NAME
Mrs Carole PRETORIUS
EXPERTISE:
PFM, PFM reform, Governance and Public Sector Reform
NATIONALITY:
British
DATE OF BIRTH:
24th October 1957
CURRENT
EMPLOYER
Actra Advisers Limited
KEY QUALIFICATIONS
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As a qualified public finance accountant, she has more than thirty five years experience in public sector
and public financial management reform, institutional development, policymaking and Aid effectiveness.
Her experience spans the UK public sector (health service, local government and transport sectors) and
middle income and developing countries in Africa, South East Asia, Oceania, Middle East, Caribbean and
Eastern Europe, where she has worked in a wide variety of sectors including education, health,
agriculture, water, energy, local government, transport, environment, security and social services.
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Team leader/consultant on numerous financial management assessments including PEFAs, CFAAs
CPARs, PEMAAPs, PERs, FRAs, AusAID’s Working in Partnership and the UN’s Macro assessments..
Published a literature review on PFM reform and developed the initial PEFA sub-national guidelines. She
has written a practitioners’ guide to support capacity development in PFM, which was used in discussions
in Busan and discussion papers for the use of the PEFA assessment at the sector level and on its use in
reform design.
Involved in the design, monitoring and evaluation of various PFM reform strategies and plans including the
identification of synergies with other reform programmes (public sector, anti-corruption, local government
etc) and sequencing issues and implications of historical and political economy factors in reform design
and implementation. In Uganda and Tanzania, she has also been involved in the selection of PFM related
indicators for Budget Support frameworks and on inputs to future financial aid programmes in Tanzania.
Managed several asset valuations in the energy sector and carried out business process
reviews/information requirement assessments of financial management and other information systems
both in the public and private sector.
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Institutional Development Adviser on a number of DFID and other donor missions/assignments in the
water, health and education sectors. Team leader/member on a wide variety of programme and project
evaluations including output to purpose reviews in central government and the parastatal sector as well as
overall country assistance and funding evaluations.
Runs training courses for a number of development partner organisations on all aspects of public financial
management, accountability, aid effectiveness and anti-corruption measures.
EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS:
1982
CPFA
Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy
1978
BSc (Social) Hons (Economics and Sociology)
University of Southampton
University of Edinburgh – Post Graduate Certificate in Global Development Challenges
(Distinction)
2014
COUNTRY EXPERIENCE
Long term:
England
Kenya
9 years
3 years
Nigeria
2 years
Short term:
(* Multiple visits)
LANGUAGES
(1=excellent –
5=basic
Uganda* Botswana* Ethiopia Tanzania* Zimbabwe* Eritrea Sudan Namibia*
Zambia* Ghana* Gambia* Nigeria* Malawi* Kenya*, Sierra Leone, Senegal,
Rwanda, Lesotho* Guinea Cote d’Ivoire
Bangladesh, Nepal, Jordan, Laos, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Albania
Vanuatu * Solomon Islands, Samoa, Niue, Kiribati, Antigua, Barbados * St Kitts &
Nevis*, Cayman, St Vincent& Grenadines, Seychelles, St Lucia, BVI, Jamaica.
Tonga. Laos, Albania, Maldives, Mozambique
English:
German:
French
Swahili
Reading
1
4
4
5
Speaking
1
5
5
5
Writing
1
5
5
5
RECORD OF EMPLOYMENT
May 09 to date
Apr 08 – Apr 09
Apr 91-2008
Jan 90-Mar 91
Jun 89-Dec 89
Mar 87 -May 89
Oct 85-Feb 87
Mar 84 – Sep 85
Jan 82 – Mar 84
Sep 79 – Dec 81
Sep 78 – Sep 79
Director Actra Advisers Limited
Partner Actra Advisers
Independent Consultant, Global.
Coopers & Lybrand, Nigeria. Managing Consultant
Coopers & Lybrand, UK.Senior Consultant (Energy, Water and Transport)
Coopers and Lybrand Consultants, Kenya. Senior Consultant.
Coopers and Lybrand Consultants, UK. Consultant (Government Services).
Coventry Metropolitan Borough Council, UK. Technical accountant.
West Midlands Passenger Transport Executive, UK Budget analyst and cost accountant.
Coventry Health Authority, UK Trainee accountant.
