Our Projects

Given the need to anticipate legal changes and guide new regulatory projects in the regional water sector, Nalanda conducted a comparative analysis of water regulation in 8 Latin American countries, identifying trends, regulatory risks and opportunities, and providing strategic advice for the evaluation and preparation of regulatory initiatives in the region.

Faced with the growing vulnerability of water-intensive industries to water risks in their operating territories, Nalanda assessed the exposure of these industries in Mexico, Peru, and Colombia, and provided technical support for the design of projects at the sub-basin level to manage these risks, facilitating co-creation workshops aimed at ensuring operational continuity and the social license of the companies.

Given the need to demonstrate and optimize the social impact of the "Water Links" program in low-income communities in Paraguay, Mexico, and Colombia, Nalanda conducted a comparative regulatory analysis and designed a framework of impact indicators that integrated a gender perspective, allowing for a rigorous evaluation of the social effectiveness of water infrastructure programs in contexts of vulnerability.

Given the absence of specific sectoral frameworks on corporate responsibility in the public services sector, Nalanda developed a pioneering study in Colombia that applies the "business and human rights" perspective to the drinking water and basic sanitation sector, establishing due diligence standards adapted to the particularities of the sector.

Given the lack of specialized methodologies for assessing the impact of artificial intelligence regulations in Latin America and the Caribbean, Nalanda developed a Regulatory Impact Analysis (RIA) framework adapted to the specific characteristics of AI governance, including assessment tools and analysis templates. The project included a pilot implementation of the framework on a proposed regulation in the region.

Faced with the challenge of measuring and reporting environmental goals in a coordinated manner among the member countries of the Pacific Alliance, Nalanda coordinated workshops with national environmental authorities to design compliance verification systems, strengthening the institutional capacity for climate reporting in the region.

Given the need to scale up the "Aguas Firmes" initiative in Mexico to protect aquifers, Nalanda facilitated strategic multi-stakeholder dialogue workshops aimed at bringing together key stakeholders around a common agenda for sustainable watershed management.

Given the need to evaluate the regulatory quality and impact of a set of measures proposed by the Communications Regulatory Commission (CRC) for the mobile services market in Colombia, Nalanda conducted a regulatory quality analysis of the draft resolution and formulated expert comments aimed at ensuring market efficiency and the coherence of the regulatory framework.

Given the need to update Resolution 2674 of 2013 from the Ministry of Health in response to market demands and public health concerns, Nalanda assessed the impact of the current regulation and formulated concrete technical proposals for updating the standards for food production, processing, distribution and marketing, adapting the regulatory framework to the new realities of the sector.

Given the need to determine the impact of Resolution 4410 of 2009 from the Ministry of Health after years of implementation, Nalanda carried out a rigorous ex post evaluation of the impact of the regulation, measuring the extent to which the required good manufacturing practices had achieved their public policy objectives and generated the expected effects in the sector.

Faced with the need to strengthen and scale up interventions to generate behavioral changes in the public transport system (BRT type) of a city of almost 9 million inhabitants, Nalanda evaluated a set of previous nudge-type interventions, designed tools to improve their design and implementation, facilitated the co-creation of prototypes with users, and developed institutional capacities to sustain the interventions.

Faced with the accumulation of obsolete regulations that generated legal uncertainty and hindered urban development in Bogotá, Nalanda designed and applied an innovative legal cleansing methodology for the Mayor's Office, allowing the systematic identification and elimination of provisions that contradicted or duplicated the regulations in force in the construction sector.

Given the need to equip management and regulatory teams with modern tools to analyze and design regulations in complex institutional environments, Nalanda designed and implemented executive training programs on global regulatory trends and modern regulatory analysis and design tools, aimed at strengthening the strategic capabilities of organizations in the face of contemporary challenges.

In response to the declaration of a State of Economic, Social and Ecological Emergency in Colombia and the issuance of related measures with a direct impact on the electricity generation sector, Nalanda intervened before the Constitutional Court in the automatic constitutionality control process, identifying formal and material defects, and formulating requests for provisional suspension, aiming to protect the legal security of investments in generation and the regulatory stability of the Colombian electricity sector.

Given the existence of technical errors in the productivity factors incorporated in a Resolution of the cleaning sector issued by the Commission for the Regulation of Drinking Water and Basic Sanitation -CRA-, Nalanda intervened as an assistant before the Council of State in the simple annulment process, analyzing the arguments of the lawsuit and the proposals of the CRA and the MVCT, and structuring procedural interventions aimed at correcting the regulation in such a way that it reflects the technical and economic reality of the sector.

Given the complexity of the marginal utility producer regime in the context of hydrocarbon sector operations, Nalanda provided legal advice and designed protocols for these types of situations, ensuring both the legal security of operations and their social license.

Faced with the fragmentation of technical information among municipal entities in Colombia, Nalanda led the legal support to facilitate interoperability between cadastral and public service databases, optimizing territorial management.

Given the need to provide new members of water and sewerage company boards with tools to strengthen their role, Nalanda developed a comprehensive technical guide that covers the sector's regulatory and tariff framework, corporate governance standards, structural issues of business efficiency, and financing schemes, constituting a reference instrument for strategic decision-making in the sector.

Given the regulatory uncertainty regarding the technical characteristics of instruments for measuring industrial user discharges into the sewer system, Nalanda developed a legal concept that identified issues of competition and legality, evaluated available courses of action, and formulated practical recommendations for managing regulatory risks.

Given the need to strengthen mechanisms for access to business justice in Colombia, Nalanda analyzed the scope and potential of the Bogotá Chamber of Commerce as an institution providing non-judicial remedy services, evaluating its role within the framework of the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and formulating recommendations to enhance its function as a platform for the agile and effective resolution of business disputes.

In the face of conflicts related to the availability of public services and the obtaining of building permits from municipal authorities, Nalanda strategically represented the interests of construction companies, combining technical-legal analysis with procedural management aimed at unblocking the progress of projects and ensuring the legal security of investments.

Given the need to understand the structural changes and trends that have transformed the legal services market in Colombia over the last decade, Nalanda conducted a historical and evolutionary analysis of the period 2014-2024, identifying the main turning points, the impact of events such as the pandemic and the projections of the sector, and synthesizing the findings in a high-impact strategic presentation.