We are a specialized advisory and implementation firm helping close capacity gaps through workforce systems, talent ecosystems, and strategic partnerships.
Our Capabilities
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Sustainable Skills & Workforce Development
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Strategic Talent & Leadership Solutions
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Ecosystem Design & Private Sector Engagement
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Organizational Capacity Building
Executive Training for a Changing World
As industries transform and the development finance landscape evolves, leaders increasingly need to work across sectors, institutions, and traditional boundaries.
Olive People develops executive learning experiences bringing together business, development institutions, and practitioners around these emerging challenges.
Our current Executive Training on Funding Strategies & Partnerships Strategies in Brazzaville, Rep of Congo delivered with contributions from the European Union Delegation in the Rep of Congo and investors, private-sector leaders, and not-profit professionals explores how organizations can build credible partnerships and mobilize investment for lasting impact.
It is part of a growing series of learning experiences designed to connect expertise, practice, and cross-sector collaboration.
News & Events
How do you convince large companies to trust and invest in fragile education ecosystems?
Evidence from the GIFT Project: Designing and operationalizing a private sector engagement model that connected large employers, training institutions, and youth employability systems in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Insights & Analyses
Before Financing: Where SME Support Programs Really Make a Difference in Entrepreneurial Ecosystems
Where We Work
We have worked in over 10 countries since 2022. And we are partnering with new ones every year.
Our programs and models build lasting relationships and strong capabilities wherever we work.
We are headquartered in Brussels Belgium, we work with our local expert teams in the DRC, the Republic of Congo, Egypt, and Morocco, and we work with experts network in Côte d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Guinea Conakry, Madagascar, Senegal, and Zambia.
Building Sustainability Talent to Protect the World’s Lungs
In 2025, governments, development banks, and multilateral institutions renewed their commitment to protect the Congo Basin — the world’s second-largest rainforest — through a $2.5 billion pledge under the Belém Call to Action.
The political will is clear.
The financing is mobilizing.
But forests are not protected by global pledges alone.
They are protected by people.
Without local capacity and ownership, strong institutions and systems, and responsible private sector engagement; climate commitments risk falling short.
Through partnerships with companies, universities, institutions, NGOs, and governments — and through our green career platform Impact Job Days — we develop the talent and ecosystems needed to accelerate the implementation of sustainability commitments.
Because durable climate action is not only about funding.
It is about building the people who will deliver it.
The Olive People Briefing
Today's leaders and investors are increasingly interested in understanding and playing a role in how capacities are created, strengthened, and mobilized.
This means shaping capabilities through ecosystems, building capabilities for organizational performance, and intelligently allocating capabilities in projects.
Leaders also desire to anticipate the future of skills and capabilities.
Every month, Patrick Gaincko, Founder of Olive People, explores the intersection of skills development, investment, private sector engagement, and sustainable development; through research, experience, and independent analysis.
One thoughtful briefing. Once a month.
Our Projects
We work where talent shortages, organizational silos, and structural inefficiencies limit impact — and we design solutions that transform those constraints into drivers of long-term competitiveness and resilience.
Across all mandates, our approach is consistent:
Systems thinking over isolated interventions
Local ownership over externally driven models
Institutional strengthening over short-term fixes
Structured execution over ad hoc solutions
Our partners
