Transforming organizations and service delivery

We help investors and asset owners

transform enterprises. We identify business constraints, strategic assets, and market opportunities, then develop strategies that remove constraints, build on strategic assets, and maximize value from market opportunities.

We help international agencies and governments

create systems that maximize value for money across the entire portfolio of projects and enable governments to deliver bankable projects. We design tools to assess and manage fiscal risk at project, sector, and government level, we use a proprietary toolkit to analyse stakeholder interest, optimize communications, and broker consensus, and manage markets for vital public services. We also turn around the performance of public utilities and other enterprises.

Sectors

Infrastructure and markets for social services

Natural resources and primary production

Livestock Improvement Corporation, New Zealand

Castalia showed how proposed changes to the Dairy Industry Restructuring Act would benefit Fonterra shareholders ... Read more

Castalia helped the Government of Uruguay (GoU) structure a PPP, so it could develop 60 early childhood education centers. The government wanted to ensure its planned early childhood education centers offered high-quality services, could be privately financed, and provided value ... Read more

Can Tho Water Utility Turnaround, Vietnam

We followed the Utility Turnaround Framework (UTF) to help turn around performance at Can Tho WASSCO—the largest water utility in the Mekong Delta. Can Tho WASSCO was underperforming—tap water was not safe to drink, non-revenue water was high, and coverage ... Read more

Chongqing and Elderly Care Public Private Partnership Technical Assistance, PRC

Castalia proposed ways to address the mismatch in demand and supply of elderly care accommodations in Yichang City with the use of private sector participation. The PRC has become one of the world’s largest infrastructure markets, driven by strong economic ... Read more

Competitive Tender Regime for Renewable Energy Generation in Nigeria

Castalia developed the documents, processes and regulations for Nigeria to procure renewable energy through competitive tenders. Nigeria had a huge shortage of generation, and no mechanisms to use competitive procurement to develop local renewable resources to add energy at least ... Read more

Vietnam Water Public Private Partnership Manual

Castalia developed a Toolkit and screening criteria for PPPs so the Government could attract the private finance that was needed in Vietnam’s water sector. Vietnam’s urban water sector needed $600 million of investments each year to improve and expand services ... Read more

Reform Options Study for Communauté Electrique du Bénin

Castalia diagnosed CEB’s underlying problems, and recommended reform options to transform it into a viable and well-managed company. CEB’s poor financial performance was increasing costs of power for customers, hurting Benin and Togo’s economy, and damaging the viability of the ... Read more

Management and Operational Reforms for Metro Iloilo Water District, Philippines

We helped the Metro Iloilo Water District (MIWD) assess the condition of water supply and sanitation, and evaluate options to attract finance, improve management, and extend service. MIWD needed to increase capacity and improve water service operations because of rapid ... Read more