HEIP2 MIS
The project's Management Information System: annual work plans and budgets with full approval workflow, activity tracking, Agreed Actions of each Implementation Support Mission, and the Results Framework.
mis.heip2.com Postgraduate MISPRMIS
The national Postgraduates Management Information System: Master's and doctoral students and their cohorts, supervisors and lecturers, alumni, laboratories and the research they produce across Cambodia's higher education institutions.
prmis.dricam.com Research grantsOutput Tracking
The platform to track outputs and research activities of HEIP2 projects including Research for Investment, Further Support and HERF Projects.
herf.dricam.comFigure 1. Theory of Change
How HEIP2 turns activities into results: the two components deliver outputs, which together produce the project outcome, contributing to Cambodia’s long-term competitiveness. Letters A–D mark the critical assumption each link depends on.
- Modernize curriculum
- Upgrade faculty members’ qualification and capacity
- Provide technical support for meeting national and international standards
- Provide mentoring support
- Develop online / non-degree programs
- Construct or renovate laboratories, libraries, and classrooms
- Implement institutional governance systems and implement performance-based management system
- Fund applied research with commercialization potentials
- Provide continued support to HEIP research projects
- Support for standard certifications of primary laboratories
- Pilot Higher Education Research Fund (HERF)
- Develop research data system
- Research management framework
- Support DGHE to strengthen IQA, promote OBE, develop online programs framework, implement performance-based system
- Students supported with better education
- Faculty members receiving advanced degree
- Teams receiving mentoring support
- Academic programs meeting national and international standards
- Classrooms, labs, libraries constructed and renovated
- Institutional governance systems in place and functional
- HEIs considering grievances from students to inform annual plans
- Number of tracer study reports produced
- Research projects, led by female faculty, awarded
- Research results utilized
- Research articles published
- HERF institutionalized
- Research data system operated
- Research management framework developed
- Self-assessment reports (SARs) produced
- Online programs framework developed
- OBE implemented across HEIs
- Performance-based system in place and functional
- National program standards have been revised and endorsed to be aligned with regional/international standards.
- HEIs have sufficient capacity (e.g., regulatory frameworks, IP offices, industrial-linkage office) to support the utilization of research results.
- Government approves institutionalizing HERF.
- Ministry of Civil Services, MEF, and MoEYS approve the performance-based system.
Source: Project Appraisal Document, Second Higher Education Improvement Project (P180664), Section D. Results Chain, Figure 1, page 14. Wording reproduced unchanged.
Figure 2. Institutional arrangement for project implementation
Who runs HEIP2, from the steering committee down to the teams inside each institution. Reproduced from the Project Operations Manual, Section 3, page 6.
- The Academic Program and Institutional Governance coordinating teams (1.1, 1.3) work with the Sectoral Governance Supervising Team (2.1), which oversees the institutional functional areas.
- The Research Coordinating Team (1.2) works with the Research Management Supervising Team (2.2), which oversees university research management (URM).
- The Support Unit Teams (2.3) serve every project team through the PMU.
Source: Project Operations Manual (POM), HEIP2 — “Figure 1 Flowchart of Institutional Arrangement for Project Implementation”, Section 3, page 6. Box labels reproduced as printed; abbreviations expanded from the POM text.