INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Private Sector Development
By reducing barriers to competition, strengthening the legal framework surrounding dispute resolution, and promoting transparent business practices, we create business environments that spur economic growth. We specialize in strengthening institutions, so the developing countries where we work can further improve their policies, laws, and regulations.
The potential of trade presents a giant step towards ending poverty in the world’s poorest countries. The building of a strong private sector, operating within a sound regulatory environment and institutional framework, provides developing countries with the basis for sustainable economic growth and poverty alleviation.
Making the markets work for the poor means encouraging competitiveness and business growth, creating employment, enhancing opportunities for small-scale enterprise development through the provision of improved support services and facilitating links with the larger manufacturing and service sectors. It also means addressing the rights of people at work and opening up channels of representation for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) to influence policy decisions.
Pazisma assists governments to build national capacity in cost effective and sustainable business development services such as organisational management and capacity building, access to microfinance, promotion and public awareness, information on new technologies and export and domestic market access. We advise on regulations that provide a conducive business environment. We address health and safety issues and assist with the development of networks to pool resources and widen market opportunities. Pazisma also actively addresses critical issues and barriers that youths and many women entrepreneurs face.
Pazisma manages projects and programs aimed at supporting economic growth and creating new jobs in sectors including agriculture, tourism and manufacturing. Integrating high quality services in agricultural production, post harvest technology, fruit and vegetable marketing and livestock husbandry contributes to a secure food supply, increased agricultural output and value added on a sustainable and cost effective basis. The identification and promotion of business opportunities in community tourism and local manufacturing helps attract foreign investment, builds links and raises the level of local involvement and participation in economic development. A major focus of these initiatives is capacity building and developing a free market economy with an emphasis on decentralisation.
Enterprise Development
Performance Improvement
Strategic Planning
On strategy, we help our clients craft the future course of their organization on various levels
- Testing and refining corporate objectives by mapping a self-correcting process to achieve new levels of performance;
- Shaping the organization’s direction and boundaries and identify privileged capabilities and insights;
- Identifying and selecting how and when to compete successfully against others for market share to create value for shareholder. We help organization produce efficient products and services; capture value from competitors, customers, and suppliers;
- Taking advantage of the opportunities presented in highly uncertain business environments – while also managing the risks in turbulent markets.
- Determining where the organization resources can be best deployed; identifying targets for acquisition or divestiture; uncovering the growth opportunities within their businesses.
Re-engineering
Business process Innovation (BPI) analyses the efficiency and effectiveness of an organization's processes. Through BPI, organizations can ensure that their processes deliver productively and efficiently the best quality goods and services, at the most competitive prices. BPI helps eliminate waste from processes, employ IT to enhance productivity, and make strategic use of outsourcing. It can be applied to most aspects of businesses to generate costs saving, reduce cycle times, and increase quality and customer satisfaction.
To succeed in BPI, every company should ask itself and find answers to six simple questions: Which customers do we want to serve and what value will we offer them? How do we capture our fair share of the value we create for these customers?
What activities must we do ourselves and which can we outsource? How do we protect our profits from customers and competitors? What organizational systems are required to ensure that we stick to our strategy and execute it well? And finally, how can digital technology improve our value propositions and enhance our operations?
Change Management
The implementation of a new process or system is not an easy task. We help clients develop comprehensive approaches to change management, integrating methodologies and techniques, such as strategic communications, and empowering internal leaders to steer the change management cycle from vision to rollout to effective and sustainable implementation.
Programs | Projects | Funds Evaluation and Monitoring
Information Technology and Communication
IT Strategy & Organization
We work with our clients to improve their IT strategies and align them closely with their business strategies. To deliver on this goal we help define required IT capabilities and priorities based on business strategy and objectives, identify the relevant IT and business improvements, and structure the necessary IT transformations. We also help improve IT organizations by aligning their structures, leadership mandates, decision-making processes, skills, incentives, and performance metrics to the companies’ overarching IT strategies.
IT Infrastructure
Developing and managing IT infrastructure to allow access to data and applications is a critical function of IT organizations. We work with our clients to help them improve the technology infrastructure through effective use of infrastructure virtualization, productization, and global operating models, while ensuring overall effective demand management and performance tracking.
Enterprise Architecture
The management of enterprise architecture often lacks the same rigor and business focus that characterize many of the other IT disciplines. We help our clients address the traditional architectural challenges (e.g., inconsistent data) as well as emerging issues (e.g., service-oriented architecture or server virtualization). CIOs are increasingly focused on enterprise architecture and their efforts to simplify it have resulted in significant savings.
Application Management
Enhancing the performance of application development (AD) management creates business value. We work with our clients to improve AD capabilities (e.g., outsourcing, business unit IT interface, fine-tuning an AD organization, performance management, and redesigning the application development process from specification to deployment). We also focus on requirements management, performance assessments, capability maturity models (CMM), capability building, sourcing mix optimization, and lean redesign of the AD process.
From inputs suppliers to end retailers, we strengthen the capabilities of all actors along a product line to meet market demand by alleviating constraints, increasing access to services, and improving information flow. Our work increases domestic production, leads to higher sales, improves income, promotes investment in the rural economy, and generates new jobs for the agricultural sector.
