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WISE Development Ltd Examples of Assignments
undertaken by WISE Associates since 2000: INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT:
including public management reform policies and strategies, civil society engagement and
strengthening, organisational development, human resource and capacity
development, training and skills development, support for decentralisation,
local and community institutional strengthening |
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Sub-Saharan Africa |
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Rwanda Ministry of Education – Technical Adviser |
Government of Rwanda Jan 2007 – March 2009 |
Technical Adviser on change management,
institutional and capacity for Rwanda’s education sector; design, development
and implementation support for the Education Sector Institutional &
Capacity Development Action Plan. |
MS |
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Gambia Capacity building in Stats Dept |
Govt of Gambia July-Sept 2006 |
Organisation and Human Resource Development support for the Gambia
Bureau of Statistics within the GoG Capacity
Building for Economic Management Programme |
MS |
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Rwanda Gender Audit methodology and application to 14 development agencies |
DFID, leading group of development partners, and 4 Govt of Rwanda
MDAs. Oct 2006 – June 2007 |
Developing a gender audit methodology in
conjunction with a group of development partners and Govt of Rwanda agencies;
then application of this methodology across 14 organisations that included
government agencies, international bilateral and multilateral agencies,
international and nation NGOs. |
CP with Immaculee Habiyambere (Director of WISE Rwanda &
WISE UK Associate); advised by HM & Caroline Moser |
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Uganda OD & Capacity building in health sector |
Govt of Gambia / World Bank May 2006 |
Organisation development and capacity building support for harmonising
and streamlining Technical Assistance in the Health Sector; development of
principles, guidelines and procedures for the Ministry of Health and Health
Partners Development Committee |
MS |
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Uganda OD & capacity building Uganda AIDS commission |
Govt of Uganda / UNAIDS March 2006 |
Organisational development and capacity building support for
harmonising and streamlining Technical Assistance to support the Uganda
National Response to HIV & AIDS; development of principles, guidelines
and procedures |
MS |
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Liberia OD & Anti Corruption Governance |
Govt of Liberia Nov 2005 – ongoing |
Institutional development support for the design and implementation of
a National Anti Corruption Strategy and independent Anti Corruption
Commission for the new Government of Liberia |
MS |
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Rwanda OD Stats Dept |
DFID / OPM July 2005 – Feb 2006 |
OD and HR advisory support for the programme of development for the
National Institute of Statistics, Rwanda, ensuring integration with other
public service reform initiatives |
MS |
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Rwanda Institutional Devt – Education Sector |
DFID May-June 2005 |
Design, OD appraisal and capacity building advice for Joint Education
Sector Support programme, preparation of Project Memorandum for DFID Rwanda |
MS |
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Rwanda OD Revenue Authority |
DFID / PAC April 2005 – March 2006 |
OD
support to Rwanda Revenue Authority Change Management Programme Design and facilitation of OD and business processes for the RRA to
ensure more integrated service delivery. |
MS |
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Sierra Leone Programme Review |
DFID Jan – Feb 2005 |
Team leader for review and evaluation of DFID funded INSIGHT programme
concerned with civil society’s capacity to engage with government on poverty
reduction and rights; provided comprehensive OPR report and recommendations |
MS |
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Rwanda Human Resource Development Planning |
World Bank / ACBF October 2004 ongoing |
Team
leader for facilitating Implementation Plan for Human Resource Development
Agency (HIDA), Government of Rwanda Consultancy support to HIDA and core Ministries (Finance, Public
Service) on OD/HRD processes and systems to enable the establishment of HIDA
and build individual and organisational capacity to enable successful
coordination and management of GoR multi sector capacity building programme |
MS |
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Zimbabwe Strategic Planning |
Christian Aid September and October 2004 |
OD
advice to assist with development of a robust Strategic Plan (supported by an
Implementation Plan) for Humanitarian, Development and Advocacy work |
MS |
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Rwanda Review of Ministry of Gender |
DFID January to March
2004 |
Working with Secretary General and Directors of MIGEPROF to assess
support required; Conducted interviews across GoR, donor and NGOs and
lead design of DFID funded support
programme |
MS |
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Rwanda Support to DFID Rwanda Office |
DFID January to March 2004 |
OD
Consultant for the “Way We Work” support to the DFID Rwanda Office OD advice and planning, facilitation of learning issues, report
writing |
MS |
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Tanzania Assessing performance of Entrepreneurship Centre |
Dutch Government / University of Dar Es Salaam Jan 2004 |
Head of a research team evaluating the impact and performance of
University Entrepreneurship centre in Tanzania. Involved institution capacity
building for the development of entrepreneurship-related support services for
university and private sector markets. |
PR |
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Rwanda Support to Education Sector |
DFID / SIDA October-November 2003 |
Joint Review of DFID/SIDA Support to the
Education Sector, Institutional Development Consultant conducted
Institutional Review of Sector programme, contributed to production of multi
donor report |
MS |
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Sierra Leone OD Appraisal of Civil Society Programme |
DFID September/ October 2003 |
Design of the Enhancing the Interaction and Interface between Civil
Society and the State to improve poor people’s lives (ENCISS), Team
Leader; preparation of Project
Memorandum for DFID |
MS |
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Rwanda Review of Gender & Poverty Policy
and Strategic Planning |
DFID / UNIFEM / Govt of Rwanda June/July/Nov 2003 |
Strategic planning, mentoring,
policy development, production of reports, influencing UNIFEM Kigali to work
with MIGEPROF, working with GoR and NGOs |
MS |
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Mozambique Civil Society Support Strategy |
DFID / SDD July 2003 |
Conducted a scoping
exercise to assist in the design of a civil society support strategy, with a
focus on addressing monitoring and evaluation of the Poverty Reduction
Strategy. Provided a draft logical framework for the strategy. |
HM |
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Zimbabwe Programme design and OD appraisal |
DFID May/ June 2003 |
Design
of the Farm Community Trust, Zimbabwe's Vulnerable Farm Workers' Relief and
Recovery and Empowerment Project Memorandum, Team Leader Design and OD appraisal
of DFID funded programme, preparation of Project Memorandum for DFID Harare |
MS |
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Zimbabwe Output to Purpose Review |
DFID April 2003 |
Zimbabwe
support for Humanitarian Relief programmes: Farm Community Trust Zimbabwe;
SCF-UK Emergency Preparedness Project; World Food Programme |
MS |
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Nigeria Output to Purpose Review |
DFID Jan-Feb 2003 |
Output to Purpose Review of the Change
Agent Programme in the Ministry of Health, Team Leader |
MS |
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Rwanda Design of Ministry of Gender’s Strategic Plan |
DFID Nov 2002 - March 2003 |
Design
of Ministry of Gender Strategic Plan:
Facilitated Secretary General and Directors
of MIGEPROF through design and production of MIGEPROF Strategic Plan in line
with PRSP |
MS |
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Kenya End of Project Evaluation |
DFID / British Council Nov-Dec 2002 |
Women’s
Empowerment Project, Kenya Carried out an
end-of-project evaluation into a project supporting civil society
organisations to promote gender equality.
