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CROWN MANAGEMENT CONSULTANTS LTD

THE FIRM

Crown Management Consultants Ltd, which is based in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, provides a wide range of economic and management services to emerging and developed companies, public institutions, governments and donors in Africa.

It strives to furnish clients with consultancy services distinguished by consistent excellence, objective and innovative analysis, and applied best practice.

Its aim is to build clients' capabilities to manage and to deliver more effective services. Its staff employs the latest innovations in policy applications, strategic management and analysis.

Crown Management Consultants provides services in four major areas:

• Public sector reforms and management;
• Human Resource Management, Capacity Building and Training;
• General Management and Strategic Planning;
• Investment and Project Advising.

Public sector (and donor) services includes:

• Design, development and implementation of medium term compensation and employment strategies;
• Design, development and implementation of reform programs;
• Long-term advisory support for reform and change management programs;
• Organizational analysis and capacity assessment;
• Human resource capacity assessment and capacity building;
• Monitoring and evaluation reform initiatives and change management strategies.
• For the private sector, our services includes:
• Undertaking background reviews and assessments of new or existing ventures;
• Design and development general management and strategic plans;
• Investment and project advising;
• Pay and compensation surveys;
• Regular follow-up and reporting on business performance.

Short-term consultancy and long-term advisory services are available to suit the needs of our clients.

OUR MAJOR CLIENTS

The company's principal clients in recent years have included the World Bank, the UK Department of International Development (DFID) London, DFID Kenya, DFID Rwanda, DFID Tanzania, the Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA), President’s Office – Public Service Management (Tanzania), President’s Office – Regional Administration and Local Government, and United Nations Development Program (UNDP).

While the company is based in Tanzania, its consultancy services are international in scope. Among the countries where assignments have been undertaken in recent years are:

Tanzania (both at the national and local government levels);

• Ghana;
• Kenya;
• Malawi.
• Mozambique;
• Zambia;
• Rwanda;
• Sierra Leone;
• Democratic Republic of the Congo.
  

SHORT-TERM CONSULTANCY ASSIGNMENTS

1. Tanzania
a. President’s Office – Public Service Management
“Undertake a Detailed Analysis of Employment Allowances and Employment Growth in the Public Service to Facilitate Pay Reform Issues,” September 2004 – present.
“Budget Analysis to Facilitate Pay Reform: Final Report,” May 2004
“Revisiting and Revising Tanzania’s Medium-Term Pay Reform Strategy,” April 2002.
“Operationalisation of the Selective Accelerated Salary Enhancement Scheme,” February 2000.
“Pay Reform Implementation Study: Operationalising the Medium Term Public Service Pay Policy,” June 1999.
“Pay Reform Scenarios and Pay Reform Program for FY98/99: Implementing of a Medium-Term Pay Strategy,” January 1998.
“Pay Reform Issues and Options: Towards a Medium-Term Pay Reform Policy,” November 1997.

b. President’s Office – Regional Administration and Local Government
“From Pay Reform to Total Reward Strategy: Incentives for Performance Improvement in Local Government Service – A Discussion Paper,” April 2004.
“Operationalising a Selective Accelerated Salary Enhancement Scheme at the Local Government Level,” January 2003.
“Pay Reform within the Context of Local Government Reform: Study 1 – Issues to be addressed,” March 2001.

c. Ministry of Health, with DANIDA
“A Pilot Scheme for Operationalising Selective Accelerated Salary Enhancement for the Health Sector: An Agreement between the Government of Tanzania and the Government of Denmark,” August 2001.
“A Pilot Scheme for Operationalising Selective Accelerated Salary Enhancement (SASE) for the Health Sector: Study 2- Operational Details,” July 2001.
“A Pilot Scheme for Operationalising Selective Accelerated Salary Enhancement (SASE) for the Health Sector: Study 1 - Issues to be addressed,” May 2000.

d. Department for International Department (Tanzania)
“A Medium Term Pay Reform Strategy for the New Integrated Public Service Reform Program for Tanzania,” January 2003.

e. World Bank, IDF
“Building Capacity in the Government Economic Service: A study prepared as part of the IDF-funded ESRF Government Capacity Building Program,” provided member of six person consultancy team, June 2000.

2. Kenya
a. World Bank and Department for International Department (Kenya)
“World Bank Supervision Mission,” February 2004, 2nd – 9th February 2004.

b. Office of the President, Directorate of Personnel Management
“Consultancy on Wage Bill Management and Civil Service Performance Enhancement for the Government of Kenya: Final Report,” collaboration with John R. Wheeler, December 2003.
“Kenya Pay and Benefits Reform Conceptual Study: Ancillary Assignment,” August 2002.
“Kenya Pay and Benefits Reform Conceptual Study,” September 2001.

3. Malawi
a. Department of Human Resource Management and Development and Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning
“Towards a Medium Term Pay Policy for the Malawi Civil Service: Final Report,” June 2003.

b. United Nations Development Program (UNDP)
"Joint Appraisal Mission on the Malawi Public Sector Management Reform Program (PSMR),” Team Leader, January 2002.

4. Rwanda
a. Department for International Department (Rwanda)
“Applicability of a Selective Accelerated Salary Enhancement Scheme (Scarce Skills) to the Rwanda Public Service,” March 2003.

b. Ministry of Public Service and Labor
“Development of a Medium Term Remuneration Policy for the Rwanda Public Service: Final Report,” January 2004.
“Towards the Design and Development of a Medium Term Remuneration Policy for the Rwanda Public Service: An Issues and Options Paper,” June 2003.

5. Sierra Leone
a. Governance Reform Secretariat
“Design of a Comprehensive Pay and Grading Reform Strategy for the Government of Sierra Leone,” in collaboration with CoEn Consulting (Ghana) Ltd, November 2003 – April 2004.

6. Mozambique
a. UTRESP – Unidade Técnica da Reforma do Sector Público
"Review of: Recommendations for a Medium-Term Salary Reform Strategy in Mozambique (draft prepared for UTRESP, January 2004),” March 2004.
“Towards a Medium-Term Pay Reform Strategy for the Mozambique Public Service: Final Report,” October 2001.
“Towards a Medium-Term Pay Reform Strategy for the Mozambique Public Service Reform Program: A Conceptual Framework,” November 2000.

7. Zambia
a. Cabinet Office, Management Development Division
“A Medium-Term Strategy for Enhancing Pay and Conditions of Service for the Zambia Public Service,” May 2002.

8. Ghana
a. Office of the President, The National Institutional Renewal Programme
“Ghana – Pay Reform Policy Framework Paper: Final Report,” Team Leader, with CoEn Consulting (Ghana) Ltd., June 2002.

9. Democratic Republic of the Congo
a. UK Department of International Development (DFID) London
“DRC – Consultant Services –Additional Salaries Mission to DRC,” February 2004.

LONG-TERM ADVISORY ASSIGNMENTS

1. Tanzania
President’s Office – Public Service Management
Long-Term Pay Reform Advisor

2. Malawi
Office of the President and Cabinet, Department of Human Resources Management and Development and Ministry of Finance
Long-Term Pay Policy Advisor

3. Kenya
President’s Office, Directorate of Personnel Management
Long-Term Pay Policy Advisor

The Managing Director

The company's Managing Director is Theodore R. Valentine (Ph.D., University of Illinois, USA).

Ted has 25 years of post-Ph.D. experience in academics, advising ministries of finance in various Africa countries, and in public sector reforms and management consulting. He has a broad cross-section experience in Africa, having worked in such countries as: Botswana, Ghana, The Gambia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Tanzania and Zambia.