The International Development Consultants have attained a high profile through getting a constellation of experts possessing local and foreign qualifications. IDC professionals have marvelous experience in diversified fields having national and international significance. The following are the major areas where our professionals have contributed significantly for various organizations.

1.   SOCIAL & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
The IDC professionals have rich experience of human resource management, training & capacity building, socio-economic research/ surveys and community/ social development projects. The major areas of expertise are as under:

 

• Social assessment, land acquisition and resettlement – social assessment (project affected persons (PAPs), PAFs, compensation, private, public & social infrastructure, relocation/ resettlement, compensation etc.), estimation of value of land to be acquired (CSR, prevalent market rates, engineers estimates, preparation of resettlement plan including impact assessment, socioeconomic  profile of APs, public consultations & disclosure, entitlements, budget estimates, institutional arrangements, implementation schedule and monitoring & evaluation.

 

• Monitoring and evaluation of projects – developing computerized monitoring system, determining the impact of the project, developing development of performance key indicators (input/process, output and impact/outcomes indicators), physical & financial targets and achievements, feedback to the project management, evaluation of changes in key indicators as compared with the baseline data, lessons learnt and replicability in other areas.

 

• Financial, economic analysis and risk analysis – assessment of cost (capital & operational cost of the project), assessment of benefits especially tangible, financial & economic prices, life of the project, selection of discount rates, decision criteria, (benefit cost ratio, net present value, economic rate of return), risk/uncertainty/sensitivity analysis.

 

• Human resource management /training & capacity building - planning, organizing and conducting training, developing training modules & reading material, workshops, seminars, consultative meetings, conferences/ conventions, group/focus discussions, information dissemination, learning tours, stakeholder consultation workshops.

• Community/ social development– developing social mobilization process/ flow chart activities, participatory rapid appraisal (PRA), community/ FOs formation, conduct of community meetings, training & capacity building participatory irrigation management (PIM), Irrigation management transfer (IMT), community contract/ community partnership documents.

 

• Socio-agro-economic research– baseline studies/ establishing baseline data,  farm budget analysis, production function/regression analysis, key performance indicators (input, output & impact/ outcome indicators), appplication of econometrics & statistical tests, gender analysis, allocative efficiency of resource use (VMP), production elasticities.

 

• Poverty alleviation– determining the level of poverty (rural & urban as well as farm & non-farm households), factors affecting the poverty, measures for poverty reduction, population below poverty line, drought mitigation measures.
• Education– literacy rate, enrollment & obtained degrees at school, college and university level, types of educational institutions, cost and income level of educational institutions, student-teacher ratios, enrollment & drop-out rate, preparation of community based school development plan (school profile, skill & infrastructural development), school councils (composition, roles & responsibilities), developing child-friendly schools, elimination of corporal punishment in schools/ institutions.

 

• Health– extent of health facilities (hospitals, dispensaries, basic health units etc.) along with doctors available at different tiers (city, town, village). Birth rate, mortality rate, health, nutrition, age & weight, health screening, extent, nature & types of diseases at cities, towns, villages and slum areas.

 

2.         WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT

 

• Hydropower - Planning & design, construction/civil works supervision, E & M, soil testing, geology and dams.
• Irrigation, drainage & flood control - Planning & design, construction/civil works supervision, canal lining, small dams and flood protection works.

• Groundwater- Planning & design, construction/ civil works supervision for sustainable development of groundwater, piezometers installation, groundwater monitoring (quality & water table depth), groundwater extraction & recharge.

 

• Drinking water & sanitation- Planning & design, construction/civil works supervision for sustainable development, water supply schemes, lift pumps.

 

• Water management - Planning and design/ supervision for the lining of watercourses, laser land leveling, pressurized irrigation system (sprinkler/drip) resource use conservation technology, zero tillage, water ponds, integrated water management, water measurements, water lifting devices/ schemes, 

 

3.         AGRICULTURAL & NATURAL RESOURCES

The agriculture & Natural Resources section deals with a variety of services following sub-sectors:

 

• Land utilization– Gross/ culturable command area, cultivated area, culturable waste, cropped area, land use intensity, cropping intensity, irrigated area, irrigation intensity, rain-fed/ barani area, farm size distribution, land tenure, land value, land rent and other indicators.

 

• Cropmanagement– Area under various crops, cropping pattern, input use, crop yield, input-output-prices, crop budget analysis, storage & marketing arrangements/ channel, crop income.

 

• Livestock management – Livestock inventory, livestock rearing, milk production, consumption & marketing, incidence of grazing, extent of animal sale, livestock income.

 

• Forestry & rangelands management – types of vegetation, density, ownership, tenurial arrangements, production, prices, marketing, stakeholder consultation, impact on environment, community participation, economic evaluation/viability, sustainability, construction, improvement of the resource.

 

• Wildlife – types, growth, sustainability, conservation.

 

• Fisheries – types, nursery raising, production, cost (fixed & operational), marketing channel.

 

4.   ENVIRONMENT
The environmental professionals of IDC have vast experience in conducting various environmental/ studies as discussed below:

 

• Environmental impact assessment (EIA)
• Sectoral environment assessment (SEA)
• Initial environmental examination (IEE)
• Environmental studies
• Highway/road sector
• Transmission line
• Agriculture/ water management
• Water resources/ irrigation

 

5    IT/ DATA MANAGEMENT (MIS)
Information Technology (IT) and data management has key importance in IDC IT/data management section is mainly dealing in the following areas:

• Data management – Data management is being carried out using softwares like MS-Access, FoxPro, oracle/SQL, visual basics (VB).

 

• Auto Cad/ Geographic Information System (GIS) – GIS development is to monitor, plan and facilitate decision making process for the development and maximum utilization of resources. It is an instrument to have all kinds of spatial and attribute data at one place to render it accessible to any prospective user on the web, which is easy to update, improve and expand the existing databank.

 

• Software development – development of computerized data entry & analysis programmes and several others.

 

• Training – organize and conduct training related to information technology/basic training for computer application.