April 21, 2015-Nathan Associates has long incorporated women’s empowerment in the firm’s economic policy work, taking innovative and creative approaches to gender issues. Because of our expertise and our commitment to inclusion, we have assembled a team of specialists in … Read More
June 6, 2014 Businesswomen in ASEAN Member States can now share experiences and promote a favorable environment for women’s entrepreneurship through the ASEAN Women’s Entrepreneur Network (AWEN). The ASEAN Committee on Women created AWEN and hosted a launch event on … Read More
May 2, 2012- With support from the ASEAN-U.S. Technical Assistance and Training Facility, managed by Nathan Associates, the ASEAN Commission on the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Women and Children (ACWC) spent 10 days in Washington DC and … Read More
Nathan assisted Elsevier Singapore by analyzing its G2G survey data (this survey is conducted annually for all employees in Elsevier). Nathan’s analysis covered data for the years 2012 to 2015 and compared various indicators over the years, business units and … Read More
Evaluating past EU trade programmes
The EU’s share of trade with ACP countries accounts for a small part of its foreign trade. Moreover, this share has declined in recent years, despite decades of tariff preferences in favour of ACP countries under the Cotonou agreement. For most ACP countries – and for virtually all African ACP countries – the EU is the main trading partner. Moreover, ACP exports remain concentrated in a few primary products, which are mainly commodities. Alongside the multilateral liberalisation process, many ACP countries are pursuing comprehensive regional integration processes. However, intra-regional trade is still fairly low in many regions.
A thematic global evaluation of the European Commission’s (EC) support to Trade-Related Assistance in Third Countries was finalised in 2013. The main objectives of the evaluation were to provide an overall independent assessment of the EC’s past and current support to Trade-Related Assistance in Third Countries and to identify key lessons in order to improve the EC’s current and future strategies and programmes.
Nathan is partnering with Transtec to conduct the evaluation of three EU ACP Trade Programmes simultaneously, so as to draw overarching conclusions on good practices and lessons learned, and recommendations regarding previous and recent strategies and programming architectures on how ongoing and future EU funded trade assistance should be designed to be most effective, efficient, relevant and sustainable, with special attention to milestones and complementarity.… Read More
Nathan helped the Government of Sri Lanka (GOSL) reform public financial management (PFM) systems. The project worked on a demand-driven basis to provide support across a broad spectrum of PFM topics, as the government needs them. The project has worked … Read More
Nathan provided technical assistance to the Organizational Development Component of the Lao PDR Customs Department (LCD) Customs Trade Facilitation Project aimed to enhance the training capacity of LCD. Nathan experts developed an LCD training curriculum and identified the most critical … Read More
Nathan developed the module on the New Paradigm of Regulation and Competition for the Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs (IICA). The module traced the origins of regulation and competition in the Indian economy since independence; highlighted the existing regulators and … Read More
The Design and Implementation of the Haiti Trade Information Portal (HTIP) project, financed by the World Bank, aimed to lower transaction costs for traders, boost interagency collaboration, and move Haiti toward greater participation in global trade through fuller compliance with … Read More
The Government of Ecuador granted a 50-year concession to a private operator/investor to design, finance, construct, operate, maintain, own, and manage a 27 MW run-of-the-river hydropower plant with an estimated investment cost of US$45 million. On behalf of the Inter-American … Read More