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Projects

These are the key projects and activities in this service area that Supras is managing or involved in. Closed projects are also included.

Project work typically takes place in a dialectic between activities in the core services areas of “Networking” and ”Research,” on the one hand, and presentations of papers at conferences and workshops, on the other hand.

Links to many of the implementing agencies, partners and projects that are involved in these projects are available in section Links. Many documents – in the form of references and files for downloading – prepared in connection with these projects, together with images, are available in section Library. For some projects and activities, knowledge – in the form of references, documents for downloading, websites, etc. – are available in section Knowledge.


Bangladesh – Delta Land Accretion and Settlement Planning in Chittagong and Noakhali Districts
Focus: Increasing habitable areas in the delta and planning for settlement on such char land. Clients: Govt. of Bangladesh, Land Reclamation Project (LRP) & Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB). Organizations: Swedish International Development Cooperation Authority (Sida) & Dutch Min. of Foreign Affairs. Value: 10,000,000 USD.
Specific activities: Preparation, social aspects of involuntary resettlement incl. compensation. Duration was less than 1 year.
Comments: Supras staff and consultants involved: Lars T Soeftestad.
Bangladesh – Fish Culture Programme
Focus: Establishment of an aquaculture project in the haors area in Sylhet in northeast Bangladesh, partly to create local employment opportunities, and partly to address the decrease in local fish stocks. Client: Rural Development and Health Centre Foundation. Organizations: Development Fund & Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad). Value: 800,000 USD.
Specific activities: Preparation and implementation of this aquaculture project. Duration was 3 years.
Comments: Supras staff and consultants involved: Lars T Soeftestad.
Bangladesh – Fourth Fisheries Project
Focus: Worked as the World Bank’s social scientist on two generations of national fisheries projects. Based on lessons from Third Fisheries Project (see below), this project gave much stronger emphasis to creating and nurturing a growing civil society involvement in its activities. Clients: Govt. of Bangladesh, Dept. of Fisheries (DoF) & Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB). Organization: World Bank. Value: 60,800,000 USD.
Specific activities: Responsible for the social assessment. Duration was 2 years.
Comments: Supras staff and consultants involved: Lars T Soeftestad.
Bangladesh – Sandwip Cross-Dam Development Scheme
Focus: Prevention of dramatic erosion of delta islands due to tidal current, and making new land available to settlement, through building a cross-dam between mainland Noakhali and Sandwip. Clients: Govt. of Bangladesh, Land Reclamation Project & Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB). Organizations: Swedish International Development Cooperation Authority (Sida) & Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Value: 320,000,000 USD.
Specific activities: Stakeholder analysis of fisher communities on Sandwip, and general social analyses/assessment. Duration was 1 year.
Comments: Supras staff and consultants involved: Lars T Soeftestad.
Bangladesh – Third Fisheries Project
Focus: Worked as the World Bank’s social scientist on two generations of national fisheries projects (see Fourth Fisheries Project above). Third Fisheries Project emphasized a broad range of activities, including institutional development, infrastructure, fingerling production, stocking, and organizing fishermen. Clients: Govt. of Bangladesh, Dept. of Fisheries (DoF) & Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB). Organization: World Bank. Value: 44,600,000 USD.
Specific activities: Stakeholder analysis and social/institutional analyses. Duration was 3 years.
Comments: Supras staff and consultants involved: Lars T Soeftestad.
Ethiopia – Social Rehabilitation and Development Fund Project
Focus: Nation-wide social fund project. Client: Govt. of Ethiopia. Organization: World Bank. Value: 242,400,000 USD.
Specific activities: Initiated, conducted and managed stakeholder analysis and social assessment among the Afar ethnic group in the Afar Region in the north east, home to the remote Afar pastoral nomadic group. This resulted in: (1) training of project staff in conducting social assessments, (2) an understanding, on the part of the local and national project staff, of existing institutional capacities to improve the design of delivery mechanisms, (3) increased focus on gender, and (4) better targeting of project activities. Duration was less than 1 year.
Comments: Supras staff and consultants involved: Lars T Soeftestad.
Ghana – Integrated Coastal Zone Management Sector work (ESW)
Focus: This sector work aimed to produce a broad assessment of available data on the situation along the whole coastal zone, and function as a planning tool for future developmental activities, including projects. Client: Govt. of Ghana, Ghana Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Organization: World Bank. Value: 10,000,000 USD.
