DESIGNERS OF DEVELOPMENT OPTIONS
OUR EXPERTISE
Planning
BTI develops strategic socio-economic, sectoral, sustainability, corporate, and business plans using diverse tools. It combines quantitative models with qualitative approaches, such as scenario building and community mapping, to support innovative and evidence-based planning outcomes.
Policy and program Review, Evaluation and Advocacy
BTI conducts policy and program reviews using quantitative and qualitative tools. It delivers sectoral assessments and national studies, while advancing recommendations through policy advocacy, engaging stakeholders via forums, publications, and presentations.
Economic Modeling, Futures Thinking and Capacity Building
BTI develops innovative economic models supported by futures thinking and scenario-building. It provides capacity-building assistance to government agencies in planning, programming, monitoring and evaluation, and modeling to strengthen institutional and technical capabilities.
Social Development and Protection
BTI undertakes social development and protection initiatives, providing assessments and recommendations across programs. Its work spans food and nutrition, livelihoods, and agrarian reform, while promoting integrated development across social, economic, governance, and gender dimensions.
Promoting Investments, Productivity and Competitiveness
BTI supports investments, productivity, and competitiveness through research and technical assistance. It undertakes climate risk assessments, skills development initiatives, and investment promotion projects, while contributing to city profiling and regional economic development.
Monitoring and Evaluation
BTI delivers monitoring and evaluation services through system reviews and program assessments. It works with development institutions and integrates M&E design into planning processes to ensure effective implementation, performance tracking, and evidence-based decision-making.
ABOUT US
We ENVISION to
be an organization of sustainable development professionals that is acknowledged and respected for the impeccable quality, practical applications and innovativeness of its products and services.
We strive to
generate innovative and integrative pedagogies and processes that will catalyze interfaces between and across various disciplines, social groups and local and international arenas in planning, policy-making, implementation, monitoring and assessment of sustainable development interventions.
We strive to
be instrumental in the attainment of inclusive societies and economies that are climate change resilient, culture sensitive, politically & socially empowered, and efficient and sustainable in harnessing resources toward shared prosperity.
Brain Trust: Knowledge and Options for Sustainable Development, Inc. (BTI) is a Filipino sustainable development think tank that draws from the collective experience of its founding fellows to craft innovative and integrative development solutions for public and private sector clientele.
We envision to be an organization of sustainable development professionals that is acknowledged and respected for the impeccable quality, practical applications and innovativeness of its products and services.
THE FOUNDERS
OUR CLIENTS
PROJECTS
Agglomeration Model for Mindanao Regions
BTI constructed a regional Computable General Equilibrium Model for Mindanao (CGEMM) and the rest of the Philippines, incorporating agglomeration economies, to support the Mindanao Spatial Strategy Development Framework. This model is first of its kind developed for the Philippines.
Creation of the Regional Econometric Model (REM)
BTI created a model capable of generating macroeconomic outcomes for regional production, expenditures, prices and employment. The first of its kind in the Philippines, the equations for each regional model were based on macroeconomic theory and existing macro econometric models in the Philippines and beyond.
Directors' Corner
White Paper
A White Paper by Brain Trust, Inc. (BTI) on critical actions the Philippine Government and the Filipino people must take in he next ten years to ensure and secure the future of our country and its people in the midst of the rising intensity, expanding breadth, and escalating threats of Global Climate Change.
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