Dalberg Global Development Advisors

Dalberg Global Development Advisors

Type	Privately held partnership
Industry	International consulting firm
Founded	New York, (October 2001 (October 2001))
Number of locations	10 (As of 2010[update])
Area served	Worldwide
Employees	<150
Website	dalberg.com

Dalberg Global Development Advisors is a niche consultancy firm. Founded in 2001, the company specializes in global development and globalization and has coordinated several public-private partnerships.

History

The firm was founded in October 2001 by Henrik Skovby and Søren Peter Andreasen to bring consultants from the private sector to international development organizations. It now has ten offices worldwide, including Copenhagen, Dakar, Geneva, Johannesburg, Mumbai, Nairobi, New York, Santiago, San Francisco, Washington D.C. Its clients include corporations, foundations and NGOs operating in emerging and developing markets and national governments. It has conducted over 400 projects in 75 countries.

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]

The firm presents the annual I-Qube Award that recognizes innovation, impact, and inspiration in the development field.^[3]

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.^[4] The World Bank commissioned Dalberg to design a mechanism to reduce the cost of ACTs.^[5] In November 2007, the design for the Affordable Medicines Facility – malaria (AMFm) was approved by the Roll Back Malaria (RBM) Partnership Board.^[6] 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.^[7]

References

1. ^ "Guide Rates NGOs and UN Agencies on Business Partnership Competence". GreenBiz. 2007-07-06. http://www.greenbiz.com/news/2007/07/06/guide-rates-ngos-and-un-agencies-business-partnership-competence. Retrieved 2008-11-08. 
2. ^ Jack, Andrew (2007-07-05). "Corporate Citizenship and Philanthropy". Financial Times. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/e78b29d8-294c-11dc-a530-000b5df10621,dwp_uuid=c1927432-1f9e-11dc-ac86-000b5df10621.html. Retrieved 2008-11-08. 
3. ^ "Agora Partnerships Wins Dalberg’s I-Qube Award". The Development Frontier. US Agency for International Development. December 2007. http://www1.usaid.gov/our_work/global_partnerships/gda/newsletter/dec07.pdf. Retrieved 2009-01-12. 
4. ^ Laxminarayan, Ramanan; Eili Klein and David Smith (2008). "Impact of Malaria Control on the Demand for ACTs" (PDF). Dalberg Global Development Advisors. World Bank. pp. 32. http://siteresources.worldbank.org/HEALTHNUTRITIONANDPOPULATION/Resources/281627-1095698140167/LaxminarayanMalariaControlACTs.pdf. Retrieved 2008-11-13. 
5. ^ "Terms of Reference for RBM Global ACT Subsidy Task force". Roll Back Malaria (RBM) Partnership. http://www.rollbackmalaria.org/partnership/wg/wg_finance/docs/TOR_ACTtf.pdf. Retrieved 2009-01-12. 
6. ^ 13th RBM Board Meeting Minutes
7. ^ "Liberia Strategy Session". Dalberg. African Center for Economic Transition. 2008-01-20. http://www.acetforafrica.org/pdfs/ACET-DDP%20Liberia%20Cabinet%20Retreat%20Presentation%2002_20_08.pdf. Retrieved 2008-11-17. ^{[dead link]}

Further reading

• Macharia, Edwin; Gupta, Gaurav; Tsan, Michael (2010), Overview of the Solar Portable Lighting Market for the Base of Pyramid, Lighting Africa, Dalberg Global Development Advisors, http://www.lightingafrica.org/files/Solar_Lighting_for_the_Base_of_the_Pyramid_Overview_of_an_Emerging_Market.pdf .
• Deelder, Wouter (2009), Franchising in Frontier Markets, Dalberg Global Development Advisors, John Templeton Foundation (JTF) and the International Finance Corporation (IFC), http://www.dalberg.com/PDFs/Frontiers_Markets_content_print_marks.pdf .
• Cook, Sonila; Stephenson, John; Berman, Jonathan (2009), Champions of the Low Carbon Economy: Why CEOs are ready for a Global Climate Agreement, UN Global Compact and Dalberg Global Development Advisors, http://dalberg.com/PDFs/Dalberg-GCReport-LowCarbonChampions.pdf .
• Ballou-Aares, Daniella; Hausman, Vicky (2009), Transform or Be Transformed: Leading a Global Health Organization During Uncertain Times, Dalberg Global Development Advisors, http://dalberg.com/PDFs/090719_Transform%20or%20Be%20Transformed_%20(Final).pdf .
• Watson, Yana (2009), "From Crisis to Catharsis: How Microfinance Can Make it Through the Global Recession", Microfinance Insights (Vol. 11, March/April 2009) .
• The Human Impact of Climate Change: The Anatomy of a Silent Crisis, Global Humanitarian Forum and Dalberg Global Development Advisors, 2008 .
• Private sector role in health supply chains: Review of the role and potential for private sector engagement in developing country health supply chains, Rockefeller Foundation, Dalberg Global Development Advisors, MIT Zaragoza Logistics Center, 2008, http://dalberg.com/PDFs/Health_Supply_Chains.pdf .
• Business Guide to Partnering with NGOs and the United Nations, Global Compact, Dalberg Global Development Advisors and the Financial Times, 2007, ISBN 978-0-9801852-0-1, http://www.business-humanrights.org/Documents/Business-guide-to-partnering-w-NGOs-UN-Global-Compact-Jul-2007.pdf .
• Stephenson, John; Tynan, Peter (2006), Will the U.S.–India Civil Nuclear Cooperation Initiative Light India?, Dalberg Global Development Advisors .
• Report of the Task Force on Capacity for Program Delivery — A Clinton Global Initiative Commitment, Dalberg Global Development Advisors, 2006 
• Dalberg and The Private Sector in Development Initiative Launch Formal Association, Dalberg Global Development Advisors, 2007 

External links

• Official website

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