In the official development assistance sector, we stand out by virtue of our multidisciplinary, integrated and sustainable approach, which encourages skills transfer.

Hygiene and sanitation

Drinking water supply

Irrigation and agricultural development

Environmental issues

Adaptation to climate change

Integrated water resources management

Solid waste management

Our experts are involved throughout the project cycle

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Knowledge management

Formulation

Implementation and evaluation

Knowledge management

Formulation

Implementation and evaluation

OUR EXPERTISE

Our multidisciplinary team and network of over 200 local partners provide our customers with a wide range of expertise, which is tailored to the needs and social, linguistic and cultural realities of each country.

Access to essential public services

An integrated approach that covers all technical (feasibility and design studies), sociological, legal, economic and institutional aspects

Climate change adaptation

Vulnerability and risk management studies, environmental impact assessments, energy efficiency, service resilience, etc.

Institutional

Sector diagnostics and strategies, institutional reforms, public policy development, service management models and public-private partnerships

Social engineering

Household surveys, development of communication and outreach strategies (IEC), social impact studies, participatory diagnosis and modelling

Promoting small private operators

Identification, support, and technical and financial skills development

Capacity-building

Technical and organisational: training modules and seminars, facilitation, methodological manuals, human resources development, etc.

Economic and financial expertise

Financing mechanisms, pricing, operating cost optimisation, financial expertise for public service concession contracts, etc.

Integrated water resources management

Assessments, master plans, developing stakeholder cooperation, local community support, prospecting, water resources development and monitoring

Research and knowledge production

Designing and implementing research projects, developing and publishing knowledge products, case studies, field notes, policy briefs, etc.

Monitoring and evaluation

Evaluations of projects, programmes, strategies/policies or portfolios. Multi-country evaluations and global monitoring programmes (GLAAS, Country Status Overviews, Blue Books, etc.).

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Close to our clients

We work in more than 90 countries, including forty in which we work on a regular basis and a further ten in which our resident experts work alongside our clients.

This geographical spread means we are particularly well-placed for carrying out complex, multi-country assignments.

Offices

Avignon, Paris, Bogota

Resident experts

Burkina Faso, Central African Republic,, Colombia, Ecuador, Lebanon, Madagascar, Mexico

Our global expertise

individual experts

projects completed since 1995

regular partners

countries in which we work

permanent experts

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84140 Avignon
FRANCE

84 rue de l’Aqueduc
75010 Paris
FRANCE

+ 33(0)4.90.22.57.80

Following a degree in political science, Lise-Ella specialised in improving access to essential services in ‘developing’ countries, by joining the Masters in Urban Network Services Engineering (ISUR) at Sciences Po Rennes – ENS Rennes. Lise-Ella has been in charge of water, sanitation and waste studies since 2019. She has been involved in a number of socio-economic studies, developing tools and methodology, training teams and analysing the qualitative and quantitative data collected. She has acquired in-depth knowledge of participatory social engineering methods and is used to working with communities and informal sectors to develop access to essential services. Thanks to her knowledge of public policy, she also carries out institutional and organisational diagnostics for local institutions (ministries, towns, operators, etc.). Finally, Lise-Ella promotes an inclusive and resilient development approach in each of the projects she is involved in. Her projects have led her to specialise in the solid waste sector, where she has carried out waste characterisation studies (Caribbean and West Africa), supported the creation or extension of pre-collection services in urban areas (Central Africa) and capitalised on women’s practices in waste prevention, management and recovery (Maghreb).

Rachel Kelly NOUPA is not only a highly experienced sociologist, but also and above all a field practitioner, well-versed in the tools and methodologies of social engineering for urban development projects. Versatile and highly adaptable, she is involved in a wide range of fields, including urban development in relation to flood risk management, adaptation to climate change, access to WASH services, hygiene and health, faecal sludge management, waste management and wastewater management, etc. Rachel Kelly is responsible for the social aspects of many of the projects in which she is involved, and holds key positions in the implementation of IEC (Information-Education-Communication) activities for PADY 2 (Yaoundé 2nd phase sanitation project) and the Yaoundé Foul Sludge Management Sector Structuring Project. In addition, she coordinates the Urban and Social Project Management for the Project to Promote Local and Environmental Initiatives for Flood Management (PILEGI) in Bangui, by providing social support for labour-based works and helping to set up and manage a support fund for local environmental initiatives. A loyal collaborator, she worked for several years in the ERA Cameroun team, a long-standing partner of the Global Development group, before joining the Urbaconsulting team in 2022.