I) Support for investment-financing decisions, technical assistance and project monitoring

- Feasibility studies: cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness with financial and economic evaluation of the projects during the   selection, investment and management processes;
- Analysis of the economic risk and project uncertainties;
- Environmental impact assessment, including mitigation and acceptability;
- Analysis of the indirect effects of an investment project on other sectors of the economy and society;
- Optimisation of the sources and procedures of financing, corporate finance, business plan;
- Credit development and project financing, methodologies and procedures according to International Institutions;
- Monitoring: project evaluation methods and procedures during execution and ex post, with analysis of project    implementation, congruency and evaluation of deviations;
- Configuration of macro-economic and sector scenarios;
- Market research;
- Privatisation, institutional organization and feasibility;
- Technical and managerial professional training;
- Preparation of Terms of Reference;
- Technical specifications and Requests for proposal;
- Definition of Tender Evaluation Criteria and contract negotiations.


II) Programming/management services, transport economy and engineering

- Private financing for infrastructures;
- Simulation models and forecasts of the transport demands for passengers and goods;
- Analysis of urban traffic movement, traffic and parking plans;
- Reduction of traffic congestion in urban and metropolitan areas;
- Analysis of the interconnections between transport infrastructures and other sectors;
- Inter modal planning and co-ordination of transport systems;
- Infrastructures management and maintenance methodologies;
- Innovative-ecological transportation and energy saving;
- Identification and selection of sites/corridors;
- Logistics and computerisation applied to transport and sites management;
- Transport companies organisational and managerial analysis;
- Public Private Partnerships (PPP) for the provision of Public Facilities;
-Poverty reduction strategy related to sectorial issues in developing countries.

III) Consultancy services for the environment sector

- Environmental and sectors impact assessment;
- Plant location impact on environment;
- Landscape ecology, assessment of protected/sensitive areas;
- Feasibility studies and design of ecological engineering and rehabilitation projects.

IV) Business Development, Institutional Support and Training

- Small and medium-sized business development;
- Co-operative form of business development;
- Enterprise restructuring;
- State enterprise reform;
- Rural business development, rural micro-finance;
- Corporate and business strategy;
- Management training programmes;
- Enterprise management systems, particularly in the areas of management planning and control, corporate finance,   human resources management, organisation systems, market research.

V) Tourism

- Structural analysis of tourism market;
- Feasibility studies and monitoring of investment programmes;
- Ex ante and ex post evaluation of the economic, social and environmental impacts of projects;
- Interaction between the tourism & leisure sector and intermodal transportation systems.

VI) Water and Waste management

- Assessment of water demands and supplies definition;
- Feasibility studies for sewage system and treatment plant;
- Sewage and treatment plants bids external evaluation;
- Irrigation and drainage system for agricultural industry and rural development;
- Feasibility studies for waste management (landfills, industrial facilities, solid waste incinerators/combusts).

Comito & Associati S.r.l. has carried out projects world-wide in more than 50 countries, working for Italian, European and international organisations and financial institutions, such as the European Commission, the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, the United Nations, the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Italian Ministry for Transport, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the European Investment Bank, Regional Governments and Local bodies in Italy and abroad