Name and Surname : KOUOMO Clotaire

Nationality : Cameroonian

Address : B.P. 12977 Douala Cameroon Tel. (237) 33 42 76 78
E-mail : agesfo@camnet.cm Fax (237)33 42 69 87
Cell : (237) 77 70 03 30 / (237) 99 83 38 60

Family Status : Married

Longevity : 18 years

II) QUALIFICATIONS

Consultant in Organisational Development/ Institutional Analysis
Individual Coaching/ Team Supervision/ Management
Trainer
Moderator
Accounting and Financial Audit

III) EDUCATIONAL CAREER/TRAINING

Diploma in Organisational Development GTZ, EZE Germany and Swiss Association for Applied Psychology (SAAP Swiss) 1995 - 1997

Training in Individual Coaching and Team Supervision (EZE, GTZ) 1999

Diplôme d'Etudes Comptable Supérieures INTEC/CENAM Paris 1985 - 1989

Higher National Diploma in Accounting and Management The University of Douala 1982-1984

Diploma of Trainer in Small and Medium Size Enterprises GESTION NORSUD Montréal Canada 1987

Training of Trainers of Entrepreneurs (CEFE) GTZ Germany 1994

Attestation of theoretical and practical internship in accounting audit and institutional Support Fiduciaire Jacques MOYNAT Geneva Swiss

Participate at many seminar workshops on the following themes: Animated Self-evaluation, Animation at Self-promotion, the commercialisation of farmers products (between 1985 and 1993)

IV) PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1 - APICA : Association for the Enhancement of Africans Community Initiatives
(International NGO of Swiss law) B.P. 5946 Douala Cameroon Tel 337 0405
(Head office and 3 branches)

Administrative and financial Director at the head office for 10 years, cumulatively as head of Entrepreneurs Support Programme:

· Monitoring of activities and control of book keeping in the branches
· Participate at many projects of accompaniment(companionship) on the field
· Elaborate financial reports for Donors
· Consolidation of financial statements
· Management and Development of human resources
· Evaluate projects of Entrepreneurs
NB : Permanent Assistance to Secretary General in establishing documents for the Board and Donors (Action plan, financial analysis, strategic reflections)

2 - AGESFO : Audit - Management - Training

From October 1995 till date Shareholder and Director of AGESFO Consultancy

3 - ASSISTANCE TO CUSTOMERS

3-1 Accounting and Financial Audit/Counselling and Training in
Management and Studies

From 1995 till date, I have carried out many accounting and financial audit, trainings, instituted management procedures and systems (including computerisation of accounting) at the request of more than forty NGOs and International development and/or funding organisations for their partners in Africa ( Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo, Niger Togo etc …)
These organisations are :

. D.D.C (Direction du Développement et de la Coopération Swiss)
. A.C.S (Action de Carême des Catholiques Swiss)
. CORDAID (NGO Netherlands )
. SNV (Netherlands Development Organisation)
. GTZ (German Development Corporation)
. I.T.S (Swiss Tropical Institute)
. SWISSAID (Swiss Organisation for Development)
. Terre des Hommes Lausanne (Swiss Organisation for Development)
. HELVETAS ZURICH (Swiss Organisation for Development)
. INADES FORMATION (African NGO)
. SAILD (African NGO)
. Etc

- Animated a training session for 14 Chadian NGOs at the request of the Federation of Chadian NGOs, and two training sessions for about twenty central African NGOs at the request of a Group of Central African NGOs. THEME : Adapted accounting plan, Organisation of an accounting department, Self-financing policy, Elaboration and Follow-up of the execution of the budget, Treasury management (1995 and 1996)

- Animated at the request of MISEREOR Aachen Germany:

· Two training sessions in Cameroon : One for Coordinators of projects funded by them and the other for chartered accountants auditing these projects. THEME : The financial directives of MISEREOR/EZE (1997)

