Consulting and Technical Advisory
home / Services / Consulting and Technical Advisory / Environment and infrastructures

We address the technical, management, enabling environment, regulatory challenges for the development of new water, waste and desalination infrastructures and for the management of natural assets

Environment and infrastructures

In the light of climate change and current political agenda, OCA Global provides multifaceted solutions to manage our environment and related infrastructures in a long-term sustainable way, not only to tackle with increasing GHG emissions and complex environmental impact issues but also in ensuring infrastructures are designed and managed safely and efficiently for the benefit of populations and industries.

Urban Environment

OCA Global is able to provide a full range of technical services in regard to urban environment related infrastructures in key processes critical for cities and industries in waste, water and air quality management areas. We provide a full range of services covering the whole project cycle from basic identification and feasibility studies, to full feasibility and bankability studies, supporting tendering processes, construction, operation and maintenance and infrastructures impact evaluation.

  • Water and Sewage Treatment
  • Waste management, including recycling and circular economy approaches
  • Air quality modelling and management and emissions control
  • Cost and Benefit Analysis
Natural Environment

Natural environment is under threat. Not only the accumulation of GHG is causing climate change all over the world at an increasing speed causing serious economic, social and political concerns, but we are assisting at the the degradation of fragile ecosystems and the loss of arable lands, approaching a point of no return in key environmental areas.

OCA Global is experienced in providing technical advisory services for identifying, designing and implementing policies and programmes aimed at natural resources and ecosystems management and conservation. We also care of providing the required environmental impact analysis of infrastructures construction and operation worldwide across sectors (energy, waste, oil&gas, etc).

  • Environmental and social impact assessments
  • Natural Resources and Ecosystems management and conservation
  • Design and implementation of sustainable forest management projects (including REDD+)
  • Compliance assessment an auditing of the implementation of the FLEGT regulation and other certification systems
  • Design and development of environmental education and communication activities and campaigns

Featured projects

  • Strategic evaluation of EU water and wastewater strategy in Lebanon

    Lebanon - European Commission

    The overall objectives of the consultancy are to make an inventory of all EU funded projects in the water sector with a geo-referenced database and an interactive map, to make a strategic assessment of the EU interventions carried out to provide a direction for future similar programmes and to define a future operational strategy for the sector.


  • Environmental Feasibility Study EUD Paraguay

    Paraguay - European Commission

    The general objective of the assignment is to provide Technical Assistance (TA) to the EU Delegation in Asunción in identifying strategic areas of support for its future cooperation with Paraguay in the sector of environment protection and fight against climate change


  • Strategic Environmental Assessment for the development of the gas transportation system in Romania

    Romania - European Investment Bank

    The technical assistance addresses the preparation of a strategic environmental assessment of the 10-year development plan of Transgaz, the operator of Romania's gas transmission network. The objective of Transgaz is to secure gas supply in Romania by improving the connectivity of the country's network with neighbouring countries' networks.


  • Process to establish the legality of Liberia forest sector, including complementary review of forest concessions

    Liberia - Forest Development Authority of Liberia

    The purpose of this project is to study the processes of negotiation and implementation of logging concessions in the country, as well as the design of solutions for cases of non-compliance with forestry law.


  • Efficiency of the FLEGT licensing scheme and effectiveness of the Legality Assurance System assessed through the services of an Independent Auditor

    Liberia - European Commission

    Strengthening forest sector governance and law enforcement by supporting the implementation of the VPA. The purpose of this contract is to assess the efficiency of the FLEGT licensing regime and the effectiveness of the Legality Assurance System (LAS); and to enhance the credibility of the LAS established under the VPA.


  • External Final evaluation of the Small Towns Water and Sanitation Project Western and Central Regions

    Ghana - Curopean Commission

    Assessment of relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, impact and sustainability, in accordance with EU project cycle management guidelines. and with particular attention to the way forward.


  • Review of the legality and compliance of industrial forest concessions in RDC

    Democratic Republic of Congo - European Commission

    The project aims to establish the legality of industrial forest concessions in terms of allocation, transfer and change of use and compliance of the management process; and to propose recommendations on the future of concessions deemed illegalby considering the measures prescribed by the Congolese law and Forest Code.


  • Technical Assistance to Polluting Entities and Business Advisory Services SMEs

    Lebanon - European Commission

    Promotion of local development and improvement of the socio economic resilience of the local population along the Litani River Basin, by supporting polluting entities in the river become environtmentally compliant, and creating employment oportunities in business advisory services and access to credit.


Contact us

Please contact the Consulting and Technical Advisory Division team directly at info.consulting@ocaglobal.com for any query.