International Business Initiatives (IBI)

IBI is a 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 their clients achieve their goals.

Their core principles focus on:

• ✓ Results — lasting improvements for people, firms and governments
• ✓ Job creation/maintenance — the engine of rapid, distributed economic growth
• ✓ Poverty reduction — diminishing the still growing gap between nations’ and individuals’ prosperity
• ✓ Participation and partnership — actively listening to and involving local people
• ✓ Protecting biodiversity, while enabling development
• ✓ Using regional planning and digital cartography to know where complementary value chains can best develop
• ✓ Linking policies and grassroots impacts
• ✓ Integrity

Since their founding in 1996, IBI has successfully implemented some 70 projects in over 40 countries, all of which were designed with one goal in mind – improving people’s lives. Their projects range in size from spending a few days writing a technical scope of work to managing a 5-year, $50 million project to provide technical assistance to an array of institutions in Liberia. No matter what the size or scope of a project, they remain focused on the link between the expertise they provide and how it translates into local solutions to positively impact individuals in the developing world.

Practice Areas:

• - Gender Equality
• - Monitoring and Evaluation
• - Communications and Outreach
• - Governance
• - Economic Growth
• - Information and Communications Technology
• - Human and Institutional Performance Improvement
• - Public Financial Management