Mayecor Sar: Advising Governments in Africa and Driving Delivery for a Citizen-Centric Impact
Contact
mayecorsar@gmail.com
About Me
Background & Experience
Mayecor Sar is a government transformation, diplomacy and public sector delivery leader with over 15 years of experience in advising leaders in Africa and Asia to implement impactful policies.
He is skilled in designing socio-economic development strategies such as a national vision and implementing large-scale transformational programs across various sectors, including public governance, economic reform, education and health.
Mayecor currently leads projects in Senegal and Francophone West Africa for Delivery Associates (DA). Prior to joining DA, Mayecor headed Delivery work at The Tony Blair Institute in Senegal where he advised the government and regional institutions on strategy, policy and delivery to accelerate the implementation of the country’s key priorities.
Before this, Mayecor was heading the Government and Public Sector practice at Deloitte Senegal, overseeing a portfolio of projects worth over USD 2 million, including the Power Africa Programme. Mayecor has also spent five years at the Office of the President of Senegal coordinating the delivery of reforms to the country's public administration, regulatory system, business environment and human capital development to boost foreign direct investment.
Mayecor's other experiences include the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), the Korea Institute for Development Strategy, Pfizer Asia Pacific and was a consultant in both Singapore and Dakar, where he helped firms from across the world invest in Africa. Mayecor is also the co-founder and Executive Director of Think Africa 2050, a pan-African think tank.
He is a graduate of the University of York in the U.K. where he read Politics Philosophy and Economics (PPE) before joining the National University of Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew School where he attended the master’s in public policy programme.
Mayecor was also an editor of the Asian Journal of Public Affairs (AJPA), is a Policy Centre for the New South (Morocco) Emerging Leader and an Atlantic Council (US) Millennium Leadership Fellow.
My Expertise

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Government Transformation: Policy design and performance management for national and state level programs

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Strategy and Policy Development:Leadership support for identification of priorities and implementation planning

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Organizational Transformation : Build, operationalize and transfer Delivery Units

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State Capacity building : Stakeholders coordination and co-creation activities for citizen-centric policy solutions

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Government Relations : Build and manage relationships with very high-level decision-makers (Presidents, Prime Ministers, State Ministers, Lawmakers, Mayors etc)
Services Offered

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Policy Design and Strategy Development
Policy formulation and elaboration of strategies

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Delivery
Support for identifying priorities and implementation planning and performance management for national and state-level programs

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Capacity Building for Governments
Capacity building through stakeholder coordination and co-creation of citizen-centric policy solutions, tools development and training

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Diplomacy
Analysis and insights on Geopolitics, international cooperation and Diplomacy with à special focus on Adia-Africa relations
Case Studies

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Public Sector Reform
Coordinated the elaboration of the National Public Sector Reform document and the 2016-2023 roadmap, which was adopted by the President of Senegal

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Budget Management
Managed Deloitte Senegal's Government and Public Sector department budget, set KPIs and optimized team staffing to build a portfolio of engagements worth over USD 2 million a year in revenue

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Policy Advisory
Advised Congo Brazzaville's Minister of Industrial Development on policies to improve the business environment and World Bank Doing Business ranking: helped negotiate a $1.5 million egov development program with a specialized Singaporean company
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