OUR WORK

AFRICA

Africa is home to some of the world’s fastest growing economies and a young, increasingly tech-savvy population. We have hubs in 22 countries, giving us deep insight into this future economic powerhouse.

Anti Corruption Evidence Programme

2016 – 2021

Location Nigeria

Client SOAS

Purpose

Providing policy advice and communications support to the SOAS-managed Anti Corruption Evidence Programme, which delivers practical research on ‘what works’ to tackle corruption in developing countries.

Sector Economic Growth and Governance

Australia Awards–Africa

2016 – 2020

Location Australia, Kenya, South Africa

Client DFAT

Purpose

Built the long-term capacity of African governments by providing masters level and short course scholarships.

Sector Education and Workforce Development

BRAC Servicing

2017 – 2025

Location Myanmar, Tanzania, Uganda

Client BRAC

Purpose

Supporting multiple BRAC country offices in post investment support services.

Sector Capital Advisory

BRAC Uganda

2018 – 2020

Location Uganda

Client BRAC

Purpose

Supported BRAC Uganda in the sale of 51% of its stake.

Sector Capital Advisory

Business Model Design and Ecosystem Support Relevant for Solar Irrigation Systems

2019 – 2021

Location Egypt

Client Chemonics Egypt

Purpose

Providing technical assistance for Business Model Design and Ecosystem Support Relevant for Solar Irrigation Systems.

Sector Economic Growth and Environment

Capacity Development Programme COVID-19

2020 – 2021

Location Mauritius, Netherlands

Client Nederlandse FMO

Purpose

Supported FMO customers with technical assistance to address challenges related to the impacts and effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Sector Capital Advisory, Economic Growth, Innovative Finance

Challenge Fund for Youth Employment

2019 – 2025

Location Algeria, Burkina Faso, Chad, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iraq, Jordan, Kenya, Lebanon, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sudan, Tunisia, Uganda

Client Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Purpose

Aiming to create a prosperous future for 200,000 young women and men in the Middle East, North Africa, Sahel & West Africa, and Horn of Africa regions.

Sector Economic Growth, Education and Workforce Development

COVida (SDS-OVC)

2016 – 2020

Location Mozambique

Client FHI

Purpose

Provided service delivery and monitoring and evaluation support to orphans and vulnerable children.

Sector Governance and Measuring Impact

Debt and Equity Capital Raising

2018 – 2020

Location Sierra Leone, Liberia, Côte d’Ivoire

Client Solon Capital Partners

Purpose

Supported in raising additional equity and debt capital to fund further development of the existing portfolio and new real economy investments in target markets.

Sector Capital Advisory

Discover-Health

2016 – 2021

Location Zambia

Client JSI Research & Training Institute

Purpose

Improving the lives of Zambia’s population by ensuring equitable access to and use of high-quality health services and products at the district and community levels.

Sector Economic Growth and Health

EC Nutrition Advisory Services

2014 – 2021

Location Ethiopia

Client AECOM

Purpose

Delivering nutrition, technical assistance, and advisory services.

Sector Governance and Health

EC State Building Contract Budget Support Program

2016 – 2020

Location Sierra Leone

Client Linpico

Purpose 

Supported the Government of Sierra Leone in improving resilience to face external shocks and in reaching the New Deal Peace-building and State-building goal.

Sector Governance

Environmental, Social and Governance Performance Benchmark Study

2020 – 2020

Location Nigeria

Client Dangote Cement

Purpose

Assessed the Environmental, Social, and Governance, or Sustainability Performance Reporting, and highlighted opportunities for improving in areas where there are gaps.

Sector Governance

Feasibility Study for Production of Herbs, Spices and Aromatic Plants

2019 – 2020

Location Lesotho

Client Lesotho Ministry of Trade & Industry

Purpose

Advised the Government of Lesotho on income diversification opportunities for farmers and agricultural enterprises and provided financial business cases and an investment promotion strategy.

Sector Economic Growth

Cocoa Farmers Diversification

Location: Ghana

Client: A Food and Agriculture Company

Purpose

Conducted cocoa productivity, an income baseline and improvement program, and assessed and prioritised diversification crop options to enhance cocoa farmers’ income.

