Since 1988, North South Consultants Exchange (NSCE) provides Sustainable Development consultancy services with the mission to improve economic welfare, livelihoods, and resilience of vulnerable people and communities throughout the Middle East, Africa, and Asia.
With over 35+ years of experience, the registered firm in Egypt is a client-focused organisation dedicated to providing practical, measurable solutions to complex development issues, ranging from sector reform to participatory community development, from policy formulation to community-based interventions.
The company expertise covers overall Project Cycle Management and Results-based Management, including identification, design, implementation, technical assistance, monitoring and evaluation with high-end quality assurance mechanisms in place.
NSCE has cumulative experience in promoting consensus-oriented approaches and collaborative participatory management to enhance stakeholder engagement for increasing tangible impactful sustainable results, implementing complex assignments in environments of protracted crisis, changing policies, challenging economic conditions, and volatile political parameters.
VISION
NSCE is one of the leading Arab and African consulting firms in the field of Sustainable Development in Africa and the Middle East. NSCE strives towards creating an enabling environment for exchange of expertise in Development Cooperation. With the vision to facilitate sustainable impact, NSCE ensures accountability to affected populations with the aim to foster dialogue and synergies between North and South Development Cooperation.
MISSION
Through providing professional consultancy services for Development Projects and Programmes, NSCE has the objective to improve resilience, the quality of life, and economic welfare across the Middle East, Africa, and Central Asia. Foregrounding the participatory approach, NSCE provides Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound (SMART) solutions to a variety of organisational problems for governmental and international agencies to succeed in achieving their public policy and developmental objectives.
VALUES
Sustainability | Accountability | Inclusion | Impact | Integrity | Learning & Knowledge Transfer
Our Network
NSCE is being part of many professional formal networks including the Federation of African and Arab Consultants (FCAA) and the Federation of Consultants from Islamic Counties (FCIC). With members in 26 countries across Africa and Asia, FCIC is established under patronage of the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) that in turn targets 57 countries.
NSCE’s commitment to sustainability is represented in its membership of the UN Global Compact Communication on Progress. In addition, the company was awarded the certificate of “ISO 9001:2015” for its excellent services.
Other international networks include Sanabel, SIEMed Network, and the WageIndicator Foundation. Sanabel – The Microfinance Network of Arab Countries – is a key player on promoting financial inclusion in the region. With more than 50 actors in support of entrepreneurship from 6 Mediterranean countries (Algeria, Egypt, France, Lebanon, Morocco, Tunisia), the SIEMed Network utilises its members’ technical and financial know-how. Pooling together 14 Research Institutes on labour market research in 173 countries around the globe, NSCE is an active research partner of the WageIndicator Foundation since 2011.
In addition, the Islamic Chamber of Commerce and Development (ICCIA), AmCham (USA), French Chambre of Commerce and Industry (CCIFrance), German-Arab Chamber of Industry and Commerce (AHK Germany) among other key chamber networks in the region pave the way for its members to foster synergies and exchange best practices.
NSCE has an elaborate professional track record with governing bodies and public institutions across its countries of operation. It’s on the ground presence in Egypt especially has led to long term cooperation with various Egyptian Ministries such as the Ministry of Water Resources & Irrigation (MWRI), the Ministry of Agriculture & Land Reclamation (MALR) among others.
To advance its mission, NSCE also has established multiple Memoranda of Cooperation in the research landscape: Hassan II Institute of Agronomy and Veterinary Medicine (IAV Hassan II), Morocco | L’Institut National de La Recherche Agronomique d’Algérie (INRAA), Algeria | Cairo University, Egypt | Fayoum University, Egypt.
NSCE is also a member of the international professional databases of DevelopmentAid, LinkedIn, and DARPE.