and competitive bamboo sector to benefit poor farmers, workers, and businesses. Work in Thanh Hoa through an IFC led project began in 2005, where PI joined IFC to lead the sector development work in 2006, funding GRET and other partners to develop an industrial bamboo supply chain pilot project. Since Prosperity Initiative's formal registration in Vietnam in November 2008, Prosperity Initiative has been formalising relationships with various local agencies. This MOU is the third such agreement in Viet Nam, the others being with Ben Tre Province and the Institute for Policy and Strategy for Agriculture and Rural Development (IPSARD). |
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