Private businesses and SMEs
Typical challenge: Informal systems, thin management information, and growth plans that outpace financial capacity.
Relevant services: Financial systems, business planning, growth and investment readiness.
Sectors
Sectors and clients served
Different sectors face different constraints. These are the challenges most commonly brought to me, and the services that address them.
NGOs and humanitarian organizations
Typical challenge: Restricted funding, multiple donor reporting formats, and compliance obligations across grants.
Relevant services: Financial management, internal controls, MEAL, and capacity development.
Development programmes
Typical challenge: Complex results frameworks and pressure to demonstrate outcomes within short implementation windows.
Relevant services: Project formulation, monitoring systems, baseline and evaluation studies.
Education and research institutions
Typical challenge: Research capacity gaps and the need to link academic output to practical institutional decisions.
Relevant services: Research design, data analysis, staff training, and institutional development.
Public-sector institutions
Typical challenge: Accountability requirements, procedural complexity, and limited internal specialist capacity.
Relevant services: Policy analysis, strategic planning, controls, and performance frameworks.
Agriculture and agribusiness
Typical challenge: Seasonal cash flow, market volatility, and investment appraisal under uncertain yields.
Relevant services: Feasibility studies, financial modelling, market assessment, value-chain analysis.
Manufacturing and garment industries
Typical challenge: Costing accuracy, working-capital pressure, and capital investment decisions.
Relevant services: Cost and management accounting, investment appraisal, process and control review.
Financial and professional services
Typical challenge: Regulatory compliance, risk governance, and demonstrable internal control quality.
Relevant services: Enterprise risk management, compliance frameworks, governance advisory.
Social enterprises
Typical challenge: Balancing mission and financial sustainability with limited administrative capacity.
Relevant services: Business modelling, financial systems, blended reporting and measurement.
Entrepreneurs and investors
Typical challenge: Evaluating opportunities objectively before committing capital or time.
Relevant services: Feasibility studies, business plans, due diligence, investment appraisal.
Working in a sector not listed here?
Most assignments cut across sectors. Describe the situation and you will receive an honest view of fit before any proposal is prepared.