Pöyry - IDP Consult, Inc.

SENIOR MANAGEMENT

Evelyn A. Orda
Certified Public Accountant
President / Director

Spearheads, develops and operationalizes overall firm and business development strategy in relation to Pöyry’s overarching vision and mission.
Supervises staff development and performance in line with company targets and competitive benchmarks
Facilitates generation of resources and explores business opportunities through global networking and associations, and active intra-office partnerships or synergies.
Provides international and official representation in all conventions, business conferences and official cum strategy planning meets.

MANAGEMENT / COORDINATION UNIT

Michel “Mike” Llanes
B.A. Liberal Arts
Senior Business Development Coordinator

Facilitates and oversees development of business strategy, including the completion, preparation and quality-monitoring of project bids and proposals, process evaluation and functional gaps strengthening, client coordination, and consultant liaison
Establishes BD sub-strategies, and initiates the advancement of interregional associations and business link-ups with Poyry units
Provides ad hoc consultancy assistance for social and community-led planning, and lead project coordination.

Lerna Melo-Magdamo
B.A. Linguistics, M.A. Business Management
Project Management Coordinator

Facilitates the preparation and coordination of project management and administrative components in Pöyry IDP’s businesses, including contract management, consultants’ fielding and assignments, personnel and equipment, and other project-led specifications
Prepares and recommends necessary policies or guidelines as regards project accounting, HRD and client coordination
Initiates communications with clients, consultants and counterpart agencies/firms with respect to project development and contractual stipulations.

PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION UNIT

Gabriel “Gabby” De Vera
B.A. Economics, M.A. Urban and Regional Planning
Project Implementation Specialist / Jr. Technical Consultant

Provides technical assistance to key consultants and mobilized projects primarily through technical data gathering, analysis and synthesis; reports consolidation, rewriting and packaging; research outputs and aggregation of relevant documents and sector or client-specific information.
Assists and leads the rollout of business strategies, including the completion, preparation and quality-monitoring of project bids and proposals, process evaluation and strengthening, client coordination, and consultant liaison.
Assists in the operationalizing of BD sub-strategies, and initiates the creation of interregional associations and productive link-ups with other Poyry units.
Supports Pöyry IDP’s global mileage through marketing materials, occasional writeups, company summaries and web content, and commissioned reports.

Kristine Angeli “Tin” Roa
B.A. Economics, M.A. Economics
Project Implementation Specialist / Jr. Technical Consultant

Provides technical assistance to key consultants and mobilized projects primarily through technical data gathering, analysis and synthesis; reports consolidation, rewriting and packaging; research outputs and aggregation of relevant documents and sector or client-specific information.
Assists and leads the occasional rollout of business strategies, including the completion, preparation and quality-monitoring of project bids and proposals, process evaluation and strengthening, client coordination, and consultant liaison.
Assists in the operationalizing of BD sub-strategies, and initiates the creation of interregional associations and productive link-ups with other Pöyry units.

FINANCIAL AND ADMINISTRATION

Gemma C. Patricio
B.S. Accountancy
Finance Officer

Handles and manages accounting and operating records of Pöyry IDP Consult, including profit-and-loss, revenue and expenditure accounts, investment and interest components, and earnings relative to annual company targets.
Maintains and prepares financial reports, auditing and balance sheet history of Pöyry IDP’s overall business locally and with regional partners.
Monitors income position and cash flows vis-à-vis operating targets
Responsible for completing and providing inputs to the financial sections of project bids and proposals.

Josefina “Betchie” Cultura
B.S.B.A Accounting
Project Management / Finance Assistant

Handles majority of administrative and financial/bookkeeping chores pertaining to presently mobilized projects, including contract management, monitoring of project deliverables, consultant inputs, and stipulations.
Maintains necessary reports on administrative/financial status of ongoing projects and manages all official billings and documentation of the same.

Nenita “Jojo” Flores
B.S.B.A. Accounting, Secretarial Associate with Commerce
Project Management Assistant

Assists in the conduct and handling of administrative and financial/bookkeeping chores pertaining to presently mobilized projects, including procurement, monitoring of project deliverables and consultant inputs, and general office administration.
Undertakes occasional ancillary functions such as training and development, and human resource administration.

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

Cindy Danganan
B.S. Avionics Technology, M.A. Economics
Business Development Specialist

Assists and co-leads in the development of Pöyry IDP’s business development strategy, including the completion, preparation and editing of project bids and technical proposals, coordination with prospective associates and consultant networks.
Assists in the enhancement and consolidation of Pöyry IDP’s business development network and relevant file and records system.
Undertakes occasional ancillary functions for Pöyry IDP such as preparation of presentations and key BD reports and summaries.

