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About Curatio International Consulting, Ltd |
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Consulting Group Curatio Ltd (former Curatio International Consulting? Ltd) (CGC) (www.curatioconsulting.com) is an independent privately owned company operating within the intersection of public and private sectors. The company was established in 2006, by a group of Georgian experts with the goal of providing consultative and advisory services in Healthcare, Social sector, Strategic Planning and Institutional Capacity Development area to the governments of developing and transitional countries, international & non-governmental organizations (NGO/CBOs) and private sector.
Since establishment, company developed necessary organization structures, systems and procedures for consultant search, mobilization, contracting, deployment and backstopping in the field. We have implemented projects and provided consultancy services, which contributed to the reforms of health sector in the various countries of Eastern Europe and Former Soviet Union. In our work, we focus on building and developing counterparts? capacity of both individuals and institutions, thus achieving long-term sustainable solutions.
CGC provides multi-disciplinary teams taking responsibility for all technical and administrative aspects of project management in countries working alongside with national counterpart staff. Our project management teams institute set and defined project management procedures, which we see as necessary tool to monitor progress and control quality, keep relevant staff informed of performance to provide opportunities for lesson learning. Due to its ?hands-on? experience, CGC has been able to form a network of western and eastern consultants who brought our clients the best in service, support and results.
We have made significant contributions to health sector reform processes in many CIS countries. Our consultants also work to ensure health priorities remain on the agenda in the rapidly evolving context of new aid instruments and national policy frameworks (such as Sector Wide Approaches, Direct Budget Support and Poverty Reduction Strategies).
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Guiding Principles |
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Neutrality in professional consulting and project implementation to ensure that client interests are given absolute priority.
Business Integrity and adherence to high personal and professional standards.
Quality Management and Quality Assurance are an integral part of both the projects implemented by CGC, and its daily work.
Capacity Building and Human Resource Development applies not only to our continuous efforts towards partners? capacity building, but also undertaking HRD as a prime activity in various projects that we implement.
Responsiveness to the needs of the client, donor and the target group.
As mentioned above, our clients comprise the whole range of institutions, from Ministries of Health and insurance companies, consulting firms and NGOs. However, CGC maintains complete neutrality in professional consulting and project implementation. The company?s independence ensures that client interests are given absolute priority.
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CGC expertise |
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Health Policy Analysis and Systems Strengthening
Capacity building and Human Resource Development
Strategic Planning & Organizational Development
Health Care Information and Management Systems
Health economics/financing, including financial analysis, cost recovery and health insurance systems
Secondary/Hospital Care and Management
Project and Program Design, Management, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation
Women's Health
Epidemiological surveillance and Disease Control (including, Pandemic Influenza, Tuberculosis & HIV/AIDS)
Strategic Consulting to private sector (Health Market Analysis/Research, Capital Budgeting, Health Finance and Costing, Modeling and Forecasting etc.)
Poverty Reduction
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What makes CGC special? |
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Our experience is grounded in grassroots programming and quality service delivery.
We are mission focused. We reinvest surpluses from our work in our health mission.
We are a pro-active, learning organization. We invest our own resources in developing innovative health technologies that make a difference to the problems we address.
We focus on quality and results, building partnerships with clients and stakeholders that achieve sustainable outcomes.
Our approach, which combines strategic thinking and field experience, favors operational, concrete, and fast results.
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CGC Clients |
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We have a track record of providing real-world consulting services with tangible benefits for our clients. The success of our firm can be attributed to the continued success of our clients.?CGC has been able to bring satisfaction to a variety of clients and donors and Business Sector clients.
- The World Bank (WB)
- Asian Development Bank (ADB)
- Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and Malaria (GFATM)
- United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF)
- United Nations Development Programs (UNDP)
- Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA)
- World Health Organization (WHO)
- Private Insurance Companies
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Principle Services |
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CGC provides technical assistance at all levels of governments and stakeholders from senior ministerial staff and policy decision makers through to increasing capacity in training provision and administration. In all our work, we emphasize building the capacity of both individuals and institutions, thus achieving long-term sustainable solutions. We deliver high quality services that are responsive and flexible.
Since its establishment, the CGC has managed to blend Western quality expertise and approaches with good knowledge and understanding of the CIS region socio-cultural and political specificity, which led to expanding operations beyond Georgia?s boundaries and allowed company to undertake over numerous consultancy?assignments for a variety of international and national clients in about 10 countries within Eastern Europe and Central Asia (EE&CA) region and beyond. We use our corporate database of over 300 individual freelance consultants with expertise in many different disciplines. Our company generates country/region specific evidence, which is used during consultancy assignments and helps inform custom-tailored policies and project designs in countries where we work. This focused approach allows CGC to bring extensive CIS region-specific experience enriched with the experience from other countries/continents, and therefore offer context-specific, custom-tailored and workable solutions to the clients.
