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Corporate Overview

Corporate Overview

About Us

AMSCO's relationships with African businesses are developed and maintained through the organisation's managers. AMSCO's managers are the crucial human representatives of the organisation and form the crucial link between AMSCO clients, AMSCO stakeholders and the organisation itself.

AMSCO delivers two primary services within the African economy – Management Assistance and Training / Management Development.

Management Assistance

AMSCO either recruits or seconds experienced industry experts able to guide in development of management, improve operational and financial performance and develop local managers to succeed AMSCO personnel. AMSCO also assists companies in setting up new businesses, arranging technical rehabilitation and facilitating the recapitalisation of enterprises using its extensive network of stakeholders - who are investors.

Training / Management Development

AMSCO seeks to ensure that it puts in place a well-trained, professional team of local senior executives in each client company. Local managers are thus comprehensively trained via practical, job-orientated management development programmes fitted to the specific needs of the client company. In certain instances, AMSCO is also able to subsidise the cost of the programmes to SMEs.

AMSCO's Mandate

AMSCO's primary objective is to assist African companies, particularly SMEs, to become profitable, globally competitive and sustainable. AMSCO seeks to achieve this mandate by providing qualified, experienced, hands-on, professional management and related services to selected private companies and commercially operated public enterprises, with the aim of strengthening management teams while developing local management capacity.

AMSCO's ultimate goal is to leave in place locally managed businesses that are profitable, competitive, sustainable and integrated into the international business community.

AMSCO in a nutshell

  • Apart from the UN and the IFC, AMSCO is supported in its work by the African Development Bank (AfDB) and a range of development finance institutions and donor countries. The organisation is thus a public-private partnership.
  • AMSCO is a specially constituted corporation in the Netherlands, with a statutory head office in Amsterdam, operational headquarters in Johannesburg, South Africa and three regional offices in Nairobi (East Africa), South Africa (Southern Africa) and Accra (for Anglophone and Francophone Africa) respectively.
  • The company is currently present in 20 African countries, with approximately 180 management professionals seconded to 91 companies.
  • AMSCO also serves as the Operational Unit of UNDP's African Training & Management Services (ATMS) Project.