Expertise

Culpin Planning Ltd has experience and offers expertise to public and private sector clients throughout the world in the following services:

Growth and Poverty Reduction Planning, Budgeting and Management

Economic analysis, especially economic development potential linked to growth / poverty reduction strategies
Local economic development and employment studies, including SME support
Stimulating private investment and scoping public - private partnerships

Poverty analysis and poverty reduction strategy formulation
Social issues analysis, including rural-urban and urban-urban migration, inclusive policies for ethnic minorities and gender equity
Preparation of national, regional and local sector socio-economic development strategies
Preparation of rural development / regional plans and local plans with emphasis on linking economic and spatial planning and urban-rural linkages
Preparation of urban development / regional plans with emphasis on linking economic and spatial planning and urban-rural linkages
Preparation of urban and regional infrastructure needs assessments and infrastructure improvement plans and programs, including feasibility studies, financing plans and institutional arrangements for implementation and O&M
Detailed studies of urban renewal, low-income urban area upgrading, urban design, tourism and industrial planning

Carrying out national low-income housing sector studies and preparing housing strategies for the poor
Investigations of dimensions and processes of informal housing
Assessing housing finance mechanisms for the poor and housing mortgage market potential
Designing housing credit programs, especially for households of limited income

Appraisal of government systems for budget support
Consolidation of New Aid Modalities (sector-wide and program approaches and the use of non-project modalities)
Fiduciary Risk Assessments

Urban, rural and regional development planning, budgeting / PFM and management capacity building needs assessment
Formulation of organizational and institutional development strategies aligned to government systems of planning, budgeting and implementation
Formulation of organizational and institutional development strategies aligned to government systems of planning, budgeting and implementation to consolidate decentralization
Harmonization of technical assistance / co-ordination of multi disciplinary development planning, budgeting and implementation
Formulation of HRD strategies and training programs aligned to government systems of planning, budgeting and implementation and delivery of training programs
Provision of technical assistance on low-income community organization and development, with NGO’s