IBI – International Business Initiatives – is a woman-owned small business consulting and training firm dedicated to providing insightful analysis and practical, timely solutions to challenges facing governments and companies. Their experience has shown that the value of fresh ideas lies in their local implementation. They partner with top quality local organizations to ensure that our clients achieve their goals. 

Their core principles focus on:

• Sustainable Results—lasting improvements for people, firms, and governments
• Job creation/maintenance— engaging the private sector as the engine of rapid, distributed economic growth
• Poverty reduction—diminishing the gap between nations’ and individuals’ prosperity
• Inclusive partnerships—facilitating locally-driven reforms
• Linking policies and grassroots impacts—supporting the full cycle of reforms, from policythrough implementation and monitoring 
• Integrity—unwavering commitment to ethical, compliant work

PRACTICE AREAS 

Economic Growth

• Trade and Value Chains
• Small and Medium Size Enterprise Development
• Growth Poles and Growth Corridors
• Natural Resource Management

Governance

• Post-conflict Reconstruction
• Public Financial Management
• Domestic Resource Mobilization and Taxation
• Procurement Reform
• Customs Reform
• Mining Policy, Law and Administration
• Democracy Building and Elections

Information and Communications Technologies

• National ICT Policy
• Automating Public Financial Management
• Mobile Money and Payment Systems
• E-Government
• Dynamic Geospatial Analysis
• Government Assets Tracking
• Market Information Systems

Gender Equality

• Women to Women Networks
• Expansion of Women in Business

Human and Institutional Performance Improvement

• Human and Institutional Capacity Development (HICD)
• Problem-Driven Iterative Adaptation (PDIA)
• Systems Approach to Organizational Development
• Leadership Training

Monitoring and Evaluation

• Impact Assessment
• GIS/Data Mapping for M&E