Public Sector

Intl. Tech Dev. Consultancy

Tech advisory for development partners.

We advise UN agencies, development banks, and bilateral donors on technology strategy, digital procurement, and programme design.

The practice

Tech advisory for development partners.

PANEOTECH advises UN agencies, development banks, and bilateral donors on the design and implementation of large digital programmes. Our consulting practice combines technical depth, public-sector experience, and pragmatic delivery discipline tuned for the institutional governance that development finance operates within. We work upstream of procurement and downstream of award, and we are comfortable in both rooms.

What we deliver

Across the development project lifecycle.

Needs assessment

Structured diagnostics of digital maturity, technology gaps, and the institutional readiness that determines whether a programme can absorb investment and deliver outcomes.

Programme design

Architecture and intervention design grounded in the realities of the deployment context, with risk frameworks, sequencing, and the indicators donors require for results-based reporting.

Procurement support

TOR drafting, bid evaluation criteria, vendor due diligence, and the technical advisory that procurement teams need to specify and select what they actually require.

Implementation oversight

Independent technical supervision of vendor delivery, milestone-based quality gates, and the assurance frameworks that protect programme outcomes from delivery risk.

Capacity transfer

Embedded training and institutional uplift so the country office can sustain what the programme builds long after the engagement closes.

Evaluation and learning

Mid-term and end-line technical evaluations, lessons-learned frameworks, and the documentation that turns one programme into knowledge for the next.

At a glance

Engagements designed for institutional accountability.

UNDirect work for UN agencies and multilateral programme offices
DFIEngagements with development finance institutions and bilaterals
10+Donor-funded programmes supported as technical advisor
100%Of work aligned with donor procurement and reporting frameworks
Why it matters

Donor outcomes hinge on technical fundamentals.

Most digital programmes that miss outcomes do so because the technical foundation was wrong from the design phase, or because vendor delivery was supervised without the depth to catch the issues that matter. Our consulting practice exists because the institutions we serve need a technical voice that is independent, fluent in their governance frameworks, and able to translate between donor expectations and delivery reality.

In the field

Where we apply this expertise.

A selection of PANEOTECH projects that draw on this area of expertise.

Somalia

Integrated Seed Certification and Traceability System for SARIS Somalia

A national digital platform for SARIS, the Somali Agricultural Regulatory and Inspection Service, that digitises seventeen regulated processes spanning seed certification and plant variety protection, with offline-capable field inspection, QR-verifiable e-certificates, and a public verification portal. Currently in delivery with a working staging environment.

Continental

Public Sector Collaboration Hub for the African Capacity Building Foundation

A continental digital platform commissioned by the African Capacity Building Foundation, a specialised agency of the African Union, that consolidates Public Financial Management diagnostics, reform case studies, peer learning workspaces, and an academy integration into a single environment for senior public officials across all African Union member states. Currently in delivery, with the public-facing site live at https://pschub.africa.

Mauritania

HydroMet AI, AI-Powered Early Warning System for Hydrometeorological Hazards in the Senegal River Valley

A national early warning system delivered by PANEOTECH for UNDP Mauritania, in joint venture with Effica SYS Co SARL, to anticipate hydrometeorological hazards in the Senegal River Valley. The system combines a stacked LSTM neural network with the SWAT hydrological model and ingests data from seven complementary global sources, including Open-Meteo, NASA POWER, GloFAS via Copernicus, and CHIRPS and SMAP via Google Earth Engine. Alerts are validated by institutional operators before diffusion across SMS, WhatsApp, email, web, mobile, radio, and television channels.

Continental

Climate Watch Africa, Continental Climate Intelligence Platform with the Climate Insight AI Agent

A continental climate intelligence platform developed by PANEOTECH for POLIWATCH AFRICA, covering all fifty-four African Union member states. The platform consolidates climate, energy, and socio-economic data into thematic dashboards and country profiles, and exposes the Climate Insight AI Agent, a natural language interface for conversational query, cross-referencing, and trend narration over the consolidated corpus.

Continental

DiraCore, Pan-African Agricultural Data Infrastructure

A Pan-African agricultural data infrastructure that turns fragmented smallholder data into structured digital assets, supporting financial analysis, EUDR deforestation compliance, voluntary carbon market certification, and credit scoring. Designed for Pan-African Management Services with operations across East and West Africa.

Continental

Anti-Illicit Financial Flows Policy Tracker

A continental analytical platform tracking anti-illicit-financial-flows policies across more than fifty African countries. Built for Tax Justice Network Africa, the African Union and ATAF to support implementation of the Mbeki Report recommendations on illicit financial flows from Africa.

Bring this expertise to your next project

Let's build something together.

PANEOTECH has delivered public sector work across the continent. Talk to our team about how this expertise applies to your context.