Our Range of Expertise:
We provide a broad array of international development consulting services to support sustainable economic development. PSI has international expertise in project identification, design, implementation, management and performance review, in the areas of:
We also have long term relationships with an established roster of proven associates and affiliated firms providing us with access to additional and complementary expertise.
PSI is dedicated to maintaining the highest standards in our international development work. We are members of the Canadian Association of International Development Professionals (CAIDP) and abide by their professional code of conduct.
VISION: We believe that poverty can only be reduced through economic growth and the creation of employment and incomes, but growth needs to be complemented by the right policies and social programs if the poor are to benefit. Thus, we strive to work on sustainable economic growth in a holistic fashion that incorporates governance through to income generation at the grassroots.
PSI has built a global network of highly-specialised associated consultants and affiliated firms with whom we partner to provide the best combination of skills, experience, language capacity, and contextual and cultural relevance. Our combined expertise allow us to support programs and projects designed to help our clients achieve a number of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Click on each SDG below to see a sample of the projects we have undertaken to contribute to that goal.
Mark Ampah is a senior development professional specialised in SME support and monitoring and evaluation of sustainable economic growth programming in North America and sub-Saharan Africa. During the past 18 years, he has worked for the International Finance Corporation (IFC) of the World Bank Group, first as the Project Manager (PM) for the Enterprise Support Services for Africa (ESSA), a project jointly funded by the IFC and the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). Mark later worked as an Operations Evaluation Officer/Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist-Sub Saharan Africa for the Africa Project Development Facility (APDF), a facility of the IFC. More recently, Mark worked as the Regional Head, Results Measurement Specialist for the Private Enterprise Partnership Africa (PEP Africa) for the Sub-Saharan Region and Senior Results Measurement Specialist for the Public Private Partnership Advisory Services Unit for IFC in Sub Saharan Africa. Prior to that he worked as an Executive Consultant with the George S May International Company, Chicago - providing consulting services to SMEs across Canada and as a Commercial Account Manager with the Toronto Dominion Bank, Canada. Mark has been associated with PSI for many years.
Dr. Leslie Casely-Hayford is the Director and Principal Consultant of Associates for Change (AfC), a research and consulting firm based in Ghana, West Africa. Dr Casely-Hayford has been conducting evaluations and research studies for the last 20 years across Africa and Asia. She has led several multi sectoral evaluations, programme design and research studies for governments, donors and civil society agencies in the south particularly across the education and social sectors. Her work has focussed on using mixed method, results based management and gender equity approaches. She has led large scale, cross cultural teams for WFP, DFID, USAID, CIDA along with several civil society partners including CARE, Action Aid, Concern, and CCFC. She has led several research studies on basic education, gender equity, social policy, decentralisation and public sector reform. Associates for Change and Dr. Leslie Casely-Hayford have been associated with PSI for over 15 years.
Mr. Alfred Ojwang is a Kenyan and a co-founder Director of MICRODE CONSULT; and the Principal Consultant Development Education at MICRODE CONSULT. He has been a high school teacher (a science and agriculture), curriculum developer and educational media specialist at the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development, and a Project Manager with an international NGO CARE for several years. Over the last 19 years, Mr. Ojwang has been a full-time consultant at MICRODE CONSULT where he has successfully carried out many consultancy assignments including in Evaluations, Organizational Development and Systems Strengthening, Teacher Professional Development and Management, Life Skills Development, IEC/BCC Materials and Curriculum Development, Program Design and Management, Advocacy and Policy Influence. Some of the clients he has served include Government Departments (Kenya, Rwanda, and Somaliland), Donor agencies (DFID, USAID, World Bank and DFATD), UN agencies (UNESCO, UNICEF) and international NGOs (FHI360, Aga Khan Foundation, WaterAid, CRS, ActionAid, and CARE International among many others). His geographic experience includes Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Puntland, Rwanda, Somaliland, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. Mr. Ojwang has authored several academic and non-academic books. Mr. Ojwang and MICRODE CONSULT have been associated with PSI for over 15 years.
Keith Phillips has spent the last 10 years building and deploying cloud based systems for monitoring evaluation and continuous improvement of organisations and communities. Prior to this he has an International Business career with Unilever, Gillette and Apple computers spanning Africa, Middle East, Europe and Asia. Growing up in Zimbabwe and working in Africa, Middle East and India, he has in particular developed empathy for development and developing countries. It was with Apple as CEO of the UK and then as senior executive in the USA that he developed a passion for technology and how it will change the way we do development. Keith now has his own company QLBS (Quantum Leap beyond spreadsheets) that has built a cloud based platform for M&E. Deployments have included, community building across the Pacific, Skills Development in Tourism, Microfinance Organisational Assessment, Institutional Capacity Assessment in E Europe, Africa and China. Amongst other Heads of State he has advised Helen Clarke (UNDP) in Innovation when she was Prime Minister of NZ.
Dr. Gaye Thompson holds a PhD in Social Anthropology and has a broad experience of participatory programming and management systems particularly in the context of decentralisation, basic service provision and impacts in communities. She has comprehensive informal and formal research and survey experience in rural socio-cultural and economic change, resource use, social impact assessment, household security and access to services. She has designed, planned, managed and facilitated policy operationalization, strategic social assessment, social impact assessments, process and resettlement policy frameworks, resettlement action plans, community development plans, public participation plans, feasibility studies, has carried out various key energy sector social assessments starting with the strategic social impact assessment and mitigation and capacity development recommendations. She contributed to the electricity master plan produced for EDM in 2004 and the update in 2011-13. In 2005 she contributed to the transmission development study for UTIP, mainly in the assessment of social impacts and developing costing's for compensation along the alternative line routes. In 2008 she has participated in the social inputs to the energy generation master plan for Mozambique, in 2010 through to 2012 the ESIA and RPF for CESUL and since 2011, the social and resettlement components of ESIAs for new transmission lines in Gaza, Inhambane, Zambézia and Nampula. She has provided social development advisory and supervisory services for social monitoring and impact evaluation of women's employment and participation in the roads sector and of resettlement planning and implementation by the public and private sector in Mozambique.
Pamela Branch has almost 30 years of professional experience in the field of international development, including over 30 countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Europe, Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Her consulting practice reflects her strong commitment to economic growth and governance as key inputs to development, and much of her work in institutional and capacity development is to promote those aims. With degrees in accounting and economics, she has developed solid international experience in private sector development, including three years in Ghana managing a technology transfer project to support small scale industry with 10 offices and 300 staff nationwide. She is a strong manager who can deliver results and has the ability to work across sectors, bringing in outside expertise as needed. Ms. Branch has worked on all aspects of performance review and measurement, including internally as a project manager, and as an external monitor, evaluator, auditor and reviewer. She has also worked on developing results-based management systems and tools for a variety of clients including needs assessments, system development and training.
Associates for Change
1 Subukwe Close (Off Farah Avenue)
Accra, Ghana
Phone: (233) (3020) 245 612/3 or 0244 255 170
www.associatesforchange.org
SCDS
Maputo, Mozambique
Phone: +258 823 28 7320
office@psi-spi.com