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Infrastructure deals structured.
Feasibility studies that fund.
Proposals governments approve.
Chartered Accountants with global experience, operating across African markets. Executive stakeholder engagement at the level these deals require.
What We Do
Infrastructure is not built by good intentions.
It is built by proposals that pass appraisal, feasibility studies that satisfy lenders, and deal structures that close. That is the work Evolve does.
Deal Structuring
Large infrastructure transactions require a capital structure that works for every party at the table: the sponsor, the government, the lender, and the community that will ultimately pay. We design that structure.
Our Chartered Accountants have led concession negotiations, structured blended finance instruments, and navigated the risk-allocation frameworks that development finance institutions require before committing capital. We do not propose structures that look attractive on a term sheet and collapse at financial close.
Learn more →Market Feasibility
A feasibility study is not a formality. It is the document that tells a development bank, a sovereign guarantor, or a private equity infrastructure fund whether the project is real. Most are not written to that standard.
We conduct market feasibility analyses with the rigour of a lender's appraisal team — because we have sat on both sides of that table. Demand methodology, willingness-to-pay, revenue risk allocation, and sensitivity analysis built to hold under scrutiny.
Learn more →Proposal Development
A proposal that is technically correct but narratively unconvincing does not fund. We write proposals that move decision-makers — ministerial, board-level, and DFI programme committees — from review to approval.
Our proposals are structured to the exact specification of the funding institution and the exact psychology of the evaluator. We have written for World Bank, AfDB, IFC, and government procurement committees across African jurisdictions.
Learn more →How We Think
“The gap between a failed proposal and a funded one is rarely technical. It is structural, financial, and narrative — and it is fixable.”
Kaamil Buckas, CA(SA)
Founding Partner — Evolve Business Consultants
At Evolve, we operate from a simple thesis: infrastructure projects fail to fund not because the underlying case is weak, but because the case is not made in the language its audience requires. A DFI appraisal team reads differently from a ministry procurement panel. A sovereign guarantor requires different assurance from a commercial co-lender. We know that. Our work reflects it.
Read: What Separates a Bankable Feasibility Study from a Rejected One →Track Record
We have done this before.
Our engagements span government infrastructure mandates, development bank proposals, and private-sector deal structuring across African markets. Where client confidentiality permits, we name them.
Maritime · Energy
Project Badilisha
Zanzibar, Tanzania
An integrated deep-water port, twin-refinery complex, and Industrial Development Zone — designed as a national transformation platform, not a standalone project. Presented to the Head of State of Zanzibar.
Approved at Presidential level
Energy
Pendukapo
Namibia
A 150,000 bpd national refinery programme structured in partnership with NAMCOR, Namibia's national oil company. Designed so that the economic benefit of Namibia's own hydrocarbons remained in Namibia.
Approved at Presidential and Ministerial level
Trade · Digital
NTCDP
Tanzania
The National Trade Corridor Dividend Programme — combining electronic cargo tracking, aerial monitoring, and digital trade facilitation into a sovereign enforcement architecture for the Tanzania Revenue Authority.
Approved — Government of Tanzania
Ask Evolve
The questions infrastructure teams ask us most.
Every engagement begins with a question. We have answered most of them before.
What makes an infrastructure feasibility study bankable?
Read the answer →How do you structure a PPP concession for DFI funding?
Read the answer →What does an AfDB-grade proposal require?
Read the answer →When does blended finance make sense?
Read the answer →How do you approach executive stakeholder engagement?
Read the answer →What separates a concession that closes from one that stalls?
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Kaamil Buckas
CA(SA) · Founding Partner
Led by someone who has done the work
Kaamil Buckas, CA(SA)
Founding Partner — Evolve Business Consultants
Kaamil Buckas is a Chartered Accountant (CA(SA)) and Founding Partner of Evolve Business Consultants, based in Sandton, Johannesburg. From Zanzibar's deep-water port to Namibia's refining future, from Tanzania's trade corridors to Africa's emerging digital networks — he has structured and won the mandates that nations choose to build their futures on.
His proposals have earned presidential approval. His feasibility studies have cleared DFI appraisal. He brings the financial discipline of a CA and the instinct of a sovereign transformation partner.
Evolve is a partner-led practice. The senior advisor on your engagement is the person who writes the proposal, runs the numbers, and sits across the table from the decision-maker.
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