After an international competitive tender process, a Fund Manager and a Third Party Monitoring and Evaluation Agent were appointed on 25 April 2016 to undertake a comprehensive inception phase to set up the Fund. The first phase of the initial 5 year-cycle ran from April 2016 to December 2018 and the Fund Manager role was performed by a consortium of 4 partners- ECORYS Netherlands B.V., VNG, INTRAC and AKVO with ECORYS Netherlands B.V. as the lead.
The second phase of this 5 year-cycle will run from January 2019 to December 2020 and Mott Macdonald will play the Fund Management role.
Mott MacDonald is an employee-owned management, engineering and development consultancy serving the public and private sectors around the world. As part of its International Development sector, Mott Macdonald works in developing countries to support poverty alleviation, good governance, and to help increase access to basic services-while safeguarding the environment, promoting human rights and gender equity, and fostering social and economic development.
Mott MacDonald has been established and registered in South Sudan since 2008 and is in full compliance with and all legal and tax requirements as a private entity, in line with our globally recognised standards. Mott MacDonald has delivered a range of programmes in South Sudan, consistently and successfully working through intermediaries to deliver results at scale. This has established Mott Macdonald as one of the most well-respected organisations operating in the country, trusted by government, donors and civil society.