Oikos Veritas

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Environmental Assessments

We offer a comprehensive range of environmental services, including Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA), Environmental Audits (EA) and Strategic Environmental Assessments (SEA), across different sectors, supporting public and private entities to adopt best environmental practises in their operations and ensure compliance with the existing national and international regulatory guidelines. Our environmental assessments and audit services focus primarily on the assessment of the consequences (positive and negative) of projects on the environment prior to the decision to move forward with proposed actions. We apply best methodologies that are tailored to meet environmental management expectations and ensure compliance with the existing regulatory requirements. We undertake due diligence to help organizations meet the environmental and social safeguard standards for financial institutions, including the WB, IMF, EIB, and AfDB. We specifically offer key environmental assessment and audit services in the following key sectors:

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  • Agriculture, livestock and fisheries
  • Agroforestry
  • Built environment
  • Energy
  • Healthcare
  • Mining
  • Transport infrastructure
  • Tourism
  • Water and sanitation
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Ecology & Biodiversity

We offer pragmatic, reliable, and turn-key resource ecology and biodiversity consulting services that balance conservation and development needs in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Our integrated approaches employ cutting-edge methodologies and standard application procedures to produce robust and practical sustainable solutions that work with nature and biodiversity, allowing clients to meet national and international guidelines such as IFC-PS6, WB-ESS6, AfDB OS on biodiversity and ecosystems, and the requirements of other financiers such as EDFI.

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Specialties

  • Baseline studies on species and habitats
  • Biodiversity conservation action planning
  • Climate change studies, adaptation and resilience
  • Ecological research projects development
  • GIS and remote sensing
  • Invasive species assessments
  • Land use and cover assessments
  • Landscape ecology spatial planning
  • Problem animal control in aviation sector
  • Protected species surveys and targeted studies
  • Resource inventories, mapping and action planning
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Business, Enterprise & Policy Development

We facilitate the rethinking of businesses to achieve sustainability and goals by offering services that increase profitability, drive innovation and efficiency through eco-business development and conservation, and environmental policy development and reviews. We promote businesses and enterprises across different sectors through the adoption of approaches that ensure greater ownership of the outputs; and are compliant with the relevant legislations.

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Specialties

  • Carbon/environmental footprint assessments
  • Green business feasibility studies and products development
  • Green products development and planning
  • Utility (energy and water) audits and usage plans
  • Waste reduction and recycling strategies and plans
  • Business planning and feasibility studies
  • Business value and block chains analyses
  • Policy reviews
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Resource Economics

Our resource economics consulting services focus on providing a better understanding and application of economic (micro and macro) principles to natural resource management. We analyse and explain interactions between economics and resource use with the goal of developing a sustainable and efficient economy. We focus on addressing the socioeconomic impacts of actions related to the use of resources and to better understanding the role of such resources in economic development. We integrate economics and environmental expertise with exceptional abilities to provide critical answers to complex relationships between economics, resource use, and decision-making.

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Specialties

  • Agriculture and rural development
  • Economic impacts analyses
  • Eco-tourism development and products pricing
  • Energy, water and sanitation studies and planning
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Water & sanitation

Clean drinking water, hygiene, and sanitation play an important part in maintaining health. Access to clean water and sanitation facilities is increasingly becoming a challenge in many rural and urban areas in developing countries. We focus on providing solutions to public and private sector entities on best practises and solutions in water and sanitation. Our services in water and sanitation are multidisciplinary, and cover the whole project cycle, from identification, research studies, and implementation to monitoring, evaluation, and learning.

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Specialties

  • Water resources mapping and studies
  • Feasibility studies & integrated water resources planning
  • Industrial wastewater surveys/water works assessments
  • Sanitation and waste water master planning
  • Urban and rural water supply and distribution studies
  • Water demand, use, audits and distribution analyses
  • Water projects monitoring and evaluation
  • Water resources mapping and hydro-geological surveys
  • Water use and resilience enhancement studies
  • Water-energy-food nexus studies and analyses
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Energy, Oil & Gases

We offer consulting services in the energy sector in Kenya and eastern Africa. We provide environmental, health, safety, risk, social, and feasibility consulting services and a broad range of sustainability services in the sector to meet our clients’ needs. We have independently and in collaboration with our partners, undertaken consulting services for leading national and international energy, oil and gas companies in Kenya, most of which have had a long-term association with our company. Our clients benefit from our ability to meet their needs through a unique set of integrated consulting services, market research, and investment opportunity development.

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Specialties

  • Energy projects sites assessments in compliance with IFC PS6
  • Energy audits and assessment
  • Energy, oil and gas demand, use and distribution analyses
  • Energy, oil and gas use and resilience enhancement studies
  • Feasibility studies & integrated resource planning and investment
  • Projects monitoring and evaluation
  • Resource mapping and surveys
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Occupational Safety, Health & Risk Assessments

Through our team of trained Occupational safety & health; and fire safety advisors who are accredited with national and international organisations and agencies, we provide detailed audits and baseline assessments of the facilities with respect to occupational safety, health, fire safety and risk management to enable our clients to develop appropriate occupational safety and health procedures in work places. We further facilitate in-house training on occupational safety and health awareness management.

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Specialties

  • Workplace Safety, Health and Welfare Conditions assessments
  • Occupational Health and Hygiene Conditions assessments
  • General work place conditions assessments and evaluations
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Eco-tourism & leisure

Ecotourism is increasingly recognised for its multiple benefits to many economies, and assists visitors to see natural areas in a low-impact fashion. We offer a broad range of consulting services in the eco-tourism and leisure sectors for both established and emerging enterprises. Our focus is on providing solutions in product development, including exploring new frontiers of eco-tourism and leisure through feasibility studies and business development.

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Specialties

  • Consumer trends analysis and insights
  • Facility audits, reviews and due diligence reporting
  • Feasibility/programming studies –technical assistance
  • Information systems and content creation
  • Products pricing, market studies and business planning
  • Project set-up, planning and impacts evaluation
  • Public policy evaluation – impact studies & tourism statistics
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Projects Development, Monitoring & Evaluation

We offer consulting services in project development and management for small and medium-sized projects. We support our clients' or customers' initiate, plan, execute, and control outputs that meet specific goals and ensure success. Our services are fully customisable to suit a client’s needs and often blend consultancy and capacity development. We support our clients with monitoring and evaluation of their projects, and implement project delivery approaches, taking into consideration risk assessments and analyses of critical project parameters.

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Specialties

  • Projects supervision and advisory on ecology and environmental matters
  • Evaluation of projects proposals
  • Project quality management and deliverables tracking
  • Projects monitoring, evaluation and learning
  • Projects resource mobilization advisory
  • Technical and environmental due diligence (TEDD)
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Mining & Mineral exploration

Our consulting services are meant to support mining and mineral exploration in all aspects associated with research and resource mapping. We can assist at all stages of operations, from site investigation, planning, and rehabilitation, with the understanding that mining operations usually create a negative environmental impact, both during the operation and after the closure, including undertaking environmental, health, safety, and risk audits.

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Specialties

  • EHS audits and due diligence reporting
  • Full planning applications for quarries and mining projects
  • Geophysical and topographical surveys
  • Resource mapping, assessment and feasibility studies
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Document Review & Editorials

We offer a full range of reviews and editorials in ecology, biodiversity, social, economic, and environmental fields. Our reviews and editorials target both academic and non-academic materials from public and private sector entities.

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Specialties

  • Editing of documents in accordance with client’s styles
  • Full manuscript review/editorial for peer-review publications
  • Integrated and strategic plans reviews
  • Management plans review
  • Statistical data analyses
  • Surveys and market research reports review