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Services
Founded in 2012, the company provides technical and expert-led multisectoral consultancy services to private (for-profit and [inter-]national humanitarian and development agencies) and public institutions (local, national, bilateral and multilateral entities), strengthening capacities at policy and programmatic level. PMDCS programs cover broad areas in a) Research and policy; b) Training and Capacity development; c) Monitoring, learning, and evaluation; d) Advocacy; and d) Mediation, reconciliation and dialogue.
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Research
PMDCS is home to a pool of multidisciplinary researchers and analysts that have produced some excellent research outputs using tested methodologies that are tailored to the context and client’s specific terms of reference. Our researchers studied multiple themes including political economy and conflict analysis: in post-conflict or fragile states, such as the Horn of Africa, it is critical for implementing agencies to understand and contextualize the political economy and conflict dynamics to ensure successful implementation of projects. We conduct rigorous political economy analysis to help clients navigate complex conflict and post-conflict political environments. Our analysis is tailored to provide our clients and partners with a sound understanding of the social, political,
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Institutional Capacity Development
PMDCS provides comprehensive institutional capacity development consultancy and enhances the strategic planning, human capacity and programming/business planning needs. Our consultancy employs the prober tools labor inspection systems for strengthening their institutional capacity in terms of the training of the staff at different levels. We provide a professional approach for training/learning, policy design, implementation, and evaluation. We use a concrete policy framework by defining a labor inspection institutional capacity development policy, involving social partners, and adopting an inclusive system approach. In this sector of consultancy, we develop cost-effective situational analysis. To implement wide-range situational analysis we look at the conditions and constraints, analyze the stakeholders gaps and conduct training needs analysis as well as strengthen social skills.
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Security, Policy and Strategy
The objective of creating a strategic plan is to maximize the value of a business for its stakeholders. This is equally relevant for different nonprofit organizations and multinationals, start-ups, and established companies. Most organizations have an informal overall and general idea of its direction and its long-term objectives. Still, our experience leads us to believe that many organizations do not fully leverage the power of strategic planning as a value creator. Therefore, they make sub-optimal strategic decision, thereby not maximizing their potential and valuation. To us, strategic planning is a value-adding exercise for organizations. We believe that formalizing an organization’s strategy ensures focus and structure to the process.
We offer a range of services adapted to various situations. If you already have a formal strategic planning process in place, we can review it to find areas of improvement. On the other hand, if you manage your corporate strategy on an ad-hoc basis, we can support setting up a formal process. Our solutions include reviewing your current strategic planning process and tools, finding areas of improvement, and devising a strategic planning process adapted to the company’s size and profile.
Our other areas of expertise in advisory including but not limited to:
- Public and private policy and strategy
- Human Resources Management
- Operations Consultancy
- Financial Consultancy
- Taxation Strategy
PMDCS has Regional and Globally security experts, who undertake quarterly analysis on the political, security, economic and social aspects. We do security analysis through updated in-depth analytical positioning of the political, economic and social dynamics of the region to enable it make informed policy decisions that optimizes its outcomes. We conduct researches and reviews using appropriate tools, using data from internal systemized tools, review of media reports, review other articles by thinktanks, analysis of political undercurrents, providing data-oriented predictions based on precedence and using acceptable standards analytical frameworks.
We offer a range of services adapted to various situations. If you already have a formal strategic planning process in place, we can review it to find areas of improvement. On the other hand, if you manage your corporate strategy on an ad-hoc basis, we can support setting up a formal process. Our solutions include reviewing your current strategic planning process and tools, finding areas of improvement, and devising a strategic planning process adapted to the company’s size and profile.
Our other areas of expertise in advisory including but not limited to:
- Public and private policy and strategy
- Human Resources Management
- Operations Consultancy
- Financial Consultancy
- Taxation Strategy
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Gender equality and Women Empowerment
PMDCS has experts on gender and development researcher experts with broad experience in gender in an emergency, gender equality/equity, and women empowerment, specialized in the research, policy analysis and gender mainstreaming, women’s political participation; understanding of social norms and social development and governance and women leadership and gender concept capacity building training.
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Good Governance
PMDCS stands to contribute to the good governance. The public sector plays a major role in society. We are engaged to facilitate all efforts to increase public sector capacity through enhancing good governance practices. PDMCS assists the public sector to determine, usually through a political process, the outcomes it wants to achieve and the different types of intervention. These include enacting legislation or regulations; delivering goods and services; redistributing income through mechanisms such as taxation or social security payments; and the ownership of assets or entities, such as state-owned enterprises. We facilitate understanding of key principles of good governance in the public sector. Thus, PMDCS focuses on facilitation to understand the key function of good governance in the public sector. The function we engage including: The function of good governance in the public sector is to ensure that entities always act in the public interest and acting in the public interest which requires openness and comprehensive stakeholder engagement. To accomplish these functions successfully we consult on:
- Defining outcomes in terms of sustainable economic, social, and environmental benefits.
- Determining the interventions necessary to optimize the achievement of intended outcomes
- Developing the capacity of the entity, including the capability of its leadership and the individuals within it
- Managing risks and performance through robust internal control and strong public financial management; and
- Implementing good practices in transparency and reporting to deliver effective accountability.
