Financial And Economic Analyses
What are the likely consequences of our decisions? And how confident are we about the evidence available to back this up? We offer services and products in the scarce fields of resource economics, macro-economic analyses, micro-economic analyses, sector-specific studies and socio-economic analyses. We have a large modelling toolbox that contain qualitative and quantitative modelling tools based on best international practices of statistical analyses. Economic modelling is an evidence-based discipline where we use a variety of statistical and Bayesian techniques. Our modelling toolbox includes: Resource economics Environmental Economic Accounting / Natural Capital Accounting Comparative Risk Assessment Economic baseline studies Due diligence studies Econometric modelling Ecosystem service valuation Input-output modelling and Social Accounting Matrix modelling Natural asset and ecological infrastructure valuation Socio-economic modelling and analyses Techno-economic modelling Value chain analyses Health cost studies. To model we use a variety of software applications, depending on our client requirements: Excel, E-Views, Java, Python, R, SQL, VBA.
Natural Resource Management Services
Our strength lies in our ability to bring together environmental, socio-economic and financial expertise to deliver distinctive/unique products to the natural resource and conservation sectors. We are proficient in conducting socio-economic investigations towards sustainable use and development of the natural environment: Natural capital management plans Nature-based Solutions (NbS) Conservation management planning Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) Innovative finance mechanisms for conservation funding Ecosystem service valuation Green economy development plans Business case development for the biodiversity economy Environmental and social policy development Biodiversity offset and compensation strategies Economic instruments for natural capital management Water resource classification and determination of resource quality objectives Costing of Water and Sanitation services Carbon emissions in the wastewater sector Evidence based analysis of ecological degradation Water quality modelling.
Market Intelligence
Global economic growth is steadily shifting towards frontier markets as organizations and countries search for untapped sources of revenue growth. Prime Africa, with our wealth of experience in emerging economies, specifically Africa, is optimally positioned to provide key insights into these unmapped yet potentially lucrative spaces. We are continuously refining our comprehensive array of innovative research methodologies to remain on the forefront of emerging market insight, with our key objective being to reduce risk for our clients. We offer rapid, primarily quantitative, market intelligence to estimate market size, and track customer opinion and trends. We do this through specialist economic modelling which uses various databases, rapid surveys and algorithms. This includes: Market opportunity studies Best practice studies: aspirations, product trends and marketing strategies Conventional market studies relying on field work and surveys Customer opinion reports Economic opportunity reports tailored to customer needs Internet tracking, market sizing and forecasting by country and product category Special investigations: country- or product- specific studies Tracking and forecasting market indicators of customer interest We have experience in managing qualitative market research in Africa.
Advisory and ESG Audit Services
Our analytical work always culminates in strategic and tactical planning. Through these analyses we assist our clients in building business cases, developing policy and strategy, business planning, developing pricing strategies, risk management systems, understanding project impacts, and analysing similar economic and sustainability intelligence needs. Our audit services are centred around environmental, social and governance (ESG) risks and impacts. Our consultants are experienced in conducting ESG due diligence, performance audits and monitoring and evaluation against a broad suite of Development Finance Institution (DFI) and other standards. Examples include those of the World Bank, the IFC, GRI and the IFRS Sustainability Disclosure Standards. We engage with our clients’ key stakeholders where required. Our work is delivered as written reports, presentations, or user-friendly data and data-analysis tools, tailored to client needs. This includes: Business cases Master plans, strategies and implementation roadmaps Policy development Operating procedures Monitoring and evaluation systems Risk assessments Management consulting Action plans Stakeholder engagement Inclusion and gender assessments Grievance mechanisms Theories of change Supply chain studies.
Bespoke environmental, financial and economic tools
Where required, we package our work into user-friendly tools. This may take the form of (but are not limited to): Business models Databases Economic models ESG frameworks Financial models Guidelines and related systems Policies and process flows Reports Software tools Spatial data formats Strategies and action plans. We develop software-based financial and economic planning tools to facilitate user-friendly and rapid analyses by our clients. We use ArcGIS, Excel, Visual Basic for Applications, Java, PHP, HTML and SQL to enable user-friendly analyses of complex financial and economic models.