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Company Presentation

General information Company name: Particip GmbH Address: Merzhauser Str. 183 D-79100 Freiburg, Germany Phone: +49-761-79074-0 Fax: +49-761-79074-90 http://www.particip.de E-mail: info@particip.de Legal form: Limited Commercial registration: HRB 5459, Amtsgericht Freiburg VAT DE 142927394 169,000 € Capital: Managing Director: Johannes G. Walter Bank account: Kreissparkasse Tuttlingen Bank Code: 643 500 70 Account No.: 618 409 SWIFT: SOLA DE S1TUT IBAN: DE326435 0070 0000 6184 09 6.9 Mio € Turnover: 2008: 10.0 Mio € 2009: 12.8 Mio € 2010: 14.5 Mio € 2011: 15.4 Mio € 2012: 20. 2 Mio € 2013: 22.5 Mio € 2014: 30.0 Mio € 2015: 40.0 Mio € (estimated) 2016: Staff: Permanent: 75 Rue Montoyer 31 (7 th floor) Branch office: B-1000 Brussels, Belgium Phone: +32-2-550-11-60 Fax: +32-2-550-11-69 Location of Particip’s headquarters Company presentation Particip | Page 1

Who we are A powerful database of more than 30.000 experts Particip GmbH – Your Partner in Change was worldwide gives us quick and direct access to a founded in 1989 and is now an independent, in- broad spectrum of expertise, which we can mobi- ternationally-recognised consultancy company, lise quickly, while ensuring high quality of our offering the expertise and the know-how gained in services. over thousand assignments worldwide. Our objectives Our mission  Customer orientation Nothing in this world is as certain as change. The It is our goal to design and implement excellent management of change is a challenge that we at tailor-made solutions for and together with our Particip are successfully committed to. Directing and clients. Our criteria for performance and success shaping transformation processes is at the very core are the quality of results and the lasting benefits of our services. achieved for our customers. We hereby earn and maintain both their trust and loyalty. The management of change is the central focus  Staff commitment and raison d'être of our company. Our firm’s mos t valuable asset is our people. We aim to create a working environment that com- As a multi-cultural company, our services focus on bines performance-orientation with concern for international development and include monitoring the individual. Our work processes and culture and evaluation, capacity and organisational de- enable staff members to find their individual bal- velopment, technical assistance, policy advice, ance between professional and private life. development of management guidelines at policy,  Professional and methodological compe- programme and project level, and studies, sur- tence veys and analyses – all services covering a broad Interdisciplinary work is our day-to-day business. variety of sectors and themes. We draw on all fields of academia and knowledge that can inform and empower our ef- Our inter- and multidisciplinary teams work for forts. international organisations such as the European  Commission, the World Bank, the Council of Eu- Profitability rope, etc. as well as for a large number of national Not size and growth, but the sustainability and viability of Particip is our goal. public and private organisations such as ministries and development organisations.  Social responsibility Our company constitutes an active part of socie- Particip currently ty. One of our principle responsibilities towards has 75 permanent society therefore lies in offering our staff mem- staff and a large bers long-term professional and personal devel- pool of partner opment prospects. experts, of which we contract ap- The success of the company is reflected in the proximately 350 constantly increasing turnover, rising to 30 Mio per year for specif- Euro in 2015 and an estimated 40 Mio Euro for ic assignments. 2016, with a positive balance throughout all past years. Page 2 | Particip Company presentation

Our working philosophy skills needed to facilitate and manage a process Particip’s principle of consultancy work is based of change. One of our strengths lies in co- on participation in order to manage social, organi- ordinating multi-disciplinary and multi-national sational or individual change. Technical inputs are teams to achieve synergy effects. An open only one important component to facilitate devel- toolbox including a broad range of opment. To make it sustainable, it techniques and methods supports has to be based on people. Sus- the teams in their work. This ena- tainable development therefore bles them to provide the link be- requires a people-oriented, partici- tween the ‘top - down’ and ‘bottom - patory approach to management up’ approaches to management. and consultancy. Our teams of consultants therefore integrate varied, relevant skills - namely technical skills and the so- cio-economic and communication Guiding principles  Partnership We place great importance on maintaining close partnerships with our clients, consultancy partners  Sustainability and staff members. This emphasis on partnership Successfully implementing change means deliver- is reflected in our company structure and culture. ing lasting results for our clients, target groups It finds its expression in our trademark: and partners. We not only advise our customers, particip – your partner in change but also support them in the implementation pro- cesses that follow their decisions.  Excellence Honest and open relationships with our clients, partners and staff are the strategic foundation for The quest for excellence drives our cooperation our long-term success. with clients. We apply the highest performance and quality standards to our services and prod- ucts – and to the people and processes involved Our ethical principles are laid down in our code of in their delivery. We constantly question estab- conduct. They provide us with a framework for lished concepts and further develop proven prac- action and enable us to achieve our goals while tices to achieve optimal results. living our values. In this context we participate and support the Global Compact initiative of the United Nations.  Communication Our lively, fair and open communication enables much more than simply the exchange of infor- mation. We are constantly able to learn from diffi- culties by jointly addressing them in a timely fash- ion and through constructive dialogue. Our culture of communication encourages the solidarity and trust that is indispensable to mutual learning. Company presentation Particip | Page 3

Our services Services with focus on functions, processes and methodologies  Monitoring & evaluation  Sector, thematic and methodological guidelines for policy, pro- gramme and project management  Capacity and organisational development, training  Technical Assistance / Programme Implementation & Manage- ment  Framework Contract Management Thematic and sector coverage of services Public Sector Economic Development  Public sector reform  Support to small and medium-sized enterprises  Political & administrative governance  Local economic development  Organisational and capacity development of  Capacity development of private sector support public institutions institutions  Local government &  Corporate social responsibility decentralisation  Financial services (micro, rural, SME, finance)  Sector-wide ap-  Trade proaches and budget-  Regional integration ary support  Public expenditure Regional, rural and local development management  Poverty reduction and livelihood programmes  Support to National Authorising Officer  Regional and local devel-  Support to programme management units opment planning  Support to central contract and finance units  Community development,  Fund management empowerment and local self-organisation Social and Human Development  Agricultural production  Support to civil society organisations (Non- systems State-Actors)  Forestry  Human rights and democracy  Irrigation  Governance & justice Environment and Natural Resources  Social sector policy  Gender and minorities  Climate change  NGOs  Sustainable management of land & forest re-  Food aid and food security sources  Water and sanitation  Land/soil degradation & desertification  Health  Conservation  Education  Environmental regula-  Rehabilitation & tions, legislation and en- forcement post-conflict devel-  Environmental communi- opment cation and awareness building  Environmental impact assessments and moni- toring Page 4 | Particip Company presentation