Who you are
Project management units
“I have to disburse, and prove what I have disbursed.”
Your mandate
What you answer for
PMUs and coordination units funded by a development partner
You exist to turn a financing agreement into results on the ground, within a constrained timetable and under permanent accountability. Your unit is not an ordinary administration: it is created for one programme, it lives as long as that programme, and it is judged on a single indicator everyone watches — the disbursement rate.
You coordinate a programme funded by the World Bank, IFAD, the AfDB or the European Union. Your budget already exists: you do not create it, you execute it. Your difficulty is not finding money — it is turning money into works, on a procurement calendar you do not control, and demonstrating it during supervision missions.
What your organisation is made of
- Project management units and coordination cells
- Programmes funded by the World Bank, IFAD, the AfDB and the European Union
- Specialised agencies and United Nations programmes
- Delegated public contracting authorities
Your constraints
How your decision is actually made
This is what most providers ignore, and it is what makes assignments fail.
Who decides
You initiate, the procurement specialist arbitrates, the funder issues its no-objection. The decision-maker is a process, not a person.
Where the money comes from
It already exists, entered in the annual work plan and budget. You do not create it, you execute it — and you account for how it was used.
What timetable
Three to nine months between first contact and contract. Public procurement thresholds govern the procedure, and the procedure governs the calendar.
Our role
What ODT does for you
- We diagnose the bottlenecks in your portfolio, line by line, and produce an accelerated disbursement plan.
- We draft the technical documents that unblock: terms of reference, bidding documents, specifications, evaluation grids.
- We deal with the two causes nobody opens: unresolved land tenure and unprepared resettlement.
- We install geolocated monitoring that turns your supervision report into an extraction rather than a drafting exercise.
- We supervise the works and issue a technical clearance per milestone, enforceable before your funder during supervision.
What we will not do
- We do not stand in for your contracting authority: we prepare, you decide.
- We do not draft a bidding document and then bid for it.
- We do not promise a deadline that your procurement procedure makes impossible.
Published because it is binding on us: see what we do not do.
Start with a bottleneck diagnosis
A short assignment, sized to stay below your purchase-order threshold, which identifies where your portfolio stalls and what it takes to move it again. It is the least binding way to check whether we understand each other.
Your situations
What we most often encounter in your case
4 situations on this site concern you directly.
Unblocking a funded project that is not moving
“The money is there, the agreements are signed, and still nothing is being built.”
Proving to a third party what actually exists on the ground
“Results are reported to us. We need to verify them without depending on whoever reports them.”
Reporting to our funders with evidence
“Our financial partners want located, dated results. We produce narrative reports.”
Getting works built to specification, and paying for what was actually done
“Our fear is not a shortage of contractors. It is paying for what has not been done.”
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