Education:
Institutions:
BRUNEL UNIVERSITY
Date: from - to: 1997-1999
Degree(s) or diploma(s): MBA
Institutions:
UNIVERSITY OF NATAL
Date: from - to: 1986-89
Degree(s) or diploma(s): MA
Institutions:
UNIVERSITY OF NATAL
Date: from - to: 1985
Degree(s) or diploma(s): BA HONS
Institutions:
UNIVERSITY OF NATAL
Date: from - to: 1981-1984
Degree(s) or diploma(s): BA
Language skills: (Mark 1 to 5 for
competence, where 5 is the highest)
Language
Reading
Speaking
Writing
ENGLISH
5
5
5
FRENCH
3
3
3
Afrikaans
1
1
Membership of professional bodies:
MEMBER CHARTERED MANAGAMENT INSITUTE (MCMI)
Present position:
Forsyth Research & Consulting
Key qualifications and
skills:
- Business administration (MBA), MA
Historical studies, Political Science, BA Hons, History
Governance and institutional development
- Experience includes the assessment of the structure and capacity of
government institutions for the World Bank, the evaluation of
institutional arrangement and management capacity of South African
provincial government departments to deliver core services for the
Development Bank of Southern Africa, and the development of policies
and institutional and management arrangements for the Ingonyama Trust
in KwaZulu-Natal, an institution administering over 3.5 million
hectares of land.
Change management & restructuring
- Experience ranges from the development of methodologies for initiating
and sustaining work process improvements in national government
departments such as Land Affairs and Agriculture, to the implementation
of plans for restructuring a number of provincial government
departments.
Training and capacity building
- Consulting assignments include training and capacity building
activities to create and sustain institutional capacity and competence
after the consulting assignment is completed. Assignments are designed
with a training and capacity building as central components. Examples
include mentoring of Department of Public Service and Administration
staff in procurement and financial management.
Project management
-
Experience includes the simultaneous management of numerous complex and
inter-linked projects located in different parts of the country,
responsibility for the implementation of planning and development
legislation, and the management of individual multi-disciplinary teams
of up to 30 professionals, and the management of large programmes
involving up to 200 contracts. Financial management and control on
large, complex national and provincial projects.
Business planning
Professional experience:
1993- 2005 Management and Institutional
Development Consultant.
Director of a management consulting practice which specialises in
governance, general management and institutional development. Services
provided include strategic planning, project management, institutional
appraisals, policy development, and change management. Clients include
World Bank, EU, DFID, SA government departments at national and
provincial level, non-government organisations.
2002-2005 Director, iSeluleko Consulting
(Pty) Ltd.
Founder member and director of an empowerment consulting company
specialising in programme and fund management. Responsibilities
included the recruitment, and development of staff, the
design and execution of projects including large programmes, and the
interface between bilateral agencies and government, contract
management for clients including DFID and the EU, and South African
national and provincial governments.
2000 – 2005 Project Director,
Charles Kendall & Partners
Responsible for the Integrated Provincial Support Programme (IPSP)
– a flagship programme funded by DFID and aimed at
improving service delivery by provincial government departments.
Responsible for procurement, contract administration and financial
management of the programme at national level and in Eastern Cape,
KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo, Mpumalanga and Free State Provinces.
1993 –
Director, Paul Forsyth Research
& Consulting (1993-present)
1995 - 1997 Senior Consultant, Deloitte
& Touche Consulting Group
Working for the Public Sector Group, the Operations Group and the
International Lending Agencies Division of the Company. Responsible for
the design, management and delivery of projects. Activities included
liaison with top level clients including cabinet ministers and company
directors.
1986 –1995 Research Fellow,
University of Natal
Research Fellow and Tutor in the Department of Historical Studies
teaching and researching the functioning of homeland and provincial
governments. Initiated research into political conflict at a time of
deep political turmoil in the province. Published work nationally and
internationally.
Selected Consulting experience:
Date: from - to: May - August 2005
Location: South Africa
Company: The Ingonyama Trust
Position: Institutional Specialist
Description: Recommendations on
institutional design, management and resource allocation for the
Ingonyama Trust, which administers 3.5 million Hectares of land in
KwaZulu-Natal, recommendations on institutional and
management requirements for the implementation of the Communal Land
Rights Act.
Date: from - to: April-May 2005
Location: South Africa
Company: EU
Position: Team leader
Description: Mid-term Review of the
European Programme for Reconstruction and Development Support Facility
– the agency designed to support the work of EU assistance
working through the South African National Treasury. Recommendations
reflected on management and control issues in an institutionally
fragmented environment.
Date: from - to: March 2005
Location: South Africa
Company: KwaZulu-Natal Department of
Economic Development
Position: Team leader
Description: Development of management
and financial plan for the development of small-scale mining as a
vehicle for black SMME development. Particular recommendations were
made on the way in which the provincial department for Economic
Development could provide management support for an emerging company.
