GreenField consulting & development

Hanoi 23 Nov. 2009. GreenField has been awarded the contract to implement the M&E for Ngoc Son - Ngo Luong Natural Reserve project in Hoa Binh Province. The Ngoc Son – Ngo Luong project is a development project funded by AECID (Spanish can you buy prescription drugs online without a prescription cialis sublingual Agency for International Cooperation and Development) and implemented by Foundation for Social Promotion of Culture Spain (FPSC) and Forest Protection Department (FPD-Hoa Binh). This project aims to sustainably protect and conserve the natural cialis 40 mg resources as well as improve living standards of the local people through its activities such as supports to implementation of the VDP (Village Development Plan) and development of community-based eco-tourism.

The project has made 51 VDP’s for each village inside of the Nature Reserve during 2008. The method was based on a long Participatory Rural Approach (PRA) made “learning by doing” by the project staff and local people. This means that the VDP’s were made without any previous experience, in a real bottom to up process. After doing this approach, it’s necessary to provide technical support and advice to the process from outside in order to implement, monitor, and evaluate correctly. In the M&E assignment, GreenField’s will:

• Evaluate the VDP’s process done during the Year 2 of the project
• Deliver an evaluation of the implementation of VDP’s of the first sixth month of the VDP’s (since April 2009 to September 2009) and a list of recommendation activities/sectors in two temporal scales: for six coming months and for the next generation of VDPs’. The evaluation must include real impacts (if any) on the livelihood of the local people and useful methods (and objective indicators) to measure these impacts. Also, the evaluation must include the effectiveness, efficiency, impact, visibility and pertinent of the process done by the project in the Nature Reserve, in global terms.
• Provide to the project an effective and efficient mechanism to implement and monitor the VDP’s and to provide punctual advices during the process.