Our Expertise
Area of Expertise
From the feasibility phase through to project evaluation, we assist urban development stakeholders with their projects, build their technical capacities and enhance their governance of essential services. We have developed a pragmatic, agile and innovative approach that is driven by our field experience and our awareness of the specific realities faced by the countries in which we work.
Our Services
Municipal Investment Programs
Urban analysis (physical and social); Household surveys, willingness and capacity to pay; Designing and facilitating participatory approaches with local communities to assess local structural facilities needs; Service level approach; Defining development options with local authorities; Producing technical studies and impact assessments (feasibility and detailed design studies – RAP, ESIA); Financial packages
Security of land tenure
Assessing land tenure policy; Developing and implementing land tenure regularisation and dispute resolution processes; Securing and registering land tenure in urban areas and post-crisis environments; Deploying innovative technologies; Social and land tenure surveys, literature reviews and legal studies
Local Finances and Municipal Taxation
Evaluation and support of good municipal financial governance; Analysis of local authorities’ tax potential and identifying niches to be developed; Optimising local authority income and expenditure; Supporting the improvement of market facilities management; Developing and monitoring the implementation of municipal contracts (contracts between the state and local authorities)
Municipal Management: Assets and Services
Organisational assessment of municipal services, assessing human, technical and material resources capacity-building needs; Inventory of local authority assets, developing management tools to improve knowledge of buildings and other assets; Reviewing management methods (in-house, service concessions) and providing support to ensure the maintenance and sustainability of infrastructure and services (solid waste, roads, drainage, water, sanitation, market facilities, buildings).
Urban Development
Urban planning on various scales (city-wide, in neighbourhoods, etc.); Urban projects; Neighbourhood development; Regeneration of poor neighbourhood districts; Construction of amenities, public spaces and housing; Mobility; Upgrading building assets.
Decentralization and Governance
Formulating decentralisation, deconcentration and local development support programmes; Public authority capacity-building, providing assistance to local contracting authorities and consolidating the decentralisation process; Designing practical guides, procedure manuals and methodological tools; Evaluation of state reform processes, highlighting good practices and lessons learned and sharing experiences.