Health care

Mott MacDonald has extensive experience in the health sector through technical assistance, management and implementation of a number of projects and programmes in India. Globally, our expert input as Health consultants is offered by HLSP, the Health arm of Mott MacDonald. Our projects range from implementing vital AIDS eradication programmes and pro-poor initiatives to studies for institutional strengthening, sector reform and impact evaluation. We have worked with NGOs, CBOs, private sectors and the apex government bodies, including the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, in policy formulation, strategic planning, project evaluation and design, behavioural surveillance studies, monitoring and evaluation, capacity building, and needs assessment. Select projects include:

• Monitoring & Evaluation of NGOs Providing Curative & Preventive Health Services in Uttaranchal – which included a rapid baseline, periodic monitoring and an end line evaluation of the NGOs in Uttaranchal providing health care services
• Development and Implementation of Quality Assurance Standards for PHC and above level – which included two rounds of monitoring surveys to collect information on quality assurance indicators and facility level performance including all the 97 health facilities under UAHSDP and develop a mechanism for grading of all the facilities and grade them on periodic basis and also develop a quality assurance model that is workable, viable, sustainable and replicable
• Preparing operational guidelines for Running and Managing Mobile Health Van in 13 districts of Uttaranchal
• Study on Health Care Financing and Health Expenditure for Uttaranchal – which involved evaluation of financing and expenditure patterns on health by public sector and individuals and preparation of a medium term expenditure format
• Health Sector Public Expenditure Review for Karnataka (for World Bank supported Karnataka Health Systems Development Project) – which involved tracking and analysis of 10 years data on financing and public expenditure on health as well as analysis of fiscal sustainability, allocative efficiency, technical efficiency and equity.
• Assessment of the Health Insurance Scheme “Deendayal Antyodaya Upchar Yojana” in Madhya Pradesh
• Concurrent Evaluation of National Rural Health Mission (Round-I)

HIV/AIDS prevention and control projects/programmes in India

We helped in establishing Project Support Units (PSU) for managing DFID funded HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment and care programmes in the state of West Bengal
Mott MacDonald has been assisting various DFID supported states in the HIV/AIDS management; starting with Kerala in 1996 as the first HIV/AIDS State Management Agency, followed by the State Management Agency in West Bengal. Mott MacDonald was the Project Support Units (PSU) in West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh for targeted interventions in sexual health and HIV/AIDS. PSU developed processes for identification, evaluation, appraisal, monitoring of targeted intervention projects as well as advised State AIDS Control Society in financial management of TI projects, fund management, capacity assessment, capacity building for existing and new partners, and MIS development.

Together with HLSP, health consulting arm of Mott MacDonald, Mott MacDonald India also established a Programme Management Office (PMO) for a period of 25 months, which managed the DFID, funded technical cooperation funds to Civil Society Organisations, through projects and programmes designed to support NACP-II, with primary function being contract management and technical assistance as necessary. PMO managed DFID funding for HIV/AIDS interventions through four modalities:

• Management of existing contracts and MOUs, and any extension of these contracts
• Identification and putting to bid and subsequent implementation of new contracts
• Establishment of a Challenge Fund to administer small grants to civil society organisations in support of NACP-II
• Support the Task Team and NACO in ensuring that the monitoring of DFID inputs to NACP-II is adequately monitored

PMO functioned in close collaboration with NACO and civil society organisations for developing strategies for the NACP-III as well.

Education

Mott MacDonald undertook a study on status of the alternative schooling and impact on universalisation of elementary education in Rajasthan for Rajasthan Council of Elementary Education
Mott MacDonald has significant experience in the Education sector as well. Cambridge Education is the specialized Education unit of Mott MacDonald. Currently, Mott MacDonald is providing the Capacity Building Support to the Elementary Education Programme within the National Council for Educational Research and Training (NCERT), project supported by DFID.

We understand the need for making elementary education accessible to all age groups, and have worked with the National Literacy Mission of India for evaluating the Total Literacy Campaign (TLC), Post Literacy Programme (PLP) and Continuing Education Programme (CEP) and Girl Child Enrolment and Alternative schooling. Our select projects in education sector include:

• Study of the Different Interventions for Out of School Children in the State of Rajasthan – which assessed the status of enrolment and retention of out of school children and the impact of different interventions by the state government on the enrolment and retention of school children
• Study of Status of Alternative Schooling and Impact on Universalisation of Elementary Education – which assessed the status of alternative schooling in the state (like Education Guarantee School, Back to school camps, Balika Shivirs)
• Study of Girl Child Enrolment and Retention in Rural Schools in Madhya Pradesh
• Project configuration and documentation for GOI’s Science Scholarship “INSPIRE” Programme
• Zee University Feasibility

Poverty and livelihood

Mott MacDonald has undertaken several assignments focussing on poverty alleviation, social protection and livelihood initiatives. Globally, our work in Poverty and Livelihood issues is executed by BMB Mott MacDonald. The DFID funded “Management Advisory Support Team” under Andhra Pradesh Urban Services for the Poor (APUSP) Project mainly highlighted in managing pro-poor initiatives while working with civil society in 32 Class-I towns in the state.

We as a part of the consortium team were the Technical Project Support unit for the DFID funded Madhya Pradesh Rural Livelihoods Project.

For Uttar Pradesh Participatory Forest Management and Poverty Alleviation project we prepared a guideline and manuals for programme management, monitoring and evaluation.

We developed a report on project completion to complement Tamil Nadu Empowerment and Poverty Reduction Project.

Rural water project

Mott MacDonald, engaged as the Support Agency (SA) for capacity building and awareness campaigns for World Bank, assisted the Karnataka Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Project to deliver sustainable health and hygiene benefits to the rural population through improvements in water supply and sanitation services.

As a part of design phase of the Rural Water Supply & Sanitation projects in the states of Karnataka, Kerala, Punjab and Uttaranchal, Mott MacDonald prepared the Economic Analysis of the projects.

Public Stand Post in rural Andhra Pradesh