Independent consultants have the option to work on their own, or to work through a consulting firm or a university. Here is why you, as an individual consultant, may wish to partner with Akeso for some of your current and future work.

1. Reputation: You remain the PI for your work. And, by working through Akeso, your project benefits not just from your own reputation but also from its association with a solid and well-regarded firm.
2. US-based partner: For consultants based in other countries, partnering with Akeso provides a footing in the United States. This offers your project a level of accountability and business practice trusted by many US funders.
3. Teaming: For your projects that benefit from a team approach, Akeso can quickly identify technical experts, evaluators, research analysts, graphic designers, editors, clerical staff, and others to complement your own skills.
4. Global network: Akeso’s network includes consultants who live or have recent experience in 40 countries. Akeso has partner relationships with indigenous firms in many countries. Extend the impact and sustainability of your work by partnering with a local presence through Akeso.
5. Access to US Government, Gates Foundation, and other contracts: In many cases, solo individuals are not able to contract directly with donors. Akeso has administrative mechanisms including master service agreements to expedite contracting with the Gates Foundation, CDC Foundation, Microsoft, Intellectual Ventures/Global Good, and several universities. We are have current USG IDIQ mechanisms in place with USAID (Supply Chain) and CDC (PEPFAR Technical Assistance and HIV Technical Assistance TASC 4). We offer competitiveness for USG work as a veteran-owned small business.
6. Simple approaches to financial, legal, administrative, and risk management systems: Akeso has excellent systems for financial and contract management, 1099 filing, program reporting, subcontracting, liability coverage, travel support, legal consultation, and evacuation insurance that many consultants find to be a headache to handle on their own. We meet US Government accounting requirements.
7. Reasonable fees and costs: Akeso charges a small management fee and indirect rate. These rates vary from contract to contract. Please contact Akeso for more information about how we would work with you to put together a mutually acceptable budget for your project. We are far more reasonable than universities.
8. Akeso’s partners: Your work may benefit from a community of practice, including the opportunity to bounce ideas off of experts in the field. In the words of one consultant, “Akeso is fun to work with!”

To contact us to discuss options and opportunities, please email us:
Carmine Bozzi carmine.bozzi@akesoassociates.com
Raleigh Watts raleigh.watts@akesoassociates.com

HIV/AIDS | TB | malaria | neglected tropical diseases | vaccine preventable diseases | maternal and child health | immunizations | supply chain management | human resource development | health systems strengthening | monitoring and evaluation | epidemiology and surveillance | leadership development | public health capacity building | program management.

Akeso uses scientific evidence and practical business approaches to ensure sustainable impact and fiscal responsibility for all clients we serve.

Our Partners

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• Completed a rapid assessment and stocktaking of early infant male circumcision practices and opinions in 14 African countries.
• Conducting a randomized effectiveness trial of hookworm treatment of women smallholder farmers in the Democratic Republic of Congo to evaluate improved productivity of their farming and/or household labor.
• Conducted a mid-term review of a large surveillance and response project in Francophone countries in Central Africa.
• Assessed the feasibility and documented the rationale for the introduction of a new human hookworm vaccine under development, interviewing over 75 global opinion leaders to evaluate the factors that would contribute to successful vaccine introduction.
• Assisted an organization and its partners to develop a monitoring and evaluation framework for a project that is building the capacity of four West and Central African countries to respond to Cholera outbreaks using the Oral Cholera Vaccine.
• Performed operational reviews and risk assessments of an international NGO’s six field offices in order to develop prioritized operational strengthening plans as well as streamline financial management.
• Assisted an NGO in Botswana to develop a strategic roadmap to guide their future direction.
• Conducted assessment planning for an industry partners in Saving Mothers Giving Life in order to describe current services, utilization of those services, and identify existing gaps at the district level in Zambia and Uganda.
• Provided technical assistance to water and sanitation grantees and potential grantees working in India, brokering relationships with a major US based donor.
• Assisted a US-based university with project planning, operational strengthening, grant writing, and proposal development.
• Trained government and NGO stakeholders on the use of qualitative data analysis methods.

