Zimbabwe and MalawiAdvisory Services

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Helping our clients enhance value, build trust and communicate with the marketplace

Overview

One of the largest professional services organisations in the world, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) is a leader in every market in which we operate, including in Southern Africa. PwC provides industry-focused assurance, tax and advisory services to build public trust and enhance value for our clients and their stakeholders. More than 163 000 people in 151 countries across our network share their thinking, experience and solutions to develop fresh perspectives and deliver practical advice.

PwC is a leading provider of advisory and consultancy services for both the public and private sectors. PwC Zimbabwe and PwC Malawi (which operate as a combined business unit) form part of PwCs Southern African regional structure. Close ties are also maintained with other PwC groupings in Central, East and West Africa, and indeed, with PwC firms throughout the world.

We apply our industry knowledge and professional expertise to identify, report, protect, realise and create value for our clients and their stakeholders. The strength of this value proposition is based on the breadth and depth of our client relationships, the collective knowledge and resources of our international network, experience, industry expertise and business understanding.

Advisory Services

The Advisory Services department of PwC Zimbabwe and PwC Malawi is made up of these units:

Agriculture and Rural Development;

Human Capital and Leadership (HC&L);

Public Sector Transformation; and

Systems Implementation and Effectiveness.

Forensic Services

Tax Services

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Appreciating the importance of agriculture in Southern Africa, this advisory unit focuses on agriculture and rural development issues.

The services offered by the unit include:

Assistance in policy and strategy formulation at national, provincial and local levels;

Project feasibility studies, which includes determining the financial, economic and social feasibility of projects;

Project baseline studies, which involves determining the status quo of project areas and beneficiaries before project implementation;

Assistance in irrigation development;

Capacity development for the agriculture sector;

Provision of technical assistants to assist in project implementation;

Advice on agricultural marketing and agro-processing;

Conducting environmental impact assessments for agriculture and mining projects;

Assisting in production of relocation and rehabilitation action plans for people displaced by agriculture and mining projects; and

Mid-term and end-of-project evaluations focusing on relevancy, efficiency of implementation, effectiveness, impact on beneficiaries, and sustainability of achieved results.

Agriculture and Rural Development

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Human Capital and Leadership (HC & L)

Human Capital and Leadership Services

PwC specialises in providing human capital and leadership support and direction. Through sustained relationships or on a project basis, we help organisations to solve their human capital issues and implement strategic plans to improve effectiveness.

Our approach focuses on the key principles of human capital management and can offer practical solutions to a broad spectrum of human capital-related situations an organisation may encounter.

Our areas of specialisation:

Organisational development;

Reward design and benchmarking;

Competency models and training needs analysis;

Developing human resources (HR) policies and procedures;

Developing orientation programmes for new employees;

Human capital and skills audits; and

Performance management.

Reward design, benchmarking and management

HC&L offers a range of up-to-date technical products to facilitate general human capital, strategic and reward management. For example, our reward management system, e-Reward, is a fully automated application that is installed into each client organisation. Products offered include:

Salary benchmarking;

Cost of living analysis reports;

Benefits structuring and design; and

Reward policies.

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Competency model, gap analysis and training needs analysis

Competencies are the knowledge, skills and abilities needed to successfully perform at work. Competency models are used to identify competencies employees need to develop to improve performance in their current job or to prepare for other jobs via promotion or transfer. We offer the functional technical expertise to design various forms of competency models.

Developing HR policies and procedures

We provide clients with professional HR policy solutions. These include:

Recruitment and selection policies;

Training and development policies;

Pay and benefits policies;

Employee relations policies;

HIV/Aids policies; and

Medical, health and safety policies.

Human capital and skills audits

A human capital and skills audit identifies employees skills and compares these with the skills required by the organisation now and in the future. By identifying the skills and knowledge that the organisation requires as well as the skills and knowledge that the organisation currently has, the audit will identify gaps to be addressed by the organisations training and development programme.

Organisational development

Organisational development refers to a process in which an organisation develops its internal capacity to be the most effective it can be, in its mission to sustain itself over the long term. To this end, we facilitate the following interventions:

Designing organisation service level agreements;

Job evaluations;

Strategy development;

Organisation diagnostics;

Culture surveys;

Knowledge management;

Talent management;

Managing organisational change and transition;

Management systems;

Facilitation of team building sessions; and

Leadership development

Performance management

Performance management provides a framework of activities to ensure that goals are consistently being met in an effective and efficient manner for the organisation and its employees.

HC&L offers expertise in:

Balanced Scorecards;

Management by objectives;

Peer reviews;

360-degrees; and

Combination of methods.

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Public Sector Transformation

The Transformation unit focuses on strategy work that often leads to transformation assignments aimed at performance improvements in financial planning, budgeting, costing, human resources management and management information systems. These are often underpinned by a sound transformation methodology that involves:

Public Sector Transformation Services

PwC has been offering the following services in Zimbabwe and Malawi for the last 10 years:

Management Agents;

Public Financial Management and Budgeting;

Strategy Formulation and Workshop Facilitation Services; and

Corporatisation, Commercialisation and Privatisation Advice.

Management Agents

As management agents we provide support in:

Financial/fiscal management;

procurement and supply management;

institutional and programmatic management;

monitoring and evaluation;

grantee assessments; and

general project management and reporting.

Public financial Management and Budgeting

We assist with:

financial and budget policy and performance reviews;

budget formulation and preparation;

post budget implementation reviews;

review of financial management procedures and preparation of accounting and financial management procedures manuals; and

continuous improvement programmes.

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Strategy Formulation and Workshop Facilitation Services

We assist with:

transformation blueprints and assisting clients with envisioning a case for change

general strategy formulation;

strategic workshop facilitation;

as part of strategy formulation, we carry out detailed institutional risk identification and mapping, stakeholder identification and mapping and development of project or programme communication strategies and protocols.

Corporatisation, Commercialisation and Privatisation Advice

We provide advice on:

corporatisation, commercialisation and privatisation options and implementation strategy; and

the implementation of preferred corporatisation, commercialisation and privatisation options.

Our Experience

A few selected assignments are presented below to demonstrate our capacity to deliver value adding transformation services for the services listed immediately above.

Zimbabwe and Malawi: Local Fund Agent. (LFA) services for the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis from 2003 to date (Zimbabwe) and to 2008 (Malawi). Essentially, LFA services involve oversight and risk management, institutional capacity assessments of principal and sub-recipients, informed and independent professional grant implementation advice

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