C2D Services | Catalyst to Development

Formal Education

• Education degree reform
• Policies and sector-specific planning
• Technical and vocational training for youth
• Innovations in education
• Drafting of curricula according to Competency-Based Learning
• Identification of material and equipment needs
• Contracting, procurement and management of material resources
• Development of pedagogical and didactic methods
• Formative and certifying evaluation of students

Governance and Decentralisation

• Managerial support to ministerial authorities
• Policies, strategic planning and master plans
• Institutional and organisational development
• Results-Based Management, reporting and project assessments
• Statistical studies and evaluations
• Institutional and social communication mechanisms
• Decentralisation of education systems and functional processes
• Quality assurance (accreditation and certification)
• Coaching of managements in decentralised institutions
• Planning, budgeting and organisation of educational services
• School maps and resources management
• Information management systems and databases
• Development of internal and external partnership frameworks

Human Resource Training

• Policies and training programs for educational personnel
• Definition of the professions and jobs in education
• Organisation of the work stations and coaching of personnel
• Initial and continuous training system for personnel
• Accreditation of training centers and certification of personnel
• Design of tools for training, supervision and coaching
• Training of administrative and pedagogical personnel
• Information and database management
• Implementation of learning communities, and of practitioner communities

Youth and the Productive Sector

• Training of young entrepreneurs
• Development of enterprise incubators across sectors
• Institutionalising of incubators, and partnerships
• Enterprise financing solutions
• Professional training and complementary techniques
• Socioeconomic integration of youth
• Youth certification and accreditation of incubators

Integration of Software Solutions

• Development of databases to electronically identify trainees and human resources
• Integration of a computerised portal to manage the student body, teaching personnel, training programs and accreditation
• Deployment of information systems to manage scholastic equipment, didactic and pedagogical material (at the ministry and at decentralised institutions)

Tax Policy and Revenue Administration

• Coaching of tax administration managers and consolidation of their management skills, with a view to optimising revenue administration processes.
• Review of the legislative framework pertaining to taxation when new taxes are being introduced, or in an effort to modernise that legislative framework
• Training of specialised tax officers such as tax auditors, internal auditors and collection officers
• Design, development and deployment of social communication strategies aiming to alter the taxpayer community’s perception of taxation and of the country’s revenue administration, ultimately improving voluntary compliance rates
• Design and development of simulation models to analyse the probable impact of modifications to tax policy on national revenue

Public Finance Management

• Development of strategic sourcing frameworks to reduce total procurement cost: economies of scale, improved consumption, inter-ministerial procurement synergies
• Revision of legislative frameworks pertaining to contracting
• Implementation of public procurement boards
• Coaching of managers at Treasury and at the Budget Department, and consolidation of their management skills, with a view to optimising public finance management processes
• Training of Treasury and Budget Department officers

Local Government and Local Industry

• Decentralisation
• Local economic growth
• Microfinance

New Market Development

• Optimisation of the cost of doing business
• Development of investment incentive programs
• Conduct of surveys and market studies

Integration of Software Solutions

• Coaching of procurement boards throughout the software selection process for integrated tax administration systems
• Functional analysis, configuration and commissioning of integrated tax administration systems
• Design and development of dashboards to track indicators of fiscal performance
• Development of computerised tools for designing simplified impact simulation models

E-Government

• Design of e-government strategies
• Drafting of IT Strategic Plans
• Optimisation of public services by leveraging information technology
• Drafting of IT security policies

Business Intelligence, Dashboards and Data Warehousing

• Development of system architecture enabling data warehousing
• Development and deployment of key indicators of performance and dashboards (Business Intelligence tools) to support trend analysis and decision-making at all levels of management

Integration of Transactional Software Systems

• Evaluation of current systems and identification of a roadmap for the modernisation of the existing software infrastructure
• Drafting of terms of reference and of functional specifications, and selection of software solutions
• Planning, supervision and participation in the implementation and deployment of software solutions

Computerisation of Local Government and Decentralisation of Software Solutions

• Data replication between a central database and regionally-deployed databases
• Decentralisation of software solutions (e.g. deployment of a tax administration solution from central to regional administration levels)
• Development of tailor-made solutions for local government (e.g. for efficient management of public finances by local authorities)

Ideation and Conceptualisation

• Analysis of context-specific requirements
• Drafting of technical and financial proposals
• Tailored project design
• Drafting of terms of reference
• Support to the contracting process

Negotiation and Contracting

• Analysis of contract proposals
• Assistance in contractual negotiations
• Adaptation of contracts and of assignments
• Monitoring of contract execution during project delivery

Resource Mobilisation

• Selection and readiness of human resources
• Organisation and conduct of assignments
• Communication with stakeholders
• Liaising with technical and financial partners

Implementation and Monitoring

• Technical and financial planning
• Monitoring of service delivery by resources
• Performance appraisal and performance indicators
• Evaluation and repositioning
• Technical and financial reporting