Consulting Firms

Agrifood Consulting International, Inc (ACI)

Description

ACI's core purpose is to help make better decisions to improve living standards around the world. Our vision is to be a leading global provider of advisory services and research on food, agriculture, and rural development. Our core business is to help decision makers in government agencies, development organizations, and the private sector through advisory and research services related to food, agriculture, and rural development.

Headquarters

Agrifood Consulting International
8311 Wisconsin Avenue, Suite B-11
Bethesda, Maryland 20814, USA

Contact

• Tel: 301-654-2877; 301-654-2878
• Fax: 301-654-5159
• Email: aci_us@agrifoodconsulting.com

Offer

• Career employment

Categories

Policy analysis & economic studies; market research & value chain analysis; agribusiness development; financial & economic analysis of investments; development & business strategies; advising for private sector development; trade promotion services; impact evaluation; capacity building & training; field surveys & participatory research; workshops & conferences

Locations

• United States
• Africa
• Asia
• the Pacific

Boston Consulting Group (BCG)

Description

Boston Consulting Group (BCG) partners with clients to deliver customized solutions that resolve their most significant issues and create lasting competitive advantage. Utilizing decades of industry experience and functional expertise, BCG looks beyond standard solutions to develop new insights, mobilize organizations, drive tangible results, and make companies more capable.

Social Impact

Our ultimate aim is to improve the living conditions of those in need. We often do so by helping our partner organizations become more effective or by directly advancing a topic. We evaluate our impact by looking at what we achieved within the organization, as well as the ultimate effect on beneficiaries.

Headquarters

BCG Global Support Services
One Beacon Street
Boston, MA 02108, USA

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Contact

• Tel (BCG Global Support Services): 617-850-3700
• Email them using the online contact form found on BCG's website.

Offer

• Career employment
• Internships (paid)

Categories

Social impact (environment; poverty & hunger; public health; education; community & economic development; arts & culture; corporate social responsibility; and philanthropy)

Locations

• Across the United States
  
• North, Central, & South America
• Europe
• Africa
• Middle East
• Asia
• the Pacific

Other

Boston Consulting Group has been consistently ranked as one of the top US companies to work for.

BCG makes a strong effort to develop their employees throughout their professional career. Read more on the possible career paths with BCG.

Development Alternatives Inc. (DAI)

Description

DAI has built a diverse body of work comparable in scope and impact with any development firm in the world. But we are far from complacent. Despite our global scale, our record of success, and our deep-rooted client and partner relationships, DAI remains today what it was as a fledgling company in the 1970s: innovative, alert, self-critical, and forward-looking--consistently driven by a powerful sense of corporate purpose.

Headquarters

7600 Wisconsin Avenue
Suite 200
Bethesda, MD 20814, USA

Contact

• Tel: 301-771-7600
• Fax: 301-771-7777

Offer

• Career employment
• Limited term appointments
• Internships

Categories

Economic growth; governance; environment & energy; health; stability; corporate sector

Locations

• United States
  
• Central & South America
• Caribbean
• Africa
• Europe
• Middle East
• Asia
• the Pacific

Other

An extensive list of the various experts that DAI employs can be found at the DAI website. Here you can read about each person's professional experience, background, and their role at DAI.

FHI 360 (joining of FHI & AED)

Description

FHI 360 is a global development organization with a rigorous, evidence-based approach, dedicated to improving lives by advancing integrated, locally driven solutions. Our professional staff includes experts in health, nutrition, education, economic development, civil society, environment and research.

Headquarters

FHI 360 Headquarters
2224 E NC Hwy 54
Durham, NC 27713, USA

Contact

• Tel: 919-544-7040
• Fax: 919-544-7261

Offer

• Career employment
• Internships
• Fellowships

Categories

Health; nutrition; education; economic and enterprise development; civil society; environment (agricultural and land use practices, sustainable tourism and fisheries, urban challenges and the built environment, water and energy efficiency, natural resource management and biodiversity, conservation); research; services

Locations

• United States
  
• Central & South America
• Caribbean
• Europe
• Africa
• Middle East
• Asia
• the Pacific

Other

FHI 360 further elaborates on the key areas/categories listed above. Find more information at the FHI 360 website.

International Development Enterprises (iDE)

Description

iDE is a social enterprise dedicated to ending poverty in the developing world not through handouts, but by helping farm families access the tools and knowledge they need to increase their income. Most of the poorest individuals on our planet, more than 800 million, are subsistence farmers who survive by farming small plots of land. We work with these populations in order to make a significant impact on global poverty.

Headquarters

1687 Cole Blvd. #150
Golden, CO 80401, USA

Contact

• Tel: 303-232-4336
• Use iDE's online contact form.
  

Offer

• Career employment
• Volunteering

Categories

Areas of focus (access to water & irrigation; rural marketing; environment; gender; food security; water, sanitation, & hygiene)

Technologies (treadle pump; rope pump; drip irrigation; sprinkle irrigation; water storage systems; multiple use water systems; ceramic water purifier)

Locations

• United States
  
• North & Central America
• Europe
• Africa
• Asia

Other

iDE uses several other social media sites to promote their organization. View their "Get Involved" page to learn more about them the work they are doing.