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Security and Justice

We support Defence and policing institutions, national crime agencies and criminal justice actors (including NGOs) to design more effective programmes and meaningfully measure their impacts. We amplify the quality of your programme design by bringing contextually-rich insights through our local experts. Our complexity-aware, systems-led approach helps clients to see the interaction(s) between actors, institutions, and change. This approach helps clients meaningfully visualise pathways to results.

Examples of recent work include:

  1. Developmental evaluation of a security and justice programme in Nepal,
  2. Designing a measurement approach for peace support operations for the UK Ministry of Defence, pan-Africa,
  3