Our Mission
GLC Global Consulting’s mission is to advise private, non-profit and governmental clients with solutions that bring together strategic, conceptual and practical solutions in sustainable development, with a focus on social and economic resilience, education and training, employment, entrepreneurship, financial inclusion, infrastructure, design and construction management.
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Our Story
Gloria La Cava founded GLC Global Consulting following 26 years at the World Bank Group (WBG). During her tenure at the WBG, she served as Advisor at the Board of Directors with a large portfolio covering human and socio-economic development as well as environmental issues.
Ms. La Cava held advisory roles in large WBG funds, including the Japanese Social Development Fund and the State and Peace Building Fund (with an overall value of over USD 700 million).
As a WBG senior staff, she designed programming for regions affected by fragility and conflict, putting in place preventative and recovery approaches in the Middle East, Africa, Europe and Central Asia.
She pioneered integrated youth development as a key investment area and was responsible for designing, financing and managing programs that lifted tens of thousands of youth and women out of poverty, unemployment and inactivity in countries across these regions.
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Publications
Tunisia: Breaking the Barriers to Youth Inclusion (WBG 2014)- The study provides an analysis of the aspirations and needs of young Tunisians, taking into account both non-economic and economic measures of exclusion that were at the root of the Arab Spring revolution that started in Tunisia. It included study of the rising youth activism outside formally established political institutions as well as the need to support the transition of Tunisian youth from protest to active citizenship. Young people who were not in education, employment, or training (NEET) was the category most affected by economic exclusion The study recommends ways to mitigate these factors.
Kingdom of Morocco: Promoting Youth Opportunities and Participation (WBG 2014)- Prepared just prior to the Arab Spring, the report anticipates the demands for social and economic inclusion articulated by Moroccan young people especially following February 2011. The study focuses on youth, aged 15-29 who make up 30 percent of Morocco’s total populatin and 44 percent of the working age population. Two areas of focus were 1) promoting employability with linkages to labor markets and entrepreneurship and 2) active youth participation in the programs and designing youth policies.
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Albania: Filling the Vulnerability Gap (WBG 2000)- This report describes the increasing social fragmentation in Albania since the fall of communism and offers proposals to stabilize the situation and help the country rebuild its social capital. At the time of the study, the Albanian population was vulnerable to poverty and isolation from the outside world, particularly in rural areas, but the country’s strong traditional social structure compensated for these problems by protecting families and individuals through kinship networks.
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Italians in Brazil: Post-World War II Experience (La Cava 1999)- The study focuses on the failure of Italian immigration to Latin America. Italian immigration to Brazil was not as large as in Venezuela and Argentina, from a quantitative point of view, but it illustrates a new typer of immigration that responded more to the political necessities of post WWII order than to immigrant's aspirations. Interestingly, there were indications that returnees to Italy outnumbered immigrants who settled permanently.
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