Emergo Consulting

What Emergo Consulting does

Emergo Consulting is a privately held management consulting firm founded in 2015 and headquartered in Windhoek, Namibia, with additional registered entities in Lusaka, Zambia and Accra, Ghana. The firm operates as an integrated marketing and communications consultancy delivering four practice areas — Marketing Services, Strategic Communication and PR, Social and Behaviour Change, and Change and Transformation — supported by in-house Research and Impact Analysis, Internal Communication, and Corporate Social Investment capabilities. Its multidisciplinary team of approximately 12–13 staff includes psychologists, MBAs, communication specialists, social workers, historians, graphic designers, and certified Project Management Professionals, led by Managing Director Servaas Van den Bosch and Director of Social and Behavioural Change Taffy Chirunda.

Emergo generates revenue through bespoke, project-based consulting engagements on a professional services model, with no proprietary software, platform, or AI/ML technology disclosed. Its primary customer segments are corporate clients in banking, aviation, and resources (notably Standard Bank Namibia and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines) and public-sector development donors including the EU Delegation in Zambia, GIZ, UNICEF, AfDB, USAID, COMESA, and SADC bodies. The firm executes projects in over 20 African countries, frequently embedded as a Communication and Visibility sub-contractor within European framework consortia such as NIRAS/SWECO and GFA Consulting/Ramboll. Go-to-market is sales-led and relationship-driven, relying on direct engagement with institutional buyers and donor procurement processes rather than digital channels or intermediaries.

Name

Emergo Consulting

Legal name

Emergo Consulting

Website

https://emergoconsulting.eu

Company type

Private

Founded year

2015

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Emergo Consulting is a Namibia-headquartered, Africa-focused management consultancy delivering strategic communications, marketing, social and behaviour change, and change and transformation services to corporate clients (Standard Bank, KLM) and development donors (EU, GIZ, UNICEF, AfDB, COMESA, SADC).

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Strategic Communications Consulting

NAICS

Management Consulting Services (54161), Other Management Consulting Services (541618)

SIC

Services-Management Consulting Services (8742)

akta.pro primary industry

Operations & Process Improvement Consulting (BPAHACAB)

akta.pro secondary industry

Strategy & Corporate Development Consulting (BPAHACAA)

Keywords

• Strategic communications consulting
• Behaviour change interventions
• Social marketing services
• Public relations advisory
• Development communications

Headquarters

HQ city

Windhoek

HQ country

Namibia

HQ region

Africa

Offices4 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Revenue model

1. Consulting and Advisory Services: Project-based consulting engagements providing strategic communications, behaviour change interventions, marketing strategy, and change management services to corporate and public sector clients across Africa.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Emergo Consulting is a management consulting firm that delivers strategic communications, marketing, public relations, and social and behaviour change (SBCC) services to corporate clients and public sector/development donor organizations across Africa. The firm combines a multidisciplinary in-house team with an integrated approach spanning strategy, creative execution, and impact evaluation through project-based consulting engagements.

Product overview

Emergo Consulting is a management consulting firm offering integrated consulting services rather than a software product. The company provides a unified portfolio of professional services organized around four core practice areas: Marketing Services (strategy, digital marketing, ROI), Strategic Communication & PR, Social and Behaviour Change interventions, and Change and Transformation consulting. These services are complemented by supporting capabilities in Research and Impact Analysis, Internal Communication, and Corporate Social Investment. The company combines in-house expertise including psychologists, communication specialists, MBAs, historians, social workers, graphic designers, and certified Project Management Professionals to deliver holistic approaches from strategy through implementation to evaluation.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Marketing Services Strategy, digital marketing, and ROI-focused marketing services helping clients define offerings and connect products with customers through data-driven campaigns.
• Strategic Communication & PR Development of communication and visibility strategies, public relations in financial and resources sectors, crisis communications, and stakeholder engagement from analysis through campaign to impact measurement.
• Social and Behaviour Change Behaviour change interventions including SBCC strategies, health promotion, risk communication, and advocacy using evidence-based approaches and behavioural science expertise.
• Change and Transformation Human-centered interventions for organizational culture change, internal communication, EESG framework alignment, and corporate social investment programme design and evaluation.
• Research and Impact Analysis Evidence generation, capacity development, and evaluation services to support sustained behaviour change and programme effectiveness for development and corporate programmes.
• Internal Communication Two-way communication support for organizational change progress, resistance management, and employee transition during transformation initiatives.
• Corporate Social Investment CSI programme design that aligns corporate DNA with real social impact, supporting EESG framework implementation and impact assessment.

