{"id":66,"date":"2021-12-20T16:13:20","date_gmt":"2021-12-20T16:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jbvn.co.za\/wp\/?p=66"},"modified":"2021-12-20T16:30:35","modified_gmt":"2021-12-20T16:30:35","slug":"our-expertise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jbvn.co.za\/?p=66","title":{"rendered":"Our Expertise"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Key features of the <strong><em>JBvN &amp; Associates<\/em><\/strong> approach to development projects are the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Over twenty-five years\u2019 experience being based in Africa;<\/li><li>A comprehensive project management and technical support capacity;<\/li><li>A detailed knowledge of the private sector, government, donor and NGO community in Africa;<\/li><li>An extensive body of regional and international experience on all aspects of community, enterprise development, trade policy, regional integration, trade facilitation and trade development, including the following skills:<ul><li>Practical expertise in providing support to regional institutions, as well as to their respective member States;<\/li><li>Expertise in development of effective economic policy. Our consultants include leading experts in local economic development as well as regional development; and the design and implementation of successful and sustainable policy reforms;<\/li><li>Expertise in investment facilitation;<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Expertise in export promotion techniques, including market research, organisation of trade missions and inward buyer meetings, and production of export marketing materials;<\/li><li>Best practice in capacity building in areas related to export development, SME development, trade policy development, organisational development and quality management systems;<\/li><li>Best practice in sustainable private sector development issues;<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Expertise in trade facilitation measures including customs and related issues, e-commerce and standards compliance;<\/li><li>Expertise in social development, poverty alleviation and environmental analysis provided by recognised leaders in these fields;<\/li><li>High calibre expertise in the field of developmental research, including pro-poor research; and<\/li><li>A high level of competency in the project cycle processes including in-depth knowledge of Project Cycle Management and Strategic Planning tools.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our Pretoria office provides the essential back-stopping and quality control procedures to ensure that the outputs of our projects are accomplished to the complete satisfaction of our clients and stakeholders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The fields in which our 20+ associates have established expertise are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Strategic research, both qualitative and quantitative methodologies;<\/li><li>Procurement training, specifically European Development Fund (EDF) procedures;<\/li><li>Risk assessments;<\/li><li>Feasibility studies;<\/li><li>Impact assessments;<\/li><li>Monitoring and evaluation \u2013 including case studies;<\/li><li>Performance audits;<\/li><li>Budgeting and financial management;<\/li><li>Human Resource development;<\/li><li>Organizational behaviour and development;<\/li><li>Strategic planning;<\/li><li>Project management. This include training as well as the actual management of the various stages of the project\/programme cycle;<\/li><li>Workplace skills plans and skills audits;<\/li><li>Drafting of business plans\/funding proposals;<\/li><li>Donor coordination and securing access to donor funding; and<\/li><li>Policy development.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key features of the JBvN &amp; Associates approach to development projects are the following: Over twenty-five years\u2019 experience being based in Africa; A comprehensive project management and technical support capacity; A detailed knowledge of the private sector, government, donor and NGO community in Africa; An extensive body of regional and international experience on all aspects&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jbvn.co.za\/?p=66\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Our Expertise<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jbvn.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jbvn.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jbvn.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jbvn.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jbvn.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jbvn.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67,"href":"https:\/\/jbvn.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions\/67"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jbvn.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jbvn.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jbvn.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}