Ma. Rosario “Roze” Villanueva
B.S. Computer Technology
Business Development Assistant

Provides general office and secretarial support to Pöyry IDP President and management.
Responsible for overseeing logistical arrangements and requirements of Pöyry IDP Consultants.
Assists in the development of Pöyry IDP’s business development strategy, including preparation and editing of project bids and proposals, coordination with prospective associates and consultant networks.
Assists in the consolidation of Pöyry IDP’s business development network and relevant file and records system.

TECHNICAL SERVICES / OFFICE SUPPORT

Junious “Junie” Clar
B.S. Computer Engineering Technology
Administrative and IT Specialist

Provides general office and IT support to Pöyry’s office operations and relevant business areas.
Maintains Pöyry IDP’s general information and user-specific databases, and guarantees their integrity, order and usability; Assists in the consolidation of Pöyry IDP’s data networks and relevant file and records system.
Assists in Pöyry IDP’s business development initiatives primarily through reports packaging, layout and graphic design, reproduction.

FREELANCE CONSULTANTS

Edna S. Balucan
B.S. Commerce, M.B.A., Certified Public Accountant

Assigned as senior and lead consultant in major Pöyry IDP assignments and projects focusing on water, municipal finance and planning, and public utility regulation; key areas of concentration include financial management and analysis, project accounting and administration, institutional strengthening and utility management.
Provides representation for Pöyry IDP Consult in top-level stakeholder or board discussions, intra-office dialogues, and other key official functions or affairs.
Occasionally coordinates and supervises major business development activities and provides monitoring and evaluation of different project proposals and expressions of interest.

Maribelita ‘Mabel’ Cortez
B.S. Accountancy, Certified Public Accountant

Assigned as associate consultant in various Pöyry IDP assignments and projects focusing on water sector and public utility regulation; key areas of concentration include financial management, project accounting and administration, and financial analysis.
Occasionally spearheads and supervises business development activities and provides monitoring and evaluation of different project proposals and expressions of interest.
Provides representation for Pöyry IDP Consult in key stakeholder discussions and related functions or affairs.
Provides occasional office management and other project management responsibilities.

Mission

To provide the highest standards of professional service to client, considering each engagement as an opportunity to contribute to the client’s best interests.
To be cognizant of and adopt new and emerging technologies in the consulting field, especially in areas pursued by the company; to be made to bear in each and every engagement to the extent feasible and practicable.
To treat each consulting engagement as a challenge to develop or enhance the capacity of clients to manage their resources and affairs by transferring knowledge and technology to them during the implementation of the engagement.
To be always conscious of the social and environmental consequences of projects and activities it is involved in, and to be truthful and fair in its analysis and recommendation to client.
To develop strong loyalty among consultants, members and staff by providing appropriate benefits and opportunities for career advancement, work satisfaction and self-improvement so that could contribute their highest efforts and talents to achieving the goals of IDP

Vision

To become a widely recognized and highly regarded professional management consulting company based in the Philippines, with strong presence in the Asia-Pacific region, in the fields of urban development, municipal management, water supply, electric power, environmental management and social development, particularly in the functional areas of financial management, economic analysis, institutional development, human resources management and capacity building, local governance, privatization, utility regulation, information technology, project management,, and environmental planning and assessment.

Board of Directors

Markku Oksanen, Dr

President
Water & Environment, Asia

Evelyn Orda

President / Director
Tariff+Financial Specialist+Municipal Finance
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Edna Balucan

Director
Tariff+Financial Specialist+Institutional Specialist
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Jose Gerardo Medina

Director

About Us

Pöyry-IDP Consult, Inc. is among the premiere Philippine-based management consultancy firms with accumulated proficiencies in the fields of water supply and sanitation (WSS), environmental and urban development, municipal finance and financial management, institutional capacity building and governance. Having been originally incorporated in 1996 by senior local consultants steeped in water utility management and regulation, operations development, urban environmental systems, training and financial management, the firm was formally integrated with Pöyry Co. Ltd. of Finland last January 2008. As a direct result of this integration, the reformed Pöyry IDP Consult, Inc. has witnessed its impact on the water, sanitation and urban environment markets widen and deepen dramatically across Asian communities and developing regions.

As an integral component of the Pöyry Water and Environment Business Group, Pöyry IDP Consult benefits from its access to the informational, technological and manpower resources of Pöyrys organization comprising interregional networks of specialists, project managers and support professionals who have relevant experience in the major continents.

1. This enables Pöyry-IDP to employ at any given phase of the technical assistance (TA)/project cycle only the most qualified consultants to execute the contracted deliverables in a timely, efficient and sustainable manner.

2. The twinning of Pöyry and IDP Consult creates synergies in project management, which improve the ability of the firm to coordinate team inputs, output requirements and workplans, incorporate mechanisms for cost control, and facilitate monitoring and evaluation (M&E) to ensure the quality and precision of project progress vis-a-vis client demands.