Agriculture Association Development
Agro-industry Development
We provide technical assistance and innovative solutions throughout the value chain — from farm to fork — facilitating the provision of essential inputs, such as agriculture financing, and promoting efficiencies and quality control in processing, packaging, storage, and transportation of farm goods.
Agriculture Markets
Agriculture Policy
Agriculture and Agribusiness Finance
Financial Sector Infrastructure Development
Financial Institutional Development
Pazisma collaborates with a variety of financial sector entities, including microfinance institutions, commercial banks, and regulators, to develop their institutional capacity through the use of technology, restructuring, process improvement, and other means that result in improved operational performance and profitability.
Financial Products & Services
Pazisma works with a wide range of financial intermediaries, including credit unions, nongovernmental institutions, and commercial banks to create financial products and services that are designed to meet the individual needs of micro, small, and medium enterprises operating across a diverse range of circumstances and environments.
Access To Finance
Identifying investment strategies: Providing investors with sector, market and geographic investment advice and strategies
Developing innovative financing mechanisms: Transforming markets through innovative financing mechanisms and partnerships. We help our clients affect changes in the market with new financial instruments and the identification of sponsors and partners
Matching investment capital to entrepreneurs: Using our network to bridge the gap between capital and companies finding attractive private and social investment opportunities
Catalyzing underserved sectors: Aggregating our network to bring more global capital into specific underserved investment sectors or geographies
Market Insight and Development
We provide clients with insight into market segments, including the 'Base of the Pyramid' consumers, in developing African, Asian, and Latin American markets. We help clients maintain confidence in their suppliers, become the partner of choice for governments and civil society, and demonstrate superior contribution to the host economy of developing country. We helps our clients identify, select, and development local suppliers.
Local Suppliers Development
Private Sector Soultions To Health Issues
We increase affordable, high-quality health care for individuals, families, and communities by engaging the private sector. We equip private sector providers with business skills, create innovative public-private partnerships, develop workplace health initiatives, and raise awareness of the power and potential of private sector solutions.
Community Solutions To Health Issues
Health Care Delivery Improvement
We improve primary health care services by setting realistic, achievable goals with local partners and working closely with national counterparts; setting appropriate norms and standards for clinic services and sites; providing associated clinic training and supportive supervision; and strengthening health care commodity forecasting, logistics, and supply chain and management information systems.
Good health care and service delivery are basic requirements for poverty alleviation and an increased quality of life. Working with our counterparts in government departments and private sector organisations, health service providers and in communities, Pazisma supports the delivery of sustainable and effective healthcare solutions.
Approximately 42 million people are living with HIV and AIDS in developing countries. The virus is a major threat to economic and social development. Countries with high prevalence rates experience strained health care resources as it requires expensive and on-going clinical and palliative treatment. In communities dependent on family and village units for support, HIV and AIDS undermines local production capacity.
Pazisma designs and implements programs to assist governments to build health care capacity through reform, training, education, procurement and facility upgrades, while, around the globe, the response to HIV and AIDS requires a comprehensive multi-sector approach that incorporates a range of public, private and non-government organisations. HIV and AIDS prevention and treatment requires appropriate and innovative interventions that deal with highly sensitive subjects relating to sexual activity, gender and illicit drug use. Our programs work to enable governments to implement responses to HIV and AIDS.
Pazisma has been implementing HIV and AIDS and Health activities in developing countries since the early 1990s. We work closely with partner governments to promote leadership and provide the legislative and funding framework for public, private and non-government organisations to respond to health needs.
A key element is establishing and developing national and local HIV and AIDS agencies to provide a range of critical services including: awareness raising, stigma reduction, access to counselling, pharmacological treatments, condom distribution and harm reduction policy development. Pazisma draws on its international network of health, academic, research and industry specialists and partner organisations to provide technical assistance in designing interventions and building local capacity in an appropriate and sustainable manner.
Health Organizations Capacity Building
Educational support services are targeted for maximum impact. Pazisma offers a strong focus on partnership and our programs are aligned with national policies and strategic plans at a local level. Our role is to design and facilitate the delivery of improved education and skills development. We help to implement education reforms and programs in a way that is effective and sustainable.
Nationally, our teams focus on policy formulation, curriculum development, teacher education and improving the way educational institutions are structured. At a local level, we work with training institutions to apply national curricula, develop short courses and improve school management to meet community needs. Our programs and studies span all levels of education, from capacity building in Ministries of Government to assisting local schools to fulfil their specific agenda. At schools, colleges and in vocational and technical settings, we deliver programs that promote employment opportunities in formal and non-formal sectors.
We implement both physical and institutional education service upgrades. These initiatives target increased amenity, improved quality standards and building networks for skills transfer and knowledge sharing. Our programs draw on and extend local capacity and long term sustainability of education reforms.
Pazisma manages programs that support improved education and enable:
- Curriculum development;
- National education frameworks and standards;
- Capacity development and teacher training;
- Policy formulation;
- Study tours and work placements;
- Monitoring, quality assurance and evaluation;
- Construction and upgrade of facilities and accommodation; and
- Access to new technology and information systems.
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