Strategic Planning
• Export Promotion – Assisting public and private sector trade promotion institutions to design appropriate programmes and interventions to assist local enterprises in their efforts to assess their global competitiveness, understand the complexities of international trade and related payment structures, identify prospective export markets, and to develop effective marketing and market penetration strategies.
• Investment Attraction – Assisting governments in their efforts to develop initiatives, programmes and policies to retain local investment and encourage foreign direct investment.
• Environmental Development – Assisting government in developing programmes and projects focused on greening communities, developing and incorporating renewable energy into communities and promoting conservation and recycling.
• Micro-enterprise Finance Programme Development – Assisting public and private sector clients in developing institutions and designing programmes to provide enterprise development finance to micro-enterprises.
• Local Economic Development/ Community Development – Designing appropriate strategic interventions at local government and regional levels to support poverty reduction initiatives, job creation, entrepreneurship, skills development, enterprise formation and expansion, public-private partnership, investment attraction, and, broadly, economic growth.
• Innovation Promotion – Assisting government and private sector industry support organs to develop programmes, projects and institutions to promote knowledge economy development initiatives, develop better understanding of international intellectual property structures and the benefit of protecting indigenous products and processes toward fostering economic growth.
• Sector and Cluster Development – Assisting government to conduct global competitiveness assessments of their economies and to design and develop programmes, projects and to establish institutions to promote certain products and to develop related, integrated, sector clusters to help them grow, flourish and be competitive in the global environment.
• Urban Renewal – Assisting governments in developing programmes, projects and in establishing specialist institutions that support economic development and redevelopment in urban communities and which seek to foster economic linkages between learning institutions, existing economic nodes, transportation corridors and deprived/ disadvantaged areas within municipalities.
• Rural and Peri-urban Development – Assisting government in developing policies, programmes, and projects focused on supporting rural communities, with a particular focus on agricultural development, agribusiness, cooperative and social enterprise establishment and rural economic growth.
• Public-Private Partnership Development – Assisting government and private stakeholders in developing mutually beneficial collaborations that support local, national, regional and continental economic development and sectoral agendas.