Written answers
Tuesday, 6 October 2009
Department of Foreign Affairs
Departmental Reports
9:00 pm
Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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Question 760: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of experts' and consultants' reports his Department commissioned during 2008; the cost of each report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33902/09]
Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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The Department of Foreign Affairs is responsible for two Votes — Vote 28 (Foreign Affairs) and Vote 29 (International Cooperation). The following table sets out, for both Votes, the details of experts and consultants commissioned to produce reports by the Department in 2008 and the costs in each case.
My Department, through Irish Aid (Ireland's official development assistance programme) , occasionally commissions outside expertise where the specialised knowledge and/or skills are not available within the Department and where the effective management and evaluation of the programme necessitates the presence of such skills. During the course of their engagements these consultants/experts may prepare reports and other documentation. However, as they would not have been commissioned specifically to furnish a report, these details have not been included in the table.
| Vote 28: Experts/Consultants commissioned to produce reports in 2008. | Matter Reported On | Cost |
| Millward Brown | Research Project to establish reasons underlying the result of the Referendum on the Lisbon Treaty. | €138,061 |
| Communications Clinic | The preparation of a detailed Communication Action Plan to be used to direct spending under the Department's Communicating Europe Initiative (CEI) in 2009. | €48,000 |
| Richard Sinnott, Johan A Elkink, Kevin O'Rourke and James McBride | Report on Attitudes and Behaviour in the Referendum on the Treaty of Lisbon | €11,800 |
| Mr Jim O'Leary | Assessment of Value for Money Review of the Passport Service. | €7,260 |
| Vote 29: Experts/Consultants commissioned by Irish Aid to produce reports in 2008 | Matter Reported On | Cost |
| Copenhagen Development Consulting A/S. | Evaluation of Irish Aid Support to Primary Education in the Rwenzori Region, Uganda | €96,665 |
| Desam International Consultants — Uganda | Evaluation of Irish Aid Civil Society Programme — Uganda . | €19,500 |
| Debebe — Ethiopia | Civil Society Fund Audit | €3,000 |
| Pricewaterhouse Coopers Ltd | Develop Irish Aid Tanzania Private Sector Support Strategy | € 36,414 |
| National Forestry Authority Uganda | Environmental impact assessment of the construction improvement component of the post primary education and training programme (PPET) in Karamoja. | €21,666 |
| J Fitzpatrick Assoc | External Review of Irish Aid Support to Kimmage Development Studies Centre | €66,550 |
| Paud Murphy | Evaluation of Global e-Schools & Communities Initiative (GeSCI ) | €33,200 |
| FSG Social Impact Advisors | Evaluation of International Partnership for Microbicides | €139,0001bmk1 |
| Helen O'Neill | Assessment of United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) as potential partner for Irish Aid | €4,000 |
| Dr.Larry Adupa — Uganda | Documenting the process of establishing the civil society fund for HIV/AIDS response in Uganda | €11,257 |
| Prof Amon Z Mattee — Tanzania | Assessment of the performance of extension services delivery under ASDP in Tanzania | €19,235 |
| ITAD Ltd | Evaluation of Ireland's Timor Leste Country Strategy 2004-2008 | €130,000 |
| The IDL Group — Mozambique | Analysis of Opportunities to Support Rural Livelihood Security and Pro-poor Growth through the Public Sector | £30,851 |
| Alicia da Silva Calane — Mozambique | Analytic Study on process and indicators to address gender related obstacles to achieving PROAGRI goals | €10,000 |
| Dr Barry Ryan | Review of the role of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in the Partnership Programme for Eastern Europe and Central Asia (PPECA) | €15,000 |
| Economics for the Environment Consultancy Ltd (eftec) | Review of Irish Aid's Strategic Partnership's Environment Programme 2006-2008: | €30,000 |
| Development Research Training (DRT) — Uganda | The Status of Chronic Poverty and Vulnerability in Karamoja | € 2,857 |
| J Fitzpatrick Associates | Evaluation of Traidlinks | €30,250 |
| FRR/ IDL Group | Review of Irish Aid Programme in Zimbabwe | €18,351 |
| Dr. Joseph Oonyu — Uganda | Mid Term Review of Irish Aid Support to Human Resources Development for Increased Access to Primary Health Care. | $9640 |
| Ishmaels K. B. Kabanukye and others | Mapping exercise of Gender Based Violence ( GBV) Programme in Uganda | €20,000 |
| Mary Jennings | Copper Belt Government Programme Evaluation | €15,770 |
| Albert Malama | Copper Belt Government Programme Evaluation | $10,800 |
| Dr. Henk J.W Mustsaers | Review Operational Research for Food Security and Capacity Building and Evaluate Joint Mekelle and Cork Universities MSc Degree in Rural Development | €30,600 |
| John O' Regan | Financial Assessment Component of an organisational Assessment on partner NGOs for Multi-Annual Programme Scheme (MAPS), Civil Society Fund, Block Grants & other Civil Society Funding Schemes | €22,400 |
| Declan O Neill | Foreign Currency Transaction Review for Embassy in Tanzania | € 15,000 |
| Elim Serviços Lda- | Evaluation of Irish support to Technoserve | €19,369 |
| Health Tech Consulting — Mozambique | Evaluation of the Provincial Investment Plan 2004-2008 (PIPS) in Niassa Province (Mozambique) | €25,000 |
| John O' Regan | Audit of Multi-Annual Programme Scheme (MAPS) Partnership grants awarded to Self Help Development International | €22,500 |
| ITAD Ltd | Evaluation of the Uganda Country Strategy Paper 2007 -2009 | €88,760 |
| Catherine Butcher | Review of HIVAIDS programme in Northern Province (Zambia) | €18,600 |
| AGEMA — Mozambique | Vulnerability & Agriculture Extension Study | € 42,000 |
| Jane Salvage | Feedback on evaluation of Irish Aids support to Health Rehabilitation Project for Marsh Arabs of Southern Iraq | €1,650 |
| Integra Economic Development Consultants Ltd | Report to Inter-Departmental Committee on Development (IDCD) on development of skill sets | €18,300 |
| Petrus Consulting Ltd | Quality review of draft HIV and AIDS Value for Money Report | €3.400 |
| Prof. Ronan Conroy | Independent assessment of issues arising from review of a local HIV and AIDS Programme in Tanzania. | €5,000 |
1The Department of Foreign Affairs paid €139,000 towards the cost of this report. The remainder of the total cost of €342,000 was borne by other donors.
In addition, the Advisory Board for Irish Aid (ABIA) commissioned two research programmes in 2008. These were Policy Coherence for Development and Agriculture which cost €199,608 and Policy Indicators Project which cost €69,840. Both contracts were awarded to the Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS) at Trinity College Dublin (TCD).
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