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What We Do

Comprehensive, data-driven solutions for governments, donors, humanitarian agencies, and the private sector — tailored to the unique context of every client.

Research & Advisory Program Management Global Development Cross Border Trade Women & Youth Governance, Compliance & Competition Private Sector Strategy Education Financial Sector Energy
2.1 — Research & Advisory

Research & Advisory

Delivery of Research and Advisory consultancies requires a team that is responsive to the needs of our clients in giving practical and objective solutions. Our team prides in having the right skills, experience, specialist expertise and the drive to provide the services required.

We extend our research practices beyond conventional methods by adopting methodologies like ethnography, semiotics, observations, participatory urban and rural appraisals, among other emerging methodologies.

We have a team of our best professionals who have the relevant Research and Advisory consulting experience and skills to ensure that the client receive the best quality of service.

Research and data analysis

2.1.1 — Economic Public Policy

PRC's public policy advisory services enable our private sector clients to refocus their corporate strategies and growth plans to comply with relevant national and international policies and regulatory frameworks. Our seasoned experts use high value and data driven tools to develop customised solutions that enable clients to meet their regulatory compliance requirements, shareholder value and sustainable growth.

Consulting Areas
  • Macroeconomic analysis and forecasting
  • Economic policy formulation and reform
  • Monetary and capital markets
  • Domestic resource mobilisation
  • Tax policy analysis
  • Tax administration strengthening
  • Public budgeting (programme-based & gender)
  • Public investment management
  • Public financial management
  • Regulatory reform
  • Sectoral analyses
  • Impact and performance evaluations
  • Programme monitoring and evaluation
  • Capacity building

Every institution strives to use their limited resources to achieve maximum impact and sustainability. PRC's project management consultants use international econometric and statistical best practices blended with local solutions to evaluate the impact of client interventions. Our custom made M&E systems utilise cost-effective technologies, including analytics, text mining, and data visualisations to allow development partners achieve macro and micro outcomes.

A demand-driven knowledge management and organisational learning approach is an emerging tool being leveraged by development actors to create impact. At PRC we work closely with development actors in mapping their needs, challenges and opportunities of growth as the basis for designing customised and people-centric knowledge management solutions.

Our deep understanding of over 50 national and regional economic blocks, coupled with world-class research experience, enables us to provide clients with high value data for their policy and programmatic decision making. Our market analysis expertise focuses on creating customised and effective solutions that create sustainable growth.

Our seasoned consultants work closely with clients to evaluate programmes, projects and policies' impact and effectiveness using both international best practices like OECD-DAC Criteria and client-priority frameworks. We have carried out numerous monitoring and evaluation consultancies and accumulated wealth of experience that we continue sharing with our clients.

Each of our research consultants pride in holistic understanding of qualitative and quantitative survey research, design, and analysis which they use to deliver world-class and highly customised solutions. Policy makers require high quality, accurate, objective, and credible data to effectively plan for the future.

Market regulators worldwide struggle to ensure sound regulations that form the backbone of fully functioning markets with guaranteed consumer protection and safety. Our clients can count on us to gain a clear picture of how existing and proposed regulations impact markets and consumers, and obtain solutions to existing regulatory bottlenecks.

2.1.2 — Program Management

PRC has extensive experience managing public and private programmes including those that spread across several geographies, have complex stakeholder contexts and are multi-disciplinary in nature. We deliver programmes in a timely, efficient and effective manner anywhere in the world using both international and best fit project management approaches and methodologies — including in programme design, implementation, monitoring, evaluation, control and exit.

Support Areas
  • Technical hand-holding support
  • Training needs assessment
  • Capacity building
  • Strategic planning
  • Third party monitoring
  • Remote programme monitoring
2.2 — Global Development

Global Development

Our global development advisory practice includes a wide spectrum of custom-made solutions and services for governments, humanitarian agencies, multilaterals, global private philanthropies, civil society organisations and companies. Our philosophy for technology, data and people-centred solutions enables us to deliver world-class outcomes that meet macro, meso and micro development contexts.

Agriculture
Livelihoods
Protection
WASH
Multi-purpose Cash
Nutrition
Health
Sanitation
Gender
Education in Emergencies
Migration
Climate Change
Development Finance
Key Offering
Feasibility & Baseline Studies
Market Studies / Surveys
Monitoring & Evaluation
Impact Surveys
Social Research
Satisfaction Surveys
Ergonomic & Occupational Health Research

2.2.1 — Cross Border Trade & Logistics

The continuously evolving digital world is a blessing and a curse to trade, ICT, and transport supply chain players and regulators. Our global experts ensure proposed solutions take into account the many macro and micro variables impacting trade — including infrastructure, logistics, technology, business and government — from holistic, strategic, and tactical perspectives.

Based on technology, data and people-centred approaches, our experts collaborate with a complex world of clients and stakeholders to develop the most effective, equitable, and inclusive trade policies and programmes.

2.2.2 — Women & Youth Economic Development

We provide expertise in Gender and Social Inclusion (GSI) advisory services in project design and implementation. Based on our gender analytical framework, our team helps clients in developing and implementing gender-responsive and transformative programming that advances women's economic empowerment and youth development.

2.2.3 — Governance, Compliance, Regulation & Competition

PRC supports its wide spectrum of clients in developing and implementing regulatory compliance strategies and programmes, policies, training, gap analysis, risk assessments, consultative reviews, research on trends and emerging issues, and advisement on governance-compliance, regulation, competition, and anti-corruption issues.

Targeted clients include governments, donors, public bodies, multinationals, corporations, and humanitarian actors.

2.2.4 — Private Sector Development

PRC's private sector advisory solutions advance the interests of markets, civil society and government for optimal and sustainable growth. Our offering includes market entry strategies, competitive advantage strategies, market potential estimation, consumption basket analyses, consumer behaviour tracking, marketing, risk management and business continuity planning.

  • FMCG
  • Automotive
  • Energy
  • Financial Services
  • IT & Consumer Durables
  • Fintech

2.2.5 — Strategy & Institutional Management

Over the years, PRC's consultants have enabled clients to identify and mitigate gaps and risks for improved organisational results, optimal performance, and enhanced efficiency. This has been achieved through partnering in institutional developments including strategic and performance management planning, change management implementation, and communications strategy development.

Our custom-made solutions are developed through rigorous economic analysis to provide risk management, acquisition planning, master plan development, business development and integration, stakeholder value chain mapping, and marketing strategy development.

2.2.6 — Education & Human Resource Development

PRC Education experts support governments, NGOs and development partners in formulating prudent policies and education programmes that not only ensure access irrespective of sex, health, and cultural identity but also equip people with skillsets that help contribute to the changing needs of the world.

  • Curriculum development
  • Policy formulation, implementation and evaluation
  • Institutional strengthening
  • Deployment of ICT solutions

2.2.7 — Financial Sector Strengthening

The financial sector is experiencing a major evolution led by the emergence of new technologies and markets — microfinance, crowdfunding, algorithmic trading, and impact investing. PRC financial experts support financial institutions, businesses and regulators in financial management and due diligence, capital market development, financial automation, public expenditure management, accounting and audit, taxation, risk management, and Islamic banking.

2.2.8 — Energy

PRC energy consultants support governments and development agencies in developing strategies for regulating and ensuring growth of environmentally friendly energy sectors. In addition, energy utilities use our customised business and institutional development solutions to achieve competitive edge, profitability and sustained growth.

  • Market valuation and forecasting
  • Financial and economic surveys
  • Turnaround strategy & operations planning
  • Regulatory compliance
  • Environmental & social impact assessments
  • Energy auditing
  • Resettlement and gender action plans

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