INTEGRATION is a consulting organization specialising in project management, with focus on developing countries and emerging markets. Since its establishment in 1976, the company has carried out well over 1000 assignments in more than 80 countries mandated by German and international financing agencies, at the service of ministries and institutions in the partner countries.
INTEGRATION brings together methodological knowhow and M&E expertise with a wide sectoral coverage, comprising the following service areas:
Economic Development; Private Sector Development
This segment has been a priority service area of INTEGRATION from the very beginning with more than 300 projects implemented. Experience includes all relevant development strategies and methodologies as well as a broad sectoral coverage ranging from agro-processing to electronics or eco-tourism.
Labour Markets, TVET and HRD
Labour market issues, Human Resource Development and Technical Vocational Education and Training are integral parts of Economic Development and Private Sector Development projects implemented by INTEGRATION. In the frame of Private Sector Development INTEGRATION has promoted the incorporation of entrepreneurship development into Technical Vocational Education and Training as early as 1996. Human Resource Development is a feature of nearly every INTEGRATION assignment, either as a specific component or an integrated capacity development measure.
Budget Support Programmes
Budget Support Programmes follow a distinct approach employing proven traditional instrumentation. INTEGRATION offers the knowhow and capacity for Budget Support Programmes, based on years of experience in services such as institutional strengthening, management of action plans, verification of compliance, follow-up on disbursement, and especially monitoring and evaluation of projects and complex programmes.
Environmental Management and Sustainable Development
For the last 20 years, environmental concerns have taken prominence in economic development projects, which has been translated into projects or components of Cleaner Production and Eco-industrial Development. In response to these challenges INTEGRATION has formed a special Environment & Energy unit, which has to date implemented more than 20 projects.
Regional and Rural Development
Projects in this area correlate closely to projects of economic and private sector development and draw on our experiences in these fields. Accordingly, INTEGRATION pursues an holistic approach relating micro-level interventions with institutional activities and initiatives for changes in framework conditions.
Renewable Energy in Rural Electrification
Renewable Energy projects have been implemented by INTEGRATION as from the 1980’s mostly incorporated in Regional Rural Development. Many of these projects have been interlinked with SME Promotion or Regional Development, where Renewable Energy was seen as an indispensible element of development.
Energy Efficiency
Services in energy efficiency include technical as well as promotional activities such as energy audits and energy concepts, institutional capacity development, incentive programmes, finance facilities, and regulations on energy efficiency. Experience comprises energy efficiency programmes for buildings, industry and households as well communal and national Energy Efficiency Action Plans.
Monitoring and Evaluation
Based on years of experience in individual regional and sectoral evaluations implemented since the eighties, this domain has developed into one of our key service areas including large monitoring programmes implemented for the EU and other donors. These monitoring programmes consist of up to 500 projects in a group of countries involving several hundred project reports a year, established by a variety of technical specialists and monitoring experts. Beside the large monitoring programmes we also provide services for individual project monitoring and evaluation, as well as capacity development in the monitoring field.