Specific activities: Involved, among others: (1) determining the extent of traditional knowledge in the areas of agriculture and fisheries among the various ethnic groups living in the coastal zone, and (2) assessing the possibilities for using such traditional knowledge and aspects of social organization in creating, implementing and sustaining a management plan that catered to the interests of all stakeholders. Organized and implemented a series of highly successful stakeholder consultations with key involvement of local traditional chiefs representing 13 ethnic groups. Hired and collaborated with a local consultant on a report on the position of the chieftaincy system, and the relationship between the traditional and modern society. This lead to recognition of the importance of traditional knowledge, culture and local institutions for the management of coastal environmental resources. Duration was 2 years.
Comments: Supras staff and consultants involved: Lars T Soeftestad.
Global – Bank-Wide Involuntary Resettlement Task Force
Focus: Review and analysis of the World Bank’s project portfolio of projects with involuntary resettlement components. Clients: World Bank’s Member Countries. Organization: World Bank. Value: 1,500,000 USD.
Specific activities: portfolio review of projects where ethnic minorities and indigenous peoples were being involuntary resettled, with an emphasis on compensation mechanisms. Duration was 1 year. Comments: Supras staff and consultants involved: Lars T Soeftestad.
Indonesia – Aceh and Nias Recovery Program
Focus: Implementation of programs in response to the tsunami and quake disaster. The nature of Supras’ involvement was as a reconnaissance and study mission. That is, The mission took place in early July 2006. Client: Govt. of Indonesia. Organizations: Norwegian Church Aid & Church World Service (CWS) Indonesia. Value: ? USD.
Specific activities: Presented views and arguments on the current state of project implementation, in particular in connection with the efforts to move away from a focus on recovery and reconstruction towards a concern with development. Duration was less than 1 year.
Links: [more] [project site] [knowledge] [images].
Comments: Supras staff and consultants involved included Lars T Soeftestad.
Lake Chad Basin (Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Niger, Nigeria) – Reversal of Land and Water Degradation Trends in the Lake Chad Basin Ecosystem: Establishment of Mechanisms for Land and Water Management
Focus: The project area, Lake Chad Basin, comprises the riparian countries Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Niger, and Nigeria). The project addresses the problem of the shrinking Lake Chad, and its many implications. Client: Lake Chad Basin Commission (LCBC), on behalf of the riparian countries. Duration: 1 year. Organizations: United Nations Development Program (UNDP) & United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS). Value: 75,000,000 USD.
Specific activities: Used environmental and social risk assessment to identify and analyze actual land and potential risks to human health, land, water biodiversity and other wetlands values, due to water and land-use activities in the Basin. Output to be used to design and implement a monitoring and evaluation system for adaptive management. Duration was less than 1 year.
Links: [project site World Bank] [project site GEF] [docs] [images]. [more] [project site] [knowledge]
Links: [images].
Comments: Joint assignment with Impact Assessment, Inc. (La Jolla, California, USA) and Social Impact Assessment Center (New York, USA). Supras staff and consultants involved included Lars T Soeftestad.
Mauritania – Gestion Decentralisee des Ressources Naturelles au Guidimagha et dans le Hodh-el-Gharbi
Focus: Organization of local people around user agreements aimed at giving them some level of control and responsibility for managing local resources. Client: Govt. of Mauritania. Organization: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ). Value: 5,000,000 USD.
Specific activities: Provided analysis and presentation of the project. Duration was less than 1 year.
Links: [images].
Comments: Supras staff and consultants involved included Lars T Soeftestad.
Mauritania – Technology Fosters Tradition
Focus: Land registration and codification of patterns of land use using GIS, social analysis, social assessment, and stakeholder analysis, to address conflicts at various levels of society. Aimed at empowering local people to create local use agreements. Client: Govt. of Mauritania. Organizations: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) & World Bank. Value: 200,000 USD.
Specific activities: Large-scale surveys, integration of GIS data and survey data, participatory mapping, and preparation of maps. Duration was 5 years.
Links: [project site] [docs] [images].
Comments: Supras was the executing agency for the project. Funded by Norway. The project web site is owned, hosted and manged by Supras. Supras staff and consultants involved: Mohammed El Mokhtar N’Diaye (aka Cherif) and Lars T Soeftestad.
Nigeria – Lagos Metropolitan Development and Governance Project
Focus: Urban renewal in Lagos. Clients: Federal Govt. of Nigeria & Lagos State Govt. Organization: World Bank. Value: 205,690,000 USD.
Specific activities: Stakeholder analysis and social assessments of fisher communities in the Lagos Lagoon. Organized communities around the construction of community- and fishing-facilities. Duration was less than 1 year.
Links: [images].
Comments: Supras staff and consultants involved: Lars T Soeftestad.
Serbia – Privatization of the Solid Waste Municipal Company in Belgrade
Focus: The waste municipal company in Belgrade was inefficient and not cost-effective, and the City Govt. wanted to privatize the whole company. Client: Belgrade City Govt. Organization: International Finance Corporation (IFC). Value: 1,000,000 USD.