· A training session in Chad for BELACD, SECADEV and chartered accountants auditing these projects. THEME: The Financial administration and management of master plans (1998)

- Animated two seminars in accounting and financial management for partners of Swiss Catholic Lenten Fund in Cameroon and Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) (in 1998 at Bafoussam Cameroon, in March 2002 in DRC)

- Animated a seminar on accounting and financial management for partners of Bread for the world in Cameroon (May 2002)

- Put in place a system of management of the Catholic University of Kassayi Kananga and the Higher institute of Religious Sciences (ISSR) of Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo (1999) and carrying out of many missions for accounting and financial managerial Assistance (in 2000 and 2001)

- Financial counselling of the Sanitary District of Nylon Douala (3 hospitals and a head office) (from 1994 to 1998): Many seminars animated.

- Financial counselling of Espaces Métiers (Handicraft Organisation) Douala (from 1995 to 1998)

- Financial counselling of the Council of Farmers Federation Cameroon (CFPC Yaounde and CROPENC Maroua). Animated many seminar workshops for these organisations (from 1995 to 1999)

- Animated for BASE (Health Environment Support Committee) Ndjamena Chad , the training of trainers of administrators of Health Centres in the divisions of Moyen Chari and Chari Banguirmi (1998)

- Two missions to follow-up these trainers of BASE: One with two health centre at Bokoro and the other with three health centres at Koumogo/Chad (1999)

- Carry out a commercial feasibility study of a training centre for Farmers, NGOs, and other partners at Moundou Chad at the request of ASSAILD Moundou (1997)

- Animated two training seminars on the feasibility study of micro-projects at the request of APICA West Central Africa Antenna (1995 and 1996)

- Animated a two weeks seminar at the Regional Training Centre for Labour Administration (CRADAT) Yaounde Cameroon in August 2000, August 2001, and December 2001 and one for the same period in Chad. Seminar organised by AGESFO on accounting and financial management for heads of NGOs and projects for development in Africa. (25 participants per session from Benin, Cameroon, Chad, Democratic Rep. of Congo, Gabon, Mali, Niger)

- At the request of Max Havelaar Foundation Swiss: Financial Evaluation of Cocoa marketing operations for agricultural producers union of S'AA (UPAS Cameroon) (1996)

- Mission to the headquarters of Swiss Tropical Institute (ITS) Bâle : Participate at reflections based on new systems of managing the projects in Africa (1997)

- Joint mission of accounting audit with Mr Jacque Moynat Chartered Accountant Geneva Swiss : CESAO Bobo Dioulasso, SIX << S >> Ouhigouya Burkina Faso, FONGS Thies Senegal (1992)

3-2 Organisational Development and Strategic Reflections

- Animated a workshop on organisational diagnosis and reflections on changing trends in the following organisations (accompaniment in process in some) :

· CeDAC Sangmelima Cameroon (1999: 2 missions carried out, 2000: One mission)
· ASSAILD MOUNDOU Chad (1996 and 1997: two missions carried out)
· Cameroon Council of Farmers Federation (CFPC) Yaounde Cameroon (several missions)
· HELVETAS Bamenda Cameroon (2000: 2 missions carried out, 2001: 2 missions)
· SARB Batouri (2000 : 2 missions Carried out and one anticipated)
· CAID Lomié Cameroon (2000: 1 mission carried out and 2 anticipated)
· APESS Garoua Cameroon (2002)

- Many missions of accompaniment and training in about 20 peasant federations in Chad and Cameroon (between 1994 and 2000)

- Animated workshop on the search for Recognition (Review of the past, study of trends and actual challenges of the environment, New vision) and assistance at the elaboration of action plans 1999- 2001 / 2000-2002 of the following organisations: (Participants at each workshop: Personnel, Beneficiaries, NGOs, State …)

· CODIDASC: Bafoussam Diocese (1998)
· CHAL (Littoral Handicraft Centre) (1999)
· APICA (Association for the Enhancement of Africans Community initiative) Head office and three Antennas and reflection on organisational culture.
· CENODA Sangmelima (1999)
· CEFAC Sangmelima (1999)
· SARB ( Rural Animation Centre Batouri) Cameroon (Action plan 2000, 2001- 2004)
· ISSR (Higher Institute of Religious Sciences Kinshasa DRC) (1999)
· Etc …

- Animated seminar on Human Resources management in the perspective of change (with the method of organisational development) for all Directors and branch heads of AD LUCEM Medical Foundation Cameroon at Limbe September 2000.

