Altai Consulting is a recognised authority in the telecommunication and digital sectors in emerging markets having advised operators (mobile & fixed), ISPs, digital players, television channels, regulators and governments across more than 30 countries. Altai Consulting’s expertise centers around operational and marketing issues helping our clients make the most of the technological changes reshaping those industries and markets.​

Altai Consulting advises private companies, international organisations and development agencies who are working to improve access to energy in developing markets and support the transition towards renewable energy. Our expertise includes socio-economic and environmental impact assessments, investment strategy and monitoring, evaluation and learning support to help our client better navigate this fast moving sector and deliver impact.

Over the past eighteen years, Altai Consulting has developed a broad range of tools to analyse cross-border movements, legal and illegal migrations, returnees’ return & reintegration patterns, and the role of migrant workers in labor markets. This expertise allows us to help international organisations and governments in the monitoring of large scale programmes and in the design of strategies and policies that are best adapted to evolving migration and mobility related issues in Africa and the Middle East.

We provide strategic support to actors developing innovative solutions for improved access to clean energy and water, or willing to limit the environmental impact of their activities. Our teams also evaluate the impact of specific projects and of large-scale Green Finance initiatives in the developing world.

Altai Consulting provides strategic support to corporates and organisations involved in a variety of sectors to ensure the long-term sustainability of their activities. Through the design of responsible sourcing strategies and the digitisation of value chains, our clients have been able to improve the traceability and quality of their produce while having a positive social and environmental impact on the communities they work with.

The mobilisation of the civil society through a broad network of CSOs, and the development of independent media are critical in the early stage of state building to foster public debate and ensure the transparency of institutions.

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Altai Consulting has developed a strong expertise in mapping and analysing civil society organisations and assessing their potential role in advocacy and as an alternative to public services delivery. Our media experts have designed innovative methodologies to map out media landscape, analyse audiences, monitor media content and support media support strategies in the most sensitive environments.

Altai Consulting provides strategic support to actors contributing to improve access to health services or willing to launch or promote quality nutritional or health products meeting the market needs. We have also helped our clients assess the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on vulnerable populations.

Since its creation in 2003, Altai Consulting has supported international donors, local governments and partner NGOs in the assessment of population needs, the mapping and evaluation of existing structures, and the design of new programmes to support health, education and other public services in the most complex regions of the Middle East and Africa. Our teams leverage innovative research tools and technologies to support stakeholders in their initiatives.

Altai Consulting operates in markets benefiting from the development of a growing urban middle class of consumers, targeting sectors such as agri-businesses, manufacturing, retail & distribution and consumer goods. We support local and international players to help them better understand the needs of this emerging consumer base and design expansion strategies through partnerships, acquisition, etc.

Altai Consulting has developed internal expertise in advising players in the mobility, industrial, construction and manufacturing sectors in emerging markets. We help companies make the most economic shifts and better position themselves in these challenging markets.

In developing countries, 2.5 billion people are ‘unbanked’ and have to rely on cash or informal financial services which are typically unsafe, inconvenient and expensive. Several non-bank players have launched digital financial services that now serve millions of individuals and have a massive impact on financial inclusion. In a rapidly changing environment, Altai Consulting is advising mobile operators, digital players, international organisations and aid agencies to shape the future of the FinTech industry.

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Altai Consulting has developed a strong expertise in Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning programmes in fast changing environments and created innovative approaches that support agile programming.

In the last 10 years, our MEL team has become increasingly involved in the monitoring of large regional programme portfolios, requiring the development of real time result tracking tools to support decision makers in the adjustment of their strategies. In response to this growing need, Altai designed dynamic TPML (third-party monitoring & learning) solutions to:

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• Track progress made at a multi-country / multi-sector level in real time
• Aggregate, visualise and cross-analyse tangible outputs delivered by large portfolios
• Monitor activities in real time and analyse the relevance and initial effects before making formal mid-term and end-line evaluations 
• Integrate results, lessons learned and best practices into programming (feedback loop)
• Integrate contextual changes and key socio-political trends
• Bring these analyses to the level of project managers and decision makers

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Altai Consulting has developed winning strategies for numerous large-scale Private Sector Development (PSD) programs in Africa, the Middle East, and Central & South Asia. Our teams have been involved in most aspects of PSD: value chain analyses, business plan development, capacity building & skills development, and Public Private Partnerships (PPPs). We also conduct large-scale enterprise surveys to collect feedback from private sector stakeholders and identify the main constraints holding emerging markets’ economies behind.

Altai Consulting has designed, pilot-tested and evaluated numerous inclusive growth and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives in Africa, the Middle East, and Central & South Asia. Our teams are supporting global and regional players to develop innovative solutions to better target underserved populations, to foster local economic growth and to boost social inclusion.

Altai Consulting has developed innovative research tools to analyse local governance systems, map out tribal dynamics, measure expectations, perceptions and accountability at the local level, and assess the impact of development activities in the fields of governance and stabilisation in the most complex environments. Along the past fifteen years, we developed networks of national researchers and international experts that allowed us to support the design and monitoring of large scale programs in fragile areas of Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Libya and the Sahel region.

We are a team of data scientists and field practitioners, leveraging open data, advanced data visualisation tools and machine learning to provide strategic and actionable insights to our clients​