Gmac GroupResearch, human capital and investment facilitation
Gmac Group is a research and advisory firm that builds human capital, produces decision ready evidence, and connects investors to investable projects across Africa.
Our team works from ten countries. Meet them
Fig. 1 Where we work
Fieldwork, programmes and partnerships across 10 markets in West, East and Southern Africa, delivered by colleagues who live in the region.
Countries our team works from (the tenth is the United States)
01 Who we serve
A funder, a procurement lead and a recent graduate should each know within a moment which door is theirs.
Institutions
Development agencies
Baseline studies, evaluations and labour market evidence for programme design and reporting.
Private companies
Workforce strategy, graduate intake pipelines, employability audits and market context.
Investors
Screened deal flow, sector sizing, competitive mapping and regulatory context for investment theses.
Government ministries
Policy briefs, feasibility work and capacity building for departments and agencies.
Universities
Research methods training, supervision capability and employability provision for graduates.
NGOs and foundations
Monitoring and evaluation systems, staff training and evidence for funder reporting.
Individuals
Graduates entering work
Employability programmes, internship placement support and interview preparation.
Young professionals
Career coaching, personal branding, LinkedIn strategy and structured job search support.
Researchers and analysts
Research methods training, certification cohorts, mentorship and tools for productive analysis.
Senior leaders
Founder led advisory on visibility, authority and thought leadership positioning.
Founders seeking capital
Investment readiness support, pitch preparation and access to curated investor rooms.
02 Expertise
The researcher who sizes a labour market also teaches the methods workshop. The team that runs a graduate programme also designs the employer’s intake pipeline.
03 Founding principle
“Build the people and build the evidence at the same time, from inside the continent they concern.”
Gmac Group began with a gap visible from both sides of the same room. Graduates were leaving university with credentials but without a route into work. Institutions were making decisions about those same graduates on evidence that was thin, imported or out of date.
The firm works remotely by design. The team assembles around a brief rather than a building.
Read our story04 How we engage
Four illustrations of how a typical brief is scoped and delivered. They show our approach for each type of client and are not client case studies.
Applied Research and Policy Consulting
05 Convenings
The expertise underneath them is what clients hire.
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06 Our people
Every engagement is delivered by the team that owns the capability, never by generalists stretched across all of them.
Richard Klutse
Head of Programs & Business Development, Ghana
Atigsimah Richard Akamboe
Business Development Intern, Ghana
Ismail Saani
Research Consultant, Interim Team Lead, Ghana
Evans Essene Dzidzienyo
Research Consultant, Ghana
Oluwatosin Temitope Ogungbade
Research Consultant, Nigeria
Atta Gyasi Domson
Research Consultant, United States
Working alongside
An invitation
Or the capability you are trying to build. We will tell you plainly whether we are the right people, and what it would take.