CIVITTA Armenia (Formerly EV Consulting)

CIVITTA entered Armenia in 2021, by merging with the leading local management consulting company - EV Consulting. CIVITTA Armenia is a management advisory firm that serves companies and industries aspiring to move to the next level of competitiveness and innovativeness. Our company partners with senior executives and business leaders to identify their next development level and carve pathways there. Such partnerships are established in diverse, but critical areas of management challenges – starting from spotting market opportunities, helping raise capital through designing and implementing complex management systems. CIVITTA Armenia enriches its thinking through its research arm – Research Center’s activities.

Founded in 2006, EV Consulting is a leading advisory firm that serves public and private organizations in the CIS region. EV Consulting partners with policy makers and senior executives in order to identify their next development level. EV has carried out more than 500 projects in both public and private areas, including policy advice and capacity building for public and business support institutions; local economic development; competitiveness and economic growth analysis and advocacy; value chain assessment, cluster and sector analysis and development work; economic policy design and advocacy; design of monitoring and evaluation systems, impact assessment for large scale development projects.

EV Consulting served major international organizations such as the Asian Development Bank (ADB), European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), United States Agency for International Development (USAID), World Bank (WB), Eurasian Development Bank (EDB), European Investment Bank (EIB), Green Climate Fund (GCF) , The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GIZ), Kreditanstalt fur Wiederaufbau (Reconstruction Credit Institute), Organization for Security and Co-operation (OSCE) , Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Oxfam International Secretariat, Austrian Development Agency (ADA), etc.

EV has worked with ministries, governmental agencies, and interna­tional and donor organizations in the fields of economic development, innovation, export promotion, foreign investment, science and educa­tion, regional development, competitiveness, cluster and sector analysis, development policies and interventions, economic policy design and advocacy, design of monitoring and evaluation systems, impact assessment of large scale non-commercial projects.

EV Consulting’s service lines include but not limited to: Strategy Advisory, Investment Advisory, Marketing Advisory, Performance Improvement, Digital Services, Public Policy and Development, Human Resources and Professional Development, Management Trainings.

Industry experience spectrum includes: Construction and Real Estate; Travel and Tourism, Consumer Products, Industrial Goods and Services, Retail, Public Sector, Financial Services, Health Care and Pharmaceuticals, Agriculture and Food Processing, IT, Telecom and Media, Mining and Quarrying etc.

EV Research Centre is the company’s internal think-tank focused on studying competitiveness. It is a partner institute of the World Economic Forum's Global Competitiveness Network. EV Consulting also publishes bi-annual Armenian Competitiveness Report (ACR).