orion consulting associates

Orion Consulting Associates BV (OCA) has core competence in rural roads and rural transport and planning. OCA believes that infrastructure and public service delivery should be planned, designed, implemented and sustained to the maximum benefit of its target user group(s). OCA and its core staff have managed and implemented infrastructure and development projects in many countries in Asia, Africa, and the Pacific. OCA is specialised in the development of appropriate technology in rural infrastructure construction and maintenance and effective implementation methods, and above all in capacity development of local government, community based organisations and small contracting service providers. OCA is particularly strong in development and application of an appropriate mix of labour based and machine based O&M, optimising the use of local resources and local procured implementation capacity in rural roads construction and maintenance, irrigation schemes and pedestrian infrastructure development. OCA understand the conditions under which these implementation methods are cost effective and appropriate. Examples of projects: Vanuatu Transport Sector Support Project (technical studies and implementation management), Rural Access Project in Yemen (WB), Nepal (ADB-SRIDP), Vietnam (WB/DFID), Market/Economic Facility projects in Mozambique (PROMER-IFAD, ProPesca-IFAD/EC) and Access planning (USAID) and road corridor development in Liberia (EC) and community access in Uganda.