Services
Services to International Development Agencies and the Donor Community
The company is currently involved in project approaches based upon analysis of governance or global public goods, and has provided support to all sectors in:
- Nature based solutions for climate change resilience and nature recovery
- Innovative evaluations and studies including experimental approaches, appreciative inquiry and sentinel landscapes
- Organisational development
- Project identification and appraisal
- Programme development.
- Direct budget support and related approaches
- Project implementation with associated management of technical assistance
- Sector and Institutional reviews.
- Implementation linked to the provision of technical assistance
A summary of recent projects is available on request.
Services to Government Departments and Regional/Local Authorities
The company has provided advice and worked in partnership to improve the capacity of a wide range of sectors such as:
- Low carbon futures and products
- Sustainable procurement
- Peri-urban and urban forestry and agroforestry at landscape and regional scales
- Agriculture in relation to biodiversity
- Bio-Energy
- Innovative low carbon housing developments
- Health
- Education
- Waste
This has been achieved through the provision of technical advice and assistance for organisational change in the context of climate change resilience.
Services to the Private Sector
- Corporate Social Responsibility
- Responding to the challenge of climate change including carbon synergy partnerships
- Processing and integrated bio-energy solutions
- Sustainable procurement
- Partnerships linked to the profitable management of diversity eg mixed cropping or agroforestry
- Profitable wildlife conservation and amenity development at all scales
Services to Non Governmental Organisations
The company has played a key role in the development and capacity building of NGOs, by providing assistance for:
- Environmental audits and carbon footprinting.
- Development of environmental principles and procedures
- Innovative approaches
- Project and programme financing
- Joint proposals
- Donor liaison and reporting
- Monitoring and evaluation systems development
- Protected area management
- Biodiversity action plans
- Organisational development
Research
Current research programmes include partnership and joint ventures in:
- Sentinel landscapes
- Bio-energy
- Tree improvement
- Tree crop development
- Participatory evaluation
- Agroforestry
- Non timber forest products
- Ecological and or organic agriculture/horticulture
- Forestry in relation to sustainable rural livelihoods
Education
Current education and training programmes include partnership and joint ventures in connection with:
- Agroforestry
- Climate change
- Sustainable rural livelihood approaches
- Nature based solutions
- Biodiversity management
- Rural development
Communication and public relations
We have worked with companies and charitable trusts to improve communication and image in the context of environmental and social concerns