Strengths 5

Political Economy Analysis & Change Management

Undertaking political economy analyses, clarifying underlying theory of change, facilitating strategy formulation workshops; and designing change-management interventions for top levels of government and corporate structures.

Strengths 4

Programme Management of National Development Initiatives

Team leadership and intellectual oversight of multi-disciplinary teams on the design, implementation and evaluation of national initiatives in diverse areas of Governance & Public Sector Reform; Water & Sanitation; HIV & Aids; Safety, Security and Access to Justice; Agriculture and Natural Resources Management; Education and Social Development.

Strengths 3

Private Sector Development: systemic reforms to increase the role of the private sector in development, and promote inclusive economic growth which benefit the poor, especially women and unemployed youth.

Strengths 2

Aid Effectiveness & the Establishment of Explicitly Government-Led Development Partnerships

Design and evaluation of Sector Wide Approaches to Programming (SWAPs); definition of development partnership protocols & MoUs to ensure centrality of host-country led aid frameworks, and donor harmonisation mechanisms in line with the principles of the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness and Accra Agenda for Action.

Strengths 1

Democratic Governance and Public Sector Reform in Africa, Asia and Europe

Designing and leading institutional change programmes in: Good Governance; Electoral Cycle Support and Deepening Democracy; Decentralisation & Establishment of Local Government; Policy and Organisational Development for pro-poor service delivery.