WSP is a global professional services corporation that helps clients solve their most complex infrastructure and development challenges. As an internationally recognized multidisciplinary consulting firm, WSP provides technical and programme management expertise in infrastructure, governance, skills development, MSME development and public-private partnerships. WSP’s resource base of 49,900 employees and affiliate employees in more than 150 countries allows the company to provide clients with the technical resources of a leading global organization. WSP offers cutting-edge services that meet the demands of governments and private companies in the developed world, which have been successfully adapted to developing and transitioning national economies in Asia, Africa, Latin America and Eastern Europe. WSP’s overseas integrated development practice is a recognized partner to development banks, financial institutions, governments, NGOs and multilateral institutions around the globe.

WSP has more than 60 years of experience in the delivery of complex, multi-dimensional projects worldwide on behalf of UKaid and other donors. In conflict and post-conflict environments, Louis Berger has built a reputation for delivering high quality services, and for developing sustainable local institutions.

WSP offers expertise in a range of areas, including post-conflict development, community engagement, economic development, capacity building, government reform, infrastructure development, gender and vulnerable group integration, disaster response, and M&E. WSP is unrivalled in its ability to deliver development results in financial inclusion for the poor which encompasses a multitude of innovative approaches to provide financial services and products for the un- and under-banked.

WSP focuses on economic growth and poverty reduction in successfully applying a M4P approach and financial systems methodology to reduce market constraints and build the capacity of financial institutions and information systems. In doing so, we create accessible, efficient, and sustainable financial markets, empowering new market participants to escape poverty.

Its history in Nepal dates to 1995 where WSP worked with private clients and bilateral donors in Nepal’s central region. Currently WSP is implementing three different programmes in Nepal – Sakchyam Access to Finance Programme and Skills for Employment Programme, both of which are funded by the UK aid and Public Financial Management System Programme funded by USAID.