John Charles Dalton

John Dalton, International Development Advisor is not affiliated with any organization, the ideas and recommendations are his own, personal observations and recommendations. He is a former State government official, advisor to the President of Liberia, the Prime Minister of Zimbabwe, the Anti-Corruption Commission in Zambia, and the Department of Budget and Management in the Philippines, among many international assignments. He has conducted numerous consultancies for funding agencies on public financial management, general management, anti-corruption, and integrity.

Highly Experienced Public Finance and Management Project Leader and Consultant

Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh

 

Introduction

Core Competencies: Project Leadership, Program Development, MEL, Integrity/Anticorruption, Strategic Planning and Public Management.

Technical Competencies: PFM, MEL, Change Management, Decentralization/LG Management/Service Delivery, Capacity Building, Integrity/Anticorruption.

2023 Expert technical review and reconnaissance of PFM in a West African country, my 13th country of experience in Africa.

2021-22 Sri Lanka. Used Monitoring innovatively as an instrument for real time, agile institutional assessments/change management.

2020-21 Bangladesh. Expert consultant on integrity in Customs and trade. Developed innovative risk-based self-assessment tool.

March -July, 2020: Uganda , team leader for anticorruption end-of-programme review.

Eleven (11) assignments as Chief of Party/Project Director/Team Leader among more than 50 international assignments to design, implement and evaluate projects in the areas of: public management, performance monitoring, strategic planning; governance; integrity/anti-corruption, public finance management; and decentralization/municipal management and service delivery. Practitioner!

Privileged to have advised Presidents, Prime Ministers, and other senior ministers.

Excellent analyst, strategist, leader, mentor, writer, and trainer.

 

 

 

Highlights of Domestic US Experience:

Director, Office of Local Government Affairs, Massachusetts State Government - Led a team dedicated to local government empowerment and capacity development, public finance management, intergovernmental relations, and decentralization/home rule.

Founder/CEO of Community Development and Management Corporation (CDMC) - A community development/management consulting company for 13 State Governments and numerous cities.

Management consultant. Manager of teams of consultants implementing public sector management consulting projects at PwC. Senior consultant at KPMG

Senior staff in Massachusetts State Legislature (Home Rule Commission, Joint Committee on State Administration: Committee on Election Laws). Elected local government official.

 

Countries of Work Experience

AFRICA and MIDDLE EAST: Ghana, Uganda, Jordan, Liberia, Ethiopia, Zambia, Mozambique, Botswana, Zimbabwe, DRCongo, Burundi, Egypt, Tunisia, and Palestinian Authority.

ASIA and PACIFIC: Bangladesh, Thailand, Laos, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Philippines, Indonesia, Nepal, Federated States of Micronesia, Marshall Islands, American Samoa, Solomon Islands, Palau, Northern Marianas (Guam and Saipan).

 

EASTERN EUROPE: Serbia

 

NORTH AMERICA 25 State governments and Haiti

 

Contribution

• Here's how you can rejuvenate and disconnect from work as a program manager during your personal time.

 

Good for you. Personal time is an essential driver of future successful work.

 

John Charles Dalton

• What do you do if you want to maximize the benefits of consulting as a program coordinator?

 

You can be a putz or a partner. The TOR should be fair, with time and resources aligned with the planned outputs. A putz you will start by setting a consultant budget and then overload the TOR with too many tasks just to offload your responsibility onto the consultant (hello Mr F). Or you could retain a consultant for a specific purpose and then add unrelated tasks to “squeeze” extra uncompensated work out of the consultant (that you FK?). On the other hand you could be a partner to the consultant, incorporating her into the organization in a way that provides her with insight so as to make the TOR meaningful. A true partner works closely with the consultant in a collaborative manner sharing thoughts and identifying opportunities.

 

John Charles Dalton

• You're managing a team and they're not working well together. What can you do to get them back on track?

First things first.. maybe it’s you. Maybe your style doesn’t fit the needs of the team in that SPECIFIC context. We all carry our tool kit from project to project and try to just lay it down on top of every team in every situation. Look at how you may be the source of the problem… and then take the whole team bowling.

 

John Charles Dalton

• You want to be a successful writer. What are the most effective ways to market yourself?

 

Write what you know and post it on LinkedIn or any other free site. Use social media to practice. Writers write… spend more time writing. Broaden your perspective to encompass more knowledge areas. In that way you can use analogies more effectively. Good luck.

 

Experience

J C DALTON

Senior Policy Advisor

Dhaka, Bangladesh

Program Evaluator

Dhaka, Bangladesh

Self Employed

 

 

World Bank Dhaka

Bangladesh

I joined a team developing a Medium and Long-Term Revenue Strategy (MLTRS) for Bangladesh. Domestic Resource Mobilization (DRM) is among the lowest in Asia and services are poor. My most valuable contribution was crafting an Action Plan to improve accountability through focused monitoring and management.

 

Business Capture Advisor

Bangladesh

 

Outcomes Monitoring System Design Advisor

Palladium: Make It Possible

 

Sri Lanka

Real time qualitative monitoring is a tool for institutional strengthening and the basis for change management. This was an innovative way of using monitoring as a window into institutional gaps that were impeding planning and coordination.

