TRADE, INVESTMENT & PARTNERSHIPS
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In today’s dynamic market, success hinges on the ability to navigate complex trade environments, attract investment, and build strong, enduring partnerships. The Trade, Investment & Partnerships capability integrates a comprehensive suite of services designed to streamline strategic collaboration and unlock market opportunities. At its core, this capability begins with rigorous strategy development, where clear objectives and actionable plans are created. Governance design and policy and regulation analysis ensure that strategic initiatives not only align with industry standards but also anticipate future shifts in regulatory landscapes.
Risk management plays a central role, with strategic risk assurance and regulatory compliance reviews protecting projects from unforeseen setbacks. This is complemented by risk mapping and supply chain risk assessment, which together identify vulnerabilities throughout the entire value chain. These services help create a secure foundation for cross-border and cross-sector collaborations. The development of robust business cases, backed by economic impact assessments and sustainable finance structuring, provides the financial rationale and investment case necessary for stakeholders to commit resources confidently.
Partnership brokering and cross-sector partnership development are critical to this capability area, forging alliances between public entities, private investors, and community groups. These services facilitate the exchange of expertise and resources, while strategic sourcing and procurement design streamline access to high-quality suppliers. Integrated supply chain analytics and innovative supply chain risk management techniques ensure that the logistics supporting these partnerships are resilient and adaptive, ready to weather disruptions. Collaborative contracting and joint ventures further solidify these relationships by creating clear, mutually beneficial frameworks for cooperation.
The ability to combine these diverse functions creates significant client value. By uniting strategic planning, risk assurance, financial modeling, and collaborative engagement, this capability area not only secures investments but also accelerates market entry and trade flows. Clients benefit from enhanced market access, optimised supply chain operations, and a robust framework for managing partnerships, all of which translate into increased competitiveness and sustainable growth. With services that span from initial feasibility studies to the final stages of project delivery, the Trade, Investment & Partnerships capability ensures that every initiative is supported by a deep understanding of both market dynamics and the underlying regulatory environment.
Case study: Diversifying and transforming the City of Lithgow from coal mining
The Lithgow local government area in New South Wales has a population of 25,000 people and is known for its industrial base of coal mining and coal-fired power generation, which supplies 15% of the New South Wales energy needs. The rapid shift from coal mining and coal fired power generation in Australia presents risks to Lithgow’s economy, workforce and wider community.
The Government of New South Wales and Lithgow City Council engaged Acclimate Partners to develop a robust transformation plan and establish viable options for a diversified economy. Working with specialist economics advisory firm Natural Capital Economics and partners, Acclimate Partners led the transformation strategy including workforce, governance and actions; engaging industry and investors to identify growth opportunities including in renewable energy and advanced manufacturing. The Lithgow Emerging Economy Plan (LEEP) quantifies the gaps between the present state and the target future state, with a roadmap of activities and investment required to achieve the successful transformation.
Acclimate Partners identified the investment attraction requirements and consulted institutions seeking to deploy capital into ESG assets to assess capital gap scenarios against the transformation plan. The resulting transformation plan is considered by the client as a benchmark document and the transition governance recommendations have resulted in a partnership between the Council, the energy sector, and a major university based in the area. The resulting actions have been adopted in principle by the Lithgow City Council. Acclimate Partners is now supporting the implementation phase.
Case study: Establishing the social sector, building capacity and service delivery transformation in the Middle East
The Emirate of Abu Dhabi promotes a sustainable society and economy that is transparent and responsive to the needs of Abu Dhabi’s diverse and growing community, providing a dignified life for all. The Abu Dhabi Government strives to increase the scope and raise the quality of the Emirate’s Third Sector, including not-for-profit and social enterprise services.
The Third Sector is still emerging in the Emirate and the Government aims to reform the regulatory environment and operating conditions to incentivise development of a strong Third Sector ecosystem, as well as greater community engagement in volunteering.
Acclimate Partners has been engaged to support establishment and transition of the Emirate’s Third Sector. Our team is supporting the Abu Dhabi Government across legislative, policy and regulatory activities, while engaging in design and implementation of the monitoring and evaluation framework, design of community centres, development of regulation around fundraising and donations, and developing policy and guidelines for CSR and for the economic valuation of volunteering.
Working in partnership with the Abu Dhabi Government, Acclimate Partners has supported acceleration of regulatory reform, policy setting, and development of the Third Sector ecosystem and volunteering culture in the Emirate.
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