FutureStates

Business Development and Market Research for Consultancies

Business Development and Market Research for Consultancies

Marketing, promotions and other business support have been undertaken for a variety of UK, European and US-based organisations within many countries including:

Australia, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Belize, Bulgaria, Burundi, Cambodia, China, Cote d'Ivoire, Croatia, Cuba, Egypt, Germany, Ghana, Gibraltar, Greece, Grenada, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, Israel, Italy, Lao PDR, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Malta, Mexico, Morocco, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Sao Tomé and Principe, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, South Africa, Sweden, Tanzania, Tunisia, Uganda, UK, US, Vatican City.

The support offered has been given at all stages of the project cycle:

Prequalification, Expressions of Interest, Consultant Selection, Technical Proposals, Tendering, Contract Award, Local/in-country Office set-up, Project Management and Billing. Specific sectors have included: oil & gas, IPPC, Climate Change and Resilience, Disaster Management and international development.

Projects undertaken by FutureStates in this category

LocationAgency/SectorAssignmentProject Description
NigeriaAFCTA Sec (Eco Capital Consortium)Technical EditorStrategic Environmental Assessment: of African Continental Free Trade Area involved advising on layout, technical content and receipt of more than 50 individual technical contributions. The editorial process included technical review of each contribution before integration into the overall report.
ArmeniaEU (Landelll Mills)Team LeaderIdentification and Formulation: Technical assistance for the identification and formulation of future actions in the field of green development and climate change, focussing on SMEs, tourism, agriculture and local development.
EgyptEU (Cowater)Team LeaderMid Term Evaluation: of the Egyptian Pollution Abatement Project (III) which is designed to establish funding mechanisms, with the help of international donors’ community, to support industrial companies that are willing to invest in pollution abatement. The evaluation assesses against six standard DAC evaluation criteria: relevance, coherence, effectiveness, efficiency, sustainability and impact, in addition to the EU-specific evaluation criterion: EU Added Value.
NigeriaAfDB (Natural Eco-Capital)Peer ReviewScaling Climate Action through Climate Technology and Innovation by SMEs: The private sector and SMEs in climate-smart investments will be a cornerstone to growing climate action in Africa. AfDB facilitates the flow of both private and public sector investment into the continent. This assignment is aimed at developing tools to assess and mainstream climate risk into SME operations, as well as build capacity and identify opportunities for investments leveraging the NDCs green investment platforms.
NigeriaNEXIM Bank (CirculatE)AuthorA two-day workshop was designed and delivered to 50 senior managers covering all the NEXIM lending facilities. The training covered the Central Bank of Nigeria sustainability principles and the UNEP new Finance Initiative, Principles for Responsible Banking.
Comoros, Djibouti, Ethiopia, KenyaDFID (IMC)ReviewerThe objective is to conduct an Independent Review of the Geothermal Risk Mitigation Facility (GRMF), a component of the DFID East Africa Geothermal Programme. The GRMF provides support to private and public geothermal developers to reduce the risk in the early stages of geothermal development. The focus of the review is on Management, Governance, and Effectiveness.
SenegalForestryCarbon ManagementEvaluation of groundnut-briquette making technology to replace charcoal and the use of Jatropha as a biofuel.
Belize, GlobalEC (MWH)Climate ChangeKey Expert advising the Global Climate Change Alliance which provides a platform for dialogue and exchange among the EU and target countries and provides support in five priority areas: Adaptation to climate change; Reducing emissions from deforestation; Enhancing participation in the Clean Development Mechanism ; Promoting Disaster Risk Reduction; and, Integrating climate change into poverty reduction efforts. Specified and organised identification and formulation missions to Benin, Gambia, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Samoa, Laos and Bhutan and facilitated regional climate change conference for Caribbean.
Albania, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Belize, Bolivia, Bulgaria, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Cambodia, Chile, China, Columbia, Costa Rica, Cote d'Ivoire, Croatia, Cuba, Egypt, El Salvador, Estonia, Germany, Ghana, Gibraltar, Greece, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea Bissau, Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, Israel, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Lao, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Mexico, Morocco, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Norway, Palestine, Panama, Paraguay, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russian Federation, Sao Tomé and Principe, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Tanzania, Tunisia, Uganda, United Kingdom, United States of America, Vatican CityEuropean/UK/US ConsultanciesMarket Surveillance and Business DevelopmentThe support offered has been given at one or more stages of the project cycle: Prequalification, Expressions of Interest, Consultant Selection, Technical Proposals, Tendering, Contract Award, Local/in-country Office set-up, Project Management and Billing. Specific sectors have included: oil & gas, industrial (integrated pollution prevention and control) Municipal (planning guidance) and climate change (mitigation, adaptation, vulnerability, and low carbon development potential).
GuatemalaUK/US ConsultanciesMarket SurveillanceThe support offered has been given at one or more stages of the project cycle: Prequalification, Expressions of Interest, Consultant Selection, Technical Proposals, Tendering, Contract Award, Local/in-country Office set-up, Project Management and Billing. Specific sectors have included: oil & gas, industrial (integrated pollution prevention and control) Municipal (planning guidance) and climate change (mitigation, adaptation, vulnerability, and low carbon development potential).
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