Strategies for inclusive economic growth and strengthened food system for sustainable development in Africa through research, innovation and impact

About Us

Headquartered in Nairobi, we are a fast-growing international development consultancy firm with a unique and diverse range of consultants in;

Drawn from our decades of experience in the economic productive sector, we help governments, donors, private sector, and implementing partners adopt sustainable economic growth models. We work with experts in findings solutions to global economic development challenges especially in the development countries of East and Horn of Africa

Agriculture and Food system
Private sector development and Trade,
Resilience Programing
Climate Change and Environmental Sustainability,
Knowledge management and analytics
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Our Sectors

We help you in adopting sustainable economic growth models.

Agriculture and Food Systems
As part of initiatives to end global hunger, Filatec experts in Agriculture and food systems have significantly contributed to adoption and implementation of approaches, policies and transformative solutions across the eastern and southern African countries.
Private sector development - Inclusive Economic Growth and Trade
Private Sector Development (PSD) covers a range of strategies aiming to establish markets that function vibrantly and fairly, providing economic opportunities of quality to poor people at scale. In line with OCED’s approaches for PSD, Filatec expertise help implement inclusive economic models that will create jobs, fuel income growth, and improve the quality of life.
Resillience Programming
Our integrated approach ensures that partners and sectors work together to address key leverage points and adopt complementary, synergistic strategies that will ultimately strengthen resilience at all levels.
Climate Change and Environmental Sustainability
We help organization adopt measures to mitigate the negative impact of climate change for producers in the productive sectors.
Project Monitoring
Our teams are trained to undertake independent evaluations/assessments of projects. - Baseline evaluation studies - Mid-Line evaluation studies - End line evaluation studies - Impact evaluation studies
Knowledge Management and Anlytics
Our teams are trained to undertake independent evaluations/assessments of projects. Project monitoring is designed to examine whether the implementation of project(s) are either on track, or require corrections and improvements to achieve impact and assess after closeout the sustainability and how the project has contributed to the organizational objectives.

Private sector development - Inclusive Economic Growth and Trade

In recent years, donors have encouraged the implementation of private sector development (PSD) initiative to support economic growth especially among the developing countries. Private Sector Development (PSD) covers a range of strategies aiming to establish markets that function vibrantly and fairly, providing economic opportunities of quality to poor people at scale. In line with OCED’s approaches for PSD, Filatec expertise help implement inclusive economic models that will create jobs, fuel income growth, and improve the quality of life.

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Market systems development (MSD)
This approach aims for large-scale, sustainable impact by understanding how poor people interact with market systems, and how these systems can be changed to improve their lives.
Private sector engagement (PSE)
We help in implementing PSE by engaging domestic or international private sector as partners in achieving development objectives – based on the basic principles of shared costs, risks and benefits.
Green Growth
Greater environmental sustainability requires new products, new markets and new production methods. We support our client in investement in greening economies which has been seen to be a business opportunity, including in the developing world.
Industrial Policy
Industrial policy is broadly defined as government intervention to promote productivity- based growth through support to high-potential economic sectors including manufacturing, agricultural or services sectors.
Inclusive Business (IB)
Inclusive Business models integrate the poor, either as consumers or on the supply side as distributors, suppliers or employees. Various PSD approaches can be used to promote Inclusive Business models,
Women’s Economic Empowerment
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Projects

Our Projects

WAjir Project
Partnership With Wajir County Government

In Wajir county, thousands of the rural population depend mainly on their livestock as source of food and income however changing climatic patterns, increased animal disease has affected animal productivity. The county government of Wajir requested Filatec experts to develop a long terms strategy for Fostering Growth Competitiveness And Climate-Resilient Livestock Sector

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SME potential
Expanding SME potential

Highly entrepreneurial African women and youth have seen the rise of new SMEs across the agricultural value chain tapping into both domestic, regional, and international markets offering both product and service-based solutions. Women and youth-owned enterprises are less competitive despite their potential to support the growth of economies.

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Food Systems
Strengthening Food systems in the HoA

Filatec has worked with stakeholder in the East and Horn of Africa in adopting food systems’ approach to address recurring food security challenges. We have contributed significantly to policy development and frameworks for strengthened food systems. By using different tools, we have for instance conducted cross market functions analysis as part of Food and Agricultural System Mapping and Analysis

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