Delta provided the Lead Organisational Development expert for a major review of UNRWA’s management of the RSS programme – and in particular its OD strategy for Head Offices, Country Offices, Field Offices, Refugee Camps, management systems and processes throughout Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, West Bank and Gaza. (more…)
Vandi Hill: Personal Profile
Vandi brings a private sector results oriented view to her work in the public sector, with a belief that successful communication is similar for both sectors as it is the same audience/stakeholder we are trying to influence, just different messages and desired outcomes. Understanding the recipients of your message is the first step and key to developing the right message that resonates with the target recipient while delivering that message using the relevant mediums. Based on her intimate understanding of people’s behavior and desires, Vandi develops strategies that leverage both traditional and leading edge mediums to meet the communication needs of the client and the stakeholders. This can include one way message delivery or two-way dialogue. Vandi’s experience in designing and managing both internal and external communication programmes gives her a unique perspective in creating innovative and fully integrated strategies that work.
Vandi’s understanding of the media in Africa has enabled her to positively leverage these relationships for my clients. As well, her creative mind set has led to the development of programs and messages that have been highly successful by breaking through the noise in the market. 25 years of experience in the private sector has given her a unique opportunity to merge that expertise with the public sector dynamics here in Africa. For example, Vandi writes and distributes a monthly e-newsletter “Market Direct” to over 300 Communication and Marketing professional in East Africa with the objective of sharing ideas and expertise to improve the profession across East Africa.
Vandi has worked extensively for Delta. Currently she is in the process of researching and developing a two year, internal and external, Communications Strategy and Plan to support DfID’s Accountability in Tanzania Programme. This includes building a style guide and media policies document for the programme as well as communicating results from the learning work stream to other stakeholders who would implement these findings to achieve greater success in their advocacy work.
Steve Bertram: Personal Profile
A governance and natural resources consultant with excellent civil society and management experience, Steve holds both an MSc and an MBA. He has managed projects and provided consultancy services for twenty years in sub-Saharan Africa and other developing countries. He specialises in strategy development, programme management and evaluation. For example, he developed and implemented an M&E and lesson learning strategy for DFID’s PEAK environmental programme, he led the design of a GEF project for the legalisation and regulation of the charcoal industry in Kenya and led the strategic planning process in the Kenya Forest Department. His long-term posts include managing the training and extension component of the Nepal forestry programme, lecturing at the Department of Forestry and Natural Resources of Edinburgh University in Scotland and establishing an extension service in Social Forestry in Zanzibar. He is an excellent trainer and change facilitator with experience of Organisation Development approaches and participatory workshop techniques. His achievements include:
- Evaluations of governance, civil society and natural resources programmes.
- Strategy, policy and programme development for major international donors in the governance and natural resources fields
- M&E system development
- Managed multicultural teams to deliver complex projects and consultancy assignments
- Managed a ground-breaking civil society development project in Nigeria and a participatory forest management project in Nepal.
Steve’s work for Delta has includes conducting a review of the Government Accountancy Training Centre based in Juba, in 2008.
Smita Sanghrajka: Personal Profile
Smita is an independent consultant working in development and has over fourteen years of post qualification experience. She has had significant consulting success working with public sector, donor agencies, private foundations and non-governmental organisations. She has contributed to the progress and achievements of programmes and organisations in a variety of sectors including governance, health, human rights, urban development, gender, land, community development and arts and culture.
Smita is currently involved in facilitating the design and operation of a programme for civil society organisations in urban development. She successfully facilitated several workshops from which she developed the programme framework including funding modalities, mainstreaming, logical framework, monitoring & evaluation system and programme structure. Smita has provided capacity building services to Association of Ethiopians Living with HIV/AIDS which successfully culminated in a training workshop. In addition, she provided recommendations in harmonising activities between programme management, financial management and monitoring & evaluation where applicable.
As a Delta consultant Smita was part of a team performing an evaluation of a Government Training Centre in Southern Sudan. In particular, the review included analysis of students and targeting, curriculum, training approaches, management effectiveness and strategy. She has been part of a large multi disciplinary team providing institutional strengthening services to improve accountability and efficiency of semi- autonomous government agencies and statutory bodies in Guyana. Key tasks included facilitating workshops on best practice and assisting the agencies in the development of their Performance Improvement Plans.
Peter Reed: Personal Profile
Peter Reed is an internationally experienced strategy, organisational development, and human resources development consultant, specialising in high level policy advice, policy and strategy development, strategic planning, organisational and institutional capacity assessment, leadership and senior management development. He has significant experience of the project leadership and direction of high value transformational change programmes in the UK and 24 transitional countries, principally in the field of public and civil service reform, and assessment of systemic and institutional capacity – particularly in complex post-conflict environments. He also specialises in programme evaluations and project output to purpose reviews which he has conducted for HMG’s DFID, the World Bank, Swedish SIDA and UNDP.
His specialist subjects are governance capacity and stability assessments, institutional development and restructuring, strategic planning, performance management systems (including balanced-scorecard benchmarking for Business Process Improvement), functional reviews, security and education sector reviews, leadership and senior management competence development and performance coaching. He has wide experience of the co-ordination of the component elements of government modernisation agendas such as functional reviews, security sector reform, budgetary reform, high level national strategic planning and integrated performance management systems. He has a good working knowledge of French and German, an honours degree in Russian, and a basic knowledge of Arabic and Kiswahili.
