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Consultant approval process |
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Application for consultant approval |
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Applying for
approval and inclusion on the Business Advocacy Fund's list of approved
consultants is very simple. The first step is to download
the form. |
Download application form |
Individual approval |
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| Note that approval is for
individual consultants. BAF is very happy to list more than one
consultant working together in a firm of consultants, but each must submit
an application form. |
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Contact details |
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| We need your full contact
details. These should include mobile phone and e-mail. If you have a
website please provide that as well and we will include a link from our
database. We will not divulge mobile phone numbers on the database. |
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Description of
consultancy |
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| Please give us, as concisely as you can, and in no
more than 150 words, a
description of you as a consultant. This will be included in the public database and
will be used by BMOs in their initial selection of consultants to tender for
individual assignments. In addition, it would be helpful if you can provide
a CV. |
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Experience, education and
development |
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| We would like to know how
long you have been working as a consultant. We would also like to know,
briefly, about your education. For example, if you have a degree,
please tell us the subject and place of study. We would also like to know
about your experience in undertaking research and writing reports. For
example, tell us how long you have been undertaking research, how you
learnt the skills to undertake research, whether you have been on report
writing courses, etc. |
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Referees |
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| One of the best
indicators of good consultancy is satisfied clients. Please provide names
and contact details for two clients with whom you have worked in the last
year. |
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Professional indemnity
insurance |
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| Best practice requires
that consultants should hold professional indemnity insurance. We
recognise that this is not yet widespread in Kenya, so holding insurance
is not a condition of approval. However, we would like to know if you do
have PI insurance and, if so, would like a copy of the certificate. |
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Annual accounts |
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| We want to be assured
that consultants and consultancies are sufficiently reliable to complete
an assignment once started. One of the best ways of assessing this is to
review accounts and we ask for two years of accounts. If you do not have
two years of accounts, then please call BAF to discuss alternative
evidence. If there is more than one consultant applying from the same
consultancy firm, we only require one set of accounts. |
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Reports for clients |
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you submit your application form, please also provide us with a copy of
a report that you have completed for a client within the last 12
months. This report should reflect the work that you would like to
undertake with BAF supported business member organisations. If you intend
to undertake research, then we would like to see a research report; if you
will assist in writing policy position statements, then we would like to
see an example of a policy position statement; if you will help with
strategy or service development, then a report of recommendation to teh
client would be appropriate. If you hope to assist clients in a number of
areas, then we will want to see an example for each area of work. We
undertake to treat all reports confidentially. We will assess reports
against the standards (see consultant home
page ). Research reports and policy position papers written for
BAF assisted clients will be made
available publicly; reports on work
to develop sustainability will be kept confidential. |
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Continuous assessment |
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| Note that after every
assignment, we will ask the client to review your work and we will also
review your outputs against our standards. You will need to maintain the
minimum standard to remain on the approved list. We also ask that you
co-operate with external evaluators that BAF appoints from time to time
and whose role is to evaluate the impact achieved by the BMOs that BAF has
supported. In signing the form, you are consenting to these
requirements. |
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Further guidance |
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| If
you have any questions, feel free to contact the Business Advocacy Fund
for further guidance |
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