ABOUT US WHAT WE DO ICON-INSTITUTE Consulting Group is a private company designing, managing and implementing international projects in development cooperation. During almost 45 years of experience, we have established ourselves as a recognised actor in the development and cooperation sector. We support our partners and clients with expertise, knowledge and capacities to meet their development objectives and ensure long lasting and sustainable results. We have developed solid cooperation and working relations with international and national development organisations such as the United Nations (UNFPA, UNDP, UNESCO, ILO, etc.), the European Union, the World Bank and other international development banks, bilateral development agencies such as GIZ, KfW, AFD, Enabel, DFID, SIDA, as well as national and local governmental institutions and civil society organisations. Our expertise covers the full project life cycle, from feasibility studies, formative evaluations and concept development to design, planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of development interventions. We support the 2030 Development Agenda and Sustainable Development Goals. This enables us to further integrate our thematic and technical expertise and align our interventions to the SDG targets. The good development practices that we have implemented through the years can be broadly disseminated. We value interdisciplinary and integrated approaches through our core services: capacity development and training, technical assistance, consultancy and research. We believe that these services are complementary and provide the intended impact for development, seeking to bring effective and sustainable change at individual, organisational and environmental levels. Our solutions ensure that the interventions of our partners and clients are relevant. We also firmly believe that context matters, and we therefore seek to adapt our approach and concepts to the context in which we are to operate and try to adhere to the fundamental principles of human rights, do no harm and leave no-one behind that are embedded in the 2030 Development Agenda. OUR TEAM Our team consists of almost 70 staff members at the head office in Cologne (Germany), as well as over 600 international and national consultants. Our permanent staff perfectly mirrors our worldwide involvement as it is international, multilingual and multicultural with close to 20 nationalities from all continents. Over 10 spoken languages allow us to operate in a vast array of countries, context and language settings. We are proud of the diversity of technical background of our staff covering fields from social, political and economics sciences, to management and administrative expertise. We seek to develop the capacities of our staff through involvement in development projects and research activities and methodological training. The teams present a balanced composition of senior and junior project managers, technical inhouse experts (such as trainers, evaluators, statisticians, labour market or economic experts), and support staff providing the required experience to reach the client’s objectives. ICON carries out a dual vocational training programme in partnership with the German employment services to train and develop young professionals as project and administrative assistants. COMPANY HISTORY 1975 1987 1996 1998 2000 2001 2006 2007 2009 2010 2012 2017 ICON-INSTITUT Gesellschaft für angewandte Sozialforschung, Beratung, Planung und Entwicklung mbH is founded in Köln (Cologne). CORPORATE VALUES Corporate Social Responsibility For decades ICON has assumed responsibility for people and environment and contributes actively to a positive social development in our project countries. CSR is an integral part of our corporate philosophy – whether it concerns our customers, beneficiaries, employees, affiliates or environment protection. Please click to read our CSR declaration. Integrity Agreement As member of the German Association of Consulting Engineers `{`Verband Beratende Ingenieuere (VBI)`}` we have adhered to the association’s integrity agreement, which can be read by clicking on this box. DIN EN ISO 9001:2015 ICON Consulting Group including all its subsidiaries are DIN EN ISO 9001:2015 certified. Please click to see our ISO-Certificate. Trademark: ICON-INSTITUT® and GET German Education and Training® OUR MEMBERSHIPS The company, its staff and experts are members of and contribute to the following institutions and societies: International section of the German Association of Consulting Engineers VBI e.V. (Auslandsausschuß), VBI-KfW working group on Financial Cooperation, iMOVE, GIZ-working groups (Facharbeitskreise) for private sector development, rural development and agriculture, governance, water, education as well as vocational education and labour market, European Microfinance Platform, DeGEval Gesellschaft für Evaluation e.V., Strategic advisory board of the Cologne Business School GmbH, Eine-Welt Stadt Köln. Verband Beratender Ingenieure e.V. The German Association of Consulting Engineers, one of the leading associations worldwide for consultancy and engineering. iMOVE is an initiative of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), with offices at the Federal Institute for Vocational Training (BIBB) in the Federal City of Bonn. We are member of the iMove network. European Microfinance Platform A growing network of over 140 organisations and individuals active in the area of microfinance. DeGEval Gesellschaft für Evaluation e.V. This Evaluation Society works with experts and institutions that are active in the field of evaluation. It focusses on professionalisation of evaluation, consolidation of different perspectives of evaluation as well as information and exchange about evaluation. Eine-Welt Stadt Köln Köln supports with a local network the Millenium Development Aims of the United Nations map ICON-INSTITUTE GmbH & Co. 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