Advisory Services

A true partner in evidence-based decision making

Since 2001, IPRA’s mission has been to provide you with the insights you need to find the best solutions for your business based on your industry, size, and specific requirements.

Our exceptional team of some of the world’s leading experts in their fields and industries, including positions in government, international public institutions and corporations, and academia, bring together a breadth of expertise and experience – allows us to offer you the quality of services that we believe is unrivaled anywhere.

With IPRA advisory, you will always go much further…

Our reputation is based on providing objective and independent advice and analysis, accuracy, precision and a commitment to high quality.

Applying expert knowledge, quantitative and qualitative skills to complex policy and development challenges.

Areas of Expertise

We help governments and businesses in developing countries untangle, interpret and understand the legal, economic and policy implications of multilateral and regional trade agreements through legal and economic analysis, advanced research, training, and trade-related technical assistance.

Our experts have provided policy advisory and trade-related technical assistance to governments in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean, including:

Assistance in preparation to join the World Trade Organisation (WTO accession) and RTA membership, strengthening their trade negotiating capacities; support in drafting agreements and formulating negotiating positions, drafting answers to questions of the Working Parties, legal analysis of the draft commitments proposed by Members and proposing changes to the domestic laws and regulations.
Assistance in policy areas including market access for goods and non-agricultural market access, trade in services, sanitary and phyto-sanitary measures (SPS), technical barriers to trade (TBT), trade remedies and safeguards; trade-related aspect of intellectual property (TRIP) and trade facilitation.

Post-accession training and capacity building to prepare new WTO Member for her upcoming membership. For LDCs, we guide you on how you can take advantage of your upcoming membership under the WTO’s LDCs and Accessions Program;
Guidance in submission of notifications, the coordination mechanisms for implementation of accession-specific commitments and participation in the work of the WTO;
Assistance in developing national strategy and a framework trade policy paper outlining short, medium and long term policies that some governments have used to encourage trade relations with their trading partners and increase their economic growth prospects.
Provision of legal advice on WTO law, support in WTO dispute settlement proceedings and training in WTO law to developing countries and least developed countries.
Helping governments rid their policy environments of anti-export and anti-investment biases; clarify, simplify and rationalize administrative and regulatory processes for export and investment; implement WTO trade facilitation agreement (TFA), create and manage export processing zones.

Identification of new export niches and beneficial trading partners; model the impact of trade policies and agreements on the economies.

Exporters need to identify, assess and enter export markets, find reliable partners and ensure that their overseas investments face minimal risks. Our experts have helped several Africa-based exporters enter the USA, the EU, the DR Congo, and the Arabian Gulf markets; and the EU and American companies enter East Africa markets.

We assess the market’s size and growth potential; identify key competitors; conduct due diligence on potential trading partners and weigh up the advantages of foreign free zones.
We guide exporters through the web of regulations: rules of origin, technical standards, foreign ownership restrictions, dispute resolutions, non- tariff barriers, sanitary and phyto-sanitary regulations, local agency laws, property ownership, intellectual property rights (IPR), and customs clearance processes.
We provide technical assistance with regards to conformity assessment covering Sanitary and Phytosanitary issues and help producers and exporters in their compliance with standards and SPS requirements, and in ensuring that the SPS regulations are in conformity with the WTO requirements.
We provide legal advice on WTO law, support in WTO dispute settlement proceedings, including advising companies and governments on matters before the World Trade Organization, and advising industries affected by WTO issues.
We advise companies and governments on matters involving unfair trade practices, anti-dumping actions and trade defense measures. We gather evidence to support claims for unfair trade practices.
We provide training in WTO law to developing countries and least developed countries.
We have designed and delivered tailored training and capacity building inputs to government officials and other trade stakeholders in over 30 African countries.

We help governments and tax authorities in developing countries in ensuring effective tax systems as a crucial element of domestic resource mobilization and as a tool for sustainable development through

Providing tailored tax policy advice on a series of specific tax areas that can support you with your efforts to mobilize domestic revenues.
Supporting you in designing and incorporating Tax Policy Analysis Units and equipping them with requisite skills to guide national tax policy decisions with solid analytical evidence and regular inputs during the tax policy formulation processes, and support tax administration.
Assistance in improving business formalization rates through tailored tax policy, including by improving the design of VAT and labor taxes, and the better use and matching of different data sources such as tax returns and business registries. Assistance can also go support you in self-assessing the design of your existing (or future) presumptive tax regimes using the country-specific analysis framework