Sector Economic Growth

Feed the Future Malawi Agricultural Diversification Activity

2016 – 2022

Location Malawi

Client USAID

Purpose

Increasing farmers’ resilience and livelihood stability by forging stronger relationships with commercial buyers and promoting new technologies.

Sector Economic Growth and Governance

Financial Need Assessment and Product Design for Smallholder Farmers in West Africa

2020 – 2021

Location Liberia

Client BRAC Liberia Microfinance

Purpose

Designing and piloting agri-lending products for farmers and other value chain actors that meet market needs and align to BRAC’s strategy and systems.

Sector Economic Growth

Ghana JET

2020 – 2025

Location Ghana

Client FCDO

Purpose

Contributing towards economic transformation in Ghana, creating more jobs and supporting inclusive growth and poverty reduction, while exploring opportunities for climate-friendly interventions.

Sector Economic Growth and Inclusive Growth

Ghana Mobilising Finance in Agriculture

2020 – 2024

Location Ghana

Client USAID

Purpose

Using incentives to spur agricultural finance market behaviour change and system reforms leading to improved economic growth for Ghana.

Sector Economic Growth

Health Policy Plus

2015 – 2022

Location Global

Client USAID

Purpose

Working with governments across four continents to optimise resources and foster equitable health services, supplies, and delivery systems.

Sector Governance, Health, and Innovative Finance

Human Development Innovation Fund

2013 – 2021

Location Tanzania

Client FCDO

Purpose

Identifying and supporting innovations that have the potential to create social impact in education, health, water, sanitation, and hygiene across Tanzania.

Sector Economic Growth and Measuring Impact

Improving Market Systems for Agriculture

2018 – 2022

Location Rwanda

Client FCDO

Purpose

Reducing poverty in Rwanda by supporting agricultural markets to work better for the poor.

Sector Economic Growth

Independent Evaluation of Private Enterprise Program Ethiopia

2014 – 2025

Location Ethiopia

Client FCDO

Purpose

Developing an evaluation framework and approach for the Private Enterprise Program Ethiopia and conducting an impact evaluation of the program.

Sector Economic Growth and Measuring Impact

Independent Evaluation of Land Investment Transformation Program

2015 – 2024

Location Ethiopia

Client FCDO

Purpose

Designing and implementing an independent impact evaluation of the Ethiopia Land Investment Transformation Programme (LIFT).

Sector Measuring Impact

Institutions for Inclusive Development (I4ID)

2016 – 2021

Location Tanzania

Client FCDO

Purpose

Strengthening democratic institutions and governance in Tanzania so that they are more inclusive and accountable, and economic growth provides more benefits for impoverished people.

Sector Governance and Inclusive Growth

Integrated Health Systems Activity

2020 – 2023

Location Rwanda

Client USAID

Purpose

Developing sustainable financing strategies and ensuring that the Rwandan population has access to quality health services that meet the established minimum standards.

Sector Health and Innovative Finance

Investment Support Facility for Smallholder Inclusive Transactions

2019 – 2022

Location Malawi

Client Foundation for a Smoke-Free World

Purpose

Generating and closing at least USD 75 million in transactions that integrate at least 25,000 smallholders into their business models.

Sector Economic Growth

Kenya Health Management Information Systems II

2016 – 2021

Location Kenya

Client HHS CDC

Purpose

Increasing access to quality data to improve clinical service delivery for better patient management and public health programs in line with Kenya’s 90-90-90 treatment targets. 

Sector Governance, Health, and Measuring Impact

Kenya Investment Mechanism

2018 – 2023

Location Kenya

Client USAID

Purpose

Closing financial gaps that prevent capitalisation of clean energy and agriculture sectors by encouraging strategic partnerships, facilitating transactions, and mobilising USD 400 million in finance and investment in these sectors. 

Sector Economic Growth and Governance

LAFIYA

2020 – 2027

Location Nigeria

Client FCDO

Purpose

Saving lives, reducing suffering, and improving economic prospects for the poorest and most vulnerable through encouraging the government to increase resources invested in health, improving health services’ effectiveness and efficiency and reducing the total fertility rate.

