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Global consulting led from the UK team

Our team of UK-based consulting staff work from the Practical Action office in Rugby, Warwickshire. The team has solid international experience from living and working in over 40 countries and lead on global/multi-country and multi-region projects. Our UK team focusses on resilience that protects, energy that transforms and farming that works.

Christine Comerford, Impact, Influence and Innovation Directorate Co-ordinator
Email: [email protected]
Tel: +44 (0)1926 634403
Address: The Robbins Building, 25 Albert Street, Rugby, Warwickshire, CV21 2SD, United Kingdom

East Africa

Our consultancy work in the east of Africa began in the early 1990s and has expanded dramatically in the last three decades. We have consultancy offices in Nairobi and Rwanda and our work covers the entire region, in particular, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and Tanzania.

 

Jechoniah Kitala, Head of Consulting Unit
Email: [email protected]

 

Nairobi office
Tel: +254 20 2595 311
Address: P.O. Box 39493 – 00623, Nairobi, Kenya

 

Rwanda office
Tel: +250 782 538 843 | +250 (0)735 332 982
Address: Nyarugenge District, Muhima Sector, Nyabugogo Avenue, Rwanda

Southern Africa

Our consulting offices in the south of Africa are in Zimbabwe and Malawi. We have successfully implemented projects in Zimbabwe, Malawi, Zambia, Mozambique, South Africa, Botswana and Lesotho.

Kudzai Marovanidze, Regional Director
Email: [email protected]

Zimbabwe office
Tel: +263 4 776 6313
Address: 4 Ludlow Road, Newlands, Harare, Zimbabwe

West Africa

Our consulting office in the west of Africa opened in Dakar, Senegal, in 2014. We cover all 15 countries of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and have delivered assignments in Senegal, Mali, Burkina Faso, Benin, Ghana, Nigeria, Niger, Guinea Bissau, Togo and Ivory Coast.

Our thematic focus is on Resilience that Protects and Energy that Transforms.  We have a range of experience and knowledge in these areas including last mile communication, climate information services, community flood resilience, humanitarian energy, private sector support, policy development and market activation.

Some of our key project include:

Get in touch
Email: [email protected]
Address: Mermoz Cité des Administrateurs civils Lot 17 No 4, Dakar, Senegal. PO Box 25660

Latin America

Our team of consultants based in Lima, Peru, has been providing high-quality consultancy services across Latin America for over twenty years. We focus on farming that works, resilience which protects and energy access for everyone. Most of the work we deliver is in Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador however, over the last 10 years we have also delivered work in Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia as well as in a further 14 countries in Latin America.

The team is made up of experts from various backgrounds including Livelihoods and Market Development; Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management; Water, Energy and Low Carbon Development and Knowledge Management, Communication and Public Advocacy.

Key projects:

This DFID funded work is Practical Action Consulting in Latin America’s flagship programme on Knowledge Management and Learning. The main aim was to improve knowledge of Latin America’s economic, environmental and governance issues among African and Asian policymakers, practitioners and researchers.

  • Gender Equality and Climate Compatible Development: Drivers and Challenges to people’s empowerment, 2014 – 2016

Our goal was to manage the production and dissemination of high quality evidence on gender-sensitive approaches to climate compatible development. To read the published CDKN report we produced click here.

  • Management of two regional exchange platforms on adaptation to Climate Change, 2016 – 2020

Practical Action Consulting in Latin America developed and managed two virtual online platforms aimed at improving the dissemination of knowledge and the exchange of information among decision makers at all levels. The first community of practice was the National Adaptation Plan for Latin America and the second was an Ecosystem based adaptation community of practice. Both platforms look to strengthen south-south cooperation for the exchange of knowledge, peer learning and capacity building.

Get in touch: Jacqueline Gotuzzo, Head of Consultancy & Communications
Email: [email protected]
Tel: (511) 441-2950
Address: Oficina Regional de América Latina, Centro Empresarial Peruano Suizo Av. Aramburú 166 Of. 2A, Miraflores, Lima, Perú

South Asia: Nepal and India

Our South Asia regional consulting office was established in Kathmandu, Nepal in 2008. We also have an office in Delhi, India. We are involved in direct delivery of projects in Nepal, Bangladesh, north east and west India, Bhutan, Myanmar and other region wide projects.

 

Anuj Dhoj Joshi, Regional Manager
Email: [email protected]

 

Nepal office
Tel: +977-1-4423639 | +977-1-4423640
Address: Indira House, House No.1114, Panipokhari Hill, Kathmandu, Nepal
Postal address: PO Box 15135, Kathmandu, Nepal

 

India office
Tel: 0674:2392135 | 0674:2392836
Address: Plot No: M-76, Madhusudan Nagar, Bhubaneswar -751001

Bangladesh

Our consulting office in Bangladesh is in Dhaka. We also have offices in Gaibandha, Rangpur, Faridpur, Sirajgonj, Dinajpur and Gazipur. We work in 14 districts throughout the country.

 

Ishrat Shabnam, Manager
Email: [email protected]
Address: House 28/A, Road 5, Dhanmondi, Dhaka – 1205, Bangladesh