CONTRACTS IN GMA NAME
Assignment: Appraisal of Danida’s Somalia Country Programme (2019-2023)
Somalia 2018
Client: Danida (contracted by PEMconsult)
GMA was contracted to provide the external team leader for this Appraisal. The programme focuses on state institution building, human rights (including the women and child rights, child soldiers, gender-based violence and female genital mutilation, and the rights of internally displaced persons), and private sector development.
Assignment: Technical Assistance to the Judicial Service, Ghana
Ghana 2016 - 2018
Client: Danida
GMA was contracted to provide a Team Leader / Judicial Reform Expert, Organisational Development Specialist, and Civic Education Specialist to assist the Judicial Service of Ghana to implement their aspects of the Right to Services and Good Governance Programme. Included development of a three-year civic education / communication strategy, anti-corruption strategy for the Judiciary, management training, support to development of Gender-Based Violence Courts, activities to reduce the number of awaiting trial prisoners and speed up criminal and civil trials, and enhanced monitoring and evaluation.
Assignment: Mid-term review of Component 1.2 (Judicial Service) of the Right to Services and Good Governance Programme
Ghana 2016
Client: Danida
GMA provided the senior international Justice Sector. The MTR focused only on Component 1.2 (Judicial Service) where support focused on judicial reform, alternative dispute resolution, Gender-Based Violence Courts, outreach activities, activities to reduce the number of awaiting trial prisoners and speed up criminal and civil trials, and enhanced monitoring and evaluation.
Assignment:Evaluation of the Support to Parliament Project of the Democratic Governance Facility
Uganda 2016
Client: Danida
GMA provided the sole national consultant and quality assurance over the course of the evaluation.
Assignment: Best Practice Handbook for the Bangladesh Criminal Justice System
Bangladesh 2016
Client: UNDP
GMA provided the team leader, lead author and national consultant for the development of a plain language, Best Practice Handbook for the Bangladesh Criminal Justice System with a strong focus on juvenile justice and victims’ rights.
Assignment: Training for the Public Service Commission
South Africa 2014
Client: GIZ
GMA provided a senior international expert to develop a training programme and train Public Service Commission Investigators on the Promotion of Administrative Justice Act.
Assignment: Public education booklet on the Promotion of Administrative Justice Act
South Africa 2014
Client: GIZ
GMA provided the plain language author and editor to produce a plain language publication on the Promotion of Administrative Justice Act PAJA.
Assignment: Improving the M&E system for the Right to Services and Good Governance Programme
Ghana 2013
Client: Danida
GMA provided a senior international monitoring and evaluation expert to provide technical assistance to the programme to improve its M&E system and tools.
Assignment: Mid-term cum Annual review of the Democratic Governance Facility
Uganda 2013
Client: Danida
In partnership with PEMconsult, GMA provided the team leader and national consultant to conduct this evaluation. The DGF is a multi-donor supported fund (Austria, Denmark, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, the UK and the EU) for civil society organisations, government departments and national institutions.
Assignment: Perception study on Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ)
Ghana 2013
Client: CHRAJ
GMA provided the senior international expert to design and conduct a national perception study on CHRAJ’s performance over the previous 10 years.
Assignment: Baseline study on human rights and democracy in Uganda
Uganda 2013
Client: Danida
In partnership with PEMconsult, GMA provided the team leader and national consultant to design and conduct this baseline survey. The household survey was designed by GMA and conducted by IPSOS Uganda. DFG
Assignment: Good Governance and Human Rights Programme
Ghana 2013
Client: Danida
GMA provided a senior international monitoring and evaluation expert to provide technical assistance to the Judicial Service and Commission for Human Rights, and Administrative Justice to develop / finalise / improve their M&E system.
Assignment: Review of Danish Institute for Human Rights
Global 2013
Client: Danida
In partnership with PEMconsult, GMA provided the team leader and a senior international expert to conduct this evaluation of DIHR’s international work.