Supporting you in improving the design of your excise taxes – including on tobacco, alcohol and sugar-sweetened beverages – to improve the health of the population and raise revenues. We shall help you with implementing any necessary complementary changes to the tax system that will increase the role of excise taxes in financing healthcare systems.
Assisting you with tax expenditure analyses, including defining tax expenditure benchmarks, item-by-item assessments of tax expenditures and developing comprehensive tax expenditure reports.
Provide you with detailed analysis of the tax burden faced by SMEs, and offer tailored policy recommendations to improve simplified tax regimes and streamline tax administration procedures, encouraging greater growth in the sector.
Assisting in revenue risk assessment, e.g. assessing tax-related illicit financial flows, including the tax challenges of digitalization; and support in revenue risk management, including risk management of tax compliance – and building capacity of revenue agency for risk management.
Advanced research on a wide range of tax-related topics to inform policy, and post-reform analysis aimed at identifying challenges to reform and testing potential or alternative solutions.
Macro-fiscal models, macro-fiscal tax incidence modeling and analysis and simulation modules for key revenue groups (VAT, personal income tax, corporate income tax and excise tax).
Training on topics including tax policy and administration, tax policy analysis, tax revenue forecasting, transfer pricing, natural resource taxation (the design of fiscal regimes for petroleum and minerals, encompassing royalties, taxation, production sharing, state participation, and pricing mechanisms).
Consider how tax policy can drive innovation and support inclusive and sustainable growth, investment and trade.

We guide investors like you, seeking to secure and grow your investments and business in Africa’s frontier markets through

Complex due diligence process, risk management, robust business strategies and more in-depth insights into African markets, industry and your particular circumstances.
Its investment arm ‘Invest Uganda’ (IU) supports the foreign business like yours interested in exploring and setting up in Uganda. We provide comprehensive business services for your market entry and corporate establishment in Uganda by providing you information on market trends, incorporation process and networking opportunities. We support your existing business in Uganda through dedicated investor enquiry team. The road for your Uganda business success can start with IPRA Advisory and IU.

Our use of advanced techniques combining law and economics, finance, statistics, and econometrics contribute to a result that extends well beyond traditional approaches to investment advisory, and valuation, especially in cases where historical data and other valuation benchmarks are either unavailable or considered inadequate.
For asset owners, investment managers, hedge funds, private equity firms, and service providers seeking exposure to the broader African continent, we have a list of advisors with the appropriate qualifications and licenses to help you make informed investment decisions. Our teams of lawyers, analysts, and economists will provide you customized interpretations of investment–related laws and agreement, independent advice, analyses and reporting –from risk and exposure, to performance attribution, transaction cost analysis, indexation, benchmarking.
We provide policy advisory and investment-related technical assistance to governments in Africa tailored to individual country’s needs and its particular circumstances, to help them attract more investment and grow their economies
– We help governments to assess the relative costs and benefits of proposed trade and investment initiatives given their particular circumstances.
Our team can help you clarify, simplify and rationalise administrative and regulatory processes for investment, and strengthen your team to better formulate, implement and manage investment-support related policies, manage and regulate trade and investment policy, and create and manage export processing zones.
Insights & analysis to better understand risk and achieve best performance, with a versatile toolbox of industry-leading independent risk and performance analytics.
Our experts have helped several Africa-based exporters enter the USA, the EU, the DR Congo, and the Arabian Gulf markets; and the EU and American companies enter East Africa markets.

From providing research-based policy solutions that can help increase agricultural productivity and drive transformative change, IPRA works with you to contribute to improved agricultural system and policies that creates wealth, generates gainful employment and improves quality of life in the global south.

IPRA experts have provided policymakers and stakeholders in Africa and around the world with trusted insights and recommendations, including:

analyzing the trends in agricultural production and productivity growth, isolate the sources of agricultural productivity growth, and determine the relative significance of these factors in determining the success in agriculture of select African countries.
Investigating the role of the public and private sectors in fostering agricultural productivity growth, with special attention to the role of innovation and investment, both in physical and human capital, including infrastructure, and technological advances, in maintaining and increasing agricultural productivity and employment.
Quantifying comparable productivity growth measures for African countries and regions worldwide, and to understand the sources and persistence of sectoral differences in relation to agriculture, industry, and services.
Ways to build supply-side capacity and contribute to agricultural productivity growth in Africa.
How to develop inclusive value chains that create impact for smallholder farmers
Investment and employment in agriculture.

We provide technical assistance with regards to conformity assessment covering Sanitary and Phytosanitary issues and help producers and exporters in their compliance with standards and SPS requirements, and in ensuring that the SPS regulations are in conformity with the WTO requirements.

We are a leading independent, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to advancing evidence-based policy solutions for sustainable economic development in Africa.

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