Office Address:

26 Sibounheuang Road 334/25 Sibounheuang Village

Chanthaboury District

Capability Statement

OUR CORE COMPENTANCIES

ESL is a specialist Laos company with 18 years’ experience providing consulting, training, research and support services to international development partners, indus-try and government in the environmental and social disciplines. Professional excel-lence and integrity, high standards of business ethics and quality of service are the foundation of our commitment to customer satisfaction. Our staff, associates and affiliates possess a depth and breadth of skills that enable us to tackle diverse and complex assignments.

COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE

With regards to health survey projects, ESL’s competitive advantage is based on:

Our experience - We have proven expertise conducting health surveys as stand-alone projects for international development organizations and as part of social impact assessments for mining and hydropower.

Our results - We have a reputation for producing high quality data, analyses and reports for domestic and international clients.

Our team - We have a solid team of senior staff experienced in the design, supervi-sion and management of social and environmental surveys. We also have perma-nent staff specializing in community health. We have strong IT capacity including use of tablet PCs, database design, statistical analysis and GIS/spatial mapping. We work with a pool of competent enumerators who are ready and available for rapid mobilization. We are able to call upon an extensive network of international and national associates in a variety of disciplines to meet the needs of specific projects.

Local context - We have conducted field work in almost every province in Laos. We know the country, the social development context, and the challenges of sur-veying remote populations with different ethnicities, cultures and languages. We have contacts with key government personnel at central and local level.

Value - Because we are based locally, we are able to offer an international standard of quality at a far lower cost than foreign firms.

Tel: (856-21) 413 723 Fax: (856-21) 416 563

OUR SERVICES:

Research and Surveys: Social, Health & Environment.

Environmental & Social Impact Assessment

Environmental Manage-ment Monitoring and Technical Advisory Ser-vices

Community Participatory Development

Training & Capacity Building

GIS remote sensing and mapping

Database design and data analysis

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

Table below provides a summary of relevant projects undertaken by ESL in Lao PDR over the past 5 years with significant field survey and health components. Project data sheets can be provided upon requested.

CONTACT

Nanong Khotphathoum Executive Director E: nanong@esllao.com Bouavong Luangkhot Operations Manager E: bouavong@esllao.com CONNECT

www.esllao.com

ESL Sole Co., Ltd

Project Name Client Year

ACT Watch Study

Included a survey of 7,673 medical outlets in 334 village groups in five Southern Provinces (Savannakhet, Saravane, Xekong, Champasack and Attapeu).

PSI Laos 2015

Phukham and Ban Houayxai Operation Socio-Economic Household and Health Survey

Included a major health survey component with 970 house-holds sampled in 3 villages in Xaysomboun Province.

Phu Bia Mining Ltd

2015

Livelihood Development Plan Study

Included a more detailed snap-shot into livelihoods and demo-graphic profiles of 2,200 households that had been surveyed 2012 in Savannakhet Province.

MMG LXML Sepon

2013

Ban Houayxai Socio-Economic & Health Baseline Study

Included a major health survey component with 1,049 house-holds sampled in 7 villages in Vientiane Province.

Phu Bia Mining Ltd

2012

Sepon Bi-Annual Socio-Economic Survey

Included a major health survey component with 2,300 house-holds sampled in 36 villages in Savannakhet Province.

MMG LXML Sepon

2001-2012

Ban Houayxai Gold-Silver Project Environmental and Social Impacts Assessment (ESIA)

Included a major health survey component with 408 house-holds sampled in 8 villages in Vientiane Province.

Phu Bia Mining Ltd

2009-2011

Thakho Hydropower environmental and social impact assessment (EIA/SIA)

Included a major health survey component with 448 house-holds sampled in 5 villages

Companie Na-tionale Du Rhone

2010

Nam Ou Hydropower Project Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (EIA/SIA)

Included a major health survey component with 7,664 house-holds sampled in 113 villages in 3 northern provinces.

SinoHydro 2010