Quercus Group “The world needs more coordination, collaboration and communication. Silo thinking and silo organization is too prevalent. Knowledge gaps prevent funding from reaching solutions, and solutions from reaching the problems they can solve”. Quercus Group is a strategic and hands-on consultancy firm founded in Copenhagen in 2012 by Nicolai Rottboll. We specialize in sustainable development and regional economic growth through cross border collaboration and strategic partnerships. Our story began with the creation of Europe’s largest cleantech cluster and the firm belief that collaboration and multi-stakeholder engagement can help accelerate sustainable development worldwide.
We make things happen by engaging decision-makers, businesses, knowledge institutions and last but not least – people – to co-create solutions for shared global challenges. This Quadruple Helix approach is rooted in our Danish heritage and hands-on experience. We believe in creating value and lasting impact by translating complex issues into simple, tangible action points and delivering tailor-made solutions to every one of our clients. In Kenya, we have been working closely with Kenya Association of manufacturers (KAM) in promoting circular economy in the manufacturing sector where we are looking at waste management, wastewater management. We recently partnered with other Nordic partner to implement a Kenya Green hub that will ensure we promote and provide access of Green solutions from the Nordics through a mutual partnership.
Sanitation research and development for Africa (SARDA): is a consultancy company that specializes on localizing SDG 6 in Africa. Since inception in 2018, the company has been working with a critical mass of frontline service providers to influence behavior change and develop the demand for innovative and affordable sanitation solutions at community level. These include training and coaching the innovators and entrepreneurs in adopting business practices such as creating a consumer-focused value proposition, marketing strategy, route-to-market approach and defining the overall business case. The organization strives to establish a sanitation multi stakeholder platform that can bring together various actors along the value chain to facilitate dialogue, share knowledge, build partnerships and provide business support. Backed by a team of immensely capable and committed personnel and combined with a vast hands-on experience, SARDA is committed to meet the challenging issues of environmental risk and deterioration including sanitation, wastewater management, waste management.
