Management, Governance and International Development Cluster
Consultancy, Short Course Provision and Management Development Services
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Consultancy Strengths and Expertise
The group offers expertise and experience in a range of management related areas in developing and transitional economies:
- Capacity building
- Educational networking and linking
- E-Learning
- Employee Relations
- Gender and diversity
- Good governance
- Institution building
- Management learning
- Training approaches and methodologies
- Management of human resources
- Organisational change and development
- Organisational behaviour
- Organisation Development
- Public sector reform
- Performance improvement and management
- Recruitment and Selection
- Strategic Human Resource Management
- Strategic Human Resource Development
- Transformation and change management
- International human resource management and development
Examples of Recent Consultancy Assignments
- Morocco : Identifying training needs of members of the Moroccan commercial magistracy.
- Cambodia : Advising the Cambodian government on social safety nets for the rationalisation of the Civil Service
- Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Kenya, Mexico, South Africa, Thailand : Evaluation of the Higher Education Links scheme.
- Kenya, Tanzania : Review of Enterprise Award Schemes.
- South Africa : Review of DFID assistance to the Department of Public Service and Administration, South Africa.
- Latin America : Advice on capacity survey of NGOs working on indigenous development in Latin America.
- Latvia : Inspection of academic provision in a Higher Education establishment.
- Colombia : Strengthening the institutional basis for NGO government linkages in the GoC's National programme for Agricultural Technology Transfer.
- Oxfam-America : Advice on capacity survey of NGOs working on indigenous development in Latin America.
- United Nations : Evaluation of the UN's Staff Development programme.
- UNFPA : Evaluation of training programmes of UNFPA.
- ESPRC : Cultural change in the construction industry.
- Russia : Advice to the Stockholm School of Economics in St. Petersburg on improving managerial selection.
- UK / India : Survey into organisational learning in the NGO sector.
- Swaziland : Institutional appraisal and HR strategy of the Civil Service Board and advice on structuring of SIMPA.
- Kenya/Tanzania : Evaluation of training for service provider organisations to small and micro-enterprises.
Professional Development Programmes / Customised Training
Group members are happy to respond to requests for short training programmes both in Manchester and in the prospective client's home country. We can also run programmes which are of "mixed" location - some time in Manchester and some in the home country.
Rather than offer a range of standard "off the shelf" programmes we invite group requests for 2 to 3 week programmes which correspond to a identified learning /skills need.
We invite you therefore to send these requests to us indicating the approximate number of prospective participants, the preferred duration of the programme and the specific learning needs you would like the programme to address.
You can do so by using our online application form for professional development programmes .
Alternatively, you can obtain further information from:
Kellie Gallagher,
Professional Development Programmes Administrator,
Institute for Development Policy and Management (IDPM),
University of Manchester,
Harold Hankins Building,
Precinct Centre,
Booth Street West,
Manchester, M13 9QH,
United Kingdom.
Tel: 00-44 (0)161 275 7445.
Fax: 00-44 (0)161 275 8829.
You can see from elsewhere on these pages the capacity, subject knowledge and experience of members of the group.
It is expected that the learning needs you identify will fall broadly into the Human Resource Management and Human Resource Development area,s but we would refer you to the group's experience to give you an idea of the variety of work with which we are frequently involved.
Examples of "customised" short courses we have run recently in Manchester include:
- Personnel and Staff Development programme - for staff development officers from the Department of Personnel and Training, India, to support an initiative to develop an inter-organisational training package for staff development.
- African Future Leaders programme - sponsored by the British Council and attended by senior level government officers from Nigeria and South Africa.
- Transformation in the Workplace - a postgraduate certificate programme designed in response to a request from DFID for NGO personnel in Namibia (workshops were held both in Manchester and in Namibia).
Examples of recent customised courses we have run overseas include:
- Malaysia - Workshops on new developments in public management for top civil servants at INTAN (the Malaysian Institute of Public Administration); Management consultancy skills and development of distance learning materials (Partner: INTAN).
- Pakistan - Management development workshops in 'Managing Diversity', 'Women in Management' and 'Networking' (British Council).
- Bangladesh - Workshop on Workplace Transformation for trainers and managers in Proshika (Proshika).
- Tanzania - Workshop for senior staff of the Local Government Service Commission, Tanzania on the development of the personnel function in Tanzanian local authorities (DFID/British Council).
- India - Human resource management workshop for an Indian public sector organisation.
- Cyprus - Change management training programme.
Some of the client organisations for whom we have recently worked:
Multilateral and Bilateral Agencies
- Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO)
- World Bank
- International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
- Department For International Development, UK
- The British Council, UK
- The British Council, Pakistan
- Foreign and Commonwealth Office
- Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- The European Union
- United Nations Secretariat, New York (UN)
- United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
- International Labour Organisation, Turin Centre (ILO)
NGOs
- Proshika
- Plan International
- People in Aid
- Oxfam America
- Novib
- Cordaid
Government Ministries and Departments
- Moroccan Commercial Magistracy
- Government of Cambodia
- Civil Service Board, Government of Swaziland
- Development and Training Services of the British Council (DATS)
- Department for Public Service and Administration, South Africa
- Government Service Commission, Tanzania
- Department for International Development re: rightsizing policies in Ghana, Uganda and UK
- Ministry of Public Service, Uganda
- Tanzania local authorities
- Government of Colombia
- Government of Lesotho
Training Institutes of Public Service Organisations
- Swaziland Institute of Management and Public Administration (SIMPA)
- Malaysian Institute of Public Administration (INTAN)
- Indian Institute of Personnel and Training
- Institutions of Higher Education:
- Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil
- University of Paraiba, Brazil
- National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)
- University of Nairobi, Kenya
- University of Cape Town, South Africa
- University of Ghana, Legon
- University of Cape Coast, Kumasi, Ghana
- Beijing Polytechnic University, China
- Chiang Mai University, Thailand
- University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
- University of Mauritius
- Stockholm School of Economics, St. Petersburg