Services

ADVISORY Services

We specialize in management of climate change, green growth, and carbon footprint. Our focus is on sustainable finance, policy research, strategy development, economic analysis, program planning & design, and regulatory support, to ensure effective climate mitigation and adaptation activities for low-carbon and climate resilient economies. Our advisory services include climate finance, financial engineering, climate risk mitigation, climate conflict resolution, environmental valuation, carbon market analysis, GHG emissions mitigation, ESG & socially responsible investing, SDG compliance, and knowledge management. We provide technical assistance and program support to clean technology integration, global environmental finance (GEF), and REDD+, and we assist in building capacities in sectors such as agriculture, energy, infrastructure, transportation, forestry, and WASH to address climate change.

Climate Finance + Sustainable Investing

Our areas of expertise include – project identification in areas of food security, land degradation, forests, agriculture, fisheries and marine resources, renewable energy, energy efficiency, climate-resilient infrastructure, water and sanitation, and health, designing and developing new and innovative financing instruments, exclusionary and positive screening, ESG integration, impact investing, active ownership, and the like.

Clean Technology + Carbon Mitigation

Our areas of expertise include – integration of green technology to attain pollution control, resource optimization, waste reduction, energy efficiency, carbon mitigation, and cost reduction, thus providing an alternative green growth model that will enable present and future generations to live in a clean and healthy environment, in harmony with nature.

Policy Support + Governance Gateway

Our areas of expertise include – technical assistance, data-support for evidence-based policymaking, accessing economic and technological resources, creating new or enhancing existing policies, incorporating future climate conditions and impacts into existing or future policies and plans, and changing management to enhance ecosystem connectivity, resilience, and monitoring and research efforts and developing adaptation plans, among others

Urban Reforms + Infrastructure

Our areas of expertise include – asset performance gap assessment & monitoring, feasibility studies, environmental & social studies, compliance & economic regulations, master planning & program design, project finance structuring, and transaction advisory, among others.

Carbon Management + GHG Mitigation

Our areas of expertise include – carbon footprint assessment, avoiding or reducing emissions through efficiency & conservation, eliminating emissions through switching to renewables (zero carbon sources), and sequestering or offsetting any remaining emissions, and the like.

Regulatory Support + Dispute Resolution

Our areas of support include – that for environmental quality, and sustainability standards, litigation and arbitration support on construction contracts, environmental law, clean technology regulations, international development, and on emerging technologies, frontiers, defense, and outer space regulations.

ANALYTICS Services

We focus on deep research, analysis, and assessments to uncover climate change, use of natural resources, and international development trends and patterns through verifiable data, building predictions, and forecasting incidences using advanced applications of data science, environmental econometrics, complex algorithms, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and blockchain technology. Through more humanistic spiritual approach, we further apply principles of noetic science[1] to establish nexus of inner knowing (noetic) and outer investigation (science), to discover entirely new ways of being and driving innovations in agriculture, energy, extractives, emissions, urban reforms, and public health, for uplifting humanity and addressing climate vulnerability. Key processes, data models, and risk scenarios thus developed drive our design of smart development programs to attain true impact and last-mile reach. We also undertake economic valuation, options valuation, risk assessment, and actuary work to determine the economic value of programs, businesses, assets, or enterprises, and understand risks affecting its performance.

We use cloud-based tools, and platforms such as IBM Cognos, IBM Watson, IBM SPSS, Python, R, Advanced Excel, STATA, etc., and international hybrid climate databases to drive smarter, data-driven decisions by capitalizing on a broader variety of data and insightful AI.

Proprietary Tools, Databases & Infographics: We produce a number of open access, customized, user-friendly, and interactive proprietary tools (such as Climate Action Tracker (CAT)) that make climate analysis, indicators, and projections easily available to policy makers, researchers, or program implementors dealing with climate and resources related issues while focusing of green growth trajectory. The tools further provide excellent model building options, scenario building capability, global database linkage, and excellent infographics.

[1] Noetic Science: A multidisciplinary field of study that brings objective scientific tools and techniques together with subjective inner knowing to study the nature of reality.

Scientific Assessment + Technical Analysis

Our areas of expertise include – geological and scientific incidences or natural disasters, such as sea-level rise, ocean acidification, air quality changes, role of pollutants, effects of rainfall patterns, causes of landslides, etc., and development of scientific indicators, climate sensitivity analysis, mitigation options and its adequacy, mitigation gap analysis, probabilistic climate projections, among others.

