About us

Our team’s experience

Our core team has a strong track record in business and social development and has worked in a wide range of countries around the world, with clients ranging from local and international NGOs to fair trade enterprises and multinational businesses.

Countries where we have undertaken work include:

• Asia: Bangladesh Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam
• Africa: Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania
• Latin America: Bolivia, Brazil, Cuba, Nicargua, Peru
• Other: Siberia, Uzbekistan

We have experience of:

• working with producers in the following sectors:
  • fashion and interior accessories (crafts)
  • tea and coffee
  • non-timber forest products
  • textiles (jute, cotton, silk)
  • other agricultural products e.g. mangoes
• working with service providers specializing in:
  • training
  • business counseling
  • design, product development and quality assurance
  • food safety
  • business start up and growth
  • trade facilitation
• working in the following sectors:
  • the UK food industry
  • UK FMCG
  • IT and finance
  • the media
  • equal opportunities
  • fair trade labelling
  • education and training
  • interior and fashion accessories, gifts and handmade paper.

Our associates' experience

We use a range of associates from Europe and in countries where we work to bring specialist technical expertise to our programmes. These include:

• market research
• product design and development
• quality assurance
• food specialists
• business counselling
• training of trainers
• equal opportunities
• fair and ethical trade.