DMI ASSOCIATES

DMI is an independent consulting company created in 1998 in France, with associated and representative offices in Switzerland, Latvia, India and China.

The firm specialises in Economic Development, justice reforms and institutional capacity building for better governance with a strong network of partners throughout Europe and in emerging markets in different regions of the world.

In line with the trends in the leading agencies involved in these fields such as the World Bank, the European Commission, OECD, DMI has developed monitoring and evaluation systems as integral part of its management approach and has accumulated strong references and capacity to evaluate organisations and programmes throughout its range of substantive topics.

DMI provides high quality services in relation with planning, implementation and evaluation of projects and prograMs The company’s key areas of competence include:

• Good Governance (justice and legal reform / institution capacity building), a large selection of consultancies in the field of Public Administration reform, including, inter alia, Law harmonization and law approximation; Legal advice and legal drafting; Reforms in the area of legal systems as well as legislative and judicial bodies; Implementation of the entire acquis communautaires; Impact studies of new legislation on economy, society and budget; Justice and Home Affairs (Third Pillar) consulting: asylum, immigration, external border, and judicial co-operation; Institutional building, good governance and strengthening of civil society.




• Monitoring / Evaluation. DMI Associates has acquired, in parallel to its development activities, an extensive expertise in evaluation techniques as well as monitoring and evaluation systems as integral part of management (whether within the firm or to assess the performance of clients) and has accumulated strong references and capacity to evaluate organisations and programmes throughout its range of substantive topics. Among the various monitoring projects realised by DMI Associates’ team, there are the evaluation of the worldwide activities of the International Trade Center UNCTAD/WTO, UNCTAD training programme “Train for Trade”, evaluation of the Euro-Mediterranean Network of investment promotion agencies-Anima project.




• Economic Co-operation / Trade policy / Trade Facilitation. DMI Associates has experts with high-quality experience and specialised knowledge of many aspects of WTO rules, extensive experience in the negotiation of schedules of commitments (for market access, for agricultural support, and for Services) and expertise in the ongoing negotiations in the WTO.
  
  In particular, DMI has expertise in the following areas:

  • Agricultural trade policy and subsidy commitments
  • Customs valuation and modernisation
  • Import licensing
  • Subsidies including export subsidies and industrial policies
  • Trade Facilitation
  • Trade Related Investment Measures (TRIMs)
  • Standards & Technical Barriers to Trade
  • Sanitary & Phytosanitary Measures
  • Services Schedules including Horizontal Commitments
  • Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs)
  • Dispute Settlement procedures and precedents.

  In addition to substantive expertise in the issues related to WTO accession and implementation, DMI has experience in regional integration and development (ASEAN, COMESA, SAARC).



• SME development and Trade Promotion / Business Information.