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IRIM 2019-2020 Annual Report English ANNUAL REPORT 2019/2020 Independence Quality Impact 1 CONTENTS 1 Services we provide ....................................................................................................... 2 2 Message from the President and Executive Director ............................... 3 3 About us ............................................................................................................................... 4 4 IRIM in numbers .............................................................................................................. 5 5 IRIM highlights; 2019 .................................................................................................... 116 6 IRIM initiated projects .................................................................................................. 121410 1. Digital transparency index for government organizations .................................................. 11 2. The social well-being survey of Mongolia .......................................................................... 15 7 Implemented projects ................................................................................................... 2417 3. Creating a result-based monitoring and evaluation and risk-based internal auditing system in the labor and social protection sector ................................................................ 17 4. Midline evaluation of the Urban Governance Project (UGP) .............................................. 22 5. Citizen’s satisfaction survey on public policy and service ................................................... 25 6. Studying the lifestyle and culture of Mongolians I-III ....................................................... 28 7. Graduate employment tracking survey ............................................................................... 31 8. Survey on ‘support for inclusive education’ project ............................................................ 33 9. Monitoring and evaluation of “sustainable employment for youth program - 2019” ........ 36 10. Gender assessment of public service accessibility for under-represented groups in Ulaanbaatar ........................................................................................................................ 39 11. Training of monitoring and evaluation on the activities of the state administrative organization ........................................................................................................................ 44 12. Empowered CSOs for improved government digital transparency ..................................... 47 13. Evaluation of the inclusive basic education component of programmes 2012-2016 and 2017-2021 ............................................................................................................................ 50 14. Review of national evaluation systems and capacities for evaluating progress towards the SDGs- country case study ............................................................................................ 53 15. Baseline survey for the “Partnership for Organic Agriculture” project ............................... 57 8 Projects in progres .......................................................................................................... 60 16. Action Plan for Implementation of the State Police on Health Development project ........ 60 17. Gobi framework for sustainable infrastructure partnerships: scaling up praxis from Mongolia to Central Asia .................................................................................................. 63 18. Research study on the effects of migration registration restrictions in the Ulaanbaatar city and its effects on migrants’ vulnerabilities .................................................................. 66 19 Evaluation on implementation of the “Right to Breathe” project ....................................... 68 20. Situational analysis of the “Good Neighbors Mongolia” international non-government organization (INGO) ........................................................................................................... 71 21. Endline study of the ‘Mainstreaming Social Accountability in Mongolia’ project ............... 73 1 IRIM’S MISSION QUALITY POLICY STATEMENT To be the leading center IRIM is committed to providing of knowledge in Mongolia independent research products and services on development-related with the highest possible level of quality; issues and to provide world- that meets international standards and class independent research customer satisfaction at all times and using outcomes. continually improving processes. SERVICES WE PROVIDE EXPERIENCE RESEARCH - IRIM has research experience in a wide range of sectors, where professional and scientific approaches are applied. IRIM’s staff are experienced in designing and facilitating innovative and inter-disciplinary research projects, drawing 103 on both quantitative and qualitative approaches. Data quality assurance is conducted at every stage in research projects, and the latest versions of statistical analysis software projects are employed. MONITORING AND EVALUATION - Monitoring and evaluation (M&E) projects make up around one third of IRIM’s portfolio. With an emphasis on evidence, and employing internationally accepted methodologies and methods, IRIM conducts independent analysis of the implementation of the government and the international organisations’ 70 projects and programmes. IRIM initiated the Mongolian Evaluation Network; making a commitment to integrate evaluation standards in Mongolia in collaboration with other projects members of the Network. TRAINING AND WORKSHOPS - IRIM’s training packages cover current research theories and methods and are enriched by the application of extensive experience in the field. IRIM provides training on various subjects, including: transparent budgeting, civic engagement, organisational capacity-building, and horizontal learning methods. IRIM employs participatory and interactive methodologies in workshops. 20 IRIM ensures success of the workshop (from beginning to end), developing training materials, conducting participants’ needs assessment, documenting all procedures projects of the workshops and conducting satisfaction surveys. This provides for continuous improvement of performance of workshops’ organization and facilitation. PROJECT MANAGEMENT - IRIM does more than research alone; implementing a wide range of consultancies and advocacy projects (to influence policy-makers) which include: 23 • Conducting analysis of development policy documents and providing recommendations projects • Conducting internal and external, environment analyses and developing capacity-building and strategic planing activities. 2 MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Executive Director IRIM President Tselmegsaikhan Lkhagva Bekhbat Khasbazar The new COVID-19 pandemic has shown us Particularly, in 2020, first, we will release that nation states are already deeply interconnected, the second report of the Social Wellbeing Survey dependent on each other and share the finite of Mongolia, which aims to improve existing resources of the world. This challenging time has economic measures of national progress through taught us that nation states should pay greater complementing more social measurements – attention to their common interests, share their dimensions of social cohesion and subjective well- knowledge and experience in overcoming challenges, being. We hope that this ongoing study will help encourage collaboration and partnerships, provide improve our understanding of the factors dividing greater support to each other and understand that societal progress and will strengthen the evidence- reaching global solidarity is vital. This will help nation base for policymaking. Second, we aim to scale-up states to overcome today’s chaotic time and define our Digital Transparency Index in the regional level tomorrow’s new world. In the broad picture, as in 2020 based on successfully conducted first pilot more uncertainty continues, there will be a greater in Mongolia and Kyrgyzstan in 2019 which aims threat of governance crises, widening inequality, to improve government information transparency chronic poverty and a greater risk of backsliding using modern information and communication from our current development in the end. technology. In this global turbulence and uncertainty, Using this opportunity, we would like to note Mongolian people should be more united, trustful that none of IRIM’s work implemented over the and as well as government and private sectors’ past 12 years would have been possible without solid and prompt action to the situation is critical our clients, researchers, consultants, volunteers and to overcoming the hard time at a lower cost. At the partners - from every field – who aspired to bring same time, when dealing with the coming socio- positive changes, with a sincere belief in IRIM’s economic crises, it has become more essential than vision. ever to protect human rights, strengthen the rule of As in previous years, IRIM presents this Annual law, and achieve inclusive growth. report to those who are interested in Mongolia’s In these times, IRIM, as a professional research development issues – with our best intention to organization, more and more realizes and reflects give a brief insight into IRIM’s projects and some on our duty to society that we contribute smart, key findings from operations undertaken in 2019. inclusive
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