3. Local project managers and directors are assigned by Pöyry IDP to guarantee the coherence of reporting requirements, project schedules and other contingencies, reinforce both company and client policies, and liaise with all project proponents. Project managers are also more capable of responding to localized concerns where or if they arise.

4. Latest advancements in information technology and exposure to modernized global systems allow Pöyry associations to involve innovative solutions to pervasive local/sectoral inefficiencies, where traditional interventions do not have lasting impacts or are proven to be ineffectual.

GLOBAL NETWORK UNIT: A CASE FOR POYRY IDP Consult, Inc.

Context: Managing Asia’s Development
Bullish growth in Asia reflects a confluence of developmental initiatives that readily capitalizes on the economic ebullience, resiliency, and restlessness of an increasingly urbane mass. Over the past 20 years, the rich tapestry of urban growth in Asia - particularly of less-developed countries - has seen the unrelenting conversion of environmental spaces and resources into town and city-infrastructure; stratified migratory patterns of low-income communes converging in high-traffic urban zones where opportunities for employment and, on the obverse, competition, are widespread; centers of governance, trade and service undergoing broad policy-based reforms to attain satisfactory levels of public sector accountability and sustainable development; and strategic industry initiatives that properly augur the expansion of private markets, cross-border trade, and societal welfare.

History dictates that corollary to Asia’s rapid emergence, the need for MANAGING DEVELOPMENT has never been greater. The devastation of Asian economies caused by the Asian currency and financial crisis in 1997 was rectified through a meticulous rethinking of appropriate fiscal and monetary policies, financial and corporate sector regulations, and proactive interregional trade. Successive environmental tragedies in equatorial Asia in the past 10 years, similarly, were abetted by a concerted demonstration of enabling action from different donor institutions, aid organizations, government and military quarters, as well as big business and citizens from across the globe. In the midst of ideological secessionism and countryside impoverishment in less developed nations, there has been social rehabilitation through community-based planning and proliferate small-scale enterprise; in the midst of macroeconomic downturns as a result of global slowdown, governments and developmental institutions have reacted by reenergizing their business and physical infrastructure, retooling further the competitive advantages of tertiary labor (services sector), and reinforcing monitoring/evaluation instruments as regards project interventions, policy implementation and doing business.

Preface to Pöyry IDP Consult
POYRY IDP CONSULT, operating in the Philippines, has been witness to the general economic expansion of countries gulfed along the Asia/Pacific rim. Primarily incorporated as a management consultant, the firm’s ambitious and astounding strides over the past decade has enabled it to become a relevant component to economic governance, and institutional strengthening programs conceived by foreign-funding agencies operating the Asian subregions. And within the larger context of the Pöyry Group, IDP Consult’s continued pursuit of excellence, client-orientedness and quality in its widening spectrum of work has created for Poyry a wholly viable business stream catering to lower- and intermediate-tier regional markets. Not only is this catalytic development fortifying Pöyry’s position against competitors, but this also recalibrates Pöyry’s business development strategies in line with small-scale industries, diverse community cum consumer groups, and burgeoning urban environments endemic to developing members of Asia.

Since its inception in 1997, IDP Consult and its core network of specialists in varied fields of finance, water, environmental planning, management, and capacity building have engaged in local and regional developmental assistance projects mainly filtered or programmed by international financing institutions such as the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the World Bank (WB), and Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC). Up until 2004, IDP’s role for these projects had been to execute management contracts and minor associations: providing consultancy partner firms and implementing agencies with the necessary and missing expertise in certain specializations such as the financial and economic analysis of urban infrastructure projects, evaluation of private sector participation in public service utilities, the planning of training interventions, implementing of project management and coordination units, and strengthening policy-based programs for government and public sector institutions. In close coordination with project counterparts, funders and both public and private-led stakeholders, IDP consultants had in addition been responsible for the generation of sector information resources, financial modeling and the development of financial/cost management systems, feasibility and planning documents, and proposals for policy reform, regulation, and institutional health.

By 2005, as soon as IDP assumed its first lead role in an international project - fittingly, for a small towns water supply and sanitation project in Bangladesh - business opportunities of the firm saw a significant boost. The firm saw no less than 4 MAJOR projects per year, between 2005 and 2007, in which IDP was either lead firm or ranking associate. During this span, IDP’s specialization in developing institutional, technical and financial systems for water sector institutions and service providers deepened; moreover, IDP gained ground in TAs focusing on urban development and housing, sewerage planning, privatization, and environmental resources planning. IDP’s debut as an exclusive lead for an international assignment was also as causative as it was portentous to its newfound pro-activeness towards larger business development opportunities across Asia and the Pacific in general, and the Philippines, among more specific markets.