Project advisory for states and DFIs, from a firm on the ground.

A pan-African trade-finance institution needed an investable architecture for intervening across the West African cocoa value chain: six countries, from farm-gate aggregation to processing and export.

Three research papers, an investment-committee-grade financial model of a vertically integrated platform, and the final recommendation to the executive: terms of reference to the executive table in one cycle.

The programme was approved for US$25m of equity and US$35m of debt, and is moving toward implementation.

A Central African state ran a national vehicle-inspection regime with compliance below 30%: a revenue and road-safety failure.

We designed the national strategy around a tiered pricing model: affordability-calibrated fees, enforcement sequencing and an implementation path bankable for private operators.

A design targeting compliance toward 90%, structured so the economics work for the state, the operator and the citizen.

EU deforestation regulation makes untraceable cocoa unsellable into Europe. A European buyer required farm-level traceability to its own specification.

Farmer registration, geolocation polygon mapping and certification alignment with Rainforest Alliance standards, delivered by our own team in-country.

A registered, geolocated supply base meeting the buyer’s specification: EUDR readiness as delivered infrastructure, not a policy PDF.