GFA Consulting Group GmbH

Based in Hamburg, GFA Consulting Group GmbH is a global player with numerous subsidiaries and partner companies worldwide. This international presence is not only beneficial to clients but also serves as an incentive to GFA staff. Clients and financial institutions hold our competence and expertise in high esteem. This recognition is founded on our success in providing consultancy and support services to institutions and organizations engaged in improving people’s lives and contributing to a boost in employment opportunities and economic growth. 

Our consultancy services combine competence at the sector and management  level with the application of innovative approaches for project planning and implementation, human resource development and financing. We have a large pool of highly qualified, multi-talented and interdisciplinary experts at its disposal whom it can rely on in all phases of project preparation, implementation and evaluation.

We have been growing steadily since it was founded in 1982. We have implemented thousands of studies and projects worldwide. At the same time, the range of services has been extended continuously. For example, IT solutions and services such as quality management and the implementation of corporate responsibility strategies to private-sector clients have been added. The  GFA Group also invests in complementary services such as engineering, digital innovation, education and IT consulting. Our strategic business areas are in the fields of agriculture and rural development, natural resources management and environment, water, sanitation and waste management, climate change, energy, digital innovation, education, skils and employment, financial systems development, governance, health, public finance management, monitoring and evaluation and private sector development.

We have successfully served hundreds of institutional clients by helping them implement projects financed by bilateral and multi-lateral donors. Project volumes with clients such as Swiss and Austrian Development Cooperation, Millennium Challenge Coporation, The Global Fund To Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, multi-lateral development banks etc. are of growing importance. Our expertise has been significantly enhanced through the continuuous cooperation with various German ministries as well as GIZ and KfW as implementing organizations that finance and promote development programs.