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Scham’s Consulting expert on a field assignment

Since 2015 · San Pedro

A multi-sector consulting and expertise firm.

We support companies and institutions in managing risk, compliance, skills development and the performance of their operations.

Institutional film

Scham’s Consulting in 2 minutes

Our five areas of expertise, our approach and our key projects, told in pictures.

  • French and English subtitles
  • Synthetic voice, in French
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Behind every decision, there is the field. Since 2015, Scham’s Consulting has supported companies, cooperatives, institutions and development organisations, across Côte d’Ivoire and beyond. Under the leadership of Aboubakar Traoré, Chief Executive Officer, engineer and quality specialist, Scham’s Consulting brings together a team with complementary profiles, driven by rigour, integrity and responsibility. Five complementary fields, one standard. In the fields, we support farmers and cooperatives, from the nursery to the traceability markets demand. At the port, we supervise loading and discharge, carry out draft surveys, inspect cargoes and monitor stocks. We control quality, audit procedures and have your products tested by accredited partner laboratories. To inform your decisions, we carry out diagnostics, studies and monitoring and evaluation, alongside the stakeholders involved. And because results must last, we train teams, from management to field techniques. Our approach has three steps: frame, deliver, report. With rigour, confidentiality and deadlines met, and one dedicated contact, from first meeting to final report. Founded in 2015, Scham’s Consulting draws on more than twenty years of senior management experience and five complementary fields. Among our key projects: the national catalogue of plant varieties for PDC2V; structuring the rice value chain with IFDC and 2SCALE; training community promoters for GIZ; export phytosanitary procedures for the Cotton and Cashew Council. They trust us: the World Bank, GIZ, IFDC, 2SCALE, the Cotton and Cashew Council, and many others. From field to port, at every step, we stand by your side. Scham’s Consulting. Combined expertise, better-managed projects.

  • Firm founded

    2015

  • Years of senior management experience

    20+

  • Complementary areas of expertise

    5

Ten years of documented assignments

  1. 2015

    The firm is founded

    Scham’s Consulting is founded in San Pedro, at the heart of the agricultural value chains and the leading cocoa export port.

  2. 2016

    First sanitary audits

    Sanitary and phytosanitary safety audit for Cajou des Savanes, in Bouaké.

  3. 2017

    Development partners trust us

    GIZ / PROFIAB: 163 community promoters trained. IFDC / 2SCALE assignments begin in the rice value chain.

  4. 2019

    Quality inside companies

    Quality support for CBATP in San Pedro; sanitary risk management for Univers DYA in Abidjan.

  5. 2022

    Serving the industry regulator

    Export phytosanitary diagnosis and procedures for the Cotton and Cashew Council.

  6. 2024

    Stock monitoring

    Rice stock monitoring for TARA Groupe and Grain d’Avenir; cashew lot-grouping study with Away4Africa.

  7. 2025

    Lead firm for the World Bank

    PDC2V: national catalogue of plant species and varieties, in a consortium with GLOBUX Technology.

What guides us

  • Our vision

    A high-performing organisation rests on skilled teams, an organised system and responsible management.

  • Our commitments

    Confidentiality, deadlines met and technical rigour, on every assignment.

  • Our approach

    Listen, understand your context, set priorities with you and bring in the right skills.

Our team

Seven members of the Scham’s Consulting team standing side by side in a bright hall

Complementary profiles, brought in for each assignment

A dedicated contact coordinates the experts your assignment needs. Analyses are entrusted to partner laboratories accredited to ISO/IEC 17025.

  • Engineers
  • Agronomists
  • Economists
  • Auditors
  • Trainers
  • Inspectors
  • Quality
  • Inspection
  • Studies
  • Training
  • Value chains
  • Sustainability

Where we work

From our head office in San Pedro, our teams work in Côte d’Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Niger, Senegal, Benin, Togo, Liberia and Tanzania.

Head office · San Pedro Assignment locations

and occasional assignments elsewhere in Africa

Assignment locations

  • San Pedro Head office3 assignments
  • Abidjan 2 assignments
  • Bouaké 2 assignments
  • Adiaké 1 assignment
  • Bobo-Dioulasso 1 assignment
  • Daloa 1 assignment
  • Grand-Béréby 1 assignment
  • Guiglo 1 assignment
  • Ouagadougou 1 assignment
  • Taï 1 assignment
  • Yamoussoukro 1 assignment

Other countries we work in

  • Burkina FasoOuagadougou, Bobo-Dioulasso
  • NigerNiamey, Zinder
  • SenegalDakar
  • BeninCotonou
  • TogoLomé
  • LiberiaMonrovia
  • TanzaniaZanzibar (Stone Town)
Portrait of Aboubakar TRAORE, Chief Executive Officer of Scham’s Consulting

Our ambition: to turn your challenges into practical solutions and your projects into drivers of sustainable development.

Welcome to Scham’s Consulting. Advice is only worth giving when it informs decisions and leads to concrete action.

Aboubakar TRAORE, Chief Executive Officer

Engineer and quality specialist

Read the CEO’s message

Next step

Let’s talk about your challenges.

A scoping meeting to present our expertise, listen to your priorities and define a first assignment.

A scoping meeting

  1. 01Present our expertise
  2. 02Listen to your priorities
  3. 03Define a first assignment

Confidentiality, deadlines met and technical rigour. One dedicated contact.