NIRAS International Consulting (NIC) is part of the NIRAS Group A/S, a multidisciplinary consulting company employing about 1200 professional staff. NIC has four Head Quarters, i.e. in Denmark, Finland, Poland and Sweden and subsidiary offices in 12 partner countries in . NIC provides expertise and project management services for development programmes all over the world. NIC's core areas of competence include rural livelihoods, agriculture and agribusiness, food, renewable energy, land administration, forestry, water, environment and urban and rural planning. We have 140 in-house staff and a network of 8 000 experts who deliver these services in the field.