Consultancy Services
SGC provides consultancy for business companies in the following key areas:
Social Risk Assessment and Management
One of the key challenges that business companies face is, on one hand, the difficulty to proactively assess and be informed the possible social risks and on the other hand, the reluctance to manage these social risks. Hence, our consultancy helps the business companies proactively assess social risks and provide workable scenarios manage the risks. Accordingly, SGC helps business companies minimize efforts and risks as a result maximize profits, exhibit business and institutional endurance.
Local Governance and Federalism
In most cases business companies pay attention to the body which gives business licenses and ignore local government structure. In addition to this business companies hesitate paying attention to how the whole governance system works, the role of the bureaucracy and hierarchical administrative jurisdictions. In these regards, SGC simplifies things for the business companies providing enough understanding of how Ethiopia’s socio-economic and politico-security work; the expected challenges and approaches to deal with local (where the companies operate), regional (for example in Oromia or other regions), and national (federal level) administrative issues. Most importantly, business companies should know that Ethiopia is a federation where there are constitutionally multipower centers each having exclusive jurisdiction over certain aspects and concurrent jurisdiction on the others.
Domestic and Foreign Investment
Although business companies get their business licenses either from federal or regional governments, the actual operation takes place at local level where getting social license is very challenging. For instance, all construction activities and actual business operations having direct impacts on the people’s lives, ecology, economy, culture, and values take place at local level. Some business companies are good at generating incomes and providing development at national level but letting the local situation underdevelopment or even to the extent of deteriorating local ecology. Hence, both domestic and foreign investments trigger the correlation between investment and local development. In this regard, SGC helps companies bridge the gap between local underdevelopment and national development through domestic and foreign investment schemes.
Multi-stakeholder Engagement
In most cases business companies engage with formal stakeholders but ignore other informal stakeholders which potentially negate their business operations and benefits. Hence, SGC encourages multi-stakeholder engagement approach helping business companies appropriately engage with all stakeholders (formal and informal) and then understand their intentions, capacities, and level of influences.
Local Democracy and Human Rights
Conventionally, business companies (local and international) tend to dictate the local people relying on the central (federal) or regional government and as a result exposed to possible allegations of human rights violations at local level. This trend jeopardizes the operations and sustainability of business companies. Hence, SGC help its clients enhance local democracy and respect human rights as a result the local community and other stakeholders develop sense of belonginess to the business companies.
Urban Governance
One of the emerging issues and needs appropriate administrative and expertise wise responses to cop up with multilevel urban crises in provision of social services and urban unemployment; urban investment and possible land grabbing; urban greening and safety; housing and social equity. In these regards, SGC provides consultancy for urban governments, urban planners, and urban stakeholders.
Conflict Resolution and Peace-building
Due to different reasons and factors there are real and perceived disputes between business companies and key stakeholders (formal and informal) at local, regional, national, and international levels. Understanding the nature and dynamics of these conflict of interests and employing indigenous ways of conflict resolution mechanism, SANYII GADAA CONSULTANCY helps its business clients resolve both real and perceived disputes and then sustainably works to peacebuilding. In the process, SGC encourages establishing common understanding of the problems and consensual dispute handling mechanisms gearing towards systematic conflict management and cherishing peace processes.