They are a company specialized in consulting and research. Committed to development, they have a multidisciplinary team of high level, competitive, efficient, responsible and mainly of great human quality.

Their services are directed to public, private and international cooperation institutions, with incidence at the municipal, departmental, national and regional levels.

Permanently located at the frontier of knowledge, they advise both public and private entities, applying up-to-date and innovative research techniques, with the highest standards of efficiency and professional quality.

Consolidated as one of the leading consulting companies at national and regional level, they provide timely, efficient and professional advice to decision-makers in the processes of management, implementation and evaluation of public policy for development.

Services:

MONITORING AND EVALUATION

• - Logical framework ML
• - Projects Cycle
• - MED Performance Evaluation Framework
• - OECD approach
• - Management by Results GpR
• - Declaration of Paris
• - Base line
• - Starting line
• - Situational Studies
• - Intermediate, final and ex post evaluations

URBAN DEVELOPMENT

• - Focus of Urban Sub-centralities
• - Local Economic Development Approach
• - Urban Revitalization Approach
• - Comprehensive Neighborhood Improvement Approach
• - Real Estate Market Analysis

URBAN MOBILITY AND TRANSPORT

• - Sustainable Urban Mobility Approach
• - Calculation of transport tariffs
• - Impact studies of urban transport
• - Renewal studies of public transport systems
• - Elaboration of municipal plans for sustainable urban mobility and transport

SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

• - Human Rights Approach
• - Focus on Rights of Children and Adolescents
• - Youth Focus
• - Intercultural approach
• - Poverty Reduction and Millennium Development Goals

GENDER

• - Gender Focus
• - Studies on gender and generational violence
• - Food security and gender studies
• - Studies on productive development and gender

RURAL DEVELOPMENT

• - Territorial Approach
• - Involuntary Resettlement Frameworks
• - Landmarks of indigenous peoples
• - Agricultural production
• - Livestock production

FINANCIAL EVALUATION AND COSTING STUDIES

• - Construction of investment sheets, costs, production, income
• - Construction of cash flows, incremental cash flows, labor remuneration cash flows
• - Calculation of financial evaluation indicators: NPV, IRR, incremental NPV, incremental IRR, cost-benefit
• - Construction of social assessment models incorporating shadow prices, adjustments of RPC agreement

LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

• - Analysis of productive chains
• - Elaboration of business plans
• - Technical assistance and training for enterprises
• - Evaluation of productive projects in urban and rural areas

FOOD SAFETY

• - CARI Approach (Consolidated Approach for Reporting Indicators of Food Security)
• - Approach ELCSA (Latin American Caribbean Food Security Survey)
• - ESAE Approach (Food Security Assessment in Emergency Situations)
• - SAN Approach (Food and Nutrition Security)

ENVIRONMENT AND RISK MANAGEMENT

• - MIC Basin Integrated Management Approach
• - Preparation of environmental impact studies
• - Elaboration of environmental fiches
• - Analysis of financial management of protected areas

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

• - Carrying out trainings, communal actions, assemblies, neighborhood cleaning campaigns, afforestation campaigns
• - Formation of committees
• - Social monitoring of infrastructure works
• - Conceptual and operational management of the system of community hours
• - Implementation of social protection networks

INSTITUTIONAL STRENGTHENING

• - Execution of the FI component in neighborhood improvement projects
• - Execution of the FI component in potable water and basic sanitation projects
• - Technical assistance to the public sector
• - Feasibility studies for the creation of new public administration bodies
• - Feasibility studies for the implementation of new public policy measures
• - Preparation of function and operational manuals

CIVIC CULTURE

• - Conceptual and theoretical management of diverse approaches to citizen culture
• - Innovations in citizen education practices applying scenic arts techniques, plastic arts and other non-conventional approaches
• - Citizen Education Practices with Student and Teacher Populations

SURVEYS AND STATISTICAL ANALYSIS

• - Surveys in rural and urban areas
• - Perception surveys
• - Household Survey
• - CAP Surveys
• - Food Security Surveys
• - Surveys for transportation studies, such as Origin-Destination, Sub-Low, on-track, on-board vehicles, revealed preferences and others
• - Application of statistical instruments for transportation studies such as vehicle gauges, pedestrian counting, track inventory, parking rotation, vehicle interception, and others
• - Likert scale management
• - Database management in Excel, SPSS, STATA, ArcGIS (georeferenced databases) and others

DRINKING WATER AND BASIC SANITATION

• - Studies on drinking water and sanitation coverage at municipal, departmental and national levels
• - Evaluation of projects for the extension and extension of drinking water and sanitation networks
• - Implementation, monitoring and evaluation of ecological sanitation projects

SUPERVISION OF WORKS

• - Supervision of road improvement civil works
• - Supervision of civil works of integral improvement of districts
• - Supervision of drinking water and sanitation works
• - Supervision of buildings and constructions in general

ADMINISTRATION AND MANAGEMENT OF AUTONOMOUS TERRITORIAL ENTITIES

• - Regional Laws
• - Normative development
• - Organizational Analysis
• - Analysis of tax structure and growth possibilities
• - Studies of fees and patents
• - Training

CITIZEN SECURITY

• - Analysis of data on violence and public safety
• - Environmental focus (physical, social, environmental and violence factors)
• - Studies on gender and generational violence
• - Support for public policies related to citizen security
• - Training in citizen security and community development