Adams Associates has more than 25 years of experience in public administration and communication assisting the executive and legislative branches of national and local governments in 15 countries: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Egypt, Estonia, The Republic of Georgia, Lebanon, Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Ukraine and West Bank/Gaza.

We offer USAID project design, program management, technical assistance and training in:

• Public Administration Reform
  • Providing governance expertise and advice to elected and appointed officials on strategies to implement democratic and economic reforms in politically sensitive environments
  • Conducting institutional assessments, reviewing organizational management and staffing, recommending institutional restructuring and implementing strategic change
  • Developing and institutionalizing systems that increase the transparency of government operations and support ongoing public dialog on governance and service delivery with citizens, the private sector and civil society, including the development of information centers, citizen and economic development offices
  • Developing programs to ensure public participation in policy design and implementation
  • Fostering inter and intra-governmental communication and cooperation
  • Integrating new information technology (IT solutions) and management reforms

• Strategic Communication of Public Sector Reforms
  • Assessing a government’s ability to communicate successfully with its constituents, and devising strategies to enhance communication and understanding
  • Developing communication strategies for economic, democratic, social and judicial reforms, framing the issues to clarify complex economic policy and facilitate public understanding
  • Developing and implementing public information campaigns, public relations and community outreach strategies to ensure broad dissemination of information
  • Designing survey research to gauge public opinion and to integrate public opinion into policy development, applying research in the design of both free and paid media public information campaigns, and monitoring public opinion to measure the effect of information dissemination strategies
  • Working with governments to communicate complex and rapidly changing information
  • Forging collaborative strategies among governments, the private sector, civil society and the media to achieve government reforms

• Public Sector Economic Development and Marketing Strategies
  • Building public-private partnerships and facilitating dialogue between the public and private sectors
  • Supporting increased competitiveness through public education on economic issues
  • Providing strategic advice on targeting foreign media to promote tourism, exports and foreign investment
  • Fostering local economic development and promoting policy and regulatory reform

• Local Government and Decentralization
  • Conducting institutional assessments, reviewing organizational management and staffing, recommending institutional restructuring and implementing strategic change
  • Working with national, regional, and local government officials to improve intergovernmental communication
  • Developing and implementing public information campaigns, public relations and community outreach strategies to ensure broad dissemination of information
  • Improving the accessibility of constituent services through the development of information centers, citizen and economic development offices
  • Increasing municipal capacity for service delivery with direct technical assistance and training