Assignment: Baseline study on Human Rights, Access to services and justice, local governance and democracy in Ghana
Ghana 2013
Client: Danida / African Peer Review Mechanism Secretariat
GMA provided the senior international expert to design and conduct this baseline survey together with the African Peer Review Mechanism Secretariat. Final Report
Assignment: Capacity building for Ward Tribunals
Tanzania 2012
Client: GIZ
GMA provided the team leader / senior international access to justice expert to develop training materials (including a ‘Benchbook’), design a training programme for Ward Tribunal Members and Secretaries, design and conduct training of trainers for the rollout of the training, and to produce related public education materials.
Assignment: Capacity building for the Governance Secretariat
Zambia 2012
Client: Danida
GMA developed training programmes and materials to train the Zambian Government’s Governance Secretariat – responsible for implementing Danida’s Phase II of the Danish Support to Governance in Zambia – on economic governance, human rights, democracy and access to justice.
Assignment: Training pf Public Protector South Africa Investigators on the Promotion of Administrative Justice Act
South Africa 2012
Client: GIZ
GMA was awarded a framework contract to train all of the Public Protector’s Investigators on the impact of the Promotion of Administrative Justice Act on their investigations.
Assignment: Phase II of the Danish Support to Governance in Zambia
Zambia 2011
Client: Danida
GMA provided the senior international expert and national consultant to conduct an impact assessment of training provided to members of criminal justice institutions under the programme.
Assignment: GIZ Public Service Reform Programme
South Africa 2011
Client: GIZ
GMA was awarded a framework contract to provide a technical adviser to assist in the implementation of the Programme, including the development and conducting of a training programme for Public Protector managers and investigators on the application of the Promotion of Administrative Justice Act; and to the Public Protector for the establishment of the African Ombudsman Research Centre.
Assignment: Zambian Governance Secretariat
Zambia 2011
Client: Danida
GMA provided the senior international expert to conduct a Capacity assessment and learning needs analysis for the Zambian Governance Secretariat responsible for implementing Danida’s Phase II of the Danish Support to Governance in Zambia
Assignment: ‘How to’ notes for implementers of Danida projects and programmes
Global 2010 - 2011
Client: Danida
GMA was contracted to plain language edit a series of ‘How To’ notes aimed at implementers of Danish supported projects and covering informal justice; justice sector reform; Parliaments; political parties; indigenous peoples; and the media and freedom of expression.
Assignment: Mid-term review of the Danish Support to Good Governance Programme, Phase 2
Zambia 2011
Client: Danida
GMA provided the external team leader / senior international human rights and access to justice expert and the national consultant to assist the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to conduct the mid-term review.
Assignment: Finalisation of the design of the Danish contribution to the Justice, Law and Order Sector
Uganda 2010
Client: Danida
GMA provided a senior international access to justice expert to finalise the design of Component 2 of the programme – access to justice.
Assignment: Establishment of the African Ombudsman Research Centre
South Africa 2010
Client: GIZ
GMA provided a technical adviser (legal) to the Public Protector South Africa for the establishment of the African Ombudsman Research Centre.
Assignment: National Treasury Technical Adviser
South Africa 2010
Client: GIZ
GMA provided a technical adviser (legal / public finance management) to review all National Treasury practice notes and procurement guidelines for compliance with the Promotion of Administrative Justice Act. PAJA
Assignment: Curriculum and training programme on constitution building for post-conflict countries
Global 2008 - 2010
Client: International IDEA
GMA provided a senior international expert / training expert to contribute to the design and and development of a curriculum and training programme on constitution building for post-conflict countries going through a constitutional revision or development process.
Assignment: Handbook on Best Practice Guidelines for members of the Criminal Justice System
Zambia 2009
Client: Danida
GMA provided a senior international criminal justice expert to design, write and plain language edit a user friendly and practical Handbook on Best Practice Guidelines for members of the Criminal Justice System, including Minimum Standards and Backlog Strategy.
