We are a boutique firm: a senior, hands-on and agile team that designs every instrument around the operation, its risk and its local context — for projects financed by the IDB, IDB Invest, the World Bank and IFC.
We choose to work as a boutique firm: every operation is led by a senior, dedicated team that understands the project in depth, scopes to what it actually needs and responds with agility.
The specialists you meet in the proposal are the ones who go to the field, write the instrument and defend it before the Bank.
Scope is designed around the operation's risk, stage and budget — no generic templates, no unnecessary studies.
Direct communication with the person coordinating the work. Fast decisions, no intermediate layers.
Presence in Central America and first-hand knowledge of the regulatory, institutional and community context.
Reliable, fast support for preparation, due diligence and supervision of operations.
Specialists fluent in the Bank's frameworks who work side by side with its staff.
To meet the loan's environmental and social requirements without slowing execution.
Approvable instruments, implementation support and capacity that stays with their team.
To reach IDB Invest or IFC financing with their E&S management in order.
Gap analyses, ESIAs and management systems that meet the lender's standard.
A solid local partner to deliver in Central America with quality and field knowledge.
Fieldwork, laboratory, consultation and technical writing as local partner or subconsultant.
Many operations need both the country's environmental license and the instrument the lender requires. We deliver them in a coordinated way, from the same field data.
Every service scales to the operation — from Category B to Category A — and is measured by what it makes possible, not by page count.
Risk and impact review, gap analysis between national regulation and the lender's standard, and subproject screening.
Assessments for single works and strategic assessments for multi-works programs, built on our own field and laboratory baseline.
Design and implementation of management systems, frameworks for programs with subprojects and site-specific management plans.
Engagement plans, meaningful consultation and grievance mechanisms with field-tested procedures.
Plans and frameworks based on census, cut-off dates, eligibility and measures for vulnerable groups with a gender lens.
Multi-hazard assessments, risk management plans and climate-resilience modeling with IPCC scenarios.
Gender and diversity plans, sociocultural analyses and cultural-pertinence plans built with communities.
ESMP supervision, monitoring with an accredited laboratory, drone overflights, orthomosaics and GIS analysis.
Training, workshops and self-service tools so executing agencies can prepare their own instruments.
For banks and investors that need an independent, local view of the environmental and social performance of what they finance — before and after financial close.
Senior multidisciplinary teams, a single point of contact and in-person, virtual or hybrid supervision. Deliverables in Spanish or English.
Early screening, risk classification and due diligence.
ESIA, ESMF, ESMP, resettlement and disaster-risk plans.
Disclosure, meaningful consultation and an operating grievance mechanism.
Supervision, field and laboratory monitoring, compliance reports.
Review of operation samples, recurring risks and lessons learned.
A selection of operations where our work became approved instruments and lasting capacity within executing agencies.
A ~126 km four-lane expansion across diverse terrain, with resettlement exposure and natural-hazard risk along the alignment.
ESMF, ESA and ESMP with a stakeholder engagement plan and sociocultural analysis; operational-resilience assessment; structure-by-structure impact classification using drone orthomosaics and GIS.
A bank-ready safeguards package with georeferenced evidence for precise resettlement and mitigation planning.
Permanently relocating 570 commercial units and 736 people — 72.8% women — in La Libertad and Santa Tecla without disrupting their livelihoods.
Resettlement and livelihood restoration plans with census-based characterization, gap analysis, cut-off dates and a gender lens; alongside the ESMS, ESIA, ESMP, SEP, environmental liabilities and a DRMP.
An IDB-compliant resettlement instrument protecting 736 livelihoods through a fair, orderly transition.
Eighteen works of five typologies — new build, demolition and rebuild, active sites, flood-prone areas and dense urban settings — on a compressed timeline.
SESA, ESMS and ESA/ESMP by typology; SEP and grievance mechanism; meaningful consultation through geographic clusters covering 100% of the areas of influence.
A differentiated, operable safeguards system to manage risk across the whole program, not work by work.
Bringing electricity to ~19,749 users through grid extension, mini-grids and isolated solar systems, while assessing how climate change threatens the infrastructure's resilience.
A tailored ESMS, ESMF/ESA/ESMP and SEP; a climate and disaster risk plan with SSP2-4.5 / SSP5-8.5 scenarios, downscaled models, quantitative matrices and residual risk.
A climate-resilience approach validated with the executing agency, now a reference for El Salvador's energy sector.
A national program against chronic malnutrition in seven departments, with works in dispersed Indigenous communities and an added COVID-19 emergency response.
Systematized the ESMF as a self-contained instrument for MSPAS — screening, mitigation by component, grievance mechanism — plus a Cultural Pertinence Plan.
A reusable compliance backbone that MSPAS applies across all works under the loan.
