Tanzania – Five-year DANIDA-funded project to improve market access for SMEs through value chain development in the food processing and marketing sector, particularly in export promotion and import substitution. Within the remit of this project, we have overseen operation of the Small and Medium Enterprise Competitiveness Facility which is managing a matching grant fund, bringing together SMEs and business development service providers. The project objective is to improve the international competitiveness of food processing and food marketing SMEs to access and exploit new markets.
Russia – lead firm in consortium awarded two-year EU-funded Tacis Enterprise Restructuring Facility (TERF III) contract, identifying 21 enterprises operating in the high-tech and machine-building sectors and assisting these enterprises to implement best-European technologies in a wide field of disciplines (design, marketing, production, logistics, management and operations, finance, etc), restructuring their operations in order to promote entry into western markets and/or encourage import substitution.
Namibia- Assistance to the Development Bank of Namibia in the development of banking services and financing to the country’s SME sector, improvement of lending standards and credit analysis. Our experts undertook an analysis of SME market and lending in Namibia, developed a strategic plan for SME lending and associated credit policy and procedures and developed the capacity of credit officers.
Tanzania- A four-year World Bank funded project aimed at strengthening the entrepreneurial culture of Tanzania by providing entrepreneurs with business ideas and start-up firms with risk grants, thereby enabling them to either start or upgrade a business. The project established a national virtual incubator, so-called Business Development Gateway along with establishment and implementation of 2 complementary programmes; Business Plan Competitions (BPC) and Business Diagnostic Program (BDP).
Bangladesh – EC-funded technical assistance project aimed at supporting sectoral business associations and other business membership organisations to submit high quality applications under the SME competitiveness grant scheme. The project uses a two-pronged approach of strengthening the supply side by building the capacities of business membership organisations in providing improved advocacy services for SMEs and the demand side by facilitating potential and existing clusters to undertake joint marketing, R&D and procurement initiatives to further exploit economies of scale.
Kosovo – Two-year EC-funded project to support the revitalisation of the economy of Kosovo through facilitating privatisation and liquidation of state owned enterprises. The project supported the economic development of Kosovo and provided training to local counterparts through the privatisation and liquidation processes, enabling increased investment in the productive manufacturing and service sector in Kosovo.
St Helena - Expert advice to DFID aimed at reviewing the St Helena Investment Policy to implement the reforms needed to open the island’s economy to inward investment and tourism The scope of the Outline Investment Policy included recommendations for the progressive removal of barriers to investment, simplification of business registration and clear economic justification and quantification of benefits accrued to protected industries.
Bosnia and Herzegovina –DFID-funded project designed to assist in improving the performance of medium sized enterprises in BiH through a range of post-privatisation restructuring and turnaround management services. More than 30 enterprises were assisted. The project worked in both entities of BiH (the Republic Srpska and the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina) and in most main sectors (food processing, engineering, construction, textiles, etc).
Egypt - EU-funded project to provide team of four full-time experts plus pool of short-term experts to provide technical, financial, legal, marketing, valuation and other skills to the Chemical Industries Holding Company in pursuit of Government’s objective to restructure and privatise the 19 affiliates/subsidiaries of the Holding Company.
Sierra Leone – We acted as Financial Advisors to the National Commission for Privatisation, assisting in the sale of Government’s majority shareholding in the National Development Bank Limited to an appropriate strategic investor. Target enterprise valuation, Information Memorandum and ITT dossier were prepared and presented to Government, together with draft advertisement, evaluation criteria and proposed timetable for the privatisation process.
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