Economic Assessment + Policy Analysis

Our areas of expertise include – social, environmental & economic impacts, vulnerability analysis & climate risk, risk to sustainable development, emission reduction targets, climate, and sustainable development goals (SDGs) & nationally determined contributions (NDCs) achievement targets, and development of relevant indicators, sensitivity analysis, and probabilistic projections, among others.

Climate Finance + Decision Support

Our areas of expertise include – assessment of climate finance needs, readiness analysis, green climate fund, global environmental facility proposals, relevant institutional design and development of relevant statistics, analysis, options analysis, instrument design, risk assessed valuation, and projections, among others.

Adaptation + Loss + Damages

Our areas of expertise include – adaptation gap assessment, adaption options, cost-benefit analysis, cost of residual damages, loss and damage assessment and impact measurement, preventive and predictive actions measurement, and measurement of relevant sensitivity, vulnerability, forecasting, etc.

EVALUATION Services

Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning practice is to apply knowledge gained from evidence and analysis to improve development outcomes, thus, ensuring Accountability for the resources used to achieve these outcomes. We produce real-time, quality assuring and verified evidence to support decision-making for equitable, inclusive, and sustainable development. To ensure useful measurement, we mobilize and focus resources on relevant questions that matter in the real world and pave the way for more transparent research practices. We undertake diagnostic studies, deep research, and reviews that examine what works, for whom, why and at what cost in diverse geographies, thus assisting in program improvement, and ensuring greater accountability to beneficiaries. We offer technology approach to MEAL to improve the accuracy, timeliness and accessibility of data, effectively developing & applying evidence gap maps to improve decision-making around where to make investments in producing more evidence or synthesizing existing evidence.

Evidence + Gap Maps

We produce evidence gap maps (EGM) through thematic collections of information about impact evaluations and systematic reviews that measure the effects of international development policies and programmes. They provide a graphical display of areas with strong, weak, or non-existent evidence on the effect of interventions or initiatives in terms of the types of programmes evaluated, the methodology applied, the outcomes measured, and the evidence gaps identified, duly supported by the documentation and background information.

Impact Evaluations + Synthesis

We provide evidence of what works, what does not, for whom, and why in international development. We ensure designs are based on the intervention’s theory of change that use a counterfactual[2], and the methods that ensure that the evaluation addresses differential impacts due to the effects of gendered inequality. We support a range of impact evaluations, including formative and process evaluations needed to inform the potential for or design of a full impact evaluation. We continue to innovate and improve synthesis and systematic review methodologies and the uptake and use of synthesised evidence.

[2] Counterfactual analysis is the comparison between what actually happened and what would have happened in the absence of an intervention.

Stakeholders Engagement + Evidence Impact

We prioritize stakeholder analysis to carefully plan, conduct and govern the assigned work and ensure effective stakeholder engagement by assessing different perspectives to achieve the intended outcomes, so as to further ensure evaluations and systematic reviews are relevant and useful. We use robust and effective monitoring to measure evidence use so that we can convey evidence impact on programmes and policies with greater confidence.

Capacity Building + Performance Improvement

We help in identifying opportunities and challenges and develop customized strategies to achieve practice goals and sustain improvements. We assist in acquiring or training staff, increasing organizational capacity, coordinating planning and management, investing in planning, training, and outreach efforts, collecting additional information, and conducting vulnerability assessments and studies, among others.

VIWIKA Lab

Architectural Planning + Design

We believe in a synthesis of sustainable building and construction principles, the surrounding ecology, the forces of nature, the simplicity of operation, the durability of structures, and the design aesthetics, to arrive at integrated sustainable architectural design. With advanced technology integration our designs have now progressed to almost zero energy buildings, autonomous buildings, and IQ architecture. We also design for difficult terranes through application of hill architecture, and design for new frontiers through outer space architecture.

Urban Design + Planning

We provide strategic visioning, planning and urban design services to public and private sector engaged in the creation of sustainable communities, eco-cities, and regional corridors. Our design approach stresses urban infill, reuse, and redevelopment as important strategies for cultivating community. We apply these concepts to all our projects toward achieving architecture that balances urban and natural resource flows. We significantly engage with stakeholders to built strong relationships, understand their needs, evaluate feasible options, to help them identify and execute strategic projects and manage smart development.

Basic + Detailed Engineering

We provide end-to-end engineering and design solutions to the clean technology projects and to the process industry. Our offerings combine leading edge technology with a best practice approach where highly qualified and skilled engineers routinely optimize designs. We provide entire range of core customized engineering and design services to meet diversified needs of the focus sectors. We offer, conceptual design, basic engineering design, front end engineering design, detail engineering design, and structural design services. We offer building information modeling (BIM) for deep technical insight and tools to efficiently plan, design, construct, and manage buildings and infrastructure.

