At MES, we help clients build stronger, more resilient supply chains through local content strategies that deliver both business value and broader economic impact. As global energy, infrastructure, and trade dynamics evolve, there is a growing need to ensure large-scale investments generate real benefits for local people and economies. Local content is increasingly recognized as a critical tool for inclusive, sustainable growth, but turning policy into practice remains a challenge.
Our services are designed to close that gap, supporting clients with tailored advisory, supplier development, and digital tools to unlock local value and meet shifting global expectations.
MES provides expert local content advisory services to governments, regulatory bodies, and companies on how to effectively develop and implement policies and programs that promote the participation of local businesses, labor, and resources in key industries—especially in sectors like oil and gas, mining, and infrastructure. Through assessing the existing local capacity, identifying gaps, and designing strategies to enhance local workforce skills, encourage local procurement, and ensure compliance with relevant regulations, MES supports our clients to foster inclusive economic growth and create sustainable development opportunities while aligning with national development goals.
An Enterprise Development Centre (EDC) is a specialized facility or program established to support the growth and sustainability of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), startups, and entrepreneurs. It serves as a hub for business development, capacity building, innovation, and access to resources.
Since 2019, MES has been operating MozUp EDC on behalf ExxonMobil Mozambique and Rovuma LNG Area 4 partners. MozUp promotes and drives the growth of Mozambican companies, providing broad business services to support local economic development. It provides a multi-stakeholder platform to support Mozambican companies and international partners to integrate into and benefit from a wide variety of growing market opportunities, including in the liquified natural gas (LNG) supply chain.
MES provides advisory and training services to enable local business compliance with regulatory and environmental standards, foster innovation, and encourage inclusive economic growth—particularly for youth- and women-owned enterprises. By investing in the capabilities of local suppliers, businesses can improve product quality, ensure more reliable and timely delivery, and reduce operational costs. Supplier development also supports national goals of industrialization and job creation, particularly by empowering small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
In a region rich in natural resources but still developing industrially, supplier development plays a key role in building a sustainable, competitive, and self-reliant economy. Our supplier development programs offer a strategic opportunity to strengthen local supply chains and enhance economic resilience.
The Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) portal is a cloud-based platform designed to transform how global businesses connect with local markets.
It is purpose-built to:
With the SRM portal, operators forge stronger ties with local micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) while advancing their local content and development goals—all through a scalable, customizable solution.
MES partners with DAI to deliver the Local Content Masterclass, which supports participants from the private and public sector to balance the commercial realities of volatile global demand and sustained cost pressures with the current political momentum for increased local content. DAI draws on more than 2,000 long-term projects and development assignments completed across 150 countries to advance participants’ skills. For more information about course content, please visit the DAI Local Content Masterclass webpage.