In the rural electrification program only a sample of subprojects could be assessed directly. We built a self-service model so the agency could produce, to the same standard, the ESA/ESMP for every remaining subproject.
| Period | Operation | Institution | Cat. | Scope |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Sinú River urban revitalization (CO-L1324)Montería, Colombia | IDB | A | ESIA and ESMP; resettlement plan under PS5 (503 families); stakeholder engagement. |
| 2026 | Northwest productive integration — RN-20 (HO-L1265)Honduras | IDB | B | ESA, ESMP and ESMF; biodiversity action plan (PS6); ESMS. |
| 2026 | Police System Modernization (CR-L1159)Costa Rica | IDB | B | SESA, ESMS, site-specific ESA/ESMP, emergency response plan, SEP and grievance mechanism. |
| 2024 – 2025 | Municipal markets rehabilitation (ES-L1172)La Libertad and Santa Tecla, El Salvador | IDB | A | ESMS, ESIA, ESMP, SEP; resettlement and livelihood plans (736 people); environmental liabilities; disaster risk management plan. |
| 2024 – 2025 | ESIA update, CA-9 North Corridor (GU-L1189)Teculután – Mayuelas, Guatemala | IDB | A | ESMF, ESA and ESMP; SEP and sociocultural analysis; natural-hazard resilience; drones and GIS for resettlement. |
| 2024 – 2025 | Crecer Sano — health and nutritionGuatemala · 7 departments | World Bank | B | ESMF systematized for MSPAS; Cultural Pertinence Plan for Indigenous Peoples. |
| 2024 | Social Inclusion System strengthening (CR-L1154)Costa Rica | IDB | B | ESA and ESMP for penitentiary infrastructure; SEP; gender and diversity plan; good-practice manual; disaster risk management. |
| 2024 | Rural electrification PIER II (GU-L1192)Guatemala | IDB | B | ESMF, ESA and ESMP; SEP; infrastructure resilience to natural hazards; contingency and monitoring plans. |
| 2023 – 2024 | Civil Aviation Recovery (DGAC)Guatemala · 5 airfields | World Bank | ESMF and national-vs-ESS gap analysis; subproject screening and classification methodology. | |
| 2022 – 2023 | Rural Infrastructure for Good Living (P178573)San Marcos, Guatemala · 14 municipalities | World Bank | B | ESMF under the ESS; reusable screening and reporting templates integrated with GEMS; consultations with a gender lens. |
| 2023 | Universal Access to Electricity — PAUE (ES-L1158)El Salvador | IDB | B | ESMS, ESMF, ESA and ESMP; SEP; climate and disaster risk plan with CMIP6 scenarios. |
| 2022 | San Cristóbal academic campusGuatemala | IDB Invest | B | ESIA under the sustainability policy; Climate Risk & Resilience Assessment (CRRA); ESMP. |
| 2022 | Climate-risk due diligence — power distributionGuatemala · with Grid Advisors | IFC | Vulnerability of transmission and distribution assets to extreme events; adaptation recommendations. | |
| 2021 – 2022 | CA-9 expansion, El Rancho – Teculután (GU-L1170)Guatemala | IDB | A | ESIA for the four-lane expansion; consultation processes and resettlement planning. |
| 2020 | Rural electrification PIER (GU-L1171)Guatemala | IDB | B | ESMF; ESA and ESMP for sample subprojects; environmental and social baseline; engagement with institutions and communities. |
| 2019 | Tropicalia Hotel & ResortSamaná Bay, Dominican Republic | IDB Invest | ESMS implementation and capacity building; compliance with safeguards and Performance Standards. | |
| Ongoing | Quetzal Container Terminal — APM TerminalsPuerto Quetzal, Guatemala | IFC | Annual environmental and social monitoring reports; operational ESMP; dredged-material disposal alternatives. |
Selected operations. Some assignments were delivered as technical partner to other firms, as indicated.
Full technical capability — fieldwork, laboratory, GIS and senior specialists — with the closeness and flexibility of a boutique team.
Resettlement and livelihood plans at urban and rural scale, with census, gender lens and measures for vulnerable groups.
Disaster and climate-change risk plans across health, roads, energy, ports and penitentiary infrastructure.
Orthomosaics and 3D models, remote sensing, automated formats and an ISO 17025 accredited laboratory.
Self-service tools and training for executing agencies in health, energy, infrastructure and security.
Experience delivering alongside international firms, contributing fieldwork, laboratory and local knowledge.
Review of operation samples to identify recurring risks and support consistent application of the frameworks.
In-person delivery and first-hand knowledge of the regulatory, institutional and community context. We work in Spanish and English.
Question not listed? Write to us and we'll answer directly.
The national study responds to local regulation and is used to obtain the permit. The lender's assessment goes further: it adds social, labor, disaster-risk and engagement aspects under the lender's own framework. Most operations need both, which is why we build them on the same baseline.
The ESMS is the system an organization uses to manage its environmental and social risks on an ongoing basis. The ESMF defines how subprojects not yet known in detail will be assessed and managed. The ESMP is the concrete set of measures for a specific work or site.
When the operation involves land acquisition or restrictions on land use that cause physical or economic displacement — for example, homes, businesses or productive activities in the works area. The plan defines who is eligible, how they are compensated and how livelihoods are restored.
A comparison between what national regulation requires (or what a project already has) and what the lender's standard requires. It identifies what is missing and how to close it, avoiding redoing studies that are still useful.
Yes, frequently. We contribute fieldwork, laboratory, community consultation, regulatory knowledge and technical writing, integrated into the lead firm's team and methodology.
Yes. We work in Spanish and English and deliver in the language of the country where the operation takes place. Our core is Central America, with experience in other Latin American and Caribbean countries.
Banks, executing agencies and consulting firms: let's talk about the environmental and social instruments your operation needs.
