Per Tidemand pt@dege.biz
Partner and Senior Consultant with a PhD in Development studies (Public Administration). His areas of specialisation are public sector reform with particular emphasis on local government development including local government fiscal transfer systems, planning and budgeting and local government human resource management. He has worked with local government reform programmes as well as with decentralisation of sector programmes: water, health, agriculture, urban environmental management and education. He has more than 20 years of work experience in project formulations, implementation, reviews and evaluations. This includes assignments in Vietnam, Uganda, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zambia, Malawi, Ghana, Kenya, Ethiopia, Botswana, Yemen, Bangladesh and the Maldives. He has in depth experience from East Africa where he worked 5 years in Uganda and 6 years in Tanzania. Clients include Ministries responsible for local governments in several countries, World Bank, UNCDF, UNDP, Danida, JICA and BTC.
Hans B Olsen hbo@dege.biz
Partner and Senior Consultant and Danish citizen with a MA in Public Administration, he has more than 20 years professional experience, of which 4 years have been spent living in Pakistan, 3 years in the Netherlands and 5 years in Tanzania, working with institutional and organisational development in public administrations, international multilateral organisations and NGOs. Mr Olsen has undertaken a number of assignments for project/programme formulation, reviews/ evaluations for various clients throughout Asia, Africa, Europe and South America. Mr Olsen has taken particular interest in decentralisation of the public sector, institutional and organisational development, human rights and anti-corruption, training and capacity building, financing of public services and financial management. Has worked extensively with development of local democratic structures in Africa and Asia, and been responsible for completing local and regional development projects for Danida, DFID, UNDP/UNCDF and the World Bank.
Jesper Steffensen js@dege.biz
Partner and Senior Consultant is a Danish Citizen with a MA in Political Science. He is a public administration, financial management and fiscal decentralization specialist with comprehensive working experiences from core positions in central governments and local government associations. Mr. Steffensen has project experiences from assignments in 35 countries over the past 20 years in Europe, Africa and Asia. His fields of core expertise are: Public finance, intergovernmental fiscal relations, financial management, performance-based incentive systems, surveys on systems and procedures of decentralization and design and implementation of local development projects. Mr. Steffensen has been lead consultant on several larger decentralization reform projects in Europe, Africa and Asia in cooperation with the governments, the World Bank, UNDP/UNCDF, Danida, DFID, the Netherlands, KFW and others development partners. Mr. Steffensen is a guest professor at Duke University within the subject of Fiscal Decentralisation.
Barbara Noest bn@dege.biz
Senior Consultant and an Austrian citizen. Barbara is specialised on Governance with focus on institution building in the context of public sector and local government reform. She has worked in the formal aid sector for various donor agencies (Austrian Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Ireland Aid, OSCE, EC and UNDP) in different countries in Europe (Austria, Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia) and Africa (Tanzania, Uganda, Mozambique, Equatorial Guinea and Ethiopia). She also acted as Programme manager for EC funded programmes in Equatorial Guinea and Uganda. Her particular interest is the design and management of Governance interventions aimed at capacity building of state and decentralised institutions as well as civil society initiatives. She has hands-on experience with curriculum development and civil service training delivery aimed at improving the policy development and legislative drafting process in public sector institutions.
Nazar Sola ns@dege.biz
Nazar Sola has over 15 years experience as a lecturer and consultant in the fields of communication skills, local governance, training and development and general management. He has also been engaged in a number of research activities related to local government mostly carried out jointly with researchers from the Agder University and Agder Research Foundation of Norway. Nazar joined the then Institute of Development Management (IDM) now Mzumbe University (MU) in 1987 as a tutorial assistant and grew up into a senior lecturer in November 1999, which is still his current post. At the university Nazar has held various positions including chairman of the then Public Management Subject Panel, Head of the Local Government Center for three consecutive years and is currently heading the Languages and Communication Skills Department. As Head of the Local Government Center he was instrumental in organizing and facilitating a number of short term training courses and other assignments for the Local Government Reform Programme (LGRP), the Urban Sector Rehabilitation Project (USRP) and individual Local Government Authorities. Sola has been associated with Dege Consult for 2 years and have played a key role in DEGE assignments such as: “study of staffing problems in peripheral LGAs” for the LGRP, study on “decentralisation, governance and service delivery” for JICA and “LG Capacity Building in Zanzibar” for the World Bank.
Harriet Naitore
Senior Consultant; Harriet
is a Kenyan
citizen and a public finance consultant specializing in
local government reforms, public financial management,
participatory budgeting and development planning in which
she also has training skills. As well as excelling in the
research and development aspects of consultancy, Harriet has
a particular aptitude in ensuring recommendations are
implemented through hands-on assistance. Harriet is a very
experienced ex-practitioner in Kenyan Local Government
Finance where, she served as a Municipal Treasurer for over
11 years. Over the last 12 years she has
undertaken numerous consultancies in Eastern Africa,
including working with the reform programmes in Kenya,
Tanzania and Uganda. She has been involved in such work as
the design of the Local government Transfer fund, an
intergovernmental fiscal transfer system in Kenya,
Business-licensing study, the Local Government Reform
Programme in Tanzania and Local Government Development
Programme in Uganda. Currently she works with Per Tidemand
on LG fiscal reforms in Namibia.
Revocatus Sangu rs@dege.biz
Tanzanian citizen and chartered accountant UK. He joined Coopers & Lybrand Associates Limited in 1993 from the University of Dar es Salaam where he had worked as a lecturer in accounting and finance. Prior to this Mr. Sangu worked with KPMG Ireland as an auditor/accountant where he gained experience in financial review and analysis. Mr Sangu has been involved in a wide range of assignments including assessment, design and implementation of financial systems in public and private sectors in Tanzania, Ghana, Ethiopia Uganda and Rwanda. Sangu has worked intensively with both Harriet and Per on several assignments.
Benson Bana
Benson Bana is a Tanzanian citizen. He holds a PhD from University of Birmingham. He has worked in Tanzania Public Service and as a Human Resource Training and Development Manager in a multinational company before becoming a Lecturer at the Open University of Tanzania. He is currently a lecturer in human resource management, public management and political science at the University of Dar es Salaam and consults and researches in the same areas. He has contributed to the book titled: The Human Factor in Governance: Managing Public Employees in Africa and Asia, New York: Palgrave Macmillan published in November 2006. He has also (with W. McCourt) written an article “Institutions and Governance: Public Staff Management in Tanzania” which has been published in Public Administration and Development journal Volume 26, Issue 5, 21 November, 2006. He participated in the study on "Staff Management and Organizational Performance in Tanzania and Uganda Public Servants Perspectives (With Ole Therkildsen and Per Tidemand). He is currently conducting a study on Ethics Management in the Professional Associations of Tanzania for President’s Office, Public Service Management (PO-PSM).
Hannah Omar Saggaf Tidemand ht@dege.biz
Hannah Omar Saggaf Tidemand is a Director and financial manager of the company. She has accountancy experiences as chief accountant from various jobs in the private sector in Tanzania. She operates navision financial accountancy systems as well as various data base programmes such as SPSS-PC (Statistical Package for Social Sciences).