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Environment & Climate

Our clients

Recent projects

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.



Learning lessons from the PAPBio program (Governance of protected biodiversity areas)


  • Client: IUCN

  • Thematic pillar: Biodiversity

  • Geography: West Africa


Altai supported the IUCN and its implementing partners to capitalize on the experiences of the Support Programme for the Preservation of Biodiversity and Fragile Ecosystems, Environmental Governance and Climate Change in West Africa (PAPBio). This EU-funded programme aims to improve the effectiveness of protected area (PA) management systems in West Africa, as well as strengthening regional governance, particularly regarding cross-border protected areas and the fight against environmental crime. Best practice guides delivered by Altai have been published in French and in English.



Independent Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Unit for FCDO’s Africa Regional Climate and Nature (ARCAN) Programme


  • Client: FCDO

  • Thematic Pillar: Cross-cutting

  • Geography: Africa


Altai Consulting is providing the Foreign and Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO) with an independent monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) unit for the Africa Regional Climate and Nature (ARCAN) program, as part of a consortium led by Ecorys and in partnership with the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED).



Analysis, evaluation and capitalization mission on AFD Group's Oceans portfolio in the Mediterranean + targeted evaluation of 5 projects implemented


  • Client: AFD

  • Thematic Pillar: Biodiversity

  • Geography: Morocco, Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria


Altai and its partner Vertigo Lab have supported an initiative to promote the consideration of marine and coastal ecosystem issues in the activities of the AFD Group, building on lessons learned from past and current interventions. See report



Third Party Monitoring (TPM) Services for the Horn of Africa Groundwater for Resilience Regional Program (HoAGW4R)


  • Client: World Bank

  • Thematic Pillar: Resilience of communities and territories

  • Geography: Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia


Altai Consulting, as part of a consortium led by BDO LLP, has been commissioned to provide third-party monitoring for the Horn of Africa Groundwater for Resilience (HoAGW4R) program.



Financing ocean in Ghana, Senegal and Malaysia – Fundraising feasibility study


  • Client: Oceana

  • Thematic Pillar: Biodiversity

  • Geography: Africa, Asia


Altai carried out a feasibility study to enable Oceana to understand the intervention landscape in three target countries, in order to inform the decision to open a local office.



Evaluation of BIODEV2030 voluntary commitments


  • Client: WWF France and IUCN International

  • Thematic Pillar: Biodiversity

  • Geography: Cameroon, Congo, Gabon, Guyana, Madagascar, Uganda, Tunisia, Vietnam; Benin, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Fiji, Guinea, Kenya, Mozambique, Senegal


Altai Consulting conducted an evaluation of the voluntary commitments made by stakeholders in the BIODEV2030 project as well as the potential for implementing the commitments and results obtained to meet the objectives of the Post-2020 Global Framework and the country's National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan (NBSAP).



Study on civil society's involvement in the elaboration of Senegal's NDC


  • Client: Oxfam

  • Thematic Pillar: Energy and low carbon transition

  • Geography: Senegal


Altai was commissioned by Oxfam to carry out a study on civil society involvement in Senegal's Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC), to inform the level of inclusivity of NDC development processes. See report



Regional Market Analysis on Conservation Finance in Central Africa


  • Client: IUCN

  • Thematic Pillar: Biodiversity

  • Geography: Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon


Altai carried out a regional market analysis on conservation finance in Central Africa as part of the IUCN-led Technical Assistance Facility (TAF) to support the development of a pipeline of investable projects and help projects access the Nature+ Acceleration Fund managed by Mirova.



Mid-term evaluation of the FAIR Sahel project, promoting agroecological practices


  • Client: CIRAD

  • Thematic Pillar: Agricultural practices

  • Geography: Burkina Faso, Mali, Senegal


Altai Consulting, in partnership with the French NGO Nitidae, has conducted a mid-term evaluation of the FAIR-Sahel action-research project to promote agroecology in the Sahel.



Endline evaluation of the project "All actors of energy and climate in the Maghreb"


  • Client: Geres

  • Thematic Pillar: Energy and low carbon transition

  • Geography: Tunisia, Morocco


Geres has commissioned Altai to conduct the final evaluation of its project “All actors of energy and climate in the Maghreb” aiming at setting up Energy and Climate Information Centers (SIEC) ; and led a strategic reflection on the wider deployment of the SIEC system in other countries of the Mediterranean basin, and on the feasibility of a network of inter-territorial SIECs.



Strategic Support and Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) of the TRANSFORM Programme in Africa and Asia


  • Client: Unilever - FCDO

  • Thematic Pillar: Energy and low carbon transition

  • Geography: Kenya, Pakistan, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Côte d'Ivoire, Uganda, Bangladesh, Zambia, India, Myanmar, Nigeria, Madagascar, South Africa


Altai Consulting operated as the program's monitoring, evaluation and learning partner.



Mapping wheat production areas in North-Eastern Syria


  • Client: CHF

  • Thematic Pillars: Agricultural practices / Resilience of communities and territories

  • Geography: Syria


Masae used remote sensing tools and machine learning algorithms to granularly map wheat production and calculate its yield over two seasons.

Thematic Pillars

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Energy and low carbon transition

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Agricultural practices

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Resilience of communities and territories

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Biodiversity

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Circular economy

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