Management Consultancy

Institutional Development

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Client

Name of Project and

Services Performed

Date

Location

From

To

1

Save the Children Federation  - USA

Institutional Development  Consultancy - Armenia

Provided technical assistance to the American Armenian Assembly (AAA) – a local NGO, in implementing the pilot phase of World Bank Armenian Social Investment Fund Rehabilitation Program. The work focused on community development techniques, data collection, analysis methods and program review.

April 1995

April 1995

2

Save the Children Federation  - USA

Manuals for Addis Ababa Office - Ethiopia

Entailed the development of comprehensive finance and administration, preparation of personnel, procurement manuals and training of personnel for proper and efficient implementation.

July 1995

July 1995

3

RCI-Europe

Commercial, Labor and Social Security Laws - Lebanon

Developed a brief on commercial, labor and social security laws, decrees and regulations including benchmarks for salary scale in Lebanon.

September 1998

October 1998

4

American Lebanese Chamber of Commerce

Transparency and Accountability in the Business Community

A "Business Ethics Committee" was created from members of the ALCC in order launch a transparency and accountability awareness campaign for the public sector and the business community and establishes a general code of practice that could be adopted by its member companies primarily and eventually by the whole business community in Lebanon. To achieve the purpose Information International was commissioned to perform and carry out the necessary steps and research, whereby focus groups and interviews were conducted with public sector officials and private sector leaders, as well as an intensive desk research. All combined led to the development of a general Code of Practice which is being promoted, and businesses are encouraged to adopt it after pinpointing the positive effects on internal and external operations with the different stakeholders.    

November 2001

February 2002

5

New TV

Private Placement Memorandum (PPM)

Information International was commissioned by New TV to formulate a Private Placement Memorandum (PPM) that encompasses financial projections for NTV within the media environment and the projected growth in advertising expenditures.  This PPM will be used to widen NTV’s investors’ base and increase its capital.

January 2003

February 2003

6

IDAL/OMSAR

Investors Support and Information Center (ISIC)

The proposed approach of Information International is designed to craft an Investors Support and Information Center (ISIC) that maximizes the ability of IDAL to succeed in its core mission of attracting productive investment in Lebanon, including both new starts and expansions of existing companies. Information International will design and implement a survey of current and prospective investors to identify their information and support needs. The results drawn from this survey will provide important inputs into the design and contents of the ISIC information and assistance systems.

January  2003

April  2003

7

Council for Development and Reconstruction (CDR)

Economic and Social Fund for Development (ESFD)

Services for the Formulation of a Strategy for Social Development in Lebanon

The overall objectives of the ESFD project are alleviation of poverty, and mitigation of the social impact of economic transition on disadvantaged groups. The specific objectives of this contract on the other hand are:

• Propose an overall strategy for social development in Lebanon;

• Identify geographic and sectoral “pockets of poverty";

• Develop a tool enabling the different actors and stakeholders in social development to effectively target social problems, to co-ordinate their efforts, to increase efficiency and to improve impact of social development initiatives. For this purpose, a map of indicators has to be established, covering all social sectors and shedding light on current development trends in all regions, in all sectors particularly relevant for social development and for target groups; and

• Specify the framework (regions and zones, sectors and target groups) within which the ESFD will be operating to achieve poverty alleviation.

January 2004

September 2004

8

Council for Development and Reconstruction (CDR)

Economic and Social Fund for Development (ESFD)

The Provision of Technical Assistance to Four Beneficiaries in the Cazas of Akkar and Bint Jbeil

The specific objective of this contract is to enhance the human resource and institutional capacities and competencies required for the integrated socio-economic local development of villages. The aim is to achieve the following results:

• Broad based participation of the local population in

     the local development effort

• Creation of effective project committees

• Participatory assessment of needs

• Participatory planning of integrated local

     development of the village

• Demand driven identification, implementation and

     monitoring of development projects

• Planning and implementation of cost sharing

     mechanisms and sustainable operation and

     maintenance

June 2004

November 2005