Munters Consulting is a Dutch private limited company that develops, implements and supports projects for a variety of national and international clients. Initially in the field of international cooperation with a focus on local governance. By supporting the capacity development of institutions at local level and local economic development through involvement of the private sector. Gradually the operations expanded and started including also innovative solutions for renewable energy and energy efficiency. Notably in sustainable hydropower development and water governance.
Services
The services of Munters Consulting are provided independently and cover a broad range of support:
– The identification and conceptualisation of innovative projects and business cases, and support their implementation with the stakeholders throughout the Project Cycle.
– The scouting of grants and finance opportunities, including the writing of project and business proposals, business cases, teasers and information memoranda for donors, financers and investors.
– Development of methodologies, logical concepts, approaches, policies and strategies, and supporting tools.
– Conduct of research, institutional assessments, small hydropower location identification, due diligence studies, baseline studies, cost benefit analysis, surveys and monitoring and evaluation frameworks.
– Development of grant schemes and appraisal of grant applications.
– Development and organisation of training courses and supporting institutional capacity building and knowledge transfer through seminars, workshops, and conferences. Including course and promotional materials, manuals, guidelines and reports.
Area of Expertise
Munters Consulting provides its services mainly in the following areas of expertise.
Local Governance: Social Accountability, Decentralisation, Participatory Planning, Integrated Rural Accessibility Planning, Local Economic Development, Public Private Partnerships, Fiscal Decentralisation, and Local Revenue Mobilisation.
Results Based Management: Project Cycle Management, Logical Frameworks, Theory of Change, Cost Benefit Analysis, and Monitoring & Evaluation Frameworks, grant schemes, and the New Architecture of Aid.
Capacity Development: 5 Capabilities model, Capacity Development Results Framework (WB), Capacity Works Approach (GIZ), Institutional Assessment and Capacity Development (EU), adult learning cylce and on-the-job training.
Renewable Energy: sustainable hydropower, tidal energy, wave energy and solar-power development, Social and Environmental Impact Assessment (SEIA), Feed-in Tariffs, Levelized Cost of Electricity (LCOE), technology and innovation, Technology Readiness Levels (TRL), Technology Performance Level (TPL), Societal Readiness Levels (SRL).
Finance: various instruments of EU, EBRD, EIB, KfW, Netherlands Enterprise Agency, Business Angels and early phase financing.
Public Management: Budget Support, Public Financial Management (and tools like PEFA, PER etc.), Budget Cycle, Policy Result Chain, Macro-economic Assessments, Medium Term Expenditure Frameworks, and Sector Wide Approaches.
Political Economy: Strategic Governance and Corruption Analysis, Good Governance, Drivers of Change, Governmental Development Approaches.
Clients
Munters Consulting cooperates with a diverse group of clients, ranging from national governments at various levels, multilateral and bi-lateral donors, and UN agencies to small and medium sized enterprises, start-ups, universities and knowledge institutes, NGOs, and other (freelance) consultants/contractors.
Also Munters Consulting is affiliating with few organisations active in the field of international cooperation and in the filed of renewable energy.
Assignments
Over the past years, projects and businesses were supported in many countries:
Asia: Afghanistan, Cambodia, China, East-Timor, India, Indonesia, Laos, Nepal, Thailand, Philippines, Vietnam.
Africa: Benin, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Sierra Leone, Zimbabwe.
Americas: Bahamas, Barbados, Dominican Republic, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Netherlands Antilles, Trinidad and Tobago, United States.
Europe: Austria, Albania, Belgium, Germany, Ireland, Kosovo, Macedonia, Switzerland.
Middle-East: Israel, Jordan, Palestine Territories (West Bank and Gaza).
History
Munters Consulting was founded as a sole proprietorship in 2008 in Gouda, the Netherlands. At that time, the founder Paul Munters had worked for almost 15 years in international development assistance. As associate professor in international- and development economics at the University of Amsterdam, as young expert for the delegation of the European Commission in Haiti, as technical expert for the International Labour Organisation Regional Office Asia Pacific in Thailand, and as consultant for two Dutch training and consultancy firms (MDF and ECORYS).
Through the experiences gained in these positions, it was considered the right time to start a firm on its own. Initially the assignments were concentrated on project development and training in the field of public finance management and local governance. This matured into local economic development, social accountability and public private partnerships.
In 2015, Munters Consulting expanded its field of operations into supporting technical innovation in the area of renewable energy and energy efficiency in the Netherlands and abroad. Although these projects vary from case to case, they do involve private small enterprises and start-ups, but also large companies that operate in the area of green energy and energy efficiency.
Munters Consulting became a private limited company since 2018. This increased the possibilities to participate in consortia and engage in partnerships with other firms.
Contact
Munters Consulting
de Wikke 1, 2811 CP
Reeuwijk
The Netherlands
M: +31 (0)614048548
E: paul.munters@muntersconsulting.nl