Prospect Consulting & Services s.a. was founded in 1994 by agronomists to provide consulting services in the field of rural development. Since then the company has diversified and now works across a range of environment and development sectors.

Our aim as a company is to provide high-quality consultancy or services that contribute towards sustainable development. As such, Prospect works with a variety of clients from international agencies and the EU institutions to national government departments, companies, NGOs and academics.

The history of the company is linked to its involvement into environmental assignments in the EU-15 and in other European countries, mainly EU candidate and accession countries, contributing therefore to the efforts needed in relation to the EU enlargement process. Environment consulting, whether it is biodiversity or waste management related, remains a cornerstone of the company’s activities.

In parallel, we have been worked with the Belgian development co-operation agency (BTC-CTB), the African Bank of Development (ABD) and EuropeAid to implement studies and evaluations dealing with rural development . We also work on the accompanying field of good governance , particularly in administrative decentralization processes. While in the last few years the Company has begun offering services and products in the intelligent energy sector.

In delivering projects in these sectors Prospect has built-up a skills and capacities to offer management services to clients. This includes co-ordination of multi-national projects, project cycle management, organisational development and capacity building.

Prospect has a multi-national and interdisciplinary staff (including experts in agronomy, rural development, nature conservation, civil society, capacity building and organisational development); all with a broad range of experience. Prospect also works across the globe though an extensive network of associate experts and partners.

 

As we are based in central Brussels - ‘The Capital of Europe’ - Prospect is close to the European institutions, Belgian administration, headquarters of leading corporations and other international and national organizations.

 

Environment	Air quality, air emissions, water quality, waste management, nature conservation, sustainable forestry, sustainable development indicators, reporting on the state of the environment, publications (newsletter), GIS and remote sensing applied to the environment are among our areas of expertise. See below for more information on specific fields of nature and biodiversity and sustainable consumption and production.
Rural Development	Prospect’s expertise in the rural development sector includes: food security, village and rural hydraulics, appropriate technologies, women and development (gender issues), community development, extension services, land reform, and rural credit. For more details on specific fields: agricultural production, land use management and rural communities
Intelligent Energy	Prospect is active on two of the main political challenges set up within the European Union Green Paper on Energy (i) managing the demand and consequently reducing our energy consumption wherever possible, (ii), diversification of our energy supplies (renewable energies, bio-fuels, etc). Our activities in this sector are focussed on the following fields: energy efficiency and renewables, climate change, and carbon neutral
Good governance	The main development and aid donors consider decentralization - administrative, political and/or fiscal - as a way to good governance and to realising better public services. Prospect plays a role in this field. However, In addition to this focus on government processes Prospect also contributes to the strengthening of civil society institutions. For more information on our work: civil society enhancement and decentralisation and local development
Management Service	In addition to this Prospect’s multi-faceted staff have been involved in delivering communications services, skills training and organisational development support to an increasing number of clients. These Management Services are offered within the context of sectoral projects but can also be offered as stand-alone services:project management, institutional development and communication support