Directors
LDP’s Director, Clare Manuel, and the Africa
Programme Director, Richard Hooper have between
them over 20 years experience in developing countries, much of it
as long-term advisers working along side local colleagues. A key
element of this work has been on-the-job training and capacity building.
The company has Associates specialising
in: financial management and audit; capacity building; good governance
& public service reform; and training.
Clare
Manuel
Clare Manuel is a lawyer with particular expertise in the areas of security and justice reform and private sector development. She has been a qualified solicitor for over 20 years, gaining her initial experience in a City of London commercial law firm. Since then she has had over fifteen years experience of working at senior levels in Government - in the UK, Africa, the Caribbean and the South Pacific. From 1996-2000 she was an adviser to the Government of Uganda. Her role included supporting the development of a Government of Uganda Justice Sector Reform Strategy, embedded within Government’s planning and resource allocation processes. Subsequently, as a founder and director of the Law & Development Partnership she has advised extensively on safety, security and access to justice issues in developing countries, particularly in multi-donor funding environments, developing affordable and realistic reform and investment programmes for Governments within the framework of medium term expenditure frameworks and poverty reduction strategies.
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Richard
Hooper
Richard Hooper is a chartered
accountant and management consultant with 17 years professional
working experience, of which the past 13 years have been in
eastern & southern Africa.
From
1997 to 2001 he was retained by the British Department for
International Development in Eastern Africa as an adviser
on governance & institutional development, and also worked
independently. From 1994 to 1997 he was Senior Adviser to
the multi-donor funded Uganda civil service reform programme.
Prior to this he was the Financial Expert with the GTZ funded
Relief and Rehabilitation Commission restructuring project
in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. For the previous five years he was
based in Nairobi with Coopers & Lybrand, responsible for
public and private sector consultancy projects in Kenya, Uganda
and Tanzania.
He
has extensive experience in the design of development programmes
within the framework of medium term expenditure frameworks
and poverty reduction strategies- including private sector
development programmes, the management of change in civil
service and judicial service organisations, divestiture/privatisation
- combined with a thorough professional knowledge of financial
management and accounting.
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