Assignment: Democratisation and Human Rights for the Benefit of the People
Global 2008 - 2009
Client: Danida
GMA provided a plain language editor to edit and assist in developing content for this key explanatory publication on Strategic Priorities for Danish Support for Good Governance. DHBP
Assignment: Appraisal of the Danish Support to Good Governance Phase II in Zambia
Zambia 2009
Client: Danida
GMA provided the senior international expert on human rights and access to justice for the finalisation of the Danish Support to Good Governance Programme Phase II.
Assignment: Learning Needs Analysis for the Judicial Administration Training Institute of Bangladesh
Bangladesh 2008
Client: Danida
GMA provided the senior international expert to conduct a learning needs analysis of the JATI.
Assignment: Promotion of Administrative Justice Act
South Africa 2008
Client: GIZ
GMA provided a technical adviser for the conceptualisation and development of manuals on the application of the Promotion of Administrative Justice Act to specific sectors / areas of public administration
Assignment: Support to Capacity Building of the Judicial Administration Training Institute of Bangladesh
Bangladesh 2008
Client: Danida
GMA provided a senior international expert to provide technical assistance to the JATI to ensure it correctly implemented Danish support to the programme.
Assignment: Formulation: Support to Capacity Building of the Judicial Administration Training Institute of Bangladesh
Bangladesh 2008
Client: Danida
GMA provided the team leader / senior international justice expert to formulate / design the second phase of Danida support to the JATI.
Assignment: Human Rights in Policing Learners Programme
South Africa 2007 - 2008
Client: Anglo Platinum
GMA was awarded a contract to develop a Human Rights in Policing Learners Programme for the South African Police Service and to conduct training of trainers.
Assignment: Needs analysis for the Separation of the Judiciary
Bangladesh 2007
Client: Danida
GMA provided the senior international justice sector expert to conduct a needs analysis for the Judiciary following the Government of Bangladesh’s decision to separate the Judiciary out from under government control.
Assignment: Review of the Body of Case Handling Institutions (BCHI) of Malawi
Malawi 2007
Client: Danish Institute for Human Rights
GMA provided the team leader for an evaluation of the BCHI, made up of 16 case handling bodies including the Office of the Ombudsman, Human Rights Commission, Electoral Commission, Anti-Corruption Bureau, Prison’s Service Commission and National Compensation Tribunal.
Assignment: Capacity Building for Local Courts
Zambia 2007
Client: GIZ
GMA provided the lead trainer / senior international expert to revise a previously developed training programme and provide a refresher training of trainers course for trainers of Local Court Clerks and Messengers in Zambia.
Assignment: Public education for the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights
Africa 2006
Client: Danida
GMA provided the plain language author and editor for three public education materials aimed at African NGOs: NGOs and the African Commission for Human and People’s Rights (ACHPR); Protecting and promoting socio-economic rights in Africa; and The rights of indigenous people in Africa.
Assignment: Training of legal advisers on the Promotion of Administrative Justice Act
South Africa 2005
Client: GIZ
GMA provided a senior international expert to design and implement a training programme for legal advisers in various government departments on the Promotion of Administrative Justice Act.
Assignment: Mid-term review: Child Rights and Popular Participation Project
Malawi 2006
Client: Danish Institute for Human Rights
GMA provided the team leader for the Mid-Term Review of the Child Rights and Popular Participation Project in the Malawi Human Rights Resource Centre
Assignment: Impact assessment of project to improve trauma support CSOs
South Africa 2006
Client: Themba Lesizwe (EU)
GMA was awarded a contract to conduct an impact assessment of a funding project to improve trauma support CSOs, particularly in rural areas. The funding mechanism, known as Themba Lesizwe, was set up to disburse grants to CSOs on behalf of the European Union.
Assignment: Evaluation of Juvenile Justice programme in Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda and Nepal
Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda and Nepal 2004
Client: Danish Institute for Human Rights
GMA provided the team leader for the Evaluation of Juvenile Justice programmes programme in Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda and Nepal.