Specific activities: The ethnic group Roma has built up a large, parallel and informal waste collection and processing sector. Following the privatization the City Govt. aimed to make this informal waste collection illegal. We did poverty and social impact analyses, together with a willingness-to-pay-survey to determine the effect of the privatization on the Roma community, including under which circumstance Roma could be formally employed after the privatization. Duration was 1 year.
Links: [images].
Comments: Joint activity with Stoveland Consult. Supras staff and consultants involved: Lars T Soeftestad.
Slovenia – Support for Local Initiatives
Focus: Participation possibilities in civil society in a democratic decision-making process, and cooperation between local civil society initiatives and appropriate institutions in the public sector. Client: Inštitut za politike prostora (Institute for Policies of Space). Organizations: Supras Consult & Community-Based Natural Resource Management Network (CBNRM Net). Value: 100,000 USD.
Links: [more].
Specific activities: Capacity building of civil society and public sector to point to and encourage increased collaboration between them on emphasizing transparency and governance. The project is under implementation. It will close in 2010.
Comments: Funding from EEA Financial Mechanism / Norwegian Financial Mechanism. Supras staff and consultants involved: Lars T Soeftestad.
Sri Lanka – Integrated Rural Development Project (IRDP)
Focus: A traditional IRDP project. Client: Govt. of Sri Lanka. Organization: Swedish International Development Cooperation Authority (Sida). Value: 23,000,000 USD.
Specific activities: Evaluation of 10 years of IRDPs by Sida. Duration was less than 1 year.
Comments: Supras staff and consultants involved: Lars T Soeftestad.
Sri Lanka – Kotmale Hydropower Project
Focus: Evaluation of the involuntary resettlement component. Client: Govt. of Sri Lanka. Organization: Swedish International Development Cooperation Authority (Sida). Value: 250,000,000 USD.
Specific activities: Large-scale recall survey among the resettled population. Duration was 1 year.
Comments: Supras staff and consultants involved: Lars T Soeftestad.
Sri Lanka – Nuwara Eliya Hydropower Project
Focus: Evaluation of the involuntary resettlement component. Client: Govt. of Sri Lanka. Organization: Swedish International Development Cooperation Authority (Sida). Value: 100,000,000 USD.
Specific activities: Stakeholder analysis, social assessment. Duration was less than 1 year.
Comments: Supras staff and consultants involved: Lars T Soeftestad.
Vietnam – Primary Education Project
Focus: Building the capacity of the recipient in primary education. Client: Socialist Rep. of Viet Nam, Min. of Education and Training. Organization: World Bank. Value: 72,000,000 USD.
Specific activities: Designed and conducted a social assessment and stakeholder analysis of national, regional and local level institutions and their capacity to realize the project’s objectives of bringing primary education to ethnic minorities in the mountain areas of the country, including through emphasizing bilingual education. Duration was 1 year.
Comments: Supras staff and consultants involved: Lars T Soeftestad.
Yemen – Dhamar Participatory Rural Development Project
Focus: Rural development with an emphasis on participatory approaches. Client: Govt. of Yemen, Min. of Agriculture and Irrigation (MAI). Organizations: International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) & United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS). Value: 10,000,000 USD.
Specific activities: Social assessment and stakeholder analyses in the context of a supervision mission. Duration was less than 1 year.
Links: [images].
Comments: Supras staff and consultants involved: Lars T Soeftestad.
Yemen – Rainfed Agriculture and Livestock Development Project
Focus: Focus on rainfed agriculture and livestock as small-scale subsistence practices in the mountain regions in western Yemen. Clients: Govt. of Yemen, Min. of Agriculture and Irrigation (MAI) & and World Bank’s Social Fund for Development Project. Organization: World Bank. Value: 33,800,000 USD.
Specific activities: Appraisal. Devised and implemented in large-scale national socio-economic survey. Based on the data collected, identified, analyzed and evaluated gender and regionally specific entry points for decision-making and mobilization. Evaluated the capacities of formal and informal groups, as well as organizations and cooperatives, towards understanding their potential for partnering with the project. The emphasis was on poverty assessments, gender and social mobilization. Duration was less than 1 year.
Links: [images].
Comments: Supras staff and consultants involved included Sanaa E. Salloum and Lars T Soeftestad.
Yemen – Raymah Area Development Project
Focus: Supervision mission. Client: Govt. of Yemen, Min. of Agriculture and Irrigation (MAI). Organizations: International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) & United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS). Value: 40,000,000 USD.
Specific activities: Social assessment and stakeholder analyses in the context of a supervision mission. Duration was less than 1 year.
Links: [images].
Comments: Supras staff and consultants involved: Lars T Soeftestad.