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Expertise

In tandem with our strategic partners, Monash International Projects offers access to a broad range of expertise across an array of industry practices and academic disciplines. It draws on this experience and knowledge base to help bring best practices and fresh perspectives to meet today's business challenges and to deliver results.

Our team has a wealth of experience working in the areas of:

Government and good governance

MIP's focus is on building partnerships with private and public sector organisations, academic institutions and non-governmental organisations, offering services to build and strengthen capacity at individual, organisational and policy levels.

Drawing on our project experience, we have developed expertise in the following categories:

  • Sound governance and regulatory arrangements:
    • Transparent, clear government policy
    • Predictable laws and regulations
    • Competitive market structures
    • Incentives
  • Accountability in public sector management
  • Public/private partnerships
  • SOE reform
  • Investment and trade
  • Legal and judicial reform
  • Public administration reform
  • Tax reform
  • Financial sector reform
  • Corporate governance
  • Capital market reform
  • Pension and insurance reform
  • District and provincial government planning
  • Administrative and policy reform
  • Decentralization and strategic planning
  • Privatisation and law reform

Monash International Projects has successfully delivered projects in the Pacific, Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Thailand, Myanmar, Indonesia, Mongolia, Fiji, Australia and China. Our clients include:

  • Asian Development Bank
  • World Bank
  • Australian Agency for International Development
  • Federal, state and local governments and public sector agencies

Detailed information about Government and good governance projects managed by MIP.

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Economic reform

Monash International Projects has a substantial track record and an extensive network of strategic partners in economic reform. We also draw upon the vast resources of the University's Faculty of Business and Economics and from other specialist schools and centres. The Faculty of Business and Economics has established an impressive record for teaching, research and consultancy across a range of business disciplines.

Our consultants have undertaken projects and consultancies in the areas of:

  • Trade, investment, industry policy
  • Privatisation and enterprise reform
  • Private sector development
  • Economic modelling
  • Environment policy and environmental economics
  • Market analysis and regulation impact analysis
  • Taxation policy and reform
  • Rural development/microfinance
  • Industrial relations

Detailed information about economic reform projects managed by MIP.

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Law and justice sector reform

Drawing upon a number of schools and centres within the Faculty of Law, Monash International Projects (MIP) have delivered a range of design, training, consultancy and technical assistance projects across a number of areas in the law reform sector.   Our areas of expertise include:

  • Legal reform
  • Human rights
  • Corrections
  • Policing & crime prevention
  • Forensic science
  • Courts administration
  • Conflict resolution
  • Advocacy
  • Anti-corruption
  • Counter-terrorism
  • Transnational crime

Completed projects include the first phase of AusAID's Myanmar Australia Human Rights Initiative and AusAID funded training to Indonesian officials in international law, human rights, commercial and aviation law. In addition, MIP has engaged in capacity building projects with the University of Indonesia to deliver training in alternative dispute resolution.

Detailed information about law and justice sector reform managed by MIP.

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Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences

In partnership with the Faculty of Medicine, as well as private and public sector organisations, Monash International Projects has the capability to provide technical assistance and project management services in:

  • Health sector reform
  • Health services management
  • Rural health
  • Decentralized health services
  • Healthcare financing
  • Clinical care
  • Environmental health
  • Epidemiology and preventative medicine
  • Nursing
  • Pharmacy

Previous projects have also benefited from resources within Monash's own research institutes and a number of other internationally acclaimed institutes. Monash has strong links to four metropolitan health care services (Bayside, Eastern, Southern and Peninsula), the statewide ambulance services (metropolitan and rural) as well as rural health services in the Latrobe Valley, Bendigo and Mildura.

Detailed information about health sciences and health services management projects managed by MIP.

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Environmental and natural resource management

In partnership with Monash Environment Institute (MEI) under the School of Geography and Environmental Science and
various government and non-government organisations, Monash International Projects provides consultancy services in:

  • Natural resource management
  • Environmental education and training
  • Environmental impact assessment
  • Environmental sustainability
  • Air and water pollution control
  • Urban geography

Detailed information about environmental and natural resource management projects managed by MIP.

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Education and Training

Monash International Projects and the Faculty of Education actively tender for development assistance projects in the education sector.

In the higher education sector, Monash has extensive project expertise in university planning and management, teaching, research, and curriculum development. Past project experience includes the Thai Australia Science and Engineering Assistance Project (TASEAP) which involved more than 300 person months of Australian consultants and more than 150 Thai academic fellows visiting Australia.

The Faculty of Education has specialist expertise in:

  • Economics of education and training
  • Science and mathematics education
  • Teacher training
  • Primary and secondary education
  • Early childhood education
  • Adult learning and development
  • Multimedia and education technologies
  • Education governance and management
  • Health education
  • International education

Detailed information about education projects managed by MIP.

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Engineering and infrastructure

Capitalising on vast resources within the Faculty of Engineering, one of the largest engineering faculties in Australia, Monash International Projects has been providing engineering expertise to private and public sector clients throughout Australia and South-East Asia covering areas including:

  • Water studies and ecology
  • Civil engineering
  • Electrical and computer systems
  • Chemical engineering
  • Materials engineering
  • Mechanical engineering
  • Construction and design

Detailed information about engineering and infrastructure projects managed by MIP.

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Gender and development

MIP has managed gender and equity capacity building projects, including:

  • Supporting the Preparation of the Law on Gender Equality, Ministry of Justice and Human Rights, Vietnam
  • Support for the Komnas Perempuan (Indonesia's national commission on violence against women) and other counterpart agencies to develop their strategic planning process
  • Gender mainstreaming training for the Fijian Ministry of Women, social welfare and poverty alleviation

Detailed information about gender and equity projects managed by MIP.

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