02 · Management & institutional strengthening
Institutional and organisational review
We review one institutional unit’s mandate, structure, processes and controls, and return options and a prioritised action memo that leadership can decide on.
Tell us what you need- Led by
- Prof. Wisdom Gagakuma
- Delivery
- Remote, and on site from Accra
- Fees
- Fixed fee, quoted to your scope
- Free tool
- Strategic plan template
- Contracting
- GKM Legacy Holdings, Maryland
Led byProf. Wisdom Gagakuma
- Contracting
- GKM Legacy Holdings, Maryland
- Consultation
- from USD 150
What you receive.
Documents you can use, each with its method and sources attached.
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See a demonstration of the output: Specimen · Institutional & organisational review
Diagnostic report
Mandate, structure, processes, people and controls, with evidence.
Options paper
Structural and process options with costs, risks and trade-offs.
Action memo
Prioritised actions with owners and a timeline.
Validation record
What leadership agreed and why.
Scope and fees.
Fees are agreed in writing before work begins. Estimates are shown as estimates.
Fees
Fixed fee, quoted to your scope
Send a brief or book a short call. We reply with a written scope, dates and a fixed fee before any work begins.
What we need from you
- Mandate documents and organogram
- Recent reports and audits
- Access to leadership and staff
Not included unless agreed
- Implementation of the restructure
- Legal and HR procedures for staffing changes
- Financial audit
Who commissions this, and when.
Buyers and moments where this work pays for itself, and where it does not.
Who it is for
- Development banks and their borrowers
- Ministries, departments and agencies
- Donors assessing an implementing partner
- Boards facing performance problems
When to call us
- The organisation is not delivering what its mandate requires
- Before a restructure or a merger
- A funder requires an institutional assessment
When it is not the answer
A review names problems and options. Implementation is scoped separately, once leadership has decided.
How the work runs.
Each stage ends in something you review before the next begins.
Stage 1 of 5
Mandate
Agree the unit, the questions and who decides.
Review pointSigned scope note: the decision, the units in scope and the timeline.
Stage 2 of 5
Diagnostic
Document review, interviews and process walk-throughs.
Review pointDiagnostic instruments signed off.
Stage 3 of 5
Options
Options with costs, risks and trade-offs.
Review pointOptions paper reviewed with leadership.
Stage 4 of 5
Validation
Validation with leadership and key staff.
Review pointValidation workshop held and comments recorded.
Stage 5 of 5
Implementation
Action memo and handover of the evidence.
Review pointWritten acceptance and a handover of files and method.
Documented experience.
Roles held by the principal who leads this work, each with its source.
- Feasibility report completed December 2024Aveyime Water Supply Project: institutional and skills analysisThe Professor contributed skills development and institutional analysis, through Colan Consult, to the project’s feasibility report.
- 14 April 2011EC–UN–AUC tripartite seminar, NairobiThe Professor presented the lead paper, on managerial approaches to effectiveness and efficiency in public-sector organisations with limited resources, and served as lead facilitator.
Individual experience of our principals, before or outside GKM Strategic Advisory & AI. Not GKM contracts.
Questions buyers ask.
Anything else: ask in a brief.
Is this an audit?
No. It is a management review with evidence; it does not replace a financial or compliance audit.
How do you protect staff who speak candidly?
Interview notes are confidential and findings are not attributed to individuals.
What experience underpins it?
The principals’ documented institutional work, listed below with sources.
Related work
What needs to move forward?
Tell us the decision, the challenge or the opportunity. We reply with a scoped approach, a named principal and a fee before any work begins.
No charge to submit an enquiry.