Service Areas > Development Consulting

Massar offers a comprehensive package of development consulting services, aiming to realize real, measurable and sustainable improvements in the performance, impact and efficiency of organizations, institutions, projects, and people. Massar ensures a smooth transition through each stage of the consultancy process, that includes:
• Defining the client's developmental needs
• Conceptualizing the required form and content of consultancy
• Implementing the consultancy process

Massar's administrative and logistics personnel work seamlessly with our technical professionals to ensure full coverage of each client's needs, from the time a contract is signed through delivery of the final report. Massar's team specializes in the rapid mobilization of resources to ensure timely project start-up. Our streamlined management systems and impressive inventory of modern equipment ensure smooth implementation at all stages of a project.

Development Consulting includes:

Institutional Diagnosis and Development
• Develop methodology for organizational diagnosis
• Identify and map institutional developmental needs
• Develop appropriate implementation strategies to remedy these needs
• Translate strategies to operational work-plans, implement and monitor the work-plan,    and evaluate the results

Institutional Capacity Building
• Assess current capacity, and gap between actual and desired capacity
• Identify tools for capacity building, and develop work-plan
• Implement and monitor the work-plan, and evaluate the results

Systems' Diagnosis
• Assess the performance and efficiency of internal and external operations,   communications, and management systems
• Ascertain the strengths and weaknesses of these systems
• Identify areas for improvement, recommend changes, implement and monitor the   required changes, and evaluate the results

Research Services
• Determine client's research needs
• Develop research methodology
• Undertake research, and develop conclusions

Conceptual Analysis
• Determine the validity, suitability, and relevance of organizations in the public-utility   sector with respect to the developmental needs of Palestine
• Determine the validity, suitability, and relevance of projects in the public utility sector with   respect to organizational goals and Palestinian developmental needs
• Determine the validity, suitability, and relevance of economic activity for commercial and   corporate organizations with respect to the organization's goals and profit maximization.


Planning-Monitoring-Evaluating Systems Enhancement
• Assess the performance and efficiency of planning, monitoring and evaluation systems
• Ascertain the strengths and weaknesses of these systems
• Identify areas for improvement, recommend changes, implement and monitor the   required changes, and evaluate the results

Operations-Communications-Management Systems Enhancement
• Assess the performance and efficiency of systems guiding operations, communications   and management
• Ascertain the strengths and weaknesses of these systems
• Identify areas for improvement, recommend changes, implement and monitor the   required changes, and evaluate the results

Holistic Project-Based Services
• Determine the merits of institutionalizing new projects, or continuing with existing   projects for clients
• Develop project methodology, and client's needs with regards to the implementation of   the project
• Design projects, and develop strategic plans
• Provide required managerial support and technical assistance
• Develop required systems to sustain projects, based on sustainability and replication
• Monitor the process of implementation, and evaluate the results
• Assess project impact