Commonwealth Infrastructure Partners (CIP) provides customized capacity building and skills development programs to help organizations in Commonwealth countries solve infrastructure challenges. CIP works closely with clients to design practical programs delivered by sector experts that integrate management and technical skills. The goal is to create long-term solutions by developing locally sustainable organizational cultures and empowering professionals to be agents of change.

1. Dr Geoffrey Clements
Chairman, Commonwealth Infrastructure Partners
2019
Commonwealth Infrastructure Partners
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Introduction
• Commonwealth Infrastructure Partners (CIP) provides integrated
comprehensive solutions to infrastructure development challenges
in Commonwealth countries
• We specialise in customised capacity building programmes,
incorporating up-to-date practical knowledge of international best
practice
• We work closely with our partner and client organisations to
create programmes that best suit the needs and challenges of the
organisation and participants

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Optimum Solutions
• We aim to create optimum solutions for each project, by working
with partners who are sector specialists.
• Our partners have global experience, including the countries
where projects are being conducted.
• This enables us to deliver advanced capacity building programmes
with access to international expertise and best practice

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Diverse challenges in Commonwealth countries
• The countries of the Commonwealth face diverse and substantial
challenges in the development and modernisation of their
infrastructure
• Commonwealth Infrastructure Partners implements a
comprehensive approach to provide integrated and lasting
solutions to these challenges

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CIP Services
CIP provides a range of services, designed to provide client
organisations a full range of capabilities in their sector. These
services cover:
• Capacity building
• Skills development
• Advisory services
• Project support
• Support to develop international best practice

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The CIP model
Design & implementation of customised capacity building
programmes
The Directors of CIP and our professional partners have career-long experience in:
• infrastructure-related projects
• capacity building
• skills development
• higher education in management and technology
• project design & implementation
• organisational & project management
We design capacity building programmes customised for the client organisation and its local
sector-specific environment

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Sector specialists
• We engage sector specialists from our professional network as
partners
to develop and deliver our customised programmes.
• Wherever practical and applicable, CIP's partners have experience
relevant to the countries where the programmes will be
implemented

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UK engineering and professional institutions
CIP has close associations with the UK Engineering Council and with
UK Engineering Institutions, including
• the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)
• the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE)
• the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE).
and with other professional bodies and associations

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Dialogue with client organisation
to define the programme
• The first stage in the development of a programme is a dialogue with
the client organisation
o to determine their unique needs and challenges
o and to understand the existing level of experience and expertise in the
organisation.
• We then create a programme of the appropriate content, level and
duration to fulfil these needs.
• Our sector specialist partners make sure that the programme covers all
relevant up-to-date areas of knowledge and expertise

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Practical focus
• CIP specialises in work-based programmes
• The practical application of the knowledge in the programme in a
work environment is emphasised
• Information begins to live in the mind of the professional when
they practise the knowledge they have gained in a practical, work-
based environment

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Practical training methods
We implement this work-based theme in our programmes using a
variety of techniques, including:
• Alternating “classroom” sessions with at-work experience
• Allotting project work related to work experience for assessment
during the programme
• Encouraging team work through a combination of classroom
exercises and work-based projects

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Integrating management & technical capabilities
• A major challenge in many infrastructure related companies and
government departments:
The mismatch in understanding between management and the technical
professionals in the organisation
• All too often:
oManagers lack sufficient detailed technical understanding of their products
or services
oThe technical professionals have inadequate knowledge of the
management structure and function of their organisation

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Effects of inadequate organisational integration
Lack of integration between management and technical functions
leads to:
• Poor communication, since managers and technical professionals
do not speak the same “language”
• Decreased performance, reduced innovation and an overall
decline in the competitiveness and efficiency of the organisation

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The Capacity Building Triangle
• CIP has developed the
Capacity Building Triangle
method for its organisational
development programmes
• The Capacity Building Triangle
method aims to create both
vertical and horizontal
integration in an organisation

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Implementing Capacity Building Triangle method
• CIP works with the senior managers and technical professionals in the
organisation
o to identify where there are deficiencies in understanding and communication
• Training programmes are implemented containing elements to
overcome these deficiencies
• The specific elements will vary from one client organisation to another
• They will also depend on the work roles of the participants and their
professional backgrounds

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Qualifications
CIP capacity building programmes can lead to qualifications
such as those provided by
• The UK Chartered Management Institute
• The Institute of Leadership and Management

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Skills training
• Where needed, skills development programmes can be included
in the Organisational Capacity Building programmes
• Skills training programmes can follow national standards and
levels for skills qualifications

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Infrastructure sectors
• CIP covers a range of infrastructure sectors.
• Expertise in each sector is provided by CIP’s core team and
partner specialists
• Sectors include:
o Renewable energy
o Highways and road transport infrastructure
o Urban infrastructure: development and renewal
o Smart cities
o Sustainable development
o Power
o Railways
o Water
o Environmental remediation
o Social infrastructure, with a focus on education and
healthcare
• CIP provides solutions for both the public and private sectors

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Programmes to develop competence
for international partnerships
• Infrastructure projects in all countries are increasingly global in nature
• Large infrastructure projects demand international standards
• Especially where international partners are involved in funding and project
execution
• An international level of competence and implementation generally delivers
the most cost-effective and durable solutions
• CIP delivers international standard capacity building and other
programmes, by virtue of its high calibre team and partners

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Solutions for tomorrow, not just today
• Today’s large infrastructure projects are expected to be durable
and future-proof
• CIP focuses on integrated solutions
ousing the best knowledge available
osolutions that will stand the test of time

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Creating the agents for change
• Modern organisations aim to create a self-sufficient corporate
culture
• So that the organisation can become self-reliant in creating its
own solutions in the future
• CIP programmes foster creative leadership
othrough which the managers and professionals in the organisation
themselves become the agents of change for future development

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Thank you
geoffrey.clements@commip.org
www.commip.org
© 2019, Commonwealth Infrastructure Partners