Oxford Policy Management

According to their website Oxford Policy Management (OPM) provides consulting services in the following areas:

Advice that clarifies policy and strategy options

Applied research on policy alternatives

Support for policy implementation

Evaluations and impact assessments

Training in aspects of public policy

Working with development agencies, and the governments with whom they work, OPM aims to provide "solutions to some of the most complex and intractable international development problems."

Typical projects involve relationships with both a funder, international development agency which directly or indirectly provides funding for OPM's services, and a recipient, typically a government department or public agency in a developing country. Recent funders include DFID, the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the EC, Irish Aid, Danida, SIDA, FINNIDA, SECO, FAO, UNICEF and UNDP.

Put simply they offer policy advice and implementation support and research. Their work aims:

"...directly or indirectly, to reduce poverty through: More effective macroeconomic management and sector policies and programmes

Improving access to and the efficiency of key services for the poor (including health, education, and social protection) Better management of public expenditure, Governance reforms of public institutions.

People

Mike Aaronson A former diplomat, Chairman of the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, Geneva, and Vice-Chairman of the Westminster Foundation for Democracy. He is a visiting Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford.

Paul Batchelor Former PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Global Management Team, responsible for strategy development. Previously he was PwC’s Global Leader for Geographies, with particular responsibility for India, Central and Eastern Europe and Africa, Overseas Development Institute (ODI). Member of the Advisory Council of Transparency International and of the Advisory Committee of AIESEC.

David Bevan is a Fellow of St John's College, Oxford, and has held visiting positions at Princeton, the Australian National University, and the University of the Auvergne. After studying economics at Cambridge, he worked for the British Government on energy, followed by a spell in Kenya as an Overseas Development Institute Fellow.

Anthony Hodges worked in Angola for Norwegian People’s Aid (NPA) Consultant for development of Country Strategy Study for the period 1999-2003 for the largest international NGO in Angola. Consultant/Director, Bibi Hodges Consultancy Services Ltd. Hodges was the Africa editor for The Economist Intelligence Unit's (EIU) providing quarterly Country Reports and annual Country Profiles since the early 1980s. His study on Angola: Conflict Resolution and Peace-Building was published by Saferworld in 1996. Programme Officer, The Ford Foundation, West Africa Office responsible for grants in West Africa relating to regional integration, peace and security; the development of independent media and press freedom; and economics training and research.

Activity

Most of the staff are Research Associates of Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford, and have worked for the World Bank, WTO and GATT working on projects titles “Making Markets Work for the Poor.”

OPM work alongside British Consultants and Construction Bureau BCCB now called British Expertise .