Our activities are not only centered on regulatory consultancy, we are typically involved in activities like organizing and leading site visits, providing advice and assistance during the business negotiation process, steering the investor toward the investment decision where viable, deep diving into the regulatory and commercial landscape of the country in question and ensuring that you are settled.
Investment Facilitation is the most basic and cost effective activity supporting foreign investment promotion. With investment Facilitation and Promotion, our aim is to provide support to prospective investors. Our support are in the following areas;
In General, our objective is to then help you navigate the terrain and ultimately guaranty return on investment to your shareholders.
At the core of our business is Trade Facilitation between countries. These services we offer promotes companies compliance with trade facilitation procedures and formalities. We help guide through the process of establishing trading routes within countries in the ECOWAS and other regional and trading blocks in Africa. SALDREY delivers through trade facilitation solutions such as:
At the heart of delivering trade facilitation services, we offer training services for employees of companies.
Implemented with the guidance of World Customs Organizations procedures and in coordination with customs authority’s in-country. SALDREY Advisory delivers these services through customized training, public-private dialogues and networking activities.
Following a thorough review of operational practices, SALDREY provides recommendations to improve the trade efficiency of the legal and regulatory licensing regimes. This then helps us improve the capacity of trade-facilitation and logistics-service to employees to ensure they are better able to support their companies in the export process.
Key stakeholder and Institution Mapping:
Part of what we do at Saldrey Advisory is to introduce companies to high level government and regulatory officials in the country of their choice. Depending on how strategically placed they are, we will ensure that they are met and given a fair playing field for their operations.
Stakeholders include:
At Saldrey, we understand that navigating the compliance, regulatory and operational risk landscape has without doubt, become the biggest headache for companies around the world seeking to penetrate new markets.The situation is not likely to ease any time soon, given the fact that the terrain is at best fluid in these emerging markets and there is a lot of regulatory reforms going on in these countries.
Both the ECOWAS countries and EAC/ECC countries continue to issue forth with further reforms, compounded by new initiatives, in their regulatory standards, and this in turn complicates the ease of doing business. As part of our day to day obligations, we guide companies in the evaluation of the rules relating to all aspects of trade in the country of their choice within the sub-Saharan Africa region. This assessment will then assist our client in their planning process.
These rules are particularly as it relates to point of market entry i.e for example transit trade, such as documentation requirements and the treatment of traffic in transit, which are particularly important for landlocked developing countries (LLDCs), product regulatory approvals in-country, and company start-up registration and incorporation.
Improved transit rules can facilitate deeper integration and support greater intraregional trade. SALDREY supports the African Union’s decision on ‘Boosting Intra-African Trade’ and will ensure that as much as possible we will do all we can to support trade within and outside the region. Specifically, we advise companies on important issues like:
The fragmentation that lies at the core of value chains requires goods to cross borders several times during production while complying with customs and administrative measures each time. Inefficient procedures, lack of competitive transport services and excessive fees add to the cost of doing business for companies in many developing countries.
Thus we advise companies on regulatory and quarantine requirements for export services in agriculture. This would include guidance on enabling legislations like the AGOA that enables duty free export of agricultural products to the United States.
We ensure that in deploying these services, there is greater efficiency, transparency and uniformity in customs procedures. For our clients dealing with the current high volume of regulatory challenges, we must turn their current challenges into opportunities to drive strategic change.
We provide the service of conducting an analysis of market demographics for our clients. This service range from providing data on the number of businesses of certain sizes, the size of the installed base of certain equipment, census data and other sundry market/competitor intelligence data.
This form of analysis is designed to help our clients identify its primary online and offline rivals. For example, a competitive landscape analysis might start with an attempt to identify and understand competitors, followed by an analysis of their strengths and weaknesses and how the target business can improve upon what its competition is doing. The assessment will help our clients as follows:
In all of these, we help generate knowledge ranging from market size, consumer perception, competitive situations and unmet needs which then offer business opportunities. The results will then provide directional cues to our clients for developing new products, formulating market strategies and adjusting your current plans.
In all of this, the aim is to ensure that our clients are aware of their fair competition and are not unfairly disadvantaged when they come into a country.
SALDREY facilitates public-private partnerships between the government and our clients. This PPPs ranges from partnerships around Corporate Social Responsibility, donations to host communities, designing and implementing of community projects, particularly in host communities e.t.c.
SALDREY’s role is to bring stakeholders from the private and public sectors together to either provide concrete trade-facilitation solutions that address the problems businesses face, or at the minimum ensure that the PPP is mutually beneficial to both their clients and the public stakeholder.
For companies already operating in countries, with issues around regulatory breaches, we help with the mediation process in-country. These involve the amicable settlements of disputes and crisis and ensuring where it doesn’t go to arbitration, our clients are not unfairly disadvantaged.
For companies already set up in different countries within the ECOWAS, We at Saldrey also offer the below services.
Saldrey is also involved with working closely with government officials to help them amend laws and regulations in the context of trade agreements and general business operating environment. The overall objective is to help the country eradicate all barriers to the ease of doing business. This will greatly the country move up in their ease of doing business rankings.
Our work in this direction include facilitating dialogue with the organized private sector to ensure new rules are implemented in a way that enhances business competitiveness. This requires working with authorities in capitals, ports and border posts to ensure that they understand not only the rules but their effect on traders as well.
The result will be a more business friendly country that would in-turn attract viable FDI.