Our Thought Leadership

In the International Development Advisory Services business unit, we take the view that many of the world’s development issues can be solved through collaboration.

With cross learning at the top of the agenda, every day we work to uncover and learn new lessons from our specialists implementing programs in the field. We use them to make our participants' projects work better, to teach ourselves to do better, and share them with our clients, so that they too can make the most of their funding.

Every insight we adapt makes a world of difference in the outcomes we achieve and in making projects sustainable in the ever changing development landscape.

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Advancing Safe, Inclusive Digital Futures Through Gender-Transformative Approach

This report builds on our vast experience in advising companies on a wide range of ESG topics including ESG strategy.

Insights from KPMG East Africa, Instiglio, and the Ministry of Health on Innovative and Sustainable Health Financing.

Challenges and Opportunities for CEOs in Africa

In a continent of 1 billion people, 700 million people remain without access to power.

The past few years have seen a proliferation of international climate finance schemes to help communities cope with the threat of climate change while also combating its root causes, but this landscape is problematic.

This report summarizes the views of the analysts and media on the potential impact of the Trump presidency on various sectors and key markets globally.

KPMG IDAS currently oversees two multi-donor financial inclusion programmes in Africa that follow the Making Markets Work for the Poor (M4P)

In this brief we aim to summarise some of the typical development challenges faced by a countries in a post conflict situations...

KPMG’s Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Survey, polled more than 35 respondents from organizations responsible for over US$100 billion of global development expenditure.

Through management of various funds across Africa, KPMG’s International Development Advisory Services (IDAS) has allocated capital to over 200 businesses working on projects that have a social impact.

As donors move toward more constructive engagement in post-conflict states...

The Paris Declaration: Concepts, Principles, the Phase 2 Evaluation and tensions between donor and partner countries.

As the fight against global epidemics such as HIV, malaria and tuberculosis steps up, both donors and implementers have begun to think more about how to effectively manage the risks...

How can effective accountability mechanisms be developed in fragile state environments?

In this paper we explore the benefits of Outcome Mapping, an alternative planning and results evaluation system for complex development interventions.

In spite of heavy investments in public service delivery, the citizens’ expectation gap continues to widen.

Challenge funds have been effective in sectors closely tied to poor communities, such as agribusiness and financial services, as well as through private provision of social services including health and education.