SubaH-BelleH Associates

Subah-Belleh Associates (SBA) is a private management consultancy company entirely owned and operated by Liberians.  It was established in 1982 as a partnership of a select cadre of Liberian professionals. The firm evolved in response to the need to organize a reservoir of skills and experiences to address the critical management-based problems of African economies.  Our experience over the years have adequately proven the advantages of utilizing competent home-based consultants, who are in tune with the cultural peculiarities as well as the social, political, and economic contexts of management issues in African economies.

SBA is managed by a core team of professionals, all with advanced degrees and extensive experience in the fields of finance, economics, management and development administration. The firm is corporate entity with two shareholding partners. Its day-to-day technical, financial, and administrative affairs are managed by a team, led by a managing director. The managing director oversees a team of consultants, technical associates, and administrative and financial management personnel. Our core staff consists of experienced and committed professionals. The firm caters to organizations in both the public and private sectors as well as bilateral and multilateral institutions.  We also work with national and international non-governmental institutions and United Nations Specialized Agencies.

Our services cover a wide-range of interests within the domains of finance, economics, management, and development administration.  These services include:

• Socio-economic research – studies, surveys, assessments

• Public Sector Reform Consultancy

• Business Advisory and management services

• Organizational development support services, including organizational assessment, strategic planning and systems development

• Human Resources management services, including HR administration and recruitment (including executive recruitment)

• Training – We hold the CRESTCOM® franchise for Liberia and Sierra Leone to deliver the internationally recognized and acclaimed Bullet Proof Manager© training

 

We occasionally represent or serve as a contact point for international development agencies as well as professional process facilitators of various organizational activities, including planning, policy development and review, strategic planning, major meetings, among others.

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Vision

Our vision is of a consulting firm recognized and respected home and abroad for bringing our unique perspectives into partnerships with business, government, and development entities that deliver solutions which help improve their decision environment and achieve their strategic objectives.

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Mission

Our mission is to assist our clients effectively respond to their needs and challenges and make informed decisions that sustainably improve their performance and fulfill their missions.

Values

We believe in living up to the same standards we recommend for our clients. We also believe that our success rests on the success of our clients as it is through our clients that we see ourselves and evaluate our work. Thus, the values that drive us include the following:

• Put the client’s interest ahead of our own

• Behave as professionals

• Keep our client information confidential

• Tell the truth as we see it

• Deliver the best of our firm to every client as cost effectively as we can

 

Our General Approach

We accentuate quality performance. To ensure this, we adopt a multi-disciplinary team approach, ensuring that each critical dimension of a given assignment is focused adequately by a professional with the requisite expertise. Towards this end, we maintain a diverse core of consultants and associates and an on-going relationship with a number of local and international consulting companies.  Our office provides on-going technical backstopping support to all assignments.  We achieve synergy through these means.

Above all, in everything we do, we focus the process and outcomes on the needs and interests of our clients, putting their interests above our own. In this direction, we seek to deliver beyond the client’s expectation, maintaining a professional approach that accentuates professional behavior, truthfulness and honesty with the client, and keeping client information confidential. 

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SBA Organization

SBA has the organizational structure to support a successful implementation of the project, as was done in the past with a host of other projects, including ones similar to this one. We have the administrative and technical organization that supports the delivery of technical and administrative services to the project.  The managing partner is responsible for both administrative and technical functions of the firm. However, administratively, he is assisted by an Administrative and Finance Officer, which allows him to focus more on technical activities related to project development and implementation. Partners serve as senior consultants, while the managing director himself contributes as a consultant. The senior consultants are supported by a team of associates/consultants with diverse backgrounds and expertise, who are enlisted to participate on a project-by-project basis, based on their expertise and experience.

Including the partners, the firm employs 15 full-time professional and support staff. We also have over 25 professional associates that are available to work with us in diverse areas of undertakings by the firm.

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Support Infrastructure

SBA occupies over 100 square foot of office space in the Blue Plaza Building, located at Benson Street. We have adequate work space over 7 offices, a conference room, facility for guest consultants, partners’ offices as well as offices for all consultants and associates, supported by a constant supply of electricity and basic amenities.

SBA offices are equipped with wireless internet connection; adequate computers, printers, and copiers; and other requisite office resources that make us a full-service consulting firm in Liberia.

 

Our Experience

We have extensive experience in the consulting business.  Over the years of our existence, we have gained recognition as a reliable partner for organizational development and an effective force in small-scale structural development.  We have worked extensively in the areas of research, policy development, strategic planning, and systems and processes. We have successfully undertaken assignments either commissioned or funded by: the World Bank, European Union, African Development Bank, United Nations Development Program, World Health Organization, United Nations Children Fund, United States Agency for International Development, Government of Liberia, Catholic Relief Service, Lutheran World Federation/Service, Norwegian Church Aid, European Investment Bank, United Nations Industrial Organizational, and the Danish International Development Agency, JICA, OXFAM, among others.

The following undertakings below provide an example of some of the firm’s previous work in this and other related areas, which demonstrate our capability to provide the services being sought by this evaluation.