Onani Core Services
Investor Facilitation & Market Entry
We act as your trusted local partner to help you enter Zambia and selected African markets with speed and certainty. This includes navigating government institutions, investment approvals, licensing, incentives, and stakeholder alignment so you can focus on capital deployment, not bureaucracy.
Project Origination & Deal Structuring
We identify, shape and structure investable projects across priority sectors (mining, energy, agriculture, infrastructure, manufacturing, and technology). Our role is to turn opportunities into bankable, risk-allocated transactions that investors and financiers can confidently support.
Regulatory & Policy Navigation
We help clients understand and comply with complex regulatory, policy, and local-content frameworks. From mining local-content rules to financial-sector licensing and PPP frameworks, we translate regulation into clear commercial pathways.
Market Intelligence & Sector Research
We provide decision-ready market intelligence through sector notes, briefs, and deep-dive analysis. Our research focuses on opportunity sizing, competitive dynamics, regulatory implications, and risk, giving investors and corporates a grounded view before committing capital.
Transaction Support & Capital Raising Advisory
We support clients through the full transaction lifecycle, including pre-investment analysis, investor materials, financial modelling, engagement with DFIs and financiers, and coordination of advisors, ensuring deals move from concept to close efficiently.
Investor Aftercare & Portfolio Support
Our role does not end at entry or financial close. We provide ongoing support to help investors manage regulatory changes, expand operations, resolve execution bottlenecks, and protect long-term value, ensuring investments remain viable and scalable over time.
Public-Private Partnership (PPP) & Sovereign Engagement Advisory
We assist investors and developers engaging with government-led or sovereign-linked projects. This includes PPP structuring, concession design, alignment with national development priorities, and stakeholder coordination across ministries, regulators, and agencies.
The Onani Engagement Streams
Investors face different constraints. Onani structures its engagement through three targeted entry streams, each addressing a distinct friction point in the capital deployment process
Stream 1: The “Rapid Entry” Stream
For Agile Capital Facing Regulatory Speed Bumps
The Friction
You are ready to deploy capital but trapped in a slow-moving regulatory maze where time equals cost.
Our Solution
We act as your Regulatory Concierge, delivering a “Single Window” execution model for:
• Corporate establishment
• Fiscal registration
• Licensing and permits
• Immigration protocols
• ESR/ESG compliance set-up
We remove friction so you can focus on market traction, not administrative delays.
Stream 2: The “Project Bankability” Stream
For Developers & Funds Facing Off-Taker, Regulatory & Structural Risk
The Friction
Your project is strong but stuck in the Bankability Valley of Death - unable to satisfy lenders due to incomplete agreements, unclear regulatory pathways, or unstructured risks.
Our Solution
We act as your Project Architect, helping you:
• Secure PPAs, MOUs and concession agreements
• Navigate environmental licensing
• Structure political risk cover (MIGA, PRGs, guarantees)
• Package bankable data rooms
• Build financial/technical models
• Align stakeholders with a credible path to financial close
We make your project “credit-ready.”
Stream 3: The “Sovereign Alignment” Stream
For Institutional Capital Investing at National Scale
The Friction
Large-scale capital requires clarity on sovereign stability, currency convertibility, off-taker reliability, and multiministerial alignment.
Our Solution
We act as your Strategic Ombudsman, providing a secure Government-to-Investor (G2I) channel that:
• Negotiates investment guarantees
• Resolves sovereign-level bottlenecks
• Aligns projects with national development priorities
• Protects long-term investor rights and stability
We create durable alignment between capital and the state.
6-Pillar Execution Cycle
Onani delivers value through a 6-Pillar Execution Cycle, integrating investment facilitation, strategic advisory, and operational execution.
1: Policy & Market Shaping
We use insights from real transactions to advocate for business environment reforms and unlock bottlenecks before they become barriers.
Our strategy advisory capabilities deepen this function by helping investors anticipate regulatory trends, national priorities, and sector dynamics.
2: Pipeline Development
We proactively identify, vet, and structure opportunities into Investor-Ready Data Rooms with:
- Technical viability
- Financial feasibility
- Clear regulatory pathways
- ESG and local content baselines
- Strategic alignment with Zambia’s industrialisation agenda
Our consulting team strengthens this pillar through market studies, competitive analysis, and value-chain diagnostics.
3: Concierge Execution
We manage the full compliance journey, including PACRA registration, ZDA licensing, tax processes, sector permits, and immigration.
Our operational consultancy ensures that operational set-up (HR, systems, governance) is aligned with long-term execution needs.
4: Financial Structuring
We blend capital, structure risk, and design transactions to meet lender standards, including ESG compliance and local content partnerships. Our consulting input sharpens financial strategy, scenario modelling, and project governance frameworks.
5: Post-Investment Aftercare
Where it becomes necessary, we support investor after care aimed at resolving operational bottlenecks, supporting compliance audits, managing renewals, and engagement with regulators. Our operational consultancy is embedded here – helping optimise operations, improve performance, and scale efficiently.
6: Strategy & Operational Consultancy
We support investors, corporates, and public-sector partners with evidence-based strategy and execution-ready operating models, covering:
- Market entry & growth strategies
- Business model design
- Operating model development
- ESG & sustainability alignment
- Organisational development and HR systems
- Performance management structures
- Governance and risk frameworks
- Turnaround & operational optimisation
This capability ensures investments are bankable, commercially viable, operationally sound, and strategically aligned.