John Fargher & Associates Pty Limited provides specialist performance management and technical services for investments in human and economic development. The company has a comparative advantage in managing change in cross-cultural contexts, which adds particular value to private sector companies working in emerging economies and public sector development agencies such as bilateral aid organisations, multilateral development banks and philanthropic organisations.

Established in 2011 its Directors and Principal Consultant collectively have more than 80 years professional experience in cross-cultural change and international development:

John Fargher is a performance management specialist with senior management, monitoring, evaluation and agricultural science expertise.

Dr Nicole Motteux is a social scientist with management, monitoring, evaluation and participatory human development expertise.

Keith Tuckwell is a social change management specialist who has designed, implemented and managed social and economic development programs in Africa, Latin America, the Pacific and SE Asia.

CORE VALUES

John Fargher and Associates Pty Limited complies with and is able to demonstrate compliance with the Australasian Evaluation Society (AES) Code of Ethics and the AES Guidelines for the Ethical Conduct of Evaluations. The company and its staff also comply with the American Evaluation Association Guiding Principles for Evaluators.

The following core values are what the company and its staff hold to be accountable for:

People-centeredness – they choose work and approaches that will improve the lives of women, men and children. They seek to be accountable for how their work and what it delivers affects people's lives, in ways that are meaningful to the people concerned.

Partnership – John Fargher and Associates Pty Limited and its staff commit to working with clients and the people they serve in partnership to achieve the mutually agreed outcomes in a collaborative and transparent way. They promote partnership and participatory approaches because they believe that people have the right to shape decisions that affect their lives. The large proportion of repeat business they enjoy is one indicator of their delivery on this core value.

Mutual accountability – they hold theirselves accountable for efficient and effective delivery of outputs set out in the terms of reference and engagement with partners in a ways that acknowledge the intermediate outcomes expected to emerge from those outputs. The consistently high advisor performance assessment ratings received by the company and its staff are independently verifiable evidence of this commitment to quality and accountability.

Effectiveness – they recognise that their outputs only contribute to development results if they are used and result in changed behaviour. They are committed to engagement with local people, beneficiaries and local level agencies to enhance ownership and understanding as well as communication of outputs to those most likely to put them in to use. One way they do this is to use the collective wisdom of multi-disciplinary teams to solve complex and emergent development challenges.

Efficiency – John Fargher and Associates Pty Limited and its staff value efficiency and commit to delivering the maximum quantity and quality of outputs for the available inputs.

Use of local knowledge and strengthened partner systems – they use approaches that value the knowledge and systems developed by local people; they build on local knowledge, traditions and learning to identify more appropriate and enduring solutions; and they work with partners, clients and the people they serve to strengthen their internal systems so that they are useful and form an effective part of their delivery. This important value leads to sustainability. Their long-term experience in Vietnam demonstrates their commitment to this core value and their practical delivery against it.

Sustainability through empowerment – they prefer to work with local professionals to ensure that and understanding of how they work is left behind as well as what they deliver. In particular, their approach is to strengthen the capability of individuals and institutions to contribute positive differences to the people they work with in the long-run. They work with individuals, groups and institutions to strengthen their performance in delivering positive change in people's lives.

Flexibility – consistent with these other core values, John Fargher and Associates Pty Limited and its staff recognise the importance of responding to context by being flexible. This leads to effectiveness and efficiency as well as true partnership if implemented in a mutually accountable environment.

Transparency – the way they work, the reasons for making the professional choices and judgements that they do, and the outputs they deliver are communicated clearly to ensure partnership and mutual accountability.