Assignment: Promotion of Administrative Justice Act
South Africa 2004
Client: GIZ
GMA provided a senior international expert to assist GIZ in conducting an impact assessment of training provided on the Act.
Assignment: Training on administrative justice for the Body of Case Handling Institutions
Malawi 2005
Client: Danish Institute for Human Rights
GMA provided a senior international expert to develop a training programme, manual and materials for training on administrative justice (based on the laws of Malawi) for members of the Body of Case Handling Institutions.
Assignment: Evaluation of juvenile justice programme
Malawi 2004
Client: DFID
GMA was awarded a contract to conduct an Evaluation of DFID’s juvenile justice programme in Malawi.
Assignment: Complaint handling manuals for case handling institutions
Malawi 2004
Client: Danish Institute for Human Rights
GMA provided the lead author for the development of complaint handling manuals for 13 national case handling institutions
Assignment: Capacity Building for Local Courts
Zambia 2003
Client: GIZ
GMA provided a senior international expert (legal and training) to design, co-ordinate and conduct a Training of Trainers programme to develop trainers to train local Court Clerks and Messengers.
Assignment: Combating Gender Based Violence in rural villages in Malawi
Malawi 2004
Client: GIZ
GMA provided the team leader, principal author and editor for the development, design and training of trainers for a training programme aimed at the informal justice system and how it could contribute to ending GBV.
Assignment: Evaluation of Forum of Case Handling Institutions
Malawi 2003
Client: Danish Institute for Human Rights
GMA provided the team leader for the evaluation of Danish Institute for Human Rights Forum of Case Handling Institutions.
Assignment: Handbook for Police on dealing with victims and witnesses
South Africa 2003
Client: Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation
GMA was contracted to provide the co-author of a plain language publication aimed at the South African Police Service on how to deal with victims and witnesses. The publication was subsequently incorporated into a learning programme for Family Violence, Child Protection and Sexual Offences Detectives.
Assignment: Evaluation of Office of the Ombudsman
Malawi 2003
Client: Danish Institute for Human Rights
GMA provided the team leader for the Evaluation of Danish Institute for Human Rights support to the Office of the Ombudsman
Assignment: Evaluation of community-based volunteer trauma support workers programme
South Africa 2003
Client: National Peace Accord Trust
GMA was awarded a contract to conduct a 12-Month evaluation of community-based volunteer trauma support workers programme.
Assignment: Evaluation: Planning Development for the African Human Rights Commission Secretariat
Africa 2003
Client: Danish Institute for Human Rights
GMA provided the senior international expert for the evaluation of DIHR’s planning development project within the African Human Rights Commission Secretariat.
Assignment: Evaluation of NGO coalition’s advocacy work on survivors of violence
South Africa 2002
Client: Themba Lesizwe (EU)
GMA was awarded a contract to conduct an Evaluation of a three-year strategy for an NGO coalition’s advocacy work on survivors of violence.
SUPPORT TO EUROPEAN UNION FRAMEWORK CONTRACTORS
Under the European Union’s Framework Contract (FWC) approach, only EU firms may contract directly with the EU. GMA has successfully assisted many of these firms to find experts who are then contracted directly by the firm with a separate contract entered into with GMA for commission / finder’s fee. GMA has on various occasions provided the entire team for an assignment and has essentially been subcontracted to provide all of the consultants and to implement the entire contract. Examples include:
Assignment: Enhancing the visibility of CSOs and EU support to their work on human rights and social justice
South Africa 2017 - 2018
Client: European Union / Particip GmBH
GMA assisted Particip to conceptualise their proposal for how to implement this contract, identified Fireworx (A South Africa film production company) to produce a series of documentary films and a coffee-table book, and contributed to the writing of the book.
Assignment: Formulation of the EU 11th EDF Programme for Governance Focal Sector in Malawi
Malawi 2015 - 2016
Client: European Union / Particip GmBH
In addition to providing the team leader / senior international expert for the formulation mission, GMA also provided both national consultants – effectively making up the entire team.