- Animated same seminar twice for heads of the Evangelical Church of Cameroon (EEC) ( All synod regions: Presidents, Treasurers, Secretaries, Church Elders) (diagnosis of EEC made) December 2000 and April 2001.

- Animated a reflection workshop on the Commercial policy of SISMAR Dakar Senegal (1995)

- Animated a reflection workshop on the vision and communication policy of UNECACI: Côte D'Ivoire agricultural cooperative union Abijan (1996)

- Animated a reflection workshop on relation and communication policy of SIR (Société Ivoirienne de Raffinerie de pétrole (a Training Centre) Grand Bassam Côte D'Ivoire (1996)

- Animated a reflection workshop on the mastery of change due to the restructuring of SACOA GROUP MARBOUR Antanarivo Madagascar (1997)

- Institutional analysis CENAM: National Handicraft Centre Malagasy Antanarivo Madagascar (1997)

4 - OTHER ACTIVITIES

- Mission to London in England for preparatory work with PARTNERS & SIMS (October 2000): Preparations towards seminar for Capacity Reinforcement of Chartered Accountants auditing the projects of Bread for the world in francophone west Africa. (Co-animator and Organiser of the seminar) at Kribi Cameroon. November 2000.

- Mission to Swiss Catholic Lenten Fund (Swiss) and at the Direction de la Coopération Swiss at Bern (Swiss); Discussions on projects (sustained by these Donors) accompanied by AGESFO in Cameroon, Chad, and the Democratic Republic of Congo (October 2000 and September 2001)

- Participate mid-way at the evaluation of the training of would-be Consultants in Organisational Development (As member of IFORDOM) in Lomé (Togo) (October 2000)

- Mission to Montréal Canada at GESTION NORSUD. Member of the Revising Committee of the Manual " la Gestion de la Petite et Moyenne Organisation Africaine" manual already sold in many thousands (1988)

- Meeting at Zurich (Swiss) with 8 Swiss consultants on intercultural exchanges (1998)

- Participate at Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) in the meeting of auditors of Swiss Cooperation (D.D.C) projects in Africa and Communication on the << pedagogy of training in the projects of development in Africa>> (1998)

- Participate at many meetings in Côte d'Ivoire, Burkina Faso, and in Cameroon on << Reflections for the organisation of future trainings in Organisational Development in Africa>>

- Participate as Member at the meeting of World's Network of Consultants in Organisational Development (IODA) in Dresden (Germany) September 2001

- Participate at the preparatory meeting of the Last Module of training in Organisational Development organised in Africa with GTZ, SAAP at Berlin (Germany) September 2001

- Founding Member of the Institute of Training in Organisational development and Management (IFORDOM) and INAFOC Abidjan Côte d'Ivoire and CEFORMAD Kinshasa Democratic Rep. of Congo

V) LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY

- Write and Speak French perfectly
- A excellent working knowledge of English

VI) PUBLICATIONS

- Publication of many handbooks on accounting and financial management

- Production of many reports on missions carried out : Studies, Diagnosis, Audit, Training

- Publication of "Organisational Development in the phase of bureaucracy in NGOs "

- Participate at the writing of the manual "Gestion de la Petite et Moyenne Organisation Africaine" published under the collection Gestion NorSud.

Douala, August 10, 2002

Clotaire KOUOMO