Tahseen Consulting | Corporate Social Responsibility Partnership Services

Corporate Responsibility Service Areas

Strategy and Planning
Program Development and Implementation
Organizational Effectiveness
Performance Management and Evaluation
Partnership Services
Business Process Outsourcing

Specializations

Education and National Skills Systems
Entrepreneurship
Cultural Development

Our Thinking

How Skills Surveys Can More Effectively Identify Workforce Skills Gaps
Through a multicountry review of skills surveys, we propose an alternative approach to establishment skills surveys that can play a more effective role in determining how workforce skills influence achievement of firm business objectives in the Arab World.

Using Social Networking for Change
We see IT as an important enabler for regional development, and we have worked with global technology leaders such as Intel and Microsoft to deepen the impact of regional development programs leveraging technology.

A Regional Institution for Improving the Quality of Education
There are many opportunities for synergies through cooperation between regional education quality programs as well as clear areas of overlap which can benefit from consolidation.

Using Awards Effectively for Social Change
Many award programs in the region focus on large monetary sums to award best practices. We argue that money is not enough, and award programs should reinforce social change through knowledge diffusion, network building initiatives, and follow on training to maximize social impact.

Increasing Female Labor Market Participation With Scholarships
In several countries in the Arab World, women face significant obstacles to obtaining higher education and entering the workforce. We propose an e-Scholarships for Women Initiative to mitigate access, equality, and labor participation challenges.

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Walid Aradi
Chief Executive Officer
Dubai, UAE
E-mail: walid.aradi@tahseen.ae
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Securing and managing partner performance is particularly complex in the Arab World due to the existence of numerous actors and limited data on each actor and their activities. Any potential CSR initiative needs to take into account potential government, donor, NGO or other corporate partners who can help in delivering the program. Arab companies can find themselves struggling to identify effective partners, unable to deploy social investment funds, or party to unproductive agreements with no recourse.

Our Capabilities

Partnership Strategy

• Developing partnership strategies to guide the identification and screening of potential partners and negotiate partnership agreements linked to tangible outcomes

• We have extensive relationships in the Arab World within governments, the donor community, and international and local NGOs which enable us to help clients source and evaluate potential partners and reduce the risk of failed partnerships

Partnership Facilitation

• Supporting coordination efforts to align multiple stakeholders, and development of a collective, solution-focused approaches

• Representing clients' interests to structure and launch partnerships. This may include developing governance systems, policies, operating mechanisms, performance management mechanisms, facilitating kick-off workshops, and coordinating marketing strategies

• Crafting fundraising and advocacy strategies

Rethinking Arab Knowledge-based Economies Seventeen of the twenty-two countries in the Arab World have the development of a knowledge-based economy specifically stated as a medium to long-term economic policy objective. In pursuing this objective, many countries in the region have made large state-driven human capital investments with the goals of job creation, economic integration, economic diversification, environmental sustainability, and social development.

Creating National Skills Formation for Knowledge-based Development The movement of many countries towards knowledge-based economic development requires the transition to more effective skill formation systems that create high skills workforces. However, there is currently no accepted general framework to analyze national skills development systems, which has resulted in countries adopting reactive approaches to skills development problems.

Value for Money in Arab Educational Reform Though there is a continued long-term trend toward increased budgets for education in the region, meeting the combined demands of increased access, assuring relevance, and improving quality in the face of finite resources is complex. A common challenge we see in the reform process is the lack of performance monitoring and evaluation systems.

Arab Countries in Transition: Defining a Post-Arab Spring Way Forward in Libya While political violence, even if organized, is generally viewed as severely detrimental to economic growth, the sentiment on the frontlines views the recent unrest in the Arab World as a renaissance. This positivity towards the future is supported by our research which shows that political systems emerging after organized unrest involving some degree of competitive political participation can actually increase economic growth.

How Skills Gaps Impact Firm Performance in the Arab World In the Arab World, there is a poor match between regional human capital and the skills demanded by employers. This analysis applies international research to the case of the Arab World to determine the operational impacts of skills gaps on Arab companies.