“MASDAR is in the business of development. We enable stakeholders to achieve their goals by delivering professional, effective and sustainable solutions”

OVERVIEW 

MASDAR is an international consulting company with substantial and extensive worldwide experience. 

MASDAR focuses on rural development in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Caribbean. 

Since registration in 1978 MASDAR has worked on over 100 major projects in more than 60 countries.  We have worked for all the major aid donors and has managed many large rural development projects including the US$ 450 million Kano State Agricultural Development Project in Nigeria.

In addition to our work for Governments, Donors and International Lending Agencies MASDAR undertakes projects for private sector companies in the fields of international joint ventures, trade and strategy development.

THE MASDAR APPROACH

Business of Development

Development involves many stakeholders, beneficiaries, implementing agencies, donors, lenders, government institutions and non-government organisations. MASDAR is businesslike in its approach to development, delivering results and always seeking to optimise the returns on the resources invested in any project.

Professional

MASDAR Consultants are seasoned practitioners in their specialist fields, with relevant academic qualifications and substantial experience, verified in the company’s rigorous recruitment process.

The Directors have been responsible for managing and co-ordinating large and complex development projects throughout the world.  They are fully aware of the practical problems that arise in transforming plans into reality.

MASDAR administrative and support staff have been with the company for many years. Their experience combined with the latest technology enables them to efficiently provide effective logistical and demonstrative back up to projects, however remote their location.

The core elements are:

• Fortnightly management meetings

• Quarterly Rolling Action Plans

• Monthly Reports

• Staff Appraisal

Derived from the Project Logical Framework, this participatory system of target setting and problem resolution empowers the team members and at the same time enables them, the Team Leader, the Project Director and the Client to closely monitor project progress against the Project Logical Framework. Variations are identified at an early stage and corrective action initiated so that Project Deliverables are delivered on time, to specification and within budget.

Workable

MASDAR focuses on producing workable solutions through identifying constraining factors early in the project, building capacity and then maximising the use of local resources, physical, human and financial.

Effective

Effective can be summarised as “doing the right things”. By identifying the issues confronting the people, activities are prioritised so that the issues are addressed and solutions delivered.

Sustainable

Past levels of rural development activities have proved financially unsustainable. Rural communities have not been adequately involved in the planning processes with the result that they felt only limited ownership and responsibility for sustaining and maintaining development activities. MASDAR delivers sustainable development by fully involving the stakeholders in the project from day one.

Capability

It is widely acknowledged that Rural Development has three major components:

• Technical

• Socio Economic

• Institutional

Rural Development Projects can be targeted at any one component or a mixture of the three.  The MASDAR Group had the capability to cover all components of rural development:

The MASDAR Group portfolio of work is extensive and covers projects in Africa, Asia and the transition economies of Central and Eastern Europe.

TECHNICAL

Sub-Components	MASDAR Capability
Agro-Industry	Processing, Marketing, Supply Chain Management
Crops	Research Programmes, Plant Breeding, Improved Seed Production, New Technology, Pest & Disease Control, Extension
Livestock	Research Programmes, Improved Breeding, Nutrition, Pest & Disease Control, Range Management
Forestry	Agro Forestry, Inventory, Management, Research, Seedling Production, Social Forestry
Wild Life	Ranching, Surveys, Conservation
Environment	Pollution, Impact Assessment,
Natural Resources	Soil & Water Conservation, Watershed Management
Infrastructure	Feasibility, Planning, Construction

INSTITUTIONAL

SOCIO ECONOMIC

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	Experience in Communication and the Dissemination of Information
	Experience in Food Security, Vulnerability assessment and Social Protection
	Experience in Gender Issues
	Experience in Marketing
	Experience in Monitoring and Evaluation
	Experience in Restructuring and Privatisation
	Experience in Undertaking Studies and Surveys
	Experience in Sustainable Livelihoods Approach
	Experience in Training
	Experience in Supporting Small and Medium Enterprise Development
	Experience in Community Development