SKM undertakes a range of activities to support the strengthening of financial management within government departments. We are thoroughly acquainted with bilateral and multilateral assistance agency requirements for social and poverty assessment as well as resettlement policies and procedures.

Detailed economic and financial analysis are a key feature of development projects undertaken by SKM and we are well-versed in complying with financial and economic information requirements that support projects sponsored by funding agencies. SKM undertakes economic assessments and evaluations which often focus on the national social gains resulting from projects.

The services provided in this field of work include:

• Cost of service analysis     
• Subsidy/cost recovery analysis     
• User pays/tariff system design     
• Project least cost analysis     
• Project financial cost-benefit analysis, including calculation of internal rate of return     
• Project financing plan preparation     
• Financial statement projections     
• Financial performance measurement     
• Accounting, auditing and financial management review / improvement (Design / Implementation / Monitoring / Evaluation / Review)

SKM also provides consultancy services in the field of governance which is concerned with the overall institutional environment in which a country is governed and how economic, political, legal and administrative authority is exercised to govern a country.

The services provided in this field of work relate broadly to reform of the public sector to improve its organisational capability to implement policies efficiently and deliver services more effectively. Specific requirements include:

• Civil service reform, including human resource management, education and training and remuneration     
• Constitutional/machinery of government reform     
• Organisational restructuring and/or ‘rightsizing’     
• Strategic management or policy-making processes (at central agency level)     
• Decentralisation and local government reform     
• Financial management reform     
• Government commercial activities review, including opportunities for contracting out, corporatisation and privatisation     
• Corporate governance reform     
• Accountability reforms (e.g. Ombudsman, anti-corruption activities)     
• Law-making and parliamentary reform     
• Law enforcement (police) reform     
• Justice administration reform (courts, etc)     
• Equity reform (gender, ethnicity, disability, etc)     
• Civil society participation in governance     
• Performance monitoring and evaluation