Strategy
The decisions you take today about which path your business will follow in pursuit of growth and profit will set in train a process that will fully unfold only in five, 10 or even 20 years’ time. How can you be confident of getting those decisions right and implementing them successfully?
Bringing together a team of experts, we ensure the strategic response you choose has a clear and rigorously validated economic rationale. We engage deeply and widely with your team to build the management commitment needed for a strategy to deliver exceptional results. And our experience of delivering world-class implementation means we are well positioned to assess strategic proposals for feasibility.
We have helped CEOs and other business leaders across many sectors to grow their organisations and create lasting impact. We support them in managing the major uncertainties they face, in rationalizing their portfolios and in rejuvenating their businesses in the face of adverse competitive and market pressures – adding billions of value in the process.
Services:
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Business Value and growth |
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Identifying the parts of your business that are enhancing value and those that are destroying it. |
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Bringing objective perspective to your portfolio. |
Related Projects
- DFID Pakistan Review of the ToRs of the TA consultants of BISP.
- The World Bank Punjab Social Sector Expenditure Review.
- DFID Pakistan Annual Statement of Progress (ASP) of 2013.
- Infrastructure Project Development Facility (IPDF). Research Study – Pakistan’s Public Private Partnership Experience.
- CDKN, PricewaterhouseCoopers, UK (Climate Data Knowledge Network)
- ENI Pakistan - Bhit Rural Support Program (BRSP)
- USAID (ASP) – Assessment and strengthening Program (pre award proposal submission in association with Aid, LEAD and GHK)
- Packard Foundation – Women Leaders for Reproductive Health and Development (WLRHD),
- Packard Foundation – Leadership and Reproductive Health Project (LRH)
- Care International – Stimulating Hope in District Buner, NWFP
- Asian Development Bank – Promoting Climate Change and Adaptation in Asia & Pacific
- Sindh Education Foundation - Rural Base Community Supported School
- The World Bank - Improving Quality, Access and Governance in Education (in collaboration with GET GmbH/ICON-INSTITUTE, LEAD Pakistan and Proman SA)
- British High Commission - The Roles & Capacities of Actors in Water Conflicts in Pakistan: A Mapping Study
- RAF - Maternal and Newborn Health Programme Research
- USAID (JOBS)– Integrated Work and Learning Programmes for Pakistan
- Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung (HBF) – Copenhagen Climate Change Summit
- IDRC – Entrepreneurship Education through School based productive enterprises
- Oxfam Novaib - Disaster Response Network-Balakot (DRN-Balakot)
- LEAD Pakistan Advisory Services
- OMV Preparation of Term Sheet for Financing the Sawan - Qadirpur Pipeline
- Foreign Currency Loan Agreements
- Murabaha Financing Agreements
- Escrow Agreement
- OMV Preparation of Loan Agreements for Sawan - Qadirpur Pipeline
- OMV Feasibility Study of USD 23M Sawn –Qadirpur pipeline Project
- OMV Consortium lead for Soliciting Project financing for approx. USD 18M
- Premier Kufpec Pakistan. Commercialization Study of Zarghun Field.
- development of a credible FM system, which allows smooth financial flows and tracking of all payments made to the project staff, vendors, and implementation partners such as BPO; and
- develop MoU between the Local Government Division (LGD) and Bangladesh Post Office (BPO) which clearly spells out the responsibilities of each entity in:
- setting up the compliance monitoring system (with investments by the project in developing the electronic infrastructure for enrolment and compliance monitoring at the local level);
- managing financial flows from LGD to BPO for timely cash transfers to the beneficiaries that are enrolled in the program and complying with the relevant co- responsibilities; and
- providing necessary controls at each level of financial transactions; and
- managing timely reconciliation of funds disbursed from Project Implementation Agency (PIA) to BPO, and then to the program beneficiaries.
