In July, Henley won a contract with the Moldovan government, and before that, it was appointed to manage a programme for Grenada.
Eventually I learned that my role was to manage a programme of activities and projects that aimed to make the council more efficient.
"We need to reinvent how energy is delivered," says Simon Desjardins, who manages a programme at the Shell Foundation that invests in for-profit ways to deliver energy to the poor.
Also, in our discussions about "readiness", participants perceived readiness not only as having the skills and resources to manage a programme, but rather expressed positive or negative feelings with respect to community management.
Since child protection is a new and growing area in Viet Nam, the biggest challenge has been managing a growing programme section to respond to the increasing demands for technical assistance by the Government counterparts.
It has done an excellent job in managing an enormous programme of change in a highly sensitive area.
Buttress was also praised for his work managing a high-profile programme of projects delivering the police's chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear preparedness across the UK.
Its social enterprise side came via Tobias's frustration with his previous work: managing a gang prevention programme in east London.
This all keeps me quite busy already, but in addition to that I am involved in a European Union project Accentus is managing, a best-practice programme on Business Innovation and Growth from Exploitation of Academic Research BIGEARR).
My first job at the British Council consisted mostly of managing a British Embassy scholarship programme which, for example, meant having to interview, select, and later organise placements for Brazilian candidates at UK universities.
In one case a native company won a $2 billion contract to manage a satellite programme for the Department of Defence, which it promptly farmed out to Lockheed Martin, BAE Systems and General Dynamics.
