Grit Development

OUR SERVICES

We deliver development support expertise under five areas namely finance; research and development; trade and competitiveness, sectoral and human development; and governance and public sector management.

A. Finance

1. Financial Services

  • Finance Management
  • Financial Inclusion
  • Microfinance Management
  • Institutional Transformation
  • Financial Modelling
  • Mobilizing/arranging Resources for SMEs
  • Advisory Services on Tax related issues
  • Investment Advisory Services
  • Transformational Advisory Services
  • Credit Infrastructure
  • Payment & Markets Infrastructure
  • Agriculture Finance
  • Infrastructure and Housing Finance Insurance

2. Public Finance Management

  • Public Expenditure Management analysis and support
  • Domestic Revenue Mobilization and Administration
  • Taxation Policy

3. Risk Management

  • Insurance
  • Capacity Development for Disaster Response and Recovery
  • Capacity Development for Disaster Risk Reduction
  • Capacity Development for Disaster Preparedness

B. Research and Development

1. Research and Data Analysis

  • Data Production, Accessibility and Use
  • Quantitative and Qualitative Methodologies
  • Needs Assessment and Rapid Appraisals
  • Baseline Evaluations
  • Mid-term Evaluations
  • End-term Evaluations
  • Feasibility and Market Studies

2. Economic Policy Analysis

  • Fiscal Policy-tax, debt and expenditure policies including public expenditure reviews and sub-national fiscal policy analysis investment analysis
  • Economic Growth and Planning analysis Inclusive Growth
  • Structural Transformation & Economic Diversificatio
  • Green Growth
  • Spatial Growth-transport, Multi-country Corridors and Regional Integration
  • Macroeconomic and Structural Policy Modelling
  • Trade Facilitation Analysis
  • Logistics Analysis
  • Trade Policy Analysis

C. Trade and Competitiveness

1. Private Sector Development

  • Smes and msmes development
  • Project appraisals
  • Project planning and management
  • Agriculture and agri business
  • Innovation and technology policy and technology product development support
  • Restructuring of private sector entities

2. ICT

  • ICT Solutions
  • ICT Policies
  • E-commerce

3. Infrastructure

  • Feasibility studies for infrastructure projects
  • Programme and project management
  • Socio-economic analysis
  • Gender Based Violence Training
  • Road Risk Studies

4. Trade and Investment

  • Investment and business climate analysis
  • Regulation and competition policy analysis
  • Global value chains analysis and development

D. Sectoral and Human Development

1. Education

  • Human capital development
  • Training manual and programmed development, recruitment advisory support services, training, transformational leadership development, institutional and personal change management including mind-set change
  • Access to education policy analysis and support.
  • Education standards and curricula design

2. Health

  • Health system strengthening
  • Health service delivery advisory
  • Reproductive and maternal health
  • Nutrition
  • Food security

3. Energy and Environment

  • Climate change mitigation
  • Climate change adaptation
  • Climate-smart agriculture
  • Forests policies and institutional support
  • Fisheries policies and institutional support
  • Biodiversity
  • Green energy and Energy efficiency
  • Energy Policies & Reform
  • Access to Energy

4. Agriculture

  • Agriculture transaction advisory services for agribusiness, agri-financing and Value addition
  • Climate-smart Agriculture

E. Governance and Public Sector Management

1. Rule Of Law

  • Judicial and other dispute resolution mechanisms
  • Personal and property rights support

2. Public Administration

  • Administrative and civil service reform
  • Transparency, accountability and good governance
  • E-government & e-services
  • Civil registration and identification
  • Public assets and investment management
  • Local government development such as the parish development model
  • Restructuring of government Institutions: for government and private sector.

3. Social Protection

  • Analysis of Social Safety Nets
  • Social Insurance & Pensions

4. Urban and Rural Development-Local Governments

  • Rural and Urban Infrastructure and Services.
  • Services and Housing for the Poor.
  • Urban Public Transport.
  • Urban Planning.
  • Municipal Finance.
  • Rural and Urban Water and Sanitation.
  • Urban Solid Waste Management.
  • Urban Management and Management Systems.
  • Urban Land and Land Markets.
  • Urban Regeneration.
  • Urban Safety
  • Land Administration and Management
  • Geospatial Services
  • Land Policy and Tenure

5. Employment

  • Job Creation including skills development
  • Youth employment promotion
  • Entrepreneurship skills development

6. Gender Equality and Women Empowerment.

  • Women’s leadership and political participation including training and sensitizing women leaders about gender equality
  • Economic empowerment -support programmes and policy work that promote women’s ability to secure decent jobs, accumulate assets, and influence institutions and public policies determining growth and development
  • Ending violence against women-to support analytical work for better understanding of the nature, magnitude, and consequences of violence against women and girls and how to solve it
  • Peace and security -support research and policies research initiatives to inform policy and programming for women involvement in peacebuilding

Capability Statement

GDI is a team of professionals with over 20 years’ experience of working with national governments, CSOs and UN agencies, and World Bank in Uganda and other countries in sub Saharan Africa. The team has the requisite technical capacity in terms of technical competencies, skills and time to conduct evaluations, baselines, trade and market studies, gender and youth studies, capacity building and also deliver on time rigorous and multi-country assignments. The GDI team has solid experience in development and application of best practices in monitoring and evaluation, value chain development, women economic empowerment, climate-smart agribusiness preparation and critical appraisal of project feasibility studies, civil society organization capacity strengthening, basic service delivery, and promotion of good governance.

The GDI team has extensive experience in institutional and organizational development, research, policy development, project planning and management, monitoring and evaluating social development projects and programs. The GDI team has coordinated and executed various consulting assignments and trainings in different countries of sub-Saharan Africa beyond East Africa.