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Season’s Greetings from all at Triple Line


Triple Line has supported the following in 2011:

  • Katie Hogg through the Tropical Agriculture Association (www.taa.org.uk) Katie is conducting research for the Foundation for Protection of Marine Megafauna in Mozambique.
  •  James Brockington through Best Practices Foundation (BPF) in Bangalore. A key BPF achievement and innovation in the field of livelihoods is the development of the Market Oriented Value Enhancement training programme. The MOVE approach equips landless, asset-poor and illiterate populations with the skills and knowledge to develop income generating activities (IGA) with market knowledge as the central focus.
  • Charles Fekpe through Symposium in Accra, Ghana for Tertiary Students on the evolving world and education and trends dubbed “The 5 Big Questions”.
  • Supported various cancer charities on October 9th for the Royal Parks Half Marathon.
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Development Awareness Fund (DAF)

The annual reporting round for the Development Awareness Fund (DAF) is in full swing. Clarissa is managing the process of project reports being appraised and detailed feedback sent to the projects. DFID Ministers have concluded a review of the Fund in August 2011. They remain committed to development education through the school system but will not provide any new funding for development awareness programmes, many of which are now in their final year. They have emphasised that existing projects must demonstrate results, impact and achievement of their objectives in order to continue being funded.

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Mapping in the Congo Basin – Forest protection

Shoa undertook an independent evaluation of the project “Participatory mapping in the Congo Basin as a means of Forest protection”, funded by DFID and implemented by the Rainforest Foundation. The project aims to promote recognition of communities’ rights to access to, control over, and use of forests in the legislative, political and strategic processes of three Congo Basin Countries (Central African Republic, Gabon and Congo Brazzaville). Forest communities, supported CSOs and government staff in each of the three target countries are meant to have the capacity and resources to accurately map community forest land tenure and to make use of the data thus compiled in taking and influencing decisions related to forests and forest communities.

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National Water and Sanitation policy (WASH)

Laurence, Richard & Shaun Hext have been working with Adam Smith International in Sierra Leone to prepare an implementation plan for monitoring the National Water and Sanitation policy (WASH) and develop an internal accountability mechanism to track the effectiveness of DFID funded support. They will also work with the Ministry of Energy and Water Resources to strengthen their capacity to measure performance and improved access to water and sanitation.

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Global Poverty Action Fund 1st round innovation grants

The Global Poverty Action Fund (GPAF) continues to be very busy. The first round Innovation grants have been confirmed and a number of projects started in August. Working with our pool of experienced assessors, we completed appraisals of 105 GPAF Impact grant proposals and 301 Innovation (second round) concept notes in time for presentation to the GPAF Board meeting on 19 July. The second round of the Impact window was also launched on 1 August.

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Urban Partnerships for Poverty Reduction

David conducted the annual review of the Urban Partnerships for Poverty Reduction programme (UPPR), a DFID funded ($120 mn) programme to support the extreme poor in urban slums in Bangladesh.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

UPPR Review Team discussing self-managed community based urban development project in Bogra, Bangladesh

The UPPR is successfully using the UN HABITAT model of self-governed community based organisations, and over 1,200 self-managed organisations with savings and credit groups have been formed. These groups are improving the livelihoods of over 2 million urban slum dwellers (see http://www.upprbd.org/

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Mid-term review of ASARECA

David and Barbara, together with two external consultants, undertook the Mid-Term Review of ASARECA (the Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central Africa). Read More »

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New staff

Triple Line’s latest recruit is Clarissa Poulson, who is working as maternity leave cover for Miranda Hungerford, managing the Development Awareness Fund (DAF). Read More »

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Congratulations Miranda

Congratulations to Miranda Hungerford on the birth of her daughter Harriet Amy Victoria on 30 July!  Harriet is Miranda’s fourth child and the 8th Triple Line baby- almost one per year since we started!!

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Triple Line very busy with our ongoing projects

With our new web site up and running since June, we are now keen to keep it up to date – hence a new edition of Triple Line News, featuring our latest assignments and developments. Read More »

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