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Key Services our Governance experts provide include:
Strengthening governance to benefit society… Given that organisations are dynamic and constantly evolving, we seek to provide innovative services to improve accountability and capacity in the public sector, while helping private firms to improve their efficiency and effectiveness. Following an organic and incremental process, we assist our clients in changing internal organisational structures, building and realigning staff capacity, restructuring and privatising institutions while building stakeholder and civil society participation in decision making. To complement this, we have established systems for monitoring and regulating organisation and sector performance, improving service quality and creating the basis for greater accountability for agents in the public and non-state sectors, As international donor funding becomes increasingly tied to budget support, it has become imperative for both recipients and donors to demonstrate accountability for the management and disbursement of funds. We assist our clients by drawing on a growing experience of designing and managing large and complex grant programmes. LTS effectively meets the strategic objectives of aid programmes, while simultaneously building the governance capacity of grant recipients. Such is our commitment that good environmental governance is a basic need for sustainable development, that we have established an international rights-based water and environment advocacy organisation called Water Witness International. Water Witness International advocates for improved water resource management and the security of water rights for the worlds poorest: it is supported by LTS and complements the technical consultancy service we provide in our governance and environmental business areas. |
LTS has been working in the field of Governance for over twenty years: working with governments and civil society to improve the institutions of governance that exercise the power and control over the poor’s access to, use and management of natural resources. Governance in the natural resource context is highly complex, dealing as it does with a range of inter-linking sectors and overlapping legislation, and a wide number of stakeholders and players from national to local within the same area. Building on this experience, we have broadened out to provide research, advice and process management on governance in wider spheres of development.