Dalberg Global Development Advisors

Dalberg Global Development Advisors
Privately held partnership
Industry International consulting firm
Founded October 2001 (October 2001)
Number of locations
 14 (As of 2015)
Area served
 Worldwide
Number of employees
 >200
Website dalberg.com

Dalberg Global Development Advisors is a strategy and policy advisory firm. Founded in 2001, the company specializes in global development. Dalberg has worked in over 90 countries with over 400 clients including governments, foundations, international agencies, non-governmental organizations, and Fortune 500 companies. Its mission is to raise living standards in developing countries and mobilize effective responses to the world's most pressing issues.

History

The firm was founded in October 2001 by Henrik Skovby and Søren Peter Andreasen. It now has fourteen offices worldwide, including Abu Dhabi, Copenhagen, Dakar, Geneva, Johannesburg, Lagos, London, Mumbai, Nairobi, New Delhi, New York, San Francisco, Singapore, Washington D.C. Its clients include corporations, foundations and NGOs operating in emerging and developing markets and national governments.

Projects include studies for the United Nations, World Bank and the President of Liberia. In 2007, the firm collaborated with the Financial Times and the United Nations Global Compact to provide an assessment of the quality of NGOs and the United Nations' agencies that have established working relationships with private-sector companies.[1][2]

Projects

Dalberg has advised investment funds for organizations and governments in Asia and Africa, including investments in wind energy projects in the People's Republic of China and geothermal energy plants in Indonesia. Dalberg recommended energy-sector reforms to the Government of Montenegro, and advised a U.S. think-tank on the energy markets in Pakistan and the Middle East.

In Tanzania, the firm provided advice on strategies to meet Millennium Development Goals energy targets by 2012. A new drug, known as the Artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs), was available to combat malaria, but was largely inaccessible to the masses because of cost and distribution challenges.[3] The World Bank commissioned Dalberg to design a mechanism to reduce the cost of ACTs.[4] In November 2007, the design for the Affordable Medicines Facility-malaria (AMFm) was approved by the Roll Back Malaria (RBM) Partnership Board.[5] Other projects in this sector have included designing initiatives to support people with chronic diseases in developing countries and advising pharmaceutical companies in Venezuela on profitable growth.

In 2006-2007, the President of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, asked the firm to study poverty reduction. Dalberg presented Sirleaf and the Liberian Cabinet case studies of similar African countries such as Rwanda and Mozambique and highlighted the potential trade-offs that Liberia had to make to overhaul of its economy in the wake of the second civil war.[6]

References

  1. ↑ "Guide Rates NGOs and UN Agencies on Business Partnership Competence". GreenBiz. 2007-07-06. Retrieved 2008-11-08.
  2. ↑ Jack, Andrew (2007-07-05). "Corporate Citizenship and Philanthropy". Financial Times. Retrieved 2008-11-08.
  3. ↑ Laxminarayan, Ramanan; Eili Klein; David Smith (2008). "Impact of Malaria Control on the Demand for ACTs" (PDF). Dalberg Global Development Advisors. World Bank. p. 32. Retrieved 2008-11-13.
  4. ↑ "Terms of Reference for RBM Global ACT Subsidy Task force" (PDF). Roll Back Malaria (RBM) Partnership. Retrieved 2009-01-12.
  5. ↑ 13th RBM Board Meeting Minutes
  6. ↑ "Liberia Strategy Session" (PDF). Dalberg. African Center for Economic Transition. 2008-01-20. Retrieved 2008-11-17.

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