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Predictable framework conditions and good public financial management (PFM) are key to sustainable economic growth and poverty reduction. These remain challenging issues in many countries. To address these, Scanteam applies Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability (PEFA), Political Economy Analysis (PEA) and other internationally recognised tools.

Our services

• Public Sector Management: Improving Predictability

  Scanteam can support the analysis and implementation of public sector reforms; we have managed public sector reform processes; reviewed local authority and decentralisation policies: assessed governance in sectors such as oil and gas, and for private sector development.

• PFM: Getting Core State Functions ‘Right’

  Scanteam can assist in the planning and implementation of PFM tasks; we have managed PFM reforms and taken part in PER and PEFA studies, fiduciary risk assessments and World Bank or IMF-led financial reviews; and evaluated a range of donor funding arrangements such as budget support. Members of our team are short-listed by the World Bank as quality assurors for PEFA studies.

• Health Sector Management: Addressing Health Outcomes

  Scanteam supports improved delivery of public health care services through research and writing of public health care policy and reform; improving monitoring and evaluation frameworks; providing capacity development through advice and training; and mainstream gender issues into health programmes, addressing gender equity concerns.

• Accountability: Corruption in Context

  Scanteam applies vulnerability analyses along value or delivery chains to identify actors, issues and resources for better performance; has reviewed national anti-corruption bodies; and assessed anti-corruption measures for projects, programs and sectors.

• Development Effectiveness: Putting External Resources to Best Use

  Scanteam has long experience with addressing development effectiveness through reviews and policy advice, including of various multi-actor mechanisms for better funds management in fragile- and conflict-affected situations, and with the design and evaluation of mechanisms for external funding coordination.

 

Environmental. Social. Governance.

ESG is set of standards to measure a company’s impact on the environment and society, and to evaluate its corporate governance.

Scanteam helps companies and public procurers to assess, reduce and remediate ESG risks. We measure and evaluate impact.

With extensive field and sector experience, and a strong global network of local experts, we specialize in ESG risks and opportunities in supply chains in Africa, Asia, Latin-America and Eastern Europe.

Sectors and standards

We have experience with the following sectors: building & construction; consumer goods; food/agriculture; horticulture; extractive industries; marine; maritime; and renewable energy.

Scanteam’s ESG-services are guided by international standards, guidelines and legislation, like the Norwegian Transparency Act (Åpenhetsloven); United Nations’ Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights (UNGP); OECD’s Guidelines for Responsible Business Conduct; CSRD; CSDDD; IFC, and the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Scanteam’s ESG services

Scanteam follows the logic from OECD’s Guidelines for Responsible Business Conduct (illustration below):

• Design and assessment of sustainable value chains

  Scanteam provides services to firms and project funding agencies on design and evaluation of sustainable value chains, considering climate change mitigation and adaptation, as well as access to climate finance mechanisms. We offer studies related to the complexity and interlinked topics of climate change, such as land and water management, disaster risk management, ocean management, carbon sequestration and REDD+, renewable energy, agriculture and food security.

• Decent working conditions

  We help to establish sustained decent working conditions among suppliers.

• Gender / Genderbased violence

  Through use of gender-sensitive programme design methodologies Scanteam helps in identifying barriers to gender equality, designing monitoring and evaluation systems that generate gender disaggregated data as well as setting up protection measures against gender-based violence..

• Grievance mechanisms

  Scanteam has experience in establishing workplace grievance mechanisms at supplier level.

• Human Rights Risk Assessment

  With in-depth knowledge about human rights risks in global supply chains in a range of countries and sectors, Scanteam can help you with risk assessments relevant for your company and sector.

• Impact monitoring, assessments and evaluations

  Scanteam has in-depth expertise in establishing impact indicators, measuring and evaluating impact.

• Living wage

  Scanteam helps companies conduct wage assessments to determine appropriate living wages for different regions. We co-operate with local experts to assess living wage levels at factory level.

• Meaningful Stakeholder Engagement

  Meaningful Stakeholder Engagement is particularly vital for companies with operations in developing and emerging markets and in conflict-affected areas. Our services ensure two-way dialogue and – if deemed, includes engaging with human rights defenders.

• Social audits with impact rating

  Our social audits include tailored impact ratings and are carried out by local auditors with the ability to unveil severe abuses and to embed improvements.

• Social dialogue at the workplace

  We design and implement practical social dialogue training for supplier management and worker representatives, also ensuring democratic elections by and from the workforce. We have broad experience in working with trade unions across countries.

• Sustainable Procurement

  We assist companies in establishing and implementing sustainable procurement practices.

• Training and mentoring in your own company and in the supply chain

  Scanteam’s target groups include:

  • Mentoring Sustainability Managers who want to strengthen their own capacity

  • Own staff, management and board members

  • Supplier Management and/or Workers

  Our training and mentoring services are characterized by being practical and participatory. Supplier training focuses on the business benefits of decent work from their perspective.

 

Weaknesses in governance structures, practices and performance remain common challenges. Improving governance through greater transparency of decision making, more accountability for results, and fairer distribution of benefits, lie at the heart of Scanteam’s governance work.

Our services

• Rethinking Governance: Collective Action and Social Contracts

  Local contexts require different approaches to building legitimate and lasting social contracts/ governance models. Building on local legitimacy structures yet addressing larger societal concerns may require hybrid constellations of private, public and civic actors. Scanteam has experience in analysing and facilitating the development of such approaches under differing circumstances.

• Human, Indigenous, Minority and Labour Rights: Advocating Basics

  All societies face challenges in ensuring that all groups have a fair access to society’s benefits. Scanteam has experience in identifying solutions to competing claims by differing right-holder groups, whether this is in the public or private sectors.

• Civil Society Development: Key for Democracy and Voice

  Civil society is expected to play a key role in societal development yet depend on political space and external resources for organisational growth and development. Scanteam partners have long experience working with non-state actors in the North and South, advising on achievable targets and strategies.

• Democratic Transition: Challenging Processes

  The dissolution of the Soviet Union (peacefully), Yugoslavia (militarily), “the Arab Spring” all had unforeseen outcomes, yet some lessons can be applied to reduce dangers and enhance chances of success. Scanteam is involved in several processes, in partnerships with academic institutions and political actors, looking at how parties can improve chances of achieving their hoped-for objectives.