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HM |
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Zimbabwe Institutional Appraisal / Impact assessment |
DFID October 2002 |
Zimbabwe Wills and Inheritance Laws Project
: Team Leader and OD
Consultant for this Programme with Ministry of Justice, Responsible for
conducting Output to Purpose Review |
MS |
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Malawi Design of Anti Corruption Strategic Plan |
DFID September 2002 |
Malawi
Anti Corruption Bureau: Organisation Development Consultant for the design of
the ACB Strategic Plan |
MS |
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Lesotho Design of Safety, Security & Access to Justice Programme |
DFID March to August 2002 |
Design
of the Lesotho Safety, Security and Access to Justice Programme, Team Leader
and OD Consultant Worked
with Permanent Secretary and internal change management team in Ministry of
Justice in the design and OD appraisal of DFID funded programme, prepared
Project Memorandum for DFID |
MS |
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Rwanda Support to Gender Mainstreaming Project |
Rwanda June 2002 DFID |
Rwanda Gender Mainstreaming Development
Project: Conducted Institutional
review and evaluation of Change programme, team leader and responsible for
Output to Purpose Review of DFID support |
MS |
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Malawi Local Government Capacity Assessment |
CARE March 2002 |
Facilitation of Workshop with staff of CRIMP
(Central Region Infrastructure Maintenance Programme) to develop
methodology and tools for undertaking assessment of capacity of local
District Assemblies (CARE Malawi) |
CP |
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Malawi Civil Society capacity building |
DFID March 2002 |
Facilitation of workshop on Participatory
Impact Monitoring for new DFID civil
society capacity building project |
CP |
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Kenya OD Appraisal of Kenya Legal Services Programme |
DFID January to February 2002 |
Facilitated Internal team in Ministry of Justice providing OD advice
and support for review of Kenya Legal and Judicial System |
MS |
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Zimbabwe Programme Design |
DFID September-October 2001 |
Design
of the Zimbabwe Urban Poverty Information and Analysis Project, Team Leader
and OD Consultant |
MS |
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Uganda Strategic Planning – Law & Order Sector |
Government of Uganda May to October 2001 |
Government
of Uganda Justice, Law and Order (JLO/S) Sector Programme, Strategic Planning
and Organisation Development Support Specialist Facilitated
internal change agent team in Ministry of Justice providing OD advice and
support for JLO/S core team |
MS |
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Central, South and South
East Asia |
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India M&E framework |
DFID March 2006 |
Developing a framework to monitor & evaluate DFID-I’s Support to
Public Management & Service Delivery Improvement Programme in Andhra
Pradesh |
CP |
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Vietnam Facilitation & documentation of gender & diversity programming
workshop |
CARE International (US) Dec 2005 – Jan 2006 |
Facilitation and documentation of Gender
Equity Exchange and Synthesis workshop in Vietnam, bringing together all
C-I’s Asian country offices to discuss programmatic and organisational
dimensions of gender equity and diversity. |
CP |
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Nepal Training of public enterprise advisers |
Durham University / Govt of Nepal 1998-2003 |
Worked with and trained a large number of public
and non-government enterprise advisers (whilst employed as Director of Networks
Development Team, University of Durham Foundation for SME, formerly known as
DUBS) |
PR |
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India Capacity building of local authority staff for SME support &
advice |
Durham University / Govt of India 1996 - 2001 |
India – Extensive experience of working with the
national government, local district authorities and civil society groups
throughout India in developing IG/MSE activities as part of sustainable
livelihoods programmes in both urban and rural areas. (Whilst employed as Director of Networks
Development Team, University of Durham Foundation for SME, formerly known as
DUBS) |
PR |
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UK, rest of Western
Europe, North America & Canada, Australia & New Zealand |
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UK based / global application Governance & Transparency Fund |
DFID (through KPMG/Harewelle) 2008-ongoing |
Assessor for DFID’s Governance &
Transparency Fund (managed by KPMG & Harewelle): scrutinising proposals and using DFID
criteria, based on CAR, providing systematic governance assessments for long
listed and then short listed candidates for DFID funding decisions. |
MS |
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