Sector Health

Liberia Multi-Stakeholder Forest Governance and Accountability Project

2019 – 2023

Location Liberia

Client FCDO

Purpose

Aiming to improve forest governance in Liberia by enhancing the level of accountability and oversight of Liberia’s EU Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) process.

Sector Environment

Malawi Nacala Rail and Port Value Addition and Inclusive Private Sector Development Project

2018 – 2022

Location Malawi

Client Malawi Investment and Trade Centre

Purpose

Linking 17 agro-processing SMEs, 25 farmer groups, and 1000+ smallholders with training, markets, and finance.

Sector Economic Growth

Mali HSS

2020 – 2025

Location Mali

Client USAID

Purpose

Increasing the capacity of Malians to plan, finance, and manage their own health systems at the facility, district, regional, and national levels.

Sector Health

Market Development Component for the Zimbabwe Livelihoods and Food Security Programme Phase II

2019 – 2021

Location Zimbabwe

Client FCDO

Purpose

Improving the food security and nutrition of smallholder farmers and rural communities in Zimbabwe by designing and implementing market development initiatives.

Sector Economic Growth

Maternal, Newborn and Child Health

2014 – 2020

Location Nigeria

Client FCDO

Purpose

Provided technical and programmatic assistance to generate increased demand for, and access to, high quality health services to help save the lives of pregnant women, newborns, and children.

Sector Health

Mobilising Data for Anti-Corruption

2019 – 2024

Location Nigeria

Client FCDO

Purpose

Using data to catalyse change in the anti-corruption sector by facilitating partnerships that will investigate corruption cases and improve the uptake and analysis of data for more sanctions and prosecutions of corruption.

Sector Governance

Nigeria Integrated Health Program

2017 – 2025

Location Nigeria

Client USAID

Purpose

Identifying and supporting rapid scale-up of proven health interventions to improve and strengthen Nigeria’s health service delivery systems.

Sector Governance and Health

Investment Mobilisation for Prosperity and Catalytic Transformation (IMPACT)

Location: Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia

Client: FCDO

Purpose

Supporting impact investments into businesses that reach the underserved as consumers, suppliers, distributors, or employees in some of the world’s poorest and most fragile states.

Sector Economic Growth

Nigeria SCALE

2020 – 2025

Location Nigeria

Client USAID

Purpose

Strengthening the financial management and advocacy capacity of local Civil Society Organisations and Business Membership Organisations to create a more accountable, transparent, peaceful, and democratic Nigeria with more effective and efficient public service delivery.

Sector Governance

NPI EXPAND

2019 – 2024

Location Ethiopia, Liberia, Mali, Senegal, United States of America, Venezuela

Client USAID

Purpose

Aiming to increase the availability and utilisation of high-quality health services by developing the capacity of new and underutilised partners.

Sector Health

Operational and Technical Support to Tanzania’s Ministry of Health

2020 – 2021

Location Tanzania, United States of America

Client Avenir Health

Purpose

Providing operational and technical support to the Reproductive and Child Health Section of Tanzania’s Ministry of Health.

Sector Health

PCESA Agricultural Sector Program for Economic Growth

2016 – 2021

Location Burkina Faso

Client DANIDA

Purpose

Offering technical assistance to banks to improve their capabilities and providing sustainable funding to agro processing value chains.

Sector Innovative Finance

PERL – Engaged Citizens

2016 – 2021

Location Nigeria

Client FCDO

Purpose

Supporting transformative reforms in service delivery processes by facilitating partnerships between citizen groups, legislators, and government at local, state, and federal levels.

Sector Governance

Private Enterprise Programme Ethiopia (PEPE)

2013 – 2020

Location Ethiopia

Client DAI Europe

Purpose

Supported economic opportunities for women and “greening” growth.

Sector Economic Growth and Environment

Programme for Supporting Renewable Energy and Promoting Gender Equality in Egypt

2019 – 2022

Location Egypt

Client European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

Purpose

Undertaking a market study and providing technical assistance to promote women’s economic opportunities in the renewable energy sector in Egypt.