 

Managing Director

JCDalton Consulting/ Bangladesh

 

Africa/Asia

1. Post-conflict and transition to democratic governance advisor to President and Prime Minister in two African countries;

2. Business development strategist/proposal writer/presentations to client decision makers;

3. Anti-corruption programme evaluation in Uganda and integrity advisor in Bangladesh in 2020;

4. PFM Consultant in 2018-19 to the World Bank/Bangladesh to prepare a PFM Action plan to implement the country's comprehensive PFM Reform Strategy;

5.M&E and Learning Advisor.

 

 

Consultant

The World Bank

I carried out projects in Bangladesh, Botswana, Ethiopia and Mozambique for the World Bank on: (i) increased use of country financial and management systems in accordance with the Paris Declaration principles; (ii) fiduciary systems assessments; and (iii) analysis of possible exposure to fraud and corruption. In Botswana, I applied the Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability (PEFA) methodology in a workshop for senior PFM professionals. This approach facilitated broad, multi-functional.

Leader/ Contact Info

Dalton Consulting

Dhaka, Bangladesh

E-mail: johndalton@aol.com and jcdalton0417@gmail.com

Tel: +1 410 790 3476 Skype: john.dalton0417

Mr. Dalton, the practice and thought leader at Dalton Consulting, is a public-sector management and finance specialist as well as a development strategist, technical consultant, and highly experienced project manager having led 12 international development projects. He is a specialist on institutional strengthening, performance improvement, SMART indicator development, as well as.

Chief of Party, Accelerating Capacity for Monitoring & Evaluation (ACME) Activity

ACME

Dhaka, Bangladesh

Provided exceptional leadership/technical direction to build M&E management capacity for USAID/BD's Office of Economic Growth's partners implementing Feed the Future (FTF) and Global Climate Change (GCC) projects. Responsible for M&E systems development, technology for M&E, performance evaluation design and coordination, and institutional development/capacity building. Designed INSIGHT, a tablet-based data collection system to enhance USAID oversight and understanding across its entire.

Resident Advisor/Chief of Party/Ethiopia

ICMA/Regional/Municipal Services Strengthening Project

Addis Ababa, Jijiga, Gambella, Dire Dawa

Designed and oversaw the implementation of human and institutional capacity development (HICD) programs for Regional Bureaus of Finance and Economic Development in two emerging regions in Ethiopia to provide strategic planning, management, and performance monitoring services. I developed and conducted training programs on performance improvement, strategic monitoring and public sector strategic planning. I developed and implemented programs that enabled local governments to improve the delivery.

 

Senior Advisor to Chief Executives

OTI/USAID

Liberia and Zimbabwe

Two consultancies to improve the management of the Office of the President of Liberia, (9/2006-1/2007) and the Office of the Prime Minister of Zimbabwe (7/2009 - 11/2009). Both of these assignments were aimed at enabling new chief executives to exercise leadership and management through improved systems and procedures.

 

Anti-Corruption Advisor and Training Specialist

Chemonics International

Zambia

Resident Advisor to the Zambian Anti-Corruption Commission during which time I was responsible for guiding key Government agencies in finance, immigration, land administration and anti-corruption to adopt core values and promulgate service standards culminating in the adoption of Customer Service Charters aimed at establishing "integrity" as a core principle for administration, management and service delivery. Developed and delivered training courses on all aspects of anti-corruption and public.

 

Chief of Party/Project Director/Technical Advisor

Various International Consulting Assignments

Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe

During this lengthy period I carried out numerous international consulting projects, mostly in Asia and Egypt. These included 2 assignments as Chief of Party for projects in Egypt on: 1) youth employment/workforce development and 2) capacity building of the Cairo Water Authority through a performance improvement program (PIP) that I designed and guided to completion. I was involved as PSC and/or contractor on several projects in the Philippines, Indonesia, Pakistan, Thailand and Sri Lanka in.

 

Manager, Government Affairs Consulting

KPMG and PWC

Boston, MA

Responsible for managing projects in the areas of public education reform/management, environmental management, public finance, public administration and Federal/State relations. Previously worked as senior consultant for KPMG in both Boston and Washington. I was the national project manager for a HUD-funded demonstration project to assess the capacity of large cities to administer decentralized Federal programs.

 

Director, Office of Local Government Affairs

Massachusetts State Government

Boston, MA

Led a 30 person team of professional planners, managers, computer specialists, and lawyers in the Executive Office of Community Development responsible for providing technical assistance to the 351 cities/towns and 12 regional planning agencies in the State. Personally served as lead technical advisor on local government capacity building, decentralization/home rule charters, and general management. Previously worked in the State Legislature as legislative staff to the Joint Committee on State.

 

The Johns Hopkins University

Bachelor's Degree Liberal Arts

Activities and Society: Beneficial/Hodson Scholarship (1961-65); Class President (1963/64 and 1964/65); Omicron Delta Kappa (ODK) - National Leadership Fraternity; Basketball (1961-62); Baseball (1962), Fiji. Post graduate studies at Suffolk University Law School: 2 years and Framingham State College (Education Administration): 1 year

 

Course:

Suffolk University Law School (attended 2 years)

Language:

French

English