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We help our clients – from governments to multinationals and financial institutions – increase the supply of economically viable, environmentally sustainable, socially equitable energy.  Our expertise spans designing evidence-based strategies for entering emerging markets, developing business models for doing business with low-income consumers, policy analysis, innovative financing to find energy delivery models.



Layusa Isa-Odidi

Layusa Isa-Odidi is an Associate Partner leading Dalberg’s presence in Melbourne, Australia. She focuses on strategic planning and financing across the areas of education, employment, agriculture, and gender. In doing so, she has advised governments, foundations, Fortune 100 companies, multilateral institutions, bilateral donors, and INGOs. 
 



Daphnée Benayoun

Daphnée is an Associate Partner and heads Dalberg’s presence in Paris. She leads teams advising multilateral and bilateral organizations, governments, corporations and private investors on strategic planning, capacity building, monitoring and evaluation, and investment notably in the energy and infrastructure sectors, with a particular focus in Africa.

New DFI – Solar home systems due diligence

  • Dalberg conducted a market due diligence of a leading pay-as-you-go solar homes system company. 
  • Dalberg's analysis focused on three areas: the size of the addressable market, the competitive landscape, and the target company's strategy to boost revenue and profitability.
  • Dalberg provided perspectives on each of these taking into account a 5-year time horizon, with a slightly longer-term view on the addressable market. 
     

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Leading Energy Player – Investment opportunity identification

  • Dalberg supported a multi-national oil and gas corporation in identifying investable opportunities in the energy sector in Kenya.
  • Dalberg conducted a landscape opportunities analysis, created a map of relevant stakeholders, prioritized opportunities based on a set of criteria, and developed detailed investment proposals for shortlisted opportunities.
     

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Anokhi Parikh

Anokhi Parikh is an Associate Partner based in Johannesburg. She brings twelve years of experience in the development sector across India and Africa, focusing on urban planning, health, education, energy and environment. Anokhi co-leads Dalberg’s Cities Practice.



Matthew MacDevette

Matthew MacDevette is an Associate Partner based in Johannesburg. His work focuses on Southern, East and West Africa and covers various aspects of economic growth and development, including impact investing, donor-led facilitation of private investment, inclusive business and shared value, youth employment, and SME development.

Matthew’s work spans a range of public and private sector clients both within and outside sub-Saharan Africa, and includes sectors such as manufacturing, financial services, agriculture, healthcare, and energy. 

Cleaning up cooking in urban Kenya with LPG and bio-ethanol

Today in Kenya, the majority continue to cook with dirty fuels - kerosene, charcoal, and firewood - which cause significant damage to health at a household level and the environment at large. In recent years, clean modern fuels, which significantly reduce these adverse health and environmental impacts, have become increasingly available and cost-competitive in Kenya. Liquified Petroleum Gas (LPG) penetration has increased rapidly over the past five years, especially in Nairobi.



Mark Freedman

Mark Freedman is a Partner in Dalberg’s New York office. Mark comes to Dalberg after 27 years at BCG, where he was a senior partner in New York and Paris. Among other roles, Mark was BCG’s global leader for Industrial Goods, as well as founder and leader of the infrastructure and water practices. Mark was also active in both the Public Sector and in Social Impact while at BCG, and led the firm’s partnership with Save the Children International. Before BCG, Mark spent 7 years with Save the Children-US, mostly in Burkina, Cameroon, and Zimbabwe.
 

New Dalberg study shows social, economic and environmental viability of scaling ethanol cooking fuel in Kenya

Dalberg Advisors has today announced the principal findings of a triple-bottom-line study on scaling clean ethanol cooking fuel in Kenya, including a comparative analysis with Liquid Petroleum Gas (LPG). These findings have been released to coincide with the Sustainable Energy for All Forum taking place in Lisbon, Portugal, from 2-3 May.

Dalberg’s principal findings include:

* The majority of Kenyans cook with unhealthy and environmentally-destructive fuels such as charcoal and kerosene;

Dalberg's Gaurav Gupta on what makes an effective social enterprise

Sustainable development is the term for the dual imperative—economic growth and environmental sustainability. But often there is confusion over the business case for going green. Gaurav Gupta, the Regional Director of Dalberg Advisors, works collaboratively across the public, private and philanthropic sectors to fuel inclusive growth. He is also the Director of Unleash, a global innovation lab that brings together people from all over the world to disrupt conventional solutions and create a better and more sustainable world.

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