The firm has extensive experience in:

HIV/AIDS | TB | malaria | neglected tropical diseases | vaccine preventable diseases | maternal and child health | immunizations | supply chain management | human resource development | health systems strengthening | monitoring and evaluation | epidemiology and surveillance | leadership development | public health capacity building | program management.

We provide our clients with:

• Technical expertise that may not exist in-house.
• Multidisciplinary teams of consultants to complete assessment, evaluation and planning projects.
• Rapid response and completion of high-quality deliverables to meet urgent deadlines.
• Cost-efficient approaches for short-term assistance without adding to ongoing payroll burdens.
• A mechanism to engage individuals quickly and on a temporary basis when needed to facilitate rapid program scale up or emergency response.

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Our consultants have experience with private foundations, private sector enterprises, WHO, USAID, CDC, and other US Government branches, as well as experience with ministries of health, development, and education in countries worldwide. They are prepared to help build, train and mentor local staff and organizations utilizing their developed skills and knowledge of local customs, politics and networks.

Akeso’s Senior Partners carefully screen potential consultants before adding them to our roster. Akeso’s Senior Partners match consultants to the needs of clients, and to the extent possible aim to place local consultants, reducing the cost to the client. Senior Partners supervise the work of consultants throughout the contract agreement, and ensure that Akeso’s work is of the highest quality.

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Akeso Associates is a Seattle based company specializing in global public health and development in low income countries. The company is dedicated to setting the highest standards in global health and development for professionalism, expertise, innovation and development of sustainable solutions that will improve the lives of the poor. The firm has extensive experience in:

HIV/AIDS | TB | malaria | neglected tropical diseases | vaccine preventable diseases | maternal and child health | immunizations | supply chain management | human resource development | health systems strengthening | monitoring and evaluation | epidemiology and surveillance | leadership development | public health capacity building | program management.

Akeso uses scientific evidence and practical business approaches to ensure sustainable impact and fiscal responsibility for all clients we serve.

We provide our clients with:

• Technical expertise that may not exist in-house.
• Multidisciplinary teams of consultants to complete assessment, evaluation and planning projects.
• Rapid response and completion of high-quality deliverables to meet urgent deadlines.
• Cost-efficient approaches for short-term assistance without adding to ongoing payroll burdens.
• A mechanism to engage individuals quickly and on a temporary basis when needed to facilitate rapid program scale up or emergency response.

Akeso’s Senior Partners carefully screen potential consultants before adding them to our roster. All of our consultants have advanced degrees and their areas of work and expertise cover a wide variety of fields. Akeso’s Senior Partners match consultants to the needs of clients, and to the extent possible aim to place local consultants, reducing the cost to the client. Senior Partners supervise the work of consultants throughout the contract agreement, and ensure that Akeso’s work is of the highest quality.

We are structured in such a way that we can respond quickly to our client’s needs. We can often have a team in the field in less than two weeks, and our in-country consultants can respond quickly and with confidence using their local knowledge and experience.

Recent Examples of Akeso’s Work

• Akeso conducted a mid-term evaluation of a large surveillance project in multiple countries in Francophone Africa
• Akeso assessed the opinions of key global and in-country stakeholders on their willingness-to-pay for a proposed new vaccine
• Akeso competed a strategic plan and implementation roadmap for a large African NGO
• Akeso provided a global NGO with operational and management strengthening and strategic direction
• Akeso developed a monitoring and evaluation framework for a multi-country vaccine implementation project
• Akeso assisted a US-based university with project planning, operational strengthening, grantwriting, and proposal development

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Mr. Bozzi was one of the original architects of CDC’s Global AIDS Program. He led the design and implementation of this landmark precursor to PEPFAR resulting in the establishment of 25 CDC field sites in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and South America.

He is a graduate of the Ohio State University with a bachelor’s degree in Microbiology and a master’s in Business Administration from Duke’s Fuqua School of Business.