Global Development Solutions, LLC (GDS) has extensive experience throughout the world. The company’s activity revolves around supply chain development in conjunction with its proprietary Integrated Value Chain Analysis (IVCA), a diagnostic tool that allows the design of interventions required to increase efficiencies, reduce administrative and market distortions, and enhance sector competitiveness. The tool provides a common framework and methodology across sectors and leads to identification of sector specific interventions but also allows for easy recognition and collating of intersectoral, cross-cutting issues. As a result of our consistent methodology and structured approach, GDS has become adept in building robust supply chains and improved production models as well as creating market linkages and increasing all facets of competitiveness for agriculture, manufacturing and services. Technical expertise offered by GDS includes: • Integrated value chain analysis • Supply chain management • Local content development • SME development • Public-private partnership design and development • Investment and trade promotion • Agriculture out-grower schemes design and development • Domestic and international linkages • Domestic and export market access and development • Institutional capacity building • Matching grants facilities • Competitiveness strategies and benchmarking • Sector-specific policy reform and development • Monitoring and evaluation • Agriculture trade logistics • Green growth and climate change