Endnu en sag på dagsordenen, der udfordrer målet om grundig, korrekt sagsbehandling indenfor en rimelig tidsfrist. Måske er sagen kompliceret og politisk følsom. Hvad med juraen, hvad med de økonomiske forhold og konsekvenser, og er beslutningsprocessen klar. Der hviler også et øget pres på faglighed og handlekraft ikke mindst indenfor dele af det sociale område. Der er måske brug for at få styr på sagspuklen, eller at få kigget sagsgange efter og ført styringen a jour.

Situationen er velkendt i direktioner, byrådssekretariater, borgmesterkontorer og stabscentre i kommuner og regioner med rationaliseringer og øget arbejdspres. Her kan ORA være hjælpen til en løsning!

ORA består af en gruppe jurister, økonomer og socialrådgivere. Alle har en kommunal baggrund og indgående erfaring med vilkår og betingelser i det kommunale arbejde. ORA-gruppen tilbyder at følge sagen fra start til slut eller yde bidrag til delkomponenter i tæt samarbejde med konkrete sagsbehandlere – gerne på stedet. 

 ORA-gruppens kompetencer dækker følgende områder:

• Kommunalfuldmagt
• Beslutningsproces og risikovurdering
• Erhvervsfremme
• Offentligt-privat partnerskab
• Eliteidræt
• Serviceeftersyn
• Finansiering
• Komplicerede sager
• Kurser

Du kan læse mere om ORA - Operativ Rådgivning og Assistance i denne brochure. 

Folkene bag ORA er

• Lone Kaczmarek
• Finn Kittelmann
• Finn Lauritsen
• Henning Nilausen
• Jesper Steffensen
• Lone Wienberg

Kontakt NCGs sekretariat for mere information på This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - også for en uformel snak om behov og muligheder.

NCG is part of a consortium lead by Coffey International Development (Coffey's webpage) for DFID’s framework agreements on Governance and Security and Empowerment and Accountability.  

 The two lots that NCG is a part of are:  

Lot F: Empowerment and Accountability:

• Diagnosis of empowerment and accountability issues.
• Design of empowerment and accountability strategies and programmes including support for sector specific programmes and enabling environment.
• Empowerment and accountability monitoring and evaluation.
• Programmes that prioritise the needs of the poorest and most marginalised including girls and women.

Lot E: Peace-building and State-building:

• Design/deliver of strategies/programmes including state-building, peace-building and human security policy frameworks
• Linkages between security, justice, economic activities and provision of expected services and their role in improving state-society relations and breaking cycles of violence.
• Multi-disciplinary, integrated political, social, strategic and technical assessments
• Programmes that prioritise the needs of the poorest and most marginalised including girls and women.

We receive call downs for various DFID assignments across Africa and Asia. Therefore we are always looking for qualified consultants, preferably with DFID experience. We would like to welcome new consultants registering with NCG, as well as receiving updates from existing consultants on our database. If you find one or both frameworks interesting and would like to submit your CV for potential assignments within this framework, we will look forward receiving your CV. 

Suitable consultants should have the experience of working across Africa and Asia in particular with experience in the areas mentioned above. Team leader experience is an asset and the consultant should be fluent in written and spoken English. 

Interest and CV’s should be send to: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Please refer to either "DFID Lot F" or "DFID Lot E" when submitting your interest for this.

It is widely acknowledged that firms are able to increase their export potential by leveraging on networks or collaborative strategies. Export consortia represent specific network arrangements, based on domestic collaborative relationships, which are well-suited to the characteristics of SMEs. Export consortia generally involve SMEs which are characterized by complementary and mutually-enhancing offers, and may be sales- or promotion-oriented. Consortia of SMEs can facilitate solutions to export problems and enable the loosening of the constraints related to the investments needed to penetrate foreign markets.

The specific content discussion of export consortia will be guided by the member’s information needs and will continuously be updated and adjusted accordingly.

Export consortia will help companies:

• Increase export
• Increase sales
• Gain market access
• Gain product approval
• Develop new products
• Localize marketing

The export consortia focus on answering questions such as “how to gain competitive advantage in Indonesia through CSR.

Directions, especially the strategic kind are difficult, for most, to identify. If strategic direction adequately addresses financial, marketing, human resource, partner selection, governance and other issues then SMEs are more likely to succeed in their efforts of internationalisation. Such strategy is however difficult to execute singlehandedly for most SMEs and past experience shows higher success rates when companies collaborate.

Nordic Consulting Group (NCG) is in a unique position to facilitate the creation of export consortia of Danish companies in our countries of expertise because, on the one hand, we have substantial operating experience in the developing world through our international consultants and senior partners. On the other hand NCG benefits from its presence in Denmark and knowledge of SMEs from several sectors (click here for list of sectors). The combination of local context experience, knowledge of sectors and geographic proximity to consortium partners enables NCG to competently manage export consortia. 

NCG acts as a secretariat for prospect consortia and maintain the following activities in order to ensure 

• Identification of complementary SMEs
• Facilitation of consortium meetings
• Identification of local partners if and when necessary
• Facilitate business plan development process
• Arrange stakeholder meetings
• Identify opportunities for financing, match financing
• Facilitate grant and other application processes
• Investigate import barriers for each consortium
• Provide analysis of level of corruption in specific sectors
• Provide recommendations and analysis of legal and judicial system
• Provide information and recommendations related to relevant public authorities 

When internationalizing many important choices are to be made and making the right (or wrong) decision can profoundly influence a firm’s strategic moves. One of the important strategic choices is finding the right partner to team up with. The right partner or alliance aids rapid internationalization and may increase your success as you through your partner will be able to deal with matters such as political/legal/regulatory issues, marketing strategy/marketing mix, distribution and logistics issues etc. Therefore it is necessary to carefully select an outside partner and approach third party partners slowly and systematically.

The Danida Business Partnerships programme provides financial support for the preparation and implementation of commercially oriented partnerships between Danish companies and a wide array of local partners. NCG provides consultancy services on Danida Business Partnerships based on experiences from numerous projects and programmes. NCG advises on formalities required in the screening process and ensures a successful programme application based on expert knowledge and experience in these areas. We provide in-depth strategy advice and business case development for the Danida Business Partnerships Programme. We consult private companies on how to integrate CSR into their venture, delineate the environmental and technical concerns involved with the product or service and how these could be mitigated.

NCG has a wide geographical scope and is able to assist companies in the majority of the Danida Priority Countries: Bangladesh, Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Egypt, Indonesia, Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Nepal, Tanzania, Uganda and Vietnam.