Lewis’s Ltd Publicity and advertising assistant
SELECTED RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
2000 - 2014
Kenya, Uganda,
Ethiopia,
Tanzania, Malawi,
Lesotho,
Barbados,
Vanuatu, Samoa,
St Kitts, Antigua,
Seychelles,
Solomon Islands,
Sierra Leone,
Niue, Kiribati,
Ethiopia,
Indonesia,
Jamaica, Tonga,
Laos, Albania,
Maldives,
Mozambique
DFID, World Bank, IMF, CARTAC, PFTAC, EC, Irish Aid, CIDA, ADB, AusAID
PFM Assessments and Missions at national level/sub-national level (Team
leader/member)
1989 - 2014
Kenya, Tanzania,
St Lucia, Ghana,
Gambia, Zambia,
Jordan,
Botswana, Sudan,
Nepal, Nigeria,
Cayman Islands,
BVI, Mozambique
DFID, World Bank, IMF (CARTAC), EC, Danida, GtZ, KfW, Irish Aid
PFM Reform and Financial Management Advisor (Team Leader/member)
 Various PFM assessments including PEFA (initial and repeat, national and sub-national);
CFAA; CPAR, PEMAAP, CIFA, WIPS (Working in Partner Systems) and UN Macro
assessments
 Evaluated and provided guidance and training on all PFM criteria including budget
preparation, budget execution, accounting and reporting, auditing and legislative scrutiny.
 Fiduciary risk assessments at both central and sector level including review of PFM,
domestic accountability and anti-corruption measures and identification of capacity
(individual and organisational), historical and political economy factors influencing the
level of risk.
 Participated in various World Bank and IMF missions dealing with general or specific PFM
issues (e.g. expenditure commitment controls)
 Providing technical advice to the Policy Planning and Effectiveness Unit of Irish Aid on
PFM issues including PFM training, guidelines on use of country systems, PFM reforms
and PFM assessments
 Involved in PFM reform design, monitoring and evaluation both in terms of technical
inputs as well as broader governance issues, institutional arrangements, links with other
core reform processes such as public sector and local government reforms.
 Assisted in the selection of indicators for budget support frameworks in Uganda and
Tanzania.
 Financial management advice (short and medium term inputs) to various public sector
reform initiatives across a number of sectors including health, education, energy, water,
environment, transport, local government, central government and private sector.
 Wrote or Co- wrote various papers on PFM, PFM reform, Use of Country Systems and
Capacity Development including: a practitioners’ guide to support of capacity development
in PFM for discussion in Busan; Literature Review on PFM Reform; PFM reform in Afritac
region, initial guidelines on use of PEFA at sub-national level; discussion papers on the
use of PEFA at sector level and in reform design
1979 - 2014
UK, Nepal,
Tanzania, Ghana,
Zambia,
Botswana,
Namibia, Jamaica
DFID, ADB, GTZ, KfW, World Bank, Coventry Health Authority, West Midlands
Passenger Transport Executive
Financial management at sector level
 Asset valuations in the energy sectors in Nepal, Tanzania and Ghana. Reviewed internal
audit capabilities of four Ukrainian electricity generating companies prior to their
commercialisation.
 Advisor to the revenue manager, Lusaka Water and Sewerage Company. Institutional
adviser on reforms in Ghana’s water sector
 Financial and economic advice on various water and sanitation restructuring
projects/programmes in Botswana, Zimbabwe, Namibia and Zambia
 Advisor to the Ghana Education Service and the DFID Education Office in Ghana
including review of school infrastructure programme and development of framework for
assistance in accounting, internal auditing and human resource development at central
and decentralised level
 Fiduciary risk assessments for the education, land, energy and road sectors in Tanzania,
education, health and water sectors in Sierra Leone, security sector in Jamaica and social
security in Zambia.
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PEFA pilot sector assessment in education and health in Malawi
 Review of the financial management systems in Ghana’s health ministry, Accra’s public
health department, Mbeya hospital and Zambia’s pharmaceutical authority.
 Accountant Coventry Health Authority
 Management accountant/budget analyst West Midlands Passenger Transport Executive,
investment appraisals and route costing modelling for various UK public transport
operations
1987 - 2014
Ghana, Uganda,
Tanzania,
Zimbabwe,
Eritrea, Nigeria,
Zambia,
Bangladesh, St
Vincent, Namibia
DFID, World Bank, Danida, EC, GtZ, KfW
Aid Effectiveness and Public Sector Reforms
 Team member providing advice to DFID Tanzania on future financial aid funding
programmes including a synthesis report on budget support
 Assisted in the selection of indicators for budget support frameworks in Uganda and
Tanzania.
 Multiple country, programme and project evaluations and monitoring missions on public
sector reforms including reform of parastatal sector and planning projects.