Driving Socio-Economic Transformation Across Africa
Ustawi Consulting is a tech-enabled strategy and analytics advisory helping governments, development organisations, and enterprises solve complex challenges across Sub-Saharan Africa.
We combine rigorous analytics, systems thinking, and strategic advisory to help organisations make evidence-based decisions in complex environments.
Decision Intelligence
Turning complex decisions into model-supported, evidence-informed choices grounded in data and scenario analysis.
Value Optimisation
Ensuring constrained resources are allocated where they generate the greatest socio-economic return.
System Diagnostics
Uncovering the real causes of inefficiencies, bottlenecks, and coordination failures in complex systems.
Our Focus
Sub-Saharan Africa
Ustawi — meaning prosperity in Swahili — reflects our mission to build the strategic and analytical foundations that enable lasting socio-economic progress across the continent.
South AfricaEast AfricaWest AfricaCentral AfricaDevelopment FinancePublic SectorNGOs & Social ImpactPrivate Sector
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About Us
Who We Are
A pan-African strategy and analytics advisory grounded in the realities of Sub-Saharan Africa.
Our Story
Built for Africa's Challenges
Ustawi Consulting was founded with a clear purpose: to bring rigorous, evidence-based strategic thinking to organisations operating in Sub-Saharan Africa's most complex environments.
The name Ustawi — meaning prosperity in Swahili — reflects our belief that sustainable development starts with smarter decisions, better-allocated resources, and systems that actually work.
We work at the intersection of strategy, data analytics, and socio-economic development — helping governments, development organisations, NGOs, and private sector entities move from intuition-driven decisions to model-supported, scalable solutions.
Our approach combines strategic thinking with analytics and modelling techniques to design solutions that are practical, scalable, and grounded in real-world constraints.
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Core Services
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Countries
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Regional Focus
2025
Founded
What Drives Us
Our Values
Evidence First
Every recommendation is grounded in rigorous analysis and structured reasoning, not assumptions.
African Context
We understand the unique dynamics, constraints, and opportunities of Sub-Saharan African markets.
Practical Impact
We design solutions that are scalable, implementable, and grounded in real-world constraints.
Integrity
We are honest about what the data says and transparent in our methods and recommendations.
Collaboration
We work alongside our clients, building internal capability and shared ownership of outcomes.
Prosperity
Our ultimate measure of success is the socio-economic progress of the communities we serve.
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What We Do
Our Services
Five integrated service areas designed to help organisations solve complex challenges across Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Decision Intelligence
We apply analytical and modelling techniques to support decision-making — structuring decisions into quantifiable components, identifying critical variables, and analysing how different choices perform under varying scenarios. We integrate scenario analysis, modelling, and risk assessment to evaluate trade-offs and outcomes. The result is decision intelligence that enables leaders to move from intuition-driven decisions to evidence-informed, model-supported choices.
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Value Optimisation
We use analytical and financial models to support decisions on how resources should be deployed under constraint. This includes analysing current allocation patterns, modelling alternative investment or spending scenarios, and assessing the impact of reallocating resources. Our approach enables organisations to prioritise initiatives based on rigorous analysis, ensuring that limited resources are directed toward solutions with the greatest potential for sustainable and scalable socio-economic impact.
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System Diagnostics
We use systems thinking, process analysis, and quantitative diagnostics to understand how complex systems operate in practice. This includes mapping processes, decision flows, and stakeholder interactions, and analysing where inefficiencies, bottlenecks, or coordination failures arise. By combining qualitative system mapping with analytical evaluation, we identify structural issues and design improvement pathways that are grounded in how systems actually behave.
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Performance Measurement
We design performance measurement frameworks that enable organisations to track progress, outcomes, and long-term impact. This includes defining indicators, building measurement logic, and establishing monitoring structures that support continuous learning. Our focus is on creating measurement systems that inform strategic decision-making, support accountability, and enable adaptive management over time.
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Strategic Intelligence
We develop analytical and research-based intelligence to support strategic decision-making. This includes conducting targeted research, developing diagnostic tools, building benchmarks or indices, and synthesising insights through quantitative and qualitative analysis. Strategic intelligence produced through this work supports long-term planning, policy formulation, and investment decisions by grounding strategy in robust evidence and structured insight.
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Our People
Meet the Team
Three founders united by a shared belief that Africa's complex challenges deserve rigorous, evidence-based solutions.
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Exauce Mabele
Co-Founder & Director
Leads strategy and technology, bringing expertise in analytics, decision modelling, and digital infrastructure across Sub-Saharan Africa.
