About us

Our Story

SOGEROM is a management consultancy aiming to assist with cutting-edge expertise with public donors, governments and private clients in designing, implementing and evaluating their projects in emerging and developing countries. An integral part of SOGEROM’S mission is to bridge the needs of the institutional world with the reality of the private sector and civil society.

We understand our clients’ businesses and offer them a highly entrepreneurial approach to consultancy. Our multidisciplinary team includes senior experts who have spent years solving real-world problems in the business and public administration environments.

Fast-moving mobilisation of experts

Our culture promotes innovation and fast-moving, tireless dedication to our clients, resulting in practical, goal-focused consulting services. We are able to mobilise qualified experts on short notice, typically within 15 days.

Acting global...

In today’s complex world, uncertainty and change are the only constants. Our customers need a partner with the experience, resource and dedication to take on whatever new challenges are around the corner. That’s why organisations and governments turn to Sogerom.

 

As an international consulting firm we delivered our expertise in 72 countries across East and Western Europe, North and Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, the Pacific and Latin America.

.. yet strongly based in Luxembourg and Brussels

Sogerom was founded in 1996 and has operated since then in the GD of Luxembourg, a small but very solid country with a friendly business environment and a crisis resilient banking system, valuable in present uncertain times.

 

We also operate an office in Brussels to be closer to the European Commission

Our Evaluation Unit

We understand that for donors, the impact, effectiveness and efficiency of the aid is crucial and that evaluation is necessary to judge the results of public actions in order to check their conformity with set objectives.Evaluation also aims to improve management, highlighting lessons learned from past public actions and to reinforce capacity to account for, and to ensure, better transparency.

The sound and comprehensive evaluation of projects and programmes or policy needs on the one hand is through the application of methodology to the highest professional standards and on the other hand a creative thought exercise is required. The evaluation may concern a simple intervention such as projects, or more complex interventions that produce its effects through many linked interventions at various levels.
 The evaluation of complex, heterogeneous programmes is complicated by the fact that multiple causes (activities and instruments) and effects need to be studied. Sogerom has therefore established a dedicated evaluation Unit.

 

Our Evaluation Unit provides evaluation services to donor’s cooperation and development programmes in developing countries.

We cover all geographical regions: Africa, Caribbean and Pacific Countries, Mediterranean Region, Asia and Latin America and Eastern Europe.

We manage geographical and sectoral /thematic evaluations, such as health, education, labour, etc. We deal with the assessment of different types of delivery and instruments e.g. specific projects, but also budget support, channels for aid delivery (direct beneficiaries, UN Agencies, Non-State Actors, Local Authorities, etc.

There are issues that impact on more than one field of development as wellbeing is  generally affected by a series of interconnected factors. It is important for development impact to identify such issues in order to tackle these external factors. Sogerom understands that cross-cutting issues requires expertise in multiple fields (typically democracy and human right, environment sustainability, gender equality, child protection and rights, HIV/AIDS). These issues have to be seen as integrated into all areas of donor programmes.