What is the offering?
There are costs associated with fragmentation, both financially and structurally, therefore Madzix Management Solutions (Pty) Ltd is offering the following services to MGC (Pty) Ltd entities:

• Internal and external process integration
• Cost saving strategies and internal controls
• Budgets and financial flow projections
• Internal and external audit coordination
• Setting, monitoring and tracking key performance indicators
• Tender process and management
• Contract management (including reporting coordination)
• Facilities and service management
• Risk management services
• Hospitality and events management
• Technology platforms to manage facility requirements
• Change management processes
• Branding, public relations and marketing

What is the offering?
Madzix Professional Services (Pty) Ltd offers an intellectual or knowledge-based service through employed staff and a group of associates (i.e. either as individuals or partner organizations). The following services are offered in the three areas of: agrarian reform (i.e. agriculture food systems), (ii) land and (iii) water resources management:

Project Management Cycle

• Agenda setting for policy, programming and projects
• Stakeholder engagement
• Intervention prioritization tools
• Business plan development
• Project design/development and costing
• Implementation management
• Monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL)
• Knowledge management and documentation
• Behaviour change communication (BCC)

• Applied research
• Market research
• Policy research
• Gender studies
• Social studies
• RCT studies
• Impact assessment studies
• Viability studies (i.e. economic and environmental) and cost-benefit analysis
• Periodic studies at projects’ baseline, mid-term and end-line
• Research-based content development

• Consultation/Participatory Workshops
• Policy Formulation Workshops
• Strategy Development Workshops

What is the offering?
Public policies are defined as government policies that affect the whole population. Here the policies of interest pertain to agriculture and food systems, land reform, and water resources management. Therefore, Madzix Public Policy Support (Pty) Ltd aims to help create a conducive politico-economic environment through the following support services to government and related organizations:

• Policy agenda setting (i.e. assessments to understand the problem)
• Stakeholder mapping and engagement
• Policy research and analysis
• Strategic planning and policy formulation
• Technical assistance for:
  - Policies, programmes and project design
  - Policies, programmes and project implementation
  - Policies, programmes and project monitoring and evaluation
• Policy messages/packages for different stakeholders and audiences
• Harmonization and domestication of regional and global policies, protocols and frameworks at national level
• Policy advocacy and policy advice
  - Developing policy briefs
  - Convening and facilitating multi-stakeholder policy dialogue platforms
• Capacity strengthening initiatives for policy champions
  - Researchers and media to communicate science
  - Policy and decision makers to appraise research-based evidence
• Mutual accountability frameworks (for policy implementation)
• Public awareness and public relations (i.e. for retailing policy successes)
• Public-private partnership formations (i.e. for increased private sector investment)
• As a cross-cutting theme, institutional reforms and change management
• Maintaining and updating a database of related policies and strategies

What is the offering?
The core business area of Madzix Audit and Finance Advisory (MAFA) (Pty) Ltd is the development and application of financial tools, practices and services that could support farmers and agribusinesses, especially in rural areas, to develop their businesses and contribute to food and nutrition security. Therefore, MAFA (Pty) Ltd will provide the following offerings:

Internal and External Audit

• Evaluate and improve the effectiveness of risk management, control and governance processes
• Assess evidence to provide an independent opinion or conclusion regarding business processes and systems or other finance related subject matter
• Assess compliance with financial regulations and controls by executing external audit programme steps: testing general ledger, account balance, balance sheet, income statements and related financial statements; examining and analyzing records, reports, operating practices and documentation

• Preparation of auditable financial statements
• Preparation of operating budgets
• Due diligence reviews
• Finance-soundness feasibility studies
• Preparation of business plans
• Payroll management
• Management reporting
• Completion and submission of VAT, PAYE, UIF, and SDL (Skills Development Levies)

• Preparation of Annual Financial Statements
• Tax Regulations (Value Added Tax and Income Tax)
• Revenue Management
• Expenditure Management
• Risk Management
• Budget preparation

What is the offering?
Civil Engineering Will support projects that deal with infrastructure development through conceiving, designing, constructing/building, supervising, operating and maintaining related infrastructure projects or systems. Examples include building of farm facilities, fences, irrigation systems, water harvesting technologies, post-harvest-loss technologies, food processing and value addition, which are “green”.

Mechanical Engineering

Will support farm mechanization in agriculture and food industries focusing on the installation and maintenance of agricultural production and food processing technologies and equipment. These can be on-farm and off-farm. Central to mechanical engineering projects will be automation services.

Electrical Engineering

Deals with chemical production and the manufacture of products through chemical processes. Will support projects in agriculture concerned with the design, construction and operation of machines and plants that perform chemical reactions to solve practical problems or make useful products, from experimentation in the laboratory to implementation of the technology in full-scale production.

Read More...