Barma consulting
Scaling impact through partnerships
Barma consulting
Scaling impact through partnerships
Scaling impact through partnerships
Scaling impact through partnerships
We believe in the power of systems change, encapsulated in wise words that "If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together."
Our Mission is simple: help innovative organizations and companies to go far, together.
We offer a full range of services to help businesses and development actors to seize opportunities at the intersection of market systems and development cooperation.
We work with clients to identify, build, and scale shared-value partnerships that advance their sustainability and business goals.
Our superpower is helping fellow pragmatists to create, integrate, and scale market-based sustainability solutions.
We specialize in working across silos to build relationships, identify synergies, and unlock resources.
It all begins with a goal: we help clients define their objectives, then identify others with shared or complementary interests. Leveraging broad networks and extensive experience, we map and analyze the landscape of companies and organizations active in particular geographies, value chains, and impact goals. As part of this process, we support clients to assess resource needs and identify opportunities for funding and co-investment. Based on these insights, we guide clients on options to move forward with targeted outreach.
Once promising opportunities have been identified, we support clients to build impactful and mutually-beneficial partnerships. Building on landscape analyses and stakeholder mapping, we connect clients with potential partners for exploratory discussions. As partnerships crystalize, we facilitate focused conversations to clearly define and document roles and responsibilities of all partners and outline programmatic objectives and metrics. As needed, this includes support to conduct due diligence and obtain funding, financing, and in-kind support to achieve programming goals.
After partnerships launch, we provide customized project management and advisory support to ensure they achieve results and keep innovating. To track progress and guide management, we design and support monitoring frameworks aligned with partners’ own systems and internationally-recognized standards and reporting frameworks.
We provide technical assistance, training, and coaching to help employees from all departments work across silos and understand the interface between business and sustainability goals. This includes on-demand support to corporate clients seeking to better-understand and strengthen ties with development actors. We also assist USAID Missions seeking to mainstream and scale Private Sector Engagement and development finance.