Mark Pinder: Personal Profile
Mark Pinder is a human resource management specialist with significant international experience in public sector organisational development. Mark has worked in change management roles on training needs analysis, job evaluation and performance appraisal and is an ex-KPMG consultant. Mark has worked extensively in Europe, Asia, East Africa and the Caribbean and is currently working in Nigeria for the Kano State Public Service (under the SPARC Programme) reviewing the HR systems and procedures and the developing improved systems with an initial focus on the Ministry of Finance. These systems include performance appraisal and the preparation of accurate and detailed job descriptions.
Recently he has worked with Delta for the Pan Caribbean Partnership on HIV/AIDS (PANCAP) where he is leading on the development of a human resources plan to improve the coordination and management of regional HIV/AIDS programmes.
Laurence Cranmer: Personal Profile
Laurence has over 20 years experience as a consultant and lecturer. In addition to being an Associate with Delta Partnership he is: Director, Woodgreen Consulting Limited; Associate Fellow, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford; Research Associate, London Centre for Corporate Governance and Ethics, Birkbeck, University of London.
As a consultant Laurence is currently working with Buying Solutions (Office of Government Commerce, HM Treasury) supporting the implementation of category management. He has worked on recent Delta projects including: sessions on ‘Evidence and Evaluation in Policy Making’, National School of Government; co-facilitating an ‘horizon scanning’ workshop, Food Standards Agency; finalising a report on the ‘Sustainable Consumption and Production’ evidence base for Defra; developing policy analysis for the Pan-Caribbean Partnership Against HIV/AIDS Coordinating Unit in Guyana.
Laurence has a research interest in the nature and scope of corporate responsibility. As part of the Oxford-Achilles Working Group on Corporate Social Responsibility, Saïd Business School, he coordinates the 2008-2010 academic and practitioner seminar series. At Birkbeck, he currently teaches part of the MSc module ‘International Business Ethics’ and has lectured part-time in the social sciences at the Open University and Oxford Brookes University. He has a BA(Hons) Philosophy, Politics and Economics, University of Oxford.
Kate Wilson-Hargreaves: Personal Profile
Kate is a highly analytical governance and public service professional with nearly fifteen years experience as an internal and external consultant to a variety of public sector organisations. She has provided strategic and project management support across a range of organisations in local and central government in the UK and internationally. The support has included advice and analysis on strategy, performance and information systems, organisational structures and processes. Every project Kate has worked on has demanded a balance of robust analysis along with project and stakeholder management to help clients implement change.
Recently Kate has been supporting the ‘Citizen Demand’ programme to achieve its goal of empowering citizens to demand accountability. This has included establishing grassroots good governance coalitions, developing tools for citizens to use to hold the government’s ‘devolved funds’ administrations accountable, and information projects to help citizens understand their rights.
Kevin Brown: Personal Profile
Kevin Brown is a management consultant and trainer with 25 years international experience with government departments overseas, an international consulting firm, an inter-governmental organization and as an independent consultant. He has worked extensively with public sector organizations in Africa, South Asia, the Middle East, Eastern Europe, the Pacific and the Caribbean. Over the last 10 years he has had considerable experience with civil service reform in a number of countries, as well as with management reforms in health and education services. Presently he consults widely for overseas governments through both the World Bank and the UK Department for International Development. He is a member of DFID’s panel of accredited governance consultants.
Kevin works with people inside organizations to design and implement management change, using leadership, training, coaching and facilitation methods. His consulting interventions are based on two fundamental principles. The first is that assistance should aim to develop skills and confidence among individuals and teams, in so doing reducing the reliance on external technical advice. The second principle is that solutions should be seen to be locally relevant and, where foreign management techniques are imported, they must be adapted to fit local cultural values and circumstances.
Julian Laite: Personal Profile
Dr Julian Laite has extensive experience of undertaking institutional strengthening assignments in both the UK and overseas. For 5 years from 2003 to 2008 he was the Partner for International Development at PA Consulting. He specialises in public sector reform, policy monitoring and evaluation, organisational development and in all aspects of public finance and the monitoring and control of public expenditure.
After graduating in Economics from Cambridge University, Julian obtained a PhD from Manchester University on international development. He then became a Senior Lecturer at Manchester University, lecturing on international development. In 1987, Julian joined the FCO as Assistant Director at Wilton Park Conference Centre.
From the FCO, Julian became a senior official at HM Treasury, where he worked for 8 years. In his first post he was responsible for monitoring local authority capital finance, and local authority economic development. His next post was in International Finance, where he was responsible for briefing the UK Director of the IMF on Fund programmes related to World Bank lending to developing countries. Following this Julian was responsible for monitoring the expenditure of the Department of Education and Science, including schools’ funding. He then worked on the establishment of the Department of National Heritage, which involved setting up its staffing structure, IT system, delegated budgets, and Vote arrangements. He also co-ordinated one of the Government’s first Private Finance packages.
In 1994 Julian became a Managing Consultant at KPMG/Atos Consulting, where he developed and was responsible for an extensive public sector reform business in Latin America and the Caribbean, and a large justice sector reform business in Africa and the Balkans. In 2003 he was appointed Partner for International Development at PA Consulting, where he was a member of the Partner Board for Infrastructure and Development Services Group, with 8 Partners and 120 staff.
Since 2008 Julian has been an Associate of Delta Partnership, and has undertaken projects in Guyana, Nigeria and Pakistan, and in the UK for the UK Department for International Development.
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