FRIENDS Consult Limited (FCL) is a Ugandan registered management and business consulting firm with over 23 years’ experience in delivering consultancy services. Since incorporation in 1997, the company has served a diverse range of clients including, Development Partners such as United Nations Agencies, Governments, private-sector companies, local and international Non-Governmental-Organizations (NGOs), amongst others. FCL is an International Organization for Standardization (ISO) certified company with an ISO 9001:2015 quality certificate.
Most assignments undertaken by FCL to date have always conjured responses like “excellent” from clients, owing mainly to our focus on delivering solutions and high level of quality control.
FCL has been rated amongst the Top 100 midsized companies in Uganda in the KPMG/ Monitor Publications survey in six of the last seven years (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, and 2019).
FCL also has a wide network of strategic alliance with other international consulting firms such as AFC in Germany, Oxford Policy Management (OPM) in United Kingdom and ENCLUDE (now Palladium) which boosts our ability to undertake assignments of all magnitudes. Our core areas of concentration are mainly in the following sectors:
· Socio-economic Development Services (Program/project monitoring and evaluation, project appraisal, Impact assessments, sustainability strategy development, baseline surveys, human resource, operational and research studies).
· Financial sector/microfinance Capacity Building (Executive and staff training, development of systems manuals, procedures and policies, development and delivery of training to SACCOs/ MFIs, technical assistance and capacity building, Institutional diagnostics, product review and development, branch feasibility and profitability studies, human resource skill audits, and MFI transformation).
· Macro-economic Studies/ Analyses (Sector profiling, sector assessments, policy analysis, needs assessments for capacity building, economic assessments, macro-economic strategy development)
· Corporate Business Expansion and Development Services (Organizational self-assessments, feasibility studies, strategic and business plan development, market research, development of marketing strategies, financial product review, corporate reviews and restructuring)
· Project/Fund Design and Management (Matching grants management, Leading funds management, Project/ Fund design.
Comments