Assignment: Identification and Formulation of the EU ‘Rule of Law, Accountability and Anti-Corruption in Ghana’ Programme’
Ghana 2014
Client: European Union / Particip GmBH
GMA provided the team leader for this assignment as well as two national consultants, effectively providing the entire team of consultants.
Assignment: Formulation of the EU’s Rule of Law Programme for South Sudan
South Sudan 2013
Client: European Union / IBF
GMA provided the team leader, who constituted the entire ‘team’.
Assignment: Final evaluation of the EU Conflict Mitigation Package II Programme- Support to the Judiciary System and Human Rights
Nepal 2010
Client: European Union / COWI
GMA provided the team leader and senior international human rights commission expert.
Assignment: 10th EDF Formulation Mission for the Justice Sector Project
Nigeria 2010
Client: European Union / Agmin Italy
GMA provided the entire team: team leader, two international experts and a national consultant.
Assignment: 10th EDF Formulation Study for the Governance Non-Focal Sector in Malawi
Malawi 2010
Client: European Union / Agmin Italy
GMA provided the entire team: team leader and two national consultants.
Assignment: 10th EDF Identification Study for the Governance Non-Focal Sector in Malawi
Malawi 2009
Client: European Union / Berenschott
GMA provided the entire team: team leader and three national consultants.
CONTRACTS PART OF THE PEMCONSULT CONSORTIUM FOR DANIDA
GMA was a member of the PEMconsult Consortium that won a tender to be part of the Danida framework contract (2013 -16).
GMA provided consultants to the following assignments under this contract:
Assignment: Value for Money study of the Danish support to the Judicial Services
Ghana 2015
Client: Danida
GMA provided a senior international justice expert and two national consultants for the implementation of this study.
Assignment: Appraisal of the Bangladesh Country Programme 2016-2021
Bangladesh 2015
Client: Danida
GMA provided a senior international climate change expert and a national governance and human rights expert for this appraisal mission.
Assignment: Programme Formulation for the Support to Private Sector Development, Phase III
Ghana 2015
Client: Danida
GMA provided a national consultant for the formulation of this programme.
SIDA FRAMEWORK CONTRACT: NIRAS
Through its Director (who is one of 10 NIRAS senior evaluators), GMA is linked to NIRAS to provide expert evaluators under a framework contract with the Swedish International Development Cooperation (Sida): 2016-2018.
Assignment: Mid-term review of the ‘Promoting Agriculture, Climate and Trade Linkages in the East African Community 2 (PACT EAC 2)
East Africa 2018
The PACT EAC 2 project aims to empower trade negotiators and climate change negotiators from East Africa to participate meaningfully at negotiations at the World Trade Organisation and UN Climate Change body respectively. GMA provided the team leader and a senior international trade expert to conduct this evaluation. The full report can be found here
Assignment: External evaluation of the African Organisation of English-Speaking Supreme Audit Institutions (AFROSAI-E)
Africa 2018
AFROSAI-E provides capacity building and other support to 26 English and Portuguese speaking Supreme Audit Institutions (usually Auditor-Generals) in Africa. GMA provided the entire team for this evaluation: team leader, Technical Expert PFM and Audit, and Technical Expert Audit Institutions and Governance. The full report can be found here
Assignment: Evaluation of the National Legal Aid Clinic for Women (NLACW)
Zambia 2017
GMA provided the team leader and national consultant. The full report can be found here
Assignment: Evaluation of the Zanzibar Legal Service Centre
Zanzibar 2017
GMA provided the team leader for the evaluation view here
Assignment: Evaluation of the Zambian Governance Foundation (ZGF)
Zambia 2015
Under a previous contract between Sida and indevelop (subsequently incorporated into NIRAS) GMA provided the full team for this evaluation: Team Leader, Regional Expert and National Expert. The report can be found here