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Kadale Consultants (Malawi) Ltd

Thematic Areas of Expertise: Agriculture, Non Farm Income and Employment, Markets and Value Chains, Livelihoods Services (e.g. Business Services), Property Rights, Food Security and VulnerabilityGovernance

Countries of Expertise: Bangladesh, China (including Hong Kong), India, Kenya, Laos, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Pakistan, Rwanda, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Thailand, Uganda, United Kingdom, Vietnam, ZambiaZimbabwe

Address Details:
11 Jacaranda Avenue, Mandala
P.O. Box 2019
Blantyre

Malawi
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Regional Offices: MalawiUnited Kingdom

Kadale is a Malawi based company primarily focused on the development of Malawi and the Southern and East African regions, but drawing on our wider experience elsewhere. Our overall focus is private sector development, which in this region requires a strong agricultural focus. We are expert in value-chain analysis and problem solving/facilitation, finance and micro-finance, public-private dialogue and livelihoods. We have excellent networks and linkages with private sector in Malawi, and beyond. We want to see a transformation of this country and the prospects for the millions that are impacted by poverty through greater engagement of the private sector in the development process.

Khanya- aiccdd(African Institute for community Driven Development)

Thematic Areas of Expertise: Agriculture, Livelihoods Services (e.g. Business Services), Food Security and VulnerabilityGovernance

Countries of Expertise: LesothoZimbabwe

Address Details:
16A President Steyn Avenue Westdene
Bloemfontein
Free State
9301

South Africa
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Regional Offices: South Africa

Khanya was formed in 1998 as Khanya-managing rural change, based on a group of people who had undertaken some pioneering work on change management in the rural sector in the Free State province in South Africa. We had a passion for a transformation process in Africa that would address poverty in a significant way. That passion has not left Khanya, and we have an enthusiastic, committed team that works with others in meaningful partnerships for change.

The realisation that our work was having impact and that we needed to formalize the organisation and grow larger to increase our impact culminated in Khanya becoming the African Institute for Community-Driven Development in February 2006. We refer to it as Khanya-aicdd. Our work has evolved and developed, energised by the sustainable livelihoods approach (SLA), which gave us a real focus. Out of our work on Institutional Issues in Implementing the SLA we developed six governance issues as key to making the SLA practical in addressing poverty: Empowering communities - micro (community) level

People active and involved in managing their own development (claiming their rights and exercising their responsibilities);

A responsive, active and accessible network of local service providers (community-based, private sector or government);

Empowering local government and district services - meso level

At local government level (lower meso), services facilitated, provided or promoted effectively and responsively, co-ordinated and held accountable;

At upper meso level, the region supportive and supervising the level below;

Realigning the centre - macro (national) level

The centre providing strategic direction, redistribution and oversight, and how responsive is this to micro and meso-level realities and inputs?

International institutions and processes helping to promote the capacity of nation states to take on strategic roles to eradicate poverty.

Khanya developed a work theme around community-based planning (CBP) to operationalise the first governance issue - empowering communities at the community level. The aim is to ensure that communities articulate their demands and influence plans and the way resources are allocated - promoting voice and choice. This work was very successful and has become national policy in South Africa and Uganda (as the Harmonised Participatory Planning Guide) and is continuing in Zimbabwe.

Our experience on active and dispersed services is that, with the exception of primary schools, government services rarely reach village level. In most communities the main services received are those provided by local people, e.g. traditional healers or home-based cares. We have built on this to develop a work area around Community-based workers (CBWs). We have had a 3 year action-learning project with partners in Lesotho, Uganda, Kenya and South Africa to learn from and improve practice on CBWs. The goal is to have CBW systems and other community-based service delivery mechanisms recognised as central to service delivery in Africa. So far the partnership has realised practical successes in Lesotho, South Africa and Uganda. Khanya has become an important local development agent in the Free State and increasingly in Lesotho.

We facilitated the first Free State Development Plan (which became the model for provincial plans in South Africa), and facilitated the first Integrated Development Plan and ward plans for Mangaung Local Municipality. We are currently working on the development of an Economic Development Agency for Motheo District which covers Bloemfontein and its rural hinterland. As the six governance issues show, we focus on how the development system is working or failing, and how it can be strengthened. We have developed an approach to action learning around improving these systems, which emerged in the CBP project and now is embedded in all our work. Currently we are receiving funding from the Southern Africa Trust to develop the lessons on our and others' experience in action-learning and to develop guidelines. We are also the Southern African partner in a regional programme on Strengthening Management for Impact (SMIP) which seeks to build capacity to improve the impact of development interventions in southern and Eastern Africa, using action-learning as a basis. Our work supports long-term processes of learning and change. Our relationships are built on trust and many of the partners we work with become long-term partners, where we support programme design, and also provide support to realize the programme in practice over time. We are currently undertaking an evaluation of the South African Department of Social Development's services in the rural and urban development nodes, with an emphasis on support in learning and implementing the lessons from the evaluation. Partnerships are critical to this method of working. All of our work is with groups of partners in the different countries, building links between government, civil society and the private sector, facilitating the emergence of coalitions for change.

Our areas of work are now focused on:

Rethinking development systems - decentralization, decentralized services and development planning, social accountability - changing the relationship between the way government works and citizens;
Community-based management - developing approaches to support communities to plan, implement and manage their own development;
Local economic development - improving strategic approaches to promote pro-poor growth, and working with local stakeholders including communities to build on local strengths and opportunities;
Promoting food security - primarily through assisting small scale farmers to produce for subsistence and for sale, focusing on improving farmer-farmer extension and on access to markets. Our main focus countries are South Africa, Lesotho, Uganda, Kenya and Zimbabwe, although we have worked in 15 African countries and have offices in South Africa and Lesotho. We increasingly seek to work across the Colonial divides which have created great barriers to sharing of experience in Africa

Kilimanyika

Thematic Areas of Expertise: Climate Change, Governance, Food Security and Vulnerability, Land, Livelihoods Services (e.g. Business Services), Trade, Markets and Value Chains, Non Farm Income and Employment, Forestry, Natural ResourcesLivestock

Countries of Expertise: Kenya, Sudan, Tanzania, UgandaUnited Kingdom

Address Details:
Bankipore House
High Street
Brill
Buckinghamshire

UK
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Regional Offices: Tanzania

Kilimanyika is a partnership of consultants offering professional services in ecological and socio-economic development activities. Their core focus is the promotion of effective utilisation and management of natural resources in order to support both sustainable economic growth and environmental conservation. Kilimanyika’s mainstay experience is in both marine and terrestrial environments in Africa, particularly East Africa as well as on African trade and markets issues in the UK. Kilimanyika work with a range of clients to research, plan, implement and evaluate initiatives. These include stakeholders from agrarian, pastoral and fishing communities, local and international NGOs, governments and businesses operating in a variety of market sectors.

KORONGO Ltd

Thematic Areas of Expertise: Land, Livelihoods Services (e.g. Business Services), Natural Resources, LivestockAgriculture

Countries of Expertise: Angola, Benin, Botswana, Congo (Democratic Republic of), Djibouti, Eritrea, Finland, Malawi, Melilla, Namibia, North Korea, Portugal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, St Helena, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, TunisiaUkraine

Address Details:
P.O. Box 36650
Kigamboni
Dar es Salaam

Tanzania
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Regional Offices: Tanzania

Korongo is a small, focused consultaning comapny registered in Tanzania providing specialised services to agriculture, natural resources and environmental management. This includes policy and legislation, institutional capacity building, decentralisation, technical support, planning, supervision, implmenetation and review. Increasingly working with private sector initiatives and developing public-private partnerships.

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