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Zelca Consults, Kampala
Research-led advice that turns strategy into working systems.
Policy, performance audits, automation advisory and market linkages for organisations, donors and institutions that need to move faster.
Who we are
Zelca is a research-led consultancy. We help organisations, donors and institutions understand their markets, fix their processes and adopt the systems that let them grow, from smallholder value chains to corporate boardrooms.
Every engagement starts with evidence. Our consultants combine field research, market data and specialist knowledge from several disciplines before recommending anything.
Where advice needs to be carried out, the Group's own logistics and facility teams can do it, under the same policies and one line of accountability.
Consultancy · Zelca Consults
Research-led advice that turns strategy into working systems.
Zelca Consults is the strategic engine of the Group. The division works on high-level advisory frameworks, corporate policy formulation, performance auditing, human asset building and detailed financial architecture mapping.
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Research and policy
Multidisciplinary business, market and value-chain research that underpins policy formulation and every recommendation we make.
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Industrial automation advisory
System integration frameworks built on computer vision, handheld scanners, RFID smart tags and cloud-hosted enterprise databases.
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Brokerage and market linkages
Transactional brokerage and corporate agency for fundraising, linking donors to partners, and building trade channels and B2B networks.
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Performance audits
Structured evaluations of organisational infrastructure, resource alignment and how well strategy is being executed.
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Capacity and financial architecture
Human capacity building for teams, and detailed mapping of the financial structures that growth plans depend on.
Service lines
- Research & Policy
- Technical Advisory
- Corporate Strategy
- Market Linkages
- System Automation
Who we advise
Corporate and institutional leadership teams, Development partners and donors, Public institutions and programmes, Organisations planning cross-border expansion, Businesses adopting automation.
Research
Evidence first, then advice.
Multidisciplinary research is the foundation of our consultancy. We study the market, the process and the people involved, and we validate what we find before it reaches a client.
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Market and value-chain studies
Mapping how produce and goods move from farm or factory to buyer, where value is lost, and which market linkages are worth building.
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Policy research
Evidence for corporate and institutional policy: the options, their likely effects and the safeguards each one needs.
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Process and bottleneck analysis
Studying how work actually flows through an organisation to find the delays, duplication and gaps that hold it back.
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Technology and automation readiness
Assessing whether tracking, RFID, scanning or cloud systems will pay off, and what needs to be in place before adopting them.
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Feasibility and expansion studies
Commercial, legal and economic groundwork for new projects and cross-border growth.
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Social value and impact
Measuring what changes for the communities in a supply chain, from post-harvest losses to rural incomes and fair terms for farmers.
From advice to delivery
Our own teams to carry the work through.
When a recommendation needs cargo moved or a facility made ready, the Group's operating divisions take it on, so the plan and the delivery stay with one partner.
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Rules we hold ourselves to, in writing.
Every division works under the same HR, procurement, anti-fraud, whistleblowing and IT policies. A few of the commitments inside them:
Read our policies- 48 hours
- Maximum time before a whistleblowing report is screened.
- 21 days
- Deadline for a full investigation, reported to the Board Audit Committee.
- 15 minutes
- Time allowed to isolate affected systems after a security breach.
- 3 quotes
- Minimum independent vendor bids on purchases above threshold.
Who we work with
From donor programmes and boardrooms to smallholder plots and hospital wards.
- Corporate leadership teams
- Donors and development partners
- Public institutions
- Smallholder farmers and cooperatives
- Hospitals, schools and plants
- Businesses expanding across borders
Tell us what you need done.
Send a short brief and our consultants will come back to you, bringing in the right division where the work needs it. For larger projects we are happy to meet at our Ntinda office.