OUR WORK

AMERICAS
The challenges and opportunities in the Americas span inclusive growth, commercial innovation, and sustainable development. We work closely with USAID and a variety of public and private sector organisations in commerce, health, and beyond. The US is also home to two of our global hubs in both New York and Washington, DC.

Adolescents and Children, HIV Incidence Reduction, Empowerment, and Virus Elimination (ACHIEVE)

2019 – 2021

Location Global

Client PACT

Purpose

Supporting overall data use and demand within the ACHIEVE consortium, working toward HIV/AIDS response and organisational capacity strengthening.

Sector Health

Alliance for eTrade Development II Activity

2019 – 2023

Location Global

Client USAID

Purpose

Promoting digital trade in developing countries by addressing policy and enabling environment, skills development, trade facilitation and logistics, access to finance and digital payment, and inclusive trade.

Sector Economic Growth

Brazil Trade Facilitation

2019 – 2023

Location Brazil

Client FCO

Purpose

Supporting Brazil’s economic development by reducing the costs of trade and increasing the participation of Brazilian MSMEs in global value chains.

Sector Economic Growth

Brazilian Intellectual Property Office for the 21st century

2020 – 2025

Location Brazil

Client FCO

Purpose

Supporting Brazil in improving the management of Intellectual Property Rights by implementing targeted interventions that will bring the country closer to international standards and practices in this sector.

Sector Economic Growth

Creating Economic Opportunities

2018 – 2023

Location Guatemala

Client USAID

Purpose

Spurring productive economic activity in and beyond Guatemala’s capital city.

Sector Economic Growth

Data for Impact

2018 – 2023

Location Global

Client University of North Carolina

Purpose

Supporting countries to realise the power of data as actionable evidence that can improve programs, policies, and, ultimately, health outcomes.

Sector Measuring Impact

CATALYZE

Location: United States of America

Client: USAID

Purpose

Catalyzing USD 2 billion in private capital, especially to underfinanced social sectors and higher risk countries around the globe.

Sector Capital Advisory, Economic Growth, Education and Workforce Development, Inclusive Growth, Innovative Finance

Development Finance Institution (DFI) Investment Strategy

2019 – 2020

Location Canada

Client Client Name Confidential

Purpose

Supported the DFI’s growing team to implement its strategic plan and vision.

Sector Capital Advisory

E3 Analytics and Evaluation Project

2013 – 2021

Location United States of America

Client MSI

Purpose

Providing analytics services to USAID’s Economic Growth, Education, and Environment Bureau to support its project design and rigorous evaluations.

Sector Measuring Impact

Ecomicro

2019 – 2022

Location Jamaica

Client COK Sodality Co-operative Credit Union

Purpose

Designing and implementing a green finance product, assessing the portfolio vulnerability to climate change, and developing environmental guidelines and policies.

Sector Innovative Finance

Edison 2020 Support

2019 – 2020

Location United States of America

Client Client Name Confidential

Purpose

Built internal sustainability through Strategy Execution Workshops, Master Classes, and general project management.

Sector Governance

Framework Agreement for Review of Financial Institutions in Developing Countries and Emerging Markets

2017 – 2020

Location Dominican Republic, Panama

Client DEG

Purpose

Offered an SME Diagnostic and technical assistance package for financial institutions, which focused on operational and product changes, allowing financial institutions to better reach and serve SMEs.

Sector Economic Growth

Global Fund Indefinite Quantity Contract (IQC) 1

2017 – 2023

Location Panama

Client Global Fund

Purpose

Maximising impact, strengthening sustainability, supporting successful transitions from Global Fund financing, and mobilising increased resources to strengthen health systems and fight AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria.

Sector Environment, Health

Global Fund Indefinite Quantity Contract (IQC) 2

2018 – 2023

Location Global

Client Global Fund

Purpose

Providing high-quality technical assistance to Country Coordinating Mechanisms to strengthen their oversight and improve performance and national linkages that will lead to a more coherent and sustainable country response to epidemics.

Sector Health

Grove Cardiac Strategic Planning

2019 – 2020

Location United States of America

Client Client Name Confidential

Purpose

Facilitated the initial workshop of cardiac leaders to begin developing a unifying strategy.

Sector Inclusive Growth

IFC Global Dairy Mapping

2020 – 2021

Location United States of America

Client IFC

Purpose

Conducting a thorough global dairy landscape analysis to identify prime countries and potential partners for replication of VDE’s innovative model.

Sector Capital Advisory

Illicit Financial Flows Caribbean Scoping

2019 – 2020

Location Cayman Islands, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom

Client Development Alternatives Incorporated 

Purpose

Conducted primary and secondary research and political economy analysis to assess the nature, scale, and effects of Illicit Financial Flows in the Caribbean.

Sector Governance

Investment Capacity Assessment

2020 – 2021

Location United States of America

Client Client Name Confidential

Purpose

Conducting a study assessing investment capacity for a client.

Sector Capital Advisory

Learning Evaluation Analysis Project

2018 – 2023

Location United States of America

Client Integra

Purpose

Offering access to rigorous, independent, and high-quality analytical services to support economic and policy analyses, strategy and project design, monitoring and evaluation, and more.

