Particip GmbH provides consulting services for sustainable development. Managing change to achieve lasting benefits is our core business. Our people-oriented and participatory approach helps to guide and shape transformation processes for sustainable development.
Particip has its headquarters in Freiburg (Germany) and branch offices in Brussels (Belgium) and Belgrade (Serbia). Since its establishment in 1989, Particip has successfully implemented over 1,800 projects in more than 150 countries and can rely on partner organisations in numerous countries worldwide. Particip’s success is reflected in a constantly increasing service delivery. Our turnover reached EUR 57 million in 2021, with a positive balance throughout all past years. Particip currently has a multi-cultural staff of over 85 in our offices in Freiburg, Brussels and Belgrade. Our inhouse staff provides management and expert services together with more than 700 external staff per year in our projects worldwide identified through our worldwide network of qualified experts.
Our approach: Sustainable development requires a people-oriented, participatory approach to management and consultancy. Technical inputs are only one important component to facilitate development. One of our strengths lies in coordinating multi-disciplinary and multi-national teams to achieve synergy effects. Our strong networking capacities, our reliable management system, toolboxes and our financial strength and independency reinforce the backbone of our services.
Geographic Coverage and Key Areas: Particip implements projects worldwide in various sectors providing a broad range of services. All our clients and partners benefit from our long experience in the development and application of project management, monitoring and evaluation methods. We often provide our services in partnership with European firms and with a large number of partner institutions from the countries and regions in which we work. Local participation is a key element of our service approach.
Clients: Our teams work for international organisations such as the European Commission / EEAS, UN agencies, the World Bank, regional development banks as well as for national governments and several bilateral development organisations (including GIZ, KfW, Danida, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finnland and Netherlands, Norad, SDC and Enabel).
Corporate Values: We are an independent company with the following corporate values:
Particip has a process oriented Quality Management System which is audited regularly according to DIN EN ISO 9001:2015 standards .
Business integrity: We consider business integrity to be an aspect of quality. Particip supports the UN Global Compact initiative, on which our code of ethics is based.
Our Services: The management of change and client orientation is at the heart of our services. We continuously develop and integrate new types of services into our service landscape. We analyse carefully the needs and market developments of our clients.
Our tailor-made services support our clients in addressing the most urgent problems in the world: bringing poverty in all forms to an end, resolving conflicts and safeguarding peace, fighting inequalities to leave no one behind, and mitigating and adapting to climate change. Result-based management and the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) are two important conceptual frameworks guiding all our services. The competences and capabilities of our inter- and multidisciplinary teams cover the whole programme/project life cycle and address all SDGs.
Our services are multi-dimensional and organized along two perspectives: Firstly, a thematic and sectoral perspective, secondly, a cross-cutting perspective.
You can find a detailed overview of our services here: Overview of Particip´s services
If you would like to learn more about Particip, please visit us on www.particip.de or www.linkedin.com/company/particip-gmbh.