Development Projects is what we do

Water & Power Planners A/S (WPP) is a Danish consulting company with comprehensive experience with design and management of international development projects. Since 1989, we have worked in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe on short-term and long-term assignments.

Our core staff comprises senior consultants with professional expertise and experience ranging from technical/engineering solutions to training and institutional issues. Our core consultants' main competencies are:

• Transmission and distribution of electricity
• Water supply and waste water treatment and water resource management
• Waste management
• Agriculture and natural resource management
• Institutional capacity building and human resource development
• Educational Sector and Teacher Development

In addition to our core consultants, we have a good international network and close relations with various consultants and companies, with whom we work together on a project to project basis. Our network includes Danish and international consultants as well as local consultants in the project countries. Thus, we can provide highly qualified multidisciplinary teams for short-term and long-term assignments.

We provide services at various project stages:

• preliminary project identification
• baseline and feasibility studies
• environmental impact assessments
• project formulation
• appraisal
• tendering
• implementation
• monitoring
• midterm reviewing
• evaluation
  

We have a substantial experience in collaboration with bilateral and multilateral donors as well as NGOs. Major clients include:

• DANIDA, Danish International Development Assistance, Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• DANCED, Danish Cooperation for Environment and Development, Danish Environmental Protection Agency
• DANCEE, Danish Cooperation for Environment in Eastern Europe, Danish Environmental Protection Agency
  
• The World Bank
• UNDP, United Nations Development Programme
• African Development Bank
• African Development Fund
• Danish Red Cross
• DanChurchAid
  

The WPP approach to projects is holistic, as sustainability in a wider sense is a key issue for us. Therefore, when designing and implementing projects we emphasize sustainability concerning:

• The environment and management of natural resources
• The socio-economic impact
• The local capacity to continue and expand project activities and lessons learnt
• The local feeling of project ownership and wish to continue and expand project activities and lessons learnt
• The long term impact of the project and impacts on a larger scale