Welcome to Practical Action Consulting Southern Africa
Peach jam, marmalade jam, apple jam and mixed fruit jam made by participants at an agro-processing training workshop. Read more about this project »
Based at the offices of Practical Action in Harare, we offer high-quality development consultancy services to NGOs, development agencies, government departments, research institutions and community groups throughout the Southern Africa region.
Practical Action Consulting draws its expertise from Practical Action's professional staff world wide and from a pool of independent associate consultants.
We have expertise in the following sectors:
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Irrigation
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Water and Sanitation
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Rural development
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Rural energy
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Trade analysis
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Agro-processing
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Gender, HIV and AIDS mainstreaming
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Livestock development
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Mining and Environmental issues
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Marketing and Business development
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Infrastructure (low-cost building materials, Intermediate Means of Transport, labour based road construction)
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Urban waste management
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Information Communication Technologies (ICTs)
We also provide consultancy services in the following areas:
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Monitoring and evaluation
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Feasibility studies
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Project design and implementation
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Participatory approaches using Asset Based Community Development (ABCD), Community Based Planning (CBP), Participatory Market Chain Analysis (PMCA), Participatory Extension Approaches (PEA) and Sustainable Livelihoods Approach (SLA)
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Development policy research, socio-economic and baseline studies, needs assessments to identify constraints and sustainable small scale production, involving genuine participation by users and their local communities
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Institutional development particularly to government research and extension management and efficient modes of delivering services.
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Enterprise development and assistance, providing technical, business and marketing advice to NGOs, Community and Government Departments that support small enterprise.
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Training, facilitation and participatory planning in the process of technology change, project management and specific technical and business subjects.
Meet the Southern Africa Team
Projects
View examples of some of our recent projects:
2009:
2008:
- Bulawayo Shelter Project
- Training of Trainers for TFT
- CBP Training of Trainers Workshop for E-MINDSET Project Stakeholders
- Workshop on Participatory & Qualitative Approaches to M&E in PRP
2007:
- Lesotho PSP Programme
- Hatcliffe Shelter
- Evaluation of the IOM's Livelihood Projects Implemented Under the Emergency Humanitarian Assistance to Mobile & Vulnerable Displaced Populations in Zimbabwe
- Training for Transformation
- SEED Gemstone Mining in Zambia
- Livestock Assignment
2006:
- Capacity Building for the African Development Bank to deal with Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Projects
- Funding Communities Research & Dissimenation
- Survey of Non Tarrif Barriers
- Action Learning Resource
- Protracted Relief Programme (PRP) for OVCs in Binga & Nyaminyami, Zimbabwe
- Training on Hides and Skins Preservation and Grading, Zimbabwe
2005:
Contact us: consulting@practicalaction.org.zw
Practical Action SouthernAfrica, P O Box 1744, Harare, Zimbabwe
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