Sector Inclusive Growth

Propcom Mai-Karfi

2011 – 2021

Location Nigeria

Client FCDO

Purpose

Increasing employment, food security, and productivity of the rural poor by facilitating relationships across agricultural markets, creating jobs, and enabling greater access to inputs and finance.

Sector Economic Growth

Provision of Rural Finance Capacity Building Services

2018 – 2020

Location Burundi, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Uganda, Zambia 

Client IFAD

Purpose

Addressed the barriers and needs of the financial service providers and mainstreamed climate, environmental, and social governance into their operations. 

Sector Economic Growth

Purdue Improved Crop Storage Bags (PICS)

2020 – 2020

Location Malawi

Client Client Name Confidential

Purpose

Partnered with the client to sustainably increase food security for small farmers across Malawi by providing 110,000+ Purdue Improved Crop Storage bags (PICS) as samples and training to smallholders and communities.

Sector Economic Growth

Regional Agriculture and Market Systems Activity

2020 – 2027

Location Burundi, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia

Client USAID

Purpose

Promoting increased agricultural production, trade, improved policies, finance & investment, and resilience to shocks and stresses in the East Africa region by addressing agricultural issues that can only be solved on a regional basis.

Sector Economic Growth, Inclusive Growth

Rwanda Multi Donor Civil Society Support Programme

2015 – 2020

Location Rwanda

Client FCDO

Purpose

Enabled Rwandan civil society to become more effective at influencing its government on key policy issues and supporting social cohesion, reconciliation, good governance, and human rights. 

Sector Governance

SEFAA Liquidity Mechanism

2020 – 2020

Location Africa 

Client Small Foundation

Purpose

Advised Small Foundation on the various liquidity mechanisms available.

Sector Capital Advisory

Service Provider to the planned Energy and Environment Partnership (EEP) Trust Fund

2017 – 2020

Location Botswana, Burundi, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Seychelles, South Africa, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Client KPMG

Purpose

Managed the EEP fund, which finances innovative, early stage clean energy projects in East and Southern Africa.

Sector Environment

Skills for Prosperity

2020 – 2023

Location Nigeria

Client FCDO

Purpose

Providing necessary training, technical support, and capacity building to strengthen government and private sector systems and processes to institutionalise a National Apprenticeship and Training System.

Sector Economic Growth

South Sudan CIP Development

2020 – 2021

Location South Sudan

Client UN Foundation

Purpose

Providing technical and advisory services to the Family Planning 2020 Initiative Department of United Nations Foundation.

Sector Health

Stamping out Trafficking in Nigeria

2019 – 2020

Location Nigeria

Client FCDO

Purpose

Improved the capacity and effectiveness of the Edo state government, civil society, and communities to coordinate an evidence-based response to tackle the drivers of human trafficking and unsafe migration from Edo State.

Sector Governance

Strengthening Access Bank’s Initiative 

2019 – 2020

Location Ghana, Nigeria, Rwanda, Zambia

Client KIT Royal Tropical Institute

Purpose

Supported Access Bank Nigeria, Ghana, Rwanda, and Zambia to grow its Women in Business segment and better serve WMSMEs by offering financial and non-financial services.

Sector Economic Growth

Support to Public Finance Management Reform in Lesotho

2015 – 2021

Location Lesotho

Client Linpico

Purpose

Contributing to the implementation of Lesotho’s national development agenda as embodied in the Vision 2020.

Sector Economic Growth and Governance

Supporting local banks and companies towards the development of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

2017 – 2022

Location South Africa

Client South African National Energy Development Institute (SANEDI)

Purpose

Supporting local banks and companies in South Africa towards the development of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy with a social impact.

Sector Economic Growth and Environment

Support to the Office of the National Authorising Officer of the European Development Fund

2018 – 2022

Location Netherlands, Zambia

Client European Union

Purpose

Contributing to efficient and effective programming and implementation of EU funded projects and programs by the NAO.

Sector Economic Growth

Sustainable Outcomes of Children and Youth in Uganda

2015 – 2021

Location Uganda

Client CRS

Purpose

Improving the health, nutrition, education, and psychosocial wellbeing of vulnerable children, as well as reducing abuse, exploitation, and neglect of these children.

