Assignment: Detailed Finished Leather Goods Sector Analysis

Client                : GEMS-GRM International
Duration           : January 2011- February 2011
Location           : Nigeria

Short Description of the Assignment       

Mapping the ‘universe’ of (potential) leather goods manufacturers to understand where they see potential, face constraints (and why some manufacturers went bankrupt) and which solutions are feasible to address these constraints. The mapping should encompass the enterprises mentioned above, other manufacturers unknown so far and designers, tanneries (who might be interested in moving into manufacturing) and retail chains (who might be interested in some form of subcontracting production).

• Mapping of artisanal producers to understand what market potential there is, the segment that the project could target, the constraints that are faced, potential solutions to overcome these, and the factors that certain artisans more competitive than others.
• Validating and refining the picture of the end-market that has so far been adopted by the project for finished leather goods.  The analysis should include identifying segments that currently exist, identifying products and customers within these segments, the segments/products that show most potential, and the type of producers that are most likely to be able to tap into this opportunity.
• Mapping the supply of production inputs and services to understand the constraints faced by the manufacturers and to identify possible solutions.
• Understanding how and where the poor and females interact with both the value chain and the support market players, so that an assessment can be made of possible impact on these populations segments that would result from target interventions.

Assignment: Cocoa sub-sector development project

Client                : Swisscontact-Indonesia
Duration           : 2 months
Location           : Indonesia

Short Description of the Assignment       

The first mission was completed in the light of capacity building of Swisscontact staffs on initial sector selection and sector analysis in addition to the training on different aspects of market development approach for the staff of Swisscontact Indonesia.
The second mission was a continuation of the first to forward the task up to intervention design and help in intervention implementation in selected sector. In this process Khaled was specifically responsible for reviewing the progress of cocoa sub sector analysis based on the first mission and assist the team in preparing the market strategy, market & intervention logic. He has coached the team on service assessment and assisted them in conducting service   assessments along with identifying and designing high-impact interventions.

Assignment: Scoping mission on the prospect of introducing “Making markets work for the poor “

Client                : AusAID
Duration           : 1 Month
Location           : Fiji

Short Description of the Assignment 

    
An AusAID mission in Fiji, where khaled delivered his consultancy services on a scoping mission. The major tasks included an assessment and recommendation in relation to the potential scope for a markets-based approach to poverty reduction in Fiji. The assessment focused on the key issues and challenges and the potential outcomes. The assessment particularly covered the sub-sectors like Horticulture, Automobile Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Food processing, Tourism, Handicrafts and came up with the findings of having wider scale opportunities to work in the vegetables, handicrafts and tourism sub-sectors. Developing a working list of possible interventions for focus in identified sectors, identifying any specific risks to be taken into consideration and preferably potential partners, suggesting performance indicators and means of measurement, providing an outline of an effective model of implementation, possible timeframe and costs associated; and recommendation for next steps were among the key responsibility during the assignment.

Assignment: Mentoring project staff on M4P approaches for PrOpCom

Client                : PrOpCom, Nigeria
Duration           : 1 month
Location           : Nigeria

Short Description of the Assignment     

The assignment aims to improve the chance of success of PrOpCom’s interventions as those will be more realistically and logically defined, more appropriately resourced, and better understood by programme reviewers and partners. Khaled was appointed in a mentoring role, as it was primarily verbal and individually-specific. The Rice and Agro-machineries based interventions was comprehensively analysed by him, made constructive comments on the interventions, approaches and styles of the Intervention Managers and building confidence in an assertive and supportive manner.

Assignment: Value Chain Analysis and providing training to project staff on Value Chain Analysis

Client               : CAVAC- AusAid
Duration           : 1 Month
Location           : Cambodia

Short Description of the Assignment     

The assignment was to conduct value chain analysis of selected value chains. An additional objective of the value chain analyses was to train the locally engaged staff in value chain analysis work. The main training methodology was learning by doing. In addition to that organizing a two day training workshop for the local engaged staff to familiarize themselves with the methodology to be used included in the responsibility.