Date: from - to: 2000-2005
Location: South Africa
Company: Charles Kendall &
Partners (DFID)
Position: Project Director, Procurement
Service Provider (PSP)
Description: Integrated Provincial
Support Programme (IPSP) £19 million DFID funded governance
programme in South Africa. Projects designed to improve service
delivery, an important aspect of which was procurement of professional
services designed to develop or enhance provincial government
management capacity.
Date: from - to: July-August 2002
Location: KwaZulu-Natal Province, South
Africa
Company: Charles Kendall &
Partners (EU)
Position: Deputy team leader
Description: Programme design and budget
design for a €34 million local economic development
(LED) programme for the European Union. A central aspect of this
programme is the management of institutional relationships which must
be established between a complex array of private and government
institutions.
Date: from - to: August-October 2002
Location: Botswana, South Africa
Company: Charles Kendall &
Partners (EU)
Position: Institutional specialist
Description: Evaluation of key management
staff for the Secretariat of the Southern African Development Community
(SADC). Was the institutional, administration and project management
specialist advisor on the panel of evaluators drawn from SADC member
states. Inputs included advice on impact expected from key management
placements and administrative systems.
Date: from - to: 1998-2001
Location: KwaZulu-Natal Province, South
Africa
Company: Forsyth Research &
Consulting (RSA Dept Land Affairs)
Position: Project Leader
Description: Establishing the necessary
institutions, developing strategic policy guidelines, writing
procedures, training staff and establishing institutional linkages to
assist with the development of the appropriate government capacity to
run the Ingonyama Trust administering over 3.5 million Hectares of land
Date: from - to: 1997-1998
Location: South Africa
Company: DFA Consortium (Dept Local
Government & Housing)
Position: Project Leader
Description: Implementation the
Development Facilitation Act – legislation intended to
promote economic development by cutting red tape and assisting managers
and developers to move rapidly through the planning and approval stages
for large projects.
The project was complex and involved creating the institutional
arrangements necessary for the rapid processing of development
applications. This involved institutional restructuring, recruitment
and training of professional tribunals, the development of sustainable
capacity within local authorities.
Date: from - to: 1997
Location: South Africa
Company: KwaZulu-Natal Department of
Finance
Position: Institutional Specialist
Description: Head of the secretariat
improving the efficiency of a moribund tender and procurement system.
Since 40% of provincial revenue was disbursed through the Tender Board
it was crucial that the board not only operated efficiently, but
promoted socio-economic development and social transformation. This
project developed a policy for affirmative action and empowerment
within the procurement system. These recommendations were reflected in
the Green Paper on Procurement and then in a new Provincial Tender Act,
both of which were produced by the project team. The project initiated
a long-term change process within the procurement system.
Date: from - to: 1996
Location: South Africa
Company: Deloitte &
Touche (Japan International Cooperation Agency [JICA])
Position: Institutional Specialist
Description: Amalgamation of water
management institutions to create a more effective water management
system capable of developing, managing and sustaining water
infrastructure in South Africa
Date: from - to: 1993/1994
Location: South Africa
Company: Dept Land Affairs (World Bank)
Position: Institutional/Governance
Specialist
Description: In 1993 the World Bank
conducted a study to assess what would be required to conduct land
reform in South Africa following the 1994 elections. Paul Forsyth
examined the central principles and associated activities of the
proposed land reform programme and determined what the institutional
requirements for this to happen would be at central, provincial and
local levels.
Others:
Other clients in South Africa include :
Development Bank of Southern Africa
National Department of Water Affairs & Forestry
National Department of Land Affairs and Agriculture
KwaZulu-Natal Department of Finance
KwaZulu-Natal Department of Local Govenment & Housing
KwaZulu-Natal Premier’s Economic Advisory Council
The Ingonyama Trust Board
The Association for Rural Advancement (AFRA)
The South African Association of Tertiary Institutions (ATI)
Publications:
Select publications
P. Forsyth, 'Alle Zulus waren Mitglieder von Inkatha, weil sie Zulus
waren', Frankfurter Rundschau, No. 216., September 1990.
P. Forsyth, 'Regional components in contemporary politics: rural
government in KwaZulu', Produced by the Project on Contemporary
Political Conflict in Natal, September 1990.
P. Forsyth, Pietermaritzburg Conflict Chronology: political
developments in Pietermaritzburg, 1980-1986. (Produced by the Project
on Contemporary Political Conflict in Natal, April 1991)
M. Wittenberg, P. Forsyth, A. McIntosh, 'Regional Government in
post-Apartheid South Africa: a framework for analysis' (September 1991)
P. Forsyth, 'The Past in the Service of the Present: the political use
of history by Chief A.N.M.G. Buthelezi', South African Historical
Journal No. 26, May 1992.
P.Forsyth and G. Maré, 'Natal in the New South Africa' in
South African Review 6 (Ravan Press, 1992)
P. Forsyth, 'The Real Zulu: How political conflict has forged variants
of "Zuluness"', Track Two Vol. 2. No. 1. February 1993
P. Forsyth, 'Natal/KwaZulu : A Contested Identity' Natal Witness 22
March 1993.
P. Forsyth, 'Il conflitto politico e la creazione della
ethnicitá Zulu negli anni Ottanta', Il Passaggio , Anno V N.
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