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CGC core team of experts |
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CGC relies on the experience and expertise of its shareholders. The Company was established in May 2006, merging the consulting and training experience of several Georgian experts. Aware of the globalization processes and the modern trend to merge a wide variety of diverse services to achieve the most dynamic results, we succeeded in pooling together international experts and establishing a dynamic business. Company shareholders not only fulfill important corporate functions within the firm, but are also active as consultants in the field. They keep a constant eye on the objectives and progress of individual projects; coordinate the activities of the consultants and ensure smooth communication among all parties involved. Together, they cover the broad range of skills required in all areas of operation. In addition, Company operates a database of national and international consultants (over 300 individuals), which is growing fast and enables us to select teams of the most qualified and effective professional and technical experts to match the specific and sometimes changing needs of clients, as well as the capacity to assemble consortia for larger assignments.
Dr. David Gzirishvili is a specialist in health care policy, system reform and financing. He has over 10 years? consultancy experience in Georgia and Central Asia with USAID, UNDP, DFID and The World Bank. Recently, he was responsible for the development of financial estimates of different options for the Basic Benefit Package in Azerbaijan. For the World Bank, David conducted the financial analysis of the operation of ambulance services in major cities in Georgia. He has participated in the development of health care financing options in Georgia, coordinated the preparation of the Second Georgia Health Project and the Human Resource subcomponent (Hospital Optimization Component) of the Georgia Structural Reform Project. As Organization Development Team Leader, David delivered on-job training to key technical staff of the Georgian Ministry of Health. Within the last few years, Dr. Gzirishvili worked on public health and policy development related issues in Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia assisting the countries with the development of national financial sustainability plans for the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization and the Bill Gates Foundation Vaccine Fund. Throughout his career Dr. Gzirishvili have conducted participatory appraisals, development of programmatic strategies and facilitated numerous time policy dialogues between national governmental, donor communities, international, local and non-governmental representatives on social and health care issues.
Dr. Akaki Zoidze?s fifteen year professional experience draws on: (i) public sector work for more than seven years, out of which three years I held key positions in social and health sectors of Georgia and the last two years served as the Deputy State (Prime) Minister of Georgia, during which he led public policy development, high level policy dialogue and number of major reform efforts in health and social sectors; (ii) five years of senior level project management experience in health sector of transition countries with international organizations where he managed multi-national teams; (iii) more than ten years of consulting experience with the World Bank, UN agencies, USAID, EC, DFID and other international organizations, which allowed him to enrich the knowledge of health systems and health reform initiatives throughout the region and contribute to health policy development and capacity building in transition countries, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kosovo, Kyrgyz Republic, Kazakhstan and Russia.
Dr. George (Gegi) Mataradze brings over 15 years of experience in management in international organizations, including design, implementation, management and monitoring and evaluation of international development projects. Specifically in the following areas: Health care reform (at macro and institutional levels) & Health System Strengthening (HSS); Strategic Planning & Organizational Development; designing and managing multi-disease health projects in developing and/or middle income countries (including HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, AI). During entire professional career, Dr. Mataradze always operated effectively as a manager with proven capacity and ability to improve implementation executing management by objectives/results approach. Dr. Mataradze is a specialist in development and use of Result Based Monitoring and Evaluation Systems. His experience of managing multi-million dollar projects in complex emergencies gives him an ability to motivate and guide project staff, collaborate closely with internal and external stakeholders, provide innovative support for the improved design, planning, organization and management of programs and processes; build effective personal and organizational capacities. Besides managerial skills, Dr. Mataradze brings significant experience of management, working at the policy level with host governments and diplomatic missions and development oriented organizations as well as grassroots institutions.
We are looking for professionals in all technical areas relating to health, but we are especially interested in hearing from consultants who have strong skills in communication, capacity building, facilitation and team leadership. In return, we pride ourselves on offering a high level of professional but friendly support to consultants, including clear briefing, efficient contracting and logistical arrangements, and a high level backstopping when overseas.
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Guiding Principles |
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We are keen to share the wide array of field experiences gained in various countries and our knowledge of up-to-date health and development technologies and the latest research findings. Indeed, all of our interventions share one objective: to endow public or private, national or international institutions with the capacities to effectively steer health systems in a direction to enhance health outcomes. Noteworthy is the particular emphasis placed on the participation of national stakeholders.
Through careful, detailed analysis, our experienced consultants are able to formulate plans and implement realistic, effective strategies. We engage fully with client organizations to understand the larger organizational, political and financial frames within which they work and develop long-term relationships to achieve more efficient and informed partnerships for sustained high-quality outcomes. In return, we pride ourselves on offering a high level of professional but friendly support to consultants, including clear briefing, efficient contracting and logistical arrangements, and a high level backstopping when overseas.
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Quality Assurance |
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Our company developed and institutionalized a Quality Assurance (QA) system that promotes consultancy services as the best value and lowest risk, and contributes to high quality of services offered by the selected consultants through CIC. The quality of our services is the priority of our experts and our team. The client is the only judge for quality. This is why we make sure that our clients? needs have been understood and fully satisfied. We also ask for feedback from the client and we use it for improving our performance.
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