Aquaculture is a pillar of the rural economy in Scotland, with 8,000 jobs directly and indirectly across the industry, and generating approximately GBP1.4 million across the wider economy. It is a source of sustainable employment for youth and contributes to directly to development in “fragile areas” that are seeing continued deindustrialisation.
Imani Development’s involvement in Aquaculture in […]
It is with great pride that we announce Imani Development International Ltd has recently become a Certified B Corporation®. This prestigious designation is a way for Imani Development to express its organisational mission to alleviate poverty through economic development. It also shows that meeting high standards of social and environmental performance, transparency, and accountability is […]
The following post is an excerpt from the Executive Summary of the 2017 Value of Scottish Aquaculture Report. Find the Executive Summary here: Executive Summary – Value of Scottish Aquaculture and the Full Report here: Full Report – Value of Scottish Aquaculture 2017
This impact study was commissioned by Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) and Marine […]
Development practitioners – donors, designers, policy shapers and implementers – across the globe agree that evaluation must play a stronger role in shaping development efforts. For some time now, we have heard calls for “evidence-based” policy-making; for the professionalisation of evaluation practice as well as for the need to increase the monitoring and evaluation (M&E) […]
Imani Development has been undertaking a range of border assessments as part of our Development of the SADC Simplified Trade Regime. The primary focus of this is supporting the SADC Secretariat and SADC Member States in drafting, negotiating, and finalising the SADC STR.
Development agencies, philanthropists, charities and to a lesser extent even corporates are all active social change agents – whether they explicitly focus on health, education, agriculture, enterprise, the arts or any of a myriad of sectors that speak to the human condition either directly or indirectly. Most are acutely aware of their contributors/donors/shareholders and are […]
As the world’s youngest democracy, South Sudan faces an immense number of economic, political, and social challenges. Shortly after gaining independence from the Republic of Sudan in 2011, South Sudan applied to join the East African Community (EAC) when H.E. General Salva Kiir Mayardit, President of the Republic of South Sudan, signed a note verbale.
Given […]
Commissioned by the Scottish Aquaculture Innovation Centre (SAIC), with support from the Highlands and Islands Enterprise, Imani Development has delivered a roadmap for innovation-led growth in the Scottish Aquaculture Sector, entitled “Scottish Aquaculture: A view to 2030”. The publication follows a six-month scoping study involving desk research, two datasets from the SAIC biennial event in […]
Imani Development has been contracted by the Common Market for East and Southern Africa (COMESA) to develop a regional support programme for Small-Scale Cross-Border Trade. In order to better assess the priorities of key stakeholders of the intended programme, Director of Imani Development (International) Limited, Dr. Nicholas Charalambides traveled to Lusaka, Zambia, to facilitate a discussion […]
The Business Innovation Facility II is the second phase of the ground-breaking DFID programme BIF I, launched in 2010, to actively identify and support inclusive business project opportunities in five pilot countries; BIF II (BIF2), as a continuation of BIF I, has a much stronger, narrowed scope focusing on Solar Products, Soya, and Pigeon Peas.
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