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Culture Tourism and Heritage
Culture, tourism, and heritage work is undertaken by our team who work exclusively across the visitor economy, leisure, culture, and tourism sectors. Our team has a successful track record in providing a range of services including business planning, options appraisals, feasibility studies, development strategies, governance, and due diligence work. We have successfully completed visitor economy strategies, cultural strategies, and development plans for large and varied counties, as well as for small towns and neighborhoods. We have worked with internationally recognized destinations as well as emerging tourism economies. We have expertise in all aspects of place making including market analysis, destination development and marketing. We regularly work with tourism and heritage administration to help them secure funding, generate additional income and create sustainable futures. We have extensive experience of providing reports to support funding applications.
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Public Administration Reform
A well-functioning public administration is a precondition for the effective and efficient fulfilment of the state´s principal duties: the distribution of resources and the provision of basic services for its citizens. Public administration reforms in general aim to create good governance by developing a non-bureaucratic civil service, by improving service delivery and by enhancing public management (including personnel management). Our assistance in this field comprises institution building (organizational charts, workflows, job descriptions) and capacity development (training needs assessment, development, and implementation of training programmes, and training the trainers). Our team is available to provide these services:
- Designing and implementing IT-based management information systems for monitoring government decisions and their enforcement
- Developing institutional and technical capacities in steering, coordinating, and monitoring the policy-making process
- Ensuring effective communication and horizontal coordination between ministries, government agencies and other administrative bodies
- Introducing and supporting reforms for vertical decentralization
- Developing and implementing remuneration structures
- Implementing income and expenditure control systems
- Introducing performance-related personnel development
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Human Resource and Development
PMDCS delivers its guidance and advise to the clients about the Human Resources and Development. Our technical team possesses in-depth knowledge of human resource management that our clients need. They will have experience in consulting as well as dealing with actual HR issues. Our team provides the following services to our clients to:
- Initiate and lead human resource programs and projects
- Conduct research through various methods (data collection, surveys etc.) to identify a problematic situation or find the cause
- Provide advice and recommendations to HR personnel for resolution of daily issues
- Formulate strategic and practical plans to address human resource matters
- Assist in recruiting, training, and management of personnel
- Devise plans and techniques to drive change and culture management
- Assist in the development and integration of policies
- Select and implement suitable HR technology
- Help establish control systems for compliance with business methods
- Review systems and processes and make modifications to address issues
- Refurbish knowledge of advancements in the field and present new ideas
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Advocacy, Electoral democracy and Inclusivity
At the core of the organizational mandate is working with the local grassroot community, CSOs, political players, duty-bearers and local administration to strengthen inclusive governance at all levels of electoral process. The company conducts strategic analysis of electoral inclusivity biodata and provides both data for policy decision but also strengthens the electoral participation of all citizens including women, men, marginalized and the minority through multipronged advocacy and awareness platforms; equipping the minority and marginalized with actionable political participation and involvement information to enhance behavior change, provide legal processes for addressing violations and provide periodic policy analysis reports to influence public policy change. The organization has worked in Somalia in strengthening women’s rights to political participation and holding duty-bearers to account for unfriendly policies and acts of commission, or omission, through data-driven periodic analysis. Its focus on human rights, inclusive electoral democracy and participation is meant to provide policy actors with actionable legal information to enhance a shared and inclusive prosperity
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Legal and judicial reform
PMDCS stands to advise on all areas of corporate and commercial law and provides the full spectrum of legal services. Our team is among active and key players in designing and implementation of legal and justice reform initiative and processes in East Africa. Over the years, we have introduced operational efficiencies at all levels of the judicial system to improve court management and administration, budgeting, information technology systems, and facilities infrastructure with the goal of improving justice outcomes and reducing case backlogs. We have also focused on legislative and policy reform, capacity building, and legal education.
Providing greater access to justice has been central to much of our work. We provide advisory services to both formal and traditional justice actors to provide access to dispute resolution in areas affected by conflict or with remote rural populations. Another focus area of our work is establishing more transparent and stronger business-enabling environments by streamlining legal/regulatory frameworks, supporting timely enforcement of judgments, and providing options for commercial dispute resolution. Our consultancies also work at the legislative reform including legal research and drafting on areas relating to business and the private sector, energy and mining, employment, public financial management and justice systems.
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Climate Change and Environmental Policy
PMDCS understands that people and economies in Africa and Asia depend on rainfall for many purposes. Variations in duration and quantity of rainfall bring profound impacts on water resources, human life, economies and ecosystems. Extreme events such as floods, droughts and cyclones affect lives and livelihoods, and often result in millions worth of damages. Therefore, we advise on all climate emergency is one of them most pressing challenge our planet faces. We provide specific local and regional climate analysis, studies and context-based evaluations about the impact of climate change across Africa. On the other hand, we conducted several studies with International Non-governmental and Local Non-governmental organizations where we mapped the Climate Activists across region. This involves developing modeling capability to estimate how the climate will change in the future, as well as developing climate projections for both research and long-term planning.
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Objectives
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To provide a wide range of expert-led multisectoral research, training and advisory services to enhance regional political stability and social prosperity.
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Improve policy environment for multistakeholder actions through promoting research-based policy remits to influence public choice.
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To support development through adoption of rights-based approach.
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To promote participatory and data-driven development process in the region through collection and dissemination of evidence-based research, and study, findings.
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To promote equitable peace and stability in the region.
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