Disclaimer Sector Development and Competitiveness: Overview IBTCI’s Sector Development & Competitiveness (SDC) practice is the longest serving area of our corporate expertise. We provide expertise for environmentally friendly national economic grow the policies, including for sector or industry competitiveness, investment promotion, and international trade. Our expertise is in agriculture, artisan, energy/ power, health, natural resources, telecommunications, transportation, and water. We work with governments to create the necessary institutional reforms that enable sector growth. IBTCI’s SDC practice also recognizes that a growing and vibrant small enterprise sector is essential to attaining growth with equity and hence we work with governments on policy for the SME sector. We also provide capacity building advice to individual small enterprises to help improve production methods, marketing and product diversification, financial management, and other business functions. IBTCI works with policy makers to develop the necessary interventions for equity issues related to corporate governance, anti-competitive behavior, and other social safeguards. Testament to IBTCI’s reputation in SDC, our Privatization sub-practice has managed several privatization and post privatization activities, sector studies, and export diversification initiatives around the world for various donor agencies. Since 1992, USAID has awarded five large multi-year indefinite quantity contracts (IQC) to IBTCI in the area of privatization.