CADECO is a private consultancy firm established in 2001 specialising in Organisation Development (OD) interventions. OD is a holistic approach to building capacities of organisations and institutions. OD interventions are aimed at improving the integrity, sustainability and impact of organisations and institutions. OD interventions are process interventions that include:
- Personal or self-development interventions
- Leadership and Management interventions
- Organisation wide improvement interventions
- Inter- organisational relationship improvement interventions
Core Competencies
In addition to academic qualifications, CADECO consultants underwent a two-year postgraduate consultancy-training programme in OD supported by DFID. The following OD Consultancy firms provided the training:
- INTRAC – UK
- Community Resource Development Association (CDRA) – South Africa
- Olive (OD & Training) – South Africa
- Development Resource Centre- South Africa
- East African NGO Support Unit (EASUN) – Tanzania
- Effectiveness Consultants – Zimbabwe
- GTZ – Operations and Management Services (OMS) – Malawi
- Action Aid – Kenya
CADECO is a partner of Global Impact Alliance based in Washington DC USA– a network of organisational and institutional capacity building organisations worldwide.
CADECO’s core competencies are in the areas of:
- Organisational Assessments
- Team Building and conflict management
- Mentoring and Coaching
- Strategic Planning and management
- Board Development
- Developing Organisational policies, systems and procedures
- Organisational designing and restructuring
- Participatory Supervision and Performance Appraisal
- Baseline Surveys
- Participatory and results based Monitoring and Evaluation
- Partnership and Networks Development
- Community Mobilization
- Financial Management