Named customers9 records

Segments3 records

Technology focussed No

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Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Annemarieke Mooijman ConsultingcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerEmergo partnered with Annemarieke Mooijman Consulting to develop Zambia's first National Hand Hygiene Road Map for UNICEF. This collaboration combined Emergo's behaviour change expertise with Annemarieke Mooijman's WASH and environmental innovation specialisation, including support from Mrs Annemarieke Mooijman, Dr. Caroline van den Berg, Dr. Mirjam van Roode, and Ms Taffy Chirunda.
• UNU-MERITcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerEmergo participated in the Policy Action Lab hosted by UNU-MERIT (United Nations University – Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology), contributing to workshops on WASH (Namibia, Ghana, Kenya), Circular Transitions, Missing Complementarities in Innovation, and the Dark Side of New Technologies.
• Zambia Association of Manufacturers (ZAM)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerEmergo partnered with ZAM as a key interest group stakeholder for the Energy Efficiency Campaign under the IAEREP project, supporting awareness raising on energy efficiency among manufacturing businesses in Zambia.
• Zambia Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ZACCI)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerEmergo partnered with ZACCI as a key interest group stakeholder for the Energy Efficiency Campaign, targeting businesses across Zambia to promote energy conservation and efficiency practices.
• NIRAS AS/SWECOcoreImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerEmergo provides a team leader for a Communication and Visibility (C&V) framework contract with NIRAS AS/SWECO, supporting the EU's energy portfolio in Zambia under the SIEA 2018 framework. Emergo contributes to all of the EU's energy projects including Kariba Dam rehabilitation, last mile connections, and renewable energy projects.
• GFA Consulting/RambollcoreImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerEmergo delivers key expertise through a Communication and Visibility framework contract with GFA Consulting/Ramboll to support trade initiatives in the COMESA Region, financed under EDF 11. Projects focus on trade facilitation, regional value chains in leather and agriculture, and conditions for small scale cross border traders.
• Elimination Eight Initiative (E8)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe Elimination Eight Initiative is a coalition of eight countries working across national borders to eliminate malaria in Southern Africa by 2030. Emergo supported the SADC Malaria Elimination E8 campaign targeting cross-border mobile and migrant populations across Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Angola, and Mozambique.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Ogilvy Africa: Large global advertising and communications network with deep African presence offering integrated marketing, PR and behaviour-change services. Competes with Emergo on corporate accounts and increasingly on development-sector mandates across Africa.
• FleishmanHillard Africa: Global public relations and communications agency with established Africa practice serving multinational corporates and public-sector clients. Overlaps with Emergo on strategic communications, PR, and crisis management engagements.
• Edelman Africa: Global communications firm operating across African markets offering corporate PR, public affairs, and behaviour-change capabilities. Comparable on large multinational corporate mandates and policy/development communications work.
• BCW (Burson Cohn & Wolfe) Africa: Global communications agency with an African footprint serving corporates and public-sector clients on PR, brand and change communications. Competes with Emergo on integrated communications and stakeholder engagement mandates.
• Kantar Africa: Global insights and consulting firm with deep African operations providing research, marketing and communications advisory. Comparable on evidence-based marketing strategy and impact measurement elements of Emergo's offering.

Direct peers

• Africa Practice: Pan-African strategic communications and public affairs advisory firm serving corporates, investors and development partners across Africa. Most directly comparable to Emergo in combining strategy, communications, and stakeholder engagement for African clients.
• Stratcomm Africa: Nigeria-based strategic communications consultancy providing integrated marketing, PR, and behaviour-change communications to public and private sector clients in Africa, with comparable services to Emergo's marketing, SBC and PR practice areas.

Regional players

• The Hardy Boys (H&B): Award-winning South African integrated marketing and communications agency combining strategy, creative, PR and digital. Comparable to Emergo's integrated marketing and content production capabilities, though concentrated in Southern Africa.
• Jigsaw Africa: South Africa-based strategic communications and public affairs consultancy focused on the African continent, providing reputation, stakeholder and crisis communications for corporates and public sector clients.

Emerging players

• SpeakUp Africa: Africa-focused communications and advocacy organisation driving social and behaviour-change campaigns on health and development issues. Comparable on SBCC methodology and African development-sector communications.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/emergocommunications
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/emergoconsulting

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Investors

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M&A

Investments

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