Kenya
Working together with the ISS, MMC has won an international tender for
an EU financed technical assistance project in the construction and use
of a macro model (MMC) and a sector model (ISS) for Kenya during
2000-2002. The beneficiary is the Kenyan Institute for Public Policy
Research and Analysis (KIPPRA) that works for the Ministry of Finance
of Kenya. In this project the combination of MMC’s Macroabc
methodology and its telework approach has also been used successfully.
The project started in January 2000 and in co-operation with Kenyan
counterparts a Kenyan Macroabc model, called KTMM has been constructed
which already became operational in August 2000. During the first year
four ten day visits of MMC consultants to Kenya took place and a two
week visit of four Kenyan economists to MMC’s office in The
Hague. During this visit twelve specialists were involved in the
project, without expensive traveling costs. A very important part of
the work has been done by telework. After the realization of that
milestone MMC remained stand-by via telework, and short visits of MMC
consultants to Kenya and Kenyan economists to MMC to support the use of
the model till the end of 2002 and a second project is in discussion
now. The model already has been used in preparations of the Budget,
Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper, Long Term Development Plan,
discussions with IMF and the idea is to use it further as an auxiliary
to write policy simulation papers.
In 2004 KIPPRA has invited MMC to give another three years support,
again using the telework formula, to train new staff and to provide
ideas to improve the model (to new SNA etc.) and expand it with
supplementary modules. In March 2004 and in June 2004 a group of
twenty young professionals in KIPPRA (including the macro model team)
has been trained in the KTMM, especially by an exercise to rebuild the
consistency framework from scratch. Furthermore they can study the
special training modules that were made by MMC to KTMM.
>> Click here for an introduction to KTMM
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