Sector Economic Growth and Measuring Impact

Mobile for Development Central Innovation Fund Manager

Location: Africa and Asia

       Client: GSMA

Purpose

Providing robust risk and fund management expertise to the GSMA, and supporting the GSMA with the identification, selection, and funding of innovative digital solutions that have the power to make transformative impact and reduce inequalities in emerging markets.

Sector Economic Growth, Education and Workforce Development, Environment, Governance, Inclusive Growth, and Innovative Finance

Technical Assistance for the Employment Promotion through SMMEs Support Programme

2018 – 2022

Location South Africa

Client European Union

Purpose

Supporting inclusive and sustainable economic growth and employment creation in South Africa, and contributing to the target of reducing the official unemployment rate from 25% to 14% by 2020.

Sector Economic Growth

Technical Assistance in Support of the Education Sector in Sierra Leone

2017- 2022

Location Sierra Leone

Client Proman Group

Purpose

Providing Sierra Leone’s relevant institutions with technical assistance to strengthen its management capacity and deliver educational services.

Sector Education and Workforce Development, and Governance

Technical Assistance Team for the DINU Programme – Uganda

2017 – 2024

Location Uganda

Client Proman Group

Purpose

Consolidating stability in northern Uganda, eradicating poverty and under-nutrition and strengthening the foundations for sustainable and inclusive socio-economic development.

Sector Economic Growth and Governance

Technical Assistance to the Department of Devolution and Planning

2015 – 2022

Location Kenya

Client Eurecna

Purpose

Contributing to the implementation of the devolution process as outlined in the new Constitution in Kenya.

Sector Economic Growth and Governance

TFA 2020 Regional Coordinator for Africa

2016 – 2020

Location Ghana, Liberia

Client World Economic Forum

Purpose

Engaged the TFA 2020 Regional Coordinator for Africa and facilitated the shared objectives of TFA 2020 and the P4F Programme in supporting sustainable forest management.

Sector Environment

Time Driven Activity Based Costing

2020 – 2021

Location Kenya, Mozambique

Client Brandeis University

Purpose

Obtaining routine and accurate cost information on the provision of HIV services at the facility level and using this information to effectively allocate resources, improve monitoring efforts, and increase efficiency.

Sector Health

Transparency and Accountability for Improved Service Delivery and Economic Development

2019 – 2024

Location Malawi

Client FCDO

Purpose

Identifying areas for economic development and service delivery through the implementation of issue-based projects.

Sector Economic Growth and Governance

Transforming the Economy through Climate Smart Agribusiness (NU-TEC)

2015 – 2022

Location Uganda

Client FCDO

Purpose

Increasing the incomes and climate resilience of small farmers by attracting agribusiness investment and stimulating market linkages.

Sector Economic Growth

Uganda Health Systems Strengthening

2019 – 2024

Location Uganda

Client USAID

Purpose

Strengthening health systems that are critical for delivering high-quality health services by improving leadership, management, and accountability across public and private health sectors.

Sector Health

Venture Fund Structuring

2019 – 2020

Location Africa

Client Client Name Confidential

Purpose

Supported in identifying, defining, and articulating an investment thesis for the creation of a USD 30 million earlystage venture fund.

Sector Capital Advisory

Voluntary Rights-Based Family Planning Project II

2020 – 2021

Location Nigeria

Client What Works Association

Purpose

Funding to finalise publications started under the first Voluntary Rights-Based Family Planning Project.

Sector Health

West Africa BioDiversity and Climate Change

2015 – 2020

Location Ghana

Client Tetra Tech

Purpose

Combatted wildlife trafficking, improved coastal resilience, and reduced deforestation, degradation, and biodiversity loss in key landscapes.

Sector Economic Growth, Environment, and Governance

Tupime Kaunti Project

Location: Kenya

Client: USAID

Purpose

Planning, implementing, and evaluating health services that are responsive to Measurement, Learning, and Accountability (MLA) objectives at the county level.

Sector Health and Measuring Impact

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