Sustainable Engineering + Standards

We research on and work through environmental engineering, sustainability standards, and sustainable design practices. Our design philosophy is based on holistic systems analysis for conservation, life cycle thinking and improvement of natural ecosystems while protecting human health and well-being, which includes use of materials and energy, and waste prevention. We create 2-D, 3-D visualizations, working models, films, presentations, and VFX effects by integrating advanced multimedia tools and expert techniques. Our experts are able to provide design inputs and advisory on entire environmental management systems for ISO 50001, 14001, 45001, and LEED, GRIHA, IGBC, EDGE, BEE:ECBC, and SuRE accreditation, among others.

SHADVALA Lab

SHADVALA Lab is an independent geospatial technology venture operated under Maytra Group subsidiary Shadvala Geospatial LLP, where we work on earth-sciences, spatial computing, and geo analytics to design and develop geoinformatics solutions for remote sensing and mapping, and geo analytics. Globally we offer GIS and weather services for the visualization of geographic data, analysis of spatial relationships, and accurate efficient data management, GIS Mapping services and GIS Remote Sensing services for capturing, storing, integrating, manipulating, analyzing, and displaying data related to positions on the Earth’s surface for numerous commercial applications as well as for international development. We offer customized solar maps, weather data, ocean, and geological data to support renewable energy, agriculture, forestry, oceanography, and extractives industry.

We convert GIS data to prepare electronic maps by utilizing the paper or electronic data captured or collected. The GIS data conversions allow data from different sources to be merged in one common format, which allows for easy access, analysis, and utilization. We integrate GIS, CAD, and Global Positioning Systems (GPS) services, by using high-end GIS Mapping and GIS data conversions software, to produce contour maps, spatial maps, atlas maps, cadastral maps, thematic and zonal maps, landscape maps, and environmental maps. These services provide application support to various sectors such as agriculture, energy, infrastructure, extractives, utility, geology, financial services, and land information management for urban development, and rural development. SHADVALA’s complex GIS Mapping Services and GIS Remote Sensing services include capturing, storing, integrating, manipulating, analyzing, and displaying data related to positions on the Earth’s surface. Our services are used for system design and architecture, management and maintenance, map production and analysis, database design and development, user training and support, and 3-D modeling and visualization for GIS mapping products and GIS remote sensing products. Our data acquisition capabilities allow us to capture high-resolution aerial and LiDAR data from fixed- and rotary-wing platforms, such as drones or UAVs. We also support vehicle-based mobile laser data capture.

Remote Sensing & Earth Observations

Our expertise using satellite data in combination with improved remote-sensing data processing technology ranges from capturing and updating topography mapping, hydrological, agricultural, and man-made infrastructure data sets, or preparing GIS base maps to observe and monitor wide range of phenomena such as vegetation biomass, phenology, water quality, land and sea surface temperature, ocean salinity, biogeochemical cycles, land cover changes, climatic variability, and climate change. We further offer digital photogrammetry services, indoor mapping, navigation, cadastral mapping, parcel mapping, pole loading analysis, viewshed analysis, and geofencing services, among others.

LiDAR Data Processing

We offer expertise in LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) data acquisition, mapping, data processing, and feature extraction services. With well-designed methodologies and deep understanding of high-resolution imagery and LiDAR datasets, we provide detailed digital twin from a single capture source containing accurate location and height, such as representing houses, power lines, and roads in 3-D, exactly as they appear in the real world, thus eliminating need to be physically present at site, which saves time and money and mitigate safety risks.

Underground Mapping

We offer customized underground mapping solutions to help utilities, telecom, municipalities, oil and gas, and other infrastructure planners gauge the precise depth and configurations of buried assets before they start excavation. Our solutions enable organizations to minimize the damage to assets, project delays, costs, and complexities of subsurface works. We capture, interpret, and digitize precise information on water mains, sewage pipes, telephone cables, power lines, gas supply channels, oil pipelines, and the like.

Spatial Computing

Spatial computing is broadly synonymous with extended reality (XR) – an umbrella term for virtual, augmented, and mixed reality. It’s where we use physical space as a computer interface. Machines no longer need to be tied to a fixed location. Our spatial computing services add value through technical mastery in development, animation, modeling, visual effects, audio, concept art, motion capture, etc. We offer rapid prototyping, product development, wearables, hardware prototyping, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, web VR, and augmented reality solutions. Through our spatial computing services we are bringing human-machine and machine-machine interactions to new levels of efficiency in many walks of life, such as health care for accurate and reliable diagnosis, transportation for eco-routing, manufacturing for optimization in production capacity, or to address 3-D design challenges in automotive industry.