Who you are
Local and regional authorities
“I have a territory and a development plan. I have no funding.”
Your mandate
What you answer for
Municipalities, regions, local government
You exist to administer a territory and improve the living conditions of the people in it. Decentralisation transferred powers to you; it did not transfer the engineering capacity that goes with them. You therefore have immense needs, full legitimacy, and an ability to pay that bears no relation to either.
You decide quickly, but you almost never pay yourself: funding comes from a national programme, a development partner or a decentralisation fund. So we do not begin by selling you anything. We begin by profiling your territory using the public data in our Observatory, free of charge, and by identifying with you the funding window that can finance the operation.
What your organisation is made of
- Rural, urban and district municipalities
- Urban communities and metropolitan authorities
- Regions and regional councils
- Deconcentrated administrative authorities
Your constraints
How your decision is actually made
This is what most providers ignore, and it is what makes assignments fail.
Who decides
You do, quickly, with your executive. It is the shortest decision circuit of all — and, paradoxically, the least able to pay.
Where the money comes from
Almost never from your own budget. From a national programme, a development partner, a decentralisation fund. You are the beneficiary; the payer is elsewhere.
What timetable
Twelve to thirty-six months, and indirect: the time it takes for funding to be identified and mobilised.
Our role
What ODT does for you
- We profile your territory free of charge from the public data in our Observatory — that is our first piece of work with you, and it costs you nothing.
- We turn your development plan into a portfolio of appraised, sized and costed projects that you can put to a funding window.
- We identify with you the funding available for each project in the portfolio.
- We build the cadastral base your territory lacks — a condition of your local tax base as much as of any secured investment.
- We supervise the works once they start, and certify what has been done before you pay.
What we will not do
- We will not sell you anything at first contact. Our first act is to profile your territory, free of charge.
- We do not propose a study you will not be able to fund: identifying the funding window comes first.
- We do not sign with a local authority unless the source of funding has been identified — that would expose you.
Published because it is binding on us: see what we do not do.
Start by having your territory profiled
Free of charge, from the sourced public data in our Observatory. You come away with a quantified portrait of your municipality, the list of programmes it is eligible for, and a clear view of what can be funded.
Your situations
What we most often encounter in your case
5 situations on this site concern you directly.
Making a project bankable
“Our file comes back from the credit committee with technical reservations we do not know how to clear.”
Knowing and securing the land in our territory
“We do not know precisely who occupies what, or on what basis.”
Taking back control of our own data
“We depend on an outside provider to read our own data, and the platform dies when the project ends.”
Getting works built to specification, and paying for what was actually done
“Our fear is not a shortage of contractors. It is paying for what has not been done.”
Making our municipal development plan fundable
“We have a development plan. It is dormant, because none of its projects is fundable as it stands.”
Let's talk about your territory
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