Sector Economic Growth

LGBTQI White Paper

2019 – 2020

Location United States of America

Client Criterion Institute

Purpose

Drafted a white paper that identifies and discusses core priorities and strategies in using finance as a tool for social change within the LGBTQI community.

Sector Capital Advisory

Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth – Striver Strategy

2019 – 2020

Location United States of America

Client Mastercard

Purpose

Collaborated with the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth to better understand and support Strivers – a subset of micro and small entrepreneurs with the potential and propensity to grow.

Sector Economic Growth

MEASURE Evaluation Phase IV

2014 – 2020

Location United States of America

Client University of North Carolina

Purpose

Enabled countries to strengthen health information systems by routinely using health data, improving country-level capacity and tools, and increasing the capacity for rigorous evaluation.

Sector Measuring Impact

Meeting Targets and Maintaining Epidemic Control

2019 – 2024

Location Global

Client Family Health International

Purpose

Achieving and maintaining HIV epidemic control through strategic technical assistance and direct service delivery by improving HIV case finding, prevention, and treatment programming.

Sector Health

Nevada Strategy Execution Training

2020 – 2020

Location Jamaica

Client Client Name Confidential

Purpose

Exposed leaders from across a national betting and scorecard regulator to detailed Balanced Scorecard training.

Sector Inclusive Growth

Performance Monitoring and Evaluation Training

2014 – 2020

Location United States of America

Client USAID

Purpose

Developed and delivered performance monitoring and evaluation training courses for USAID staff and other partners to plan, manage, and inform USAID programs.

Sector Economic Growth, Measuring Impact

Peru Cacao Alliance

2016 – 2022

Location Peru

Client USAID

Purpose

Advancing the pathway out of poverty by giving Peruvians direct access to cacao markets, services, and finances to increase 20,000 households’ incomes.

Sector Economic Growth

Pfizer Brazil

2020 – 2020

Location Brazil

Client Wyeth São Paulo

Purpose

Gave a speech on a subject related to Value-Based Health Care for a Pfizer Brazil webinar in the context of the launch of two new medications.

Sector Health, Inclusive Growth

Private Sector Engagement for Contracting and Communications

2019 – 2024

Location United States of America

Client USAID

Purpose

Providing USAID’s Office of Acquisition and Assistance’s Professional Development and Training Division with a structured training program in Private Sector Engagement for acquisition and assistance professionals across the agency.

Sector Education and Workforce Development

Strategy Development I

2019 – 2021

Location Latam Region

Client Client Name Confidential

Purpose

Advising on redefining the long-term strategy to allow the organisation to grow and reach more women across the region, while also becoming more self-sustainable.

Sector Capital Advisory

Impact Investing in Sustainable Forestry Restoration at Scale

Location: Brazil

Client: Fundo Vale

Purpose

Designing and implementing a Project Development Facility focused on making investments in socioenvironmental business models that will deliver Vale’s 2030 commitment to recovering 100,000 hectares of degraded land across Brazil by 2030.

Sector Environment, Economic Growth, Inclusive Growth

Supporting Operational AIDS Research (SOAR)

2014 – 2020

Location United States of America

Client POP CNCL

Purpose

Supported voluntary medical male circumcision priority countries with their use of data to improve the planning, monitoring, and policy dialogue around national VMMC programs.

Sector Environment, Health, Measuring Impact

Sustainability Finance Real Economies Fund

2018 – 2020

Location United States of America

Client SICAV-SIF

Purpose

Led the design and structuring of a financial vehicle to supply long-term capital to sustainability-focused financial institutions.

Sector Capital Advisory

Technical Assistance for Strategic Programming in Central America – Atepeca

2017 – 2023

Location Nicaragua

Client Eurecna

Purpose

Increasing the capacity of institutions of the Central American Integration System, civil society organisations, and partners to carry out regional policies and initiatives.

Sector Education and Workforce Development, Governance

Technical Assistance on SME Banking to Banco Delta

2019 – 2020

Location Panama

Client Banco Delta

Purpose

Improved internationally recognised good practices in SME banking, allowing the bank to sustainably grow this line of business.

Sector Innovative Finance

Translating Data for Implementation

2018 – 2024

Location United States of America

Client USAID

Purpose

Transforming how data is used and moving from a culture of retrospective reporting to prospective and prescriptive analytics that allow service providers to provide targeted, yet differentiated, prevention and treatment services in the highest need sites.

Sector Measuring Impact

USAID Economic Competitiveness Project

2017 – 2024

Location El Salvador

Client USAID

Purpose

Strengthening micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises, encouraging private sector investment, and improving El Salvador’s business environment.

Sector Economic Growth

VPO Argidius

2020 – 2025

Location Guatemala

Client ARGIDIUS

Purpose

Facilitating access to financial and non-financial services for SMEs.

Sector Economic Growth

VPO Colombia

2019 – 2021

Location Colombia

Client USAID

Purpose

Facilitating access to financial and non-financial services for women entrepreneurs.

Sector Economic Growth

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