Guinea-Bissau in Transition Supporting Guinea-Bissau in transition from Peacekeeping status to Development For the next 5 months QOEN is supporting the United Nations in Guinea-Bissau. The Peacekeeping mission, also called UNIOGBIS, is closing down, and its responsibilities for peacekeeping will need to be absorbed into the development portfolio of the UN Country Team, and the United…

  Policy Analysis with a focus on Social FactorsCapacity building support for the Ministry of Labor, Invalids, and Social Affairs From 9 – 13 November 2020 QOEN Consulting organized an exciting training workshop for the Vietnamese Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA). The training, which was organized by GIZ Vietnam. The training supported…

BASELINE ASSESSMENT ON PROGRESS INDICATORS FOR ASEANHow to measure Social and Cultural progress in the ASEAN region During the year 2020, the year of the pandemic, QOEN has been assigned by MDF Asia to lead the formulation of a Baseline Assessment of the 32 progress indicators of the ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community Blueprint 2025. This “ASCC…

Five Year Strategic Planning for the Mekong InstituteCapacity Strengthening and Human Resources Development in the Greater Mekong Sub-region On 2 March 2020, the Mekong Institute (located in Khon Kaen, Thailand) requested me to review their Strategic Plan (2016 – 2020), and on the basis of that review I was tasked to draft the new Strategic…

The NGO Forum in Cambodia is currently updating it Strategic Plan for the upcoming period 2020 – 2025. QOEN Consulting was invited to provide support and guide the members of the NGO Forum through the steps for strategic planning, and help with the formulation. If that weren’t enough, the NGO Forum would also like to…