- The World Bank, HQ, Washington DC, USA Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) Program, Bangladesh
- The World Bank IDPs Emergency Recovery Project
- The World Bank Punjab Social Sector Expenditure Review
- The World Bank, HQ, Washington DC, USA National Social Safety Net Program, Kenya
Title: | Review of the ToRs of the TA consultants of BISP. | ||
Type: | Strategy, Operations | ||
Financial Year : | 2013 - 2014 | ||
Client: | DFID Pakistan | ||
Description: | Carry out a review of the Terms of References (ToRs) of the consultants deployed at BISP under the Technical Assistance program. The objective will be to analyze their ToRs for cross reporting and/or over lapping of the scope of work amongst each other. |
Title: | Punjab Social Sector Expenditure Review. | ||
Type: | Strategy, Development Sector | ||
Financial Year : | 2012 - 2013 | ||
Client: | The World Bank | ||
Description: | We have recently carried out the expenditure review of the social sector for Punjab. This was a joint exercise of the World Bank Washington Head office and the World Bank’s Pakistan Country Office. The scope of the assignment entails the institutional assessment review of the Social Protection programs of the Government of Punjab.
The assignment was undertaken by Mr. Hussain as an independent consultant with the World Bank. |
Title: | Annual Statement of Progress (ASP) of 2013. | ||
Type: | Strategy, Operations, Development Sector | ||
Financial Year : | 2013 - 2014 | ||
Client: | DFID Pakistan | ||
Description: | We have developed the Annual Statement of Progress (ASP) of 2013 for the Punjab Employment Opportunity Program (PEOP) for the year 2013. PEOP is a GFBP 55 million program jointly funded by DFID and Government of Punjab by providing GBP 25 each and an additional GBP 5 million as technical assistance by DFID. The purpose of the ASP is to review the annual progress of the project in light of the recommendations given in the Fiduciary Risk Assessment (FRA). |
Title: | Research Study – Pakistan’s Public Private Partnership Experience. | ||
Type: | Strategy | ||
Financial Year : | 2011 - 2012 | ||
Client: | Infrastructure Project Development Facility (IPDF). | ||
Description: | Conducted in-depth research study both primary and secondary for scope of public private partnership (PPP) in Pakistan. The study entails analyzing economic and political environment for the implementation of PPP strategy in the development of infrastructure in Pakistan, institutional analysis by studying Pakistan’s early experience with PPP, the roadblocks to PPP implementation and private sector perspective with a special focus on energy, communication and ports & shipping sector and global PPP Policy. Recommendations will be suggested for making Pakistan´s PPP Program successful based on international best practices and on basis of responses from various key stakeholders. |
Title: | Advisory Services | ||
Type: | Strategy, Operations, Technologies, Development Sector | ||
Financial Year : | 2002 - 2015 | ||
Client: | LEAD Pakistan | ||
Description: | Advisory services at the pre-bid submission stage includes methodology formulation, budget preparations, proposal conceptualization and review, negotiations with the donor till financial close and at the post award stage; review of the project design and implementation, financial reporting, project burn rate, project cost charging methodology, adherence to ADS / FAR regulations (For USAID funded projects) and relevant guide lines from the donor. Advisory services rendered on various projects undertaken directly or while representing other clients, are here under: -
USAID- Education Sector Relief Assistance. |
Title: | Preparation of Term Sheet for Financing the Sawan - Qadirpur Pipeline | ||
Type: | Strategy, Operations | ||
Financial Year : | 2002 - 2003 | ||
Client: | OMV | ||
Description: | The Term Sheets were prepared after hectic negotiations with the JV partners to finalize the terms of financing, to be offered to SNGPL. |
Title: | Preparation of Loan Agreements for Sawan - Qadirpur Pipeline | ||
Type: | Strategy, Operations | ||
Financial Year : | 2002 - 2003 | ||
Client: | OMV | ||
Description: | Never before the JV has partners financed any pipeline infrastructure project in the country. Therefore this unprecedented arrangement needed number of brain storming sessions and structuring, while drafting the loan agreements, especially from the prudential regulations, foreign exchange regulations and collaterals point of view. The loan agreements prepared and agreed upon, included:
Security Trust deed |
Title: | Feasibility Study of USD 23M Sawn –Qadirpur pipeline Project | ||
Type: | Strategy, Operations | ||
Financial Year : | 2002 - 2003 | ||
Client: | OMV | ||
Description: | This is a US $ 25 million project and is being financed by the Joint Venture (JV) partners of the Sawan gas field. The financial viability of financing the project was analyzed keeping in mind the General Sales Agreement (GSA), signed between the JV partners and Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Ltd. (SNGPL). This also included a detailed study, of the various financing options, the due diligence of the project, the prevailing market interest rates, security, and from SNGPL point of view, ways to hedge the foreign currency component of the financing from potential exchange losses. |
Title: | Consortium lead for Soliciting Project financing for approx. USD 18M | ||
Type: | Strategy, Operations | ||
Financial Year : | 2002 - 2003 | ||
Client: | OMV | ||
Description: | Managed a USD 18 million consortium for financing the Sawan Qadir pipeline. Represented the joint venture partners for arranging financing from all the top non development financial institutions and also commercial banks throughout Pakistan. Was able to negotiate the term sheet on behalf of the joint venture partners. |
Title: | Commercialization Study of Zarghun Field. | ||
Type: | Strategy, Operations | ||
Financial Year : | 2002 - 2003 | ||
Client: | Premier Kufpec Pakistan. | ||
Description: | Carried out the commercialization study for the Zarghun filed for Premier Kufpec Pakistan as financial specialist with Hagler Bailly Pakistan. |
Title: | Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) Program, Bangladesh | ||
Type: | Strategy, Operations | ||
Financial Year : | 2014 - 2017 | ||
Client: | The World Bank, HQ, Washington DC, USA | ||
Description: | The World Bank is providing USD 300 million in the first phase, for technical assistance and financing cash transfers. This is a long-term engagement to assist the project FM team in:
The assignment is undertaken by Mr. Hussain as an independent international consultant with the World Bank, Washington head quarters. |
Title: | IDPs Emergency Recovery Project | ||
Type: | Strategy, Operations, Development Sector | ||
Financial Year : | 2015 - 2015 | ||
Client: | The World Bank | ||
Description: | The project consists of two main components: I. Immediate Safety Net Recovery support– To provide Cash Transfers (UCT) for 6 months to cover basic and subsistence needs of the families when they return home. This would ensure consumption smoothing and provide support to people till they restore their livelihoods
We are providing support to the design team in finalizing the financial management and institutional arrangements with the Economic Affairs Division (EAD) - GoP.
The assignment is undertaken by Mr. Hussain as an independent consultant with the World Bank. |
Title: | Punjab Social Sector Expenditure Review | ||
Type: | Strategy, Development Sector | ||
Financial Year : | 2012 - 2013 | ||
Client: | The World Bank | ||
Description: | We have recently carried out the expenditure review of the social sector for Punjab. This was a joint exercise of the World Bank Washington Head office and the World Bank’s Pakistan Country Office. The scope of the assignment entails the institutional assessment review of the Social Protection programs of the Government of Punjab. The assignment was undertaken by Mr. Hussain as an independent consultant with the World Bank. |
Title: | National Social Safety Net Program, Kenya | ||
Type: | Strategy, Operations, Development Sector | ||
Financial Year : | 2017 - Ongoing | ||
Client: | The World Bank, HQ, Washington DC, USA | ||
Description: | The Kenya National Safety Net Programme (NSNP) is a government Social Protection programme established in September 2013 as part of the government’s initiatives to improve and enhance social protection delivery in the country. We are reviewing the existing disbursement mechanisms of the cash transfers with a view to consolidate cash payments provided by the Government of Kenya (GoK) and introduction of technology based payment mechanisms to bring efficiency, transparency and accountability in the safety net program. The assignment is undertaken by Mr. Hussain as an international independent consultant with the World Bank Headquaerters.
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