About us / Capabilities
Based on our experience, the know-how and the available personnel, ABU Consult Berlin is in an excellent position to develop and implement projects in the following areas:
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Human Resources Development
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- consultancy and management of HRD, training and education projects in the broadest sense at international level
- consultancy, monitoring and controlling of retraining and re-employment programmes
- social project management
- management of development and administration structures
- development of database software and management information systems (MIS)
Policy advice to governments, ministries and other decision-makers
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- policy strategy design and development
- institutional building and strengthening
- restructuring of ministries and governmental bodies
- advice and training on legal drafting
- EU accession strategies, including PCA implementation
- banking and finance (design of restructuring plans, development of new market strategies)
- design of private sector development strategies
- policy design in the fields of education, health, regional development, environment
- design of national VET policies including curricula development, design of new job profiles, labour market analyses, teacher training, institutional strengthening
- design of regional development and decentralisation concepts
- development of social programs for pension reform, reform of social security system, reform of the social benefit system in general
- risk management and anti-crisis strategies
Drafting of legislation and legal training
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- harmonisation of legislation at regional and national level
- policy advice to national/regional governments in the field of legislative reforms
- training in the field of legal drafting
- establishment of recommendations based on the analyses / review of existing legislation
- drafting of model laws, by-laws and regulations (e.g. special economic zones)
- assistance to national and regional parliaments to develop capacities in legal drafting
- translation of national/regional legislation of beneficiary countries into EU languages and translation of EU legislation into the working languages of the client
- development of legislation databases
Education and Vocational Training
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- improvement of education governance
- education sector adjustment strategies and programs
- decentralisation of education systems
- policy studies on education finance and budgeting
- design and implementation of vocational training and further education courses
- development of curricula and new professional and occupational profiles
- training needs analyses among target groups
- training of trainers, teachers, school principals, inspectors, instructors
- school upgrading
- improving VET management
- development of assessment and certification procedures
- distance education
- counseling, career guidance and placement services
- elaboration of teaching and training materials
- introduction of the cooperative Vocational Education and Training system
- institutional building of vocational education training centres
Management Training and Business Consulting
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- preparation and delivery of seminars, carrying out assessment centres, workshops and other events for further training of managers and civil servants
- development of curricula, teaching modules and seminar materials and their adaptation to beneficiary conditions and needs
- privatisation policy and strategy
- privatisation transactions
- rehabilitation and restructuring of enterprises and administrations
- assessment of enterprises and administrations
- management, business planning, controlling
- personnel management, staff development, personnel assessment
- investment and finance
- accounting, book keeping, balance of accounts
- specialised controlling: investment, finance, cost, personnel and ecologic controlling
Regional and Economic Development
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- assistance to regional administrations and parliaments to draft new legislation and regulations
- establishment of small and medium-sized enterprises, business management
- regional economic promotion, establishment and support of innovation centres
- set up and running of SME development agencies and SME networks, business incubators
- public Investment Programming and macroeconomic management
- establishing industrial sectors for business parks
- development of networks of Practice-Centres and Training Companies network to promote economic activity
- design and set up of regional resource centres
- promotion of trade and exporting as well as advice on the forms of co-operation
- local-marketing and recruiting investors
Private Sector Development
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- design of privatisation and restructuring programs
- design and implementation of social adjustment programs
- labour market analyses
- SME support and promotion programs
- elaboration of legal drafts for special economic zones
- design and set up of regional investment agencies with investor services
- development of privatisation and restructuring programs for individual firms including post-privatisation assistance
- training for SME managers and public administration staff involved in privatisation and restructuring
- set up of SME development agencies and local support centres
Banking and Finance
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- design of training and further education programs for managers and bank clerks
- design of restructuring and merging concepts
- design of Human Resources programmes
- elaboration of credit and lending procedures
- elaboration of cooperation models with business development agencies, labour offices, cooperatives and credit unions
- set up and management of structural funds and Seed Capital Funds
- development of micro-finance and lending programs
- elaboration and Evaluation of investment memoranda
- review and drafting of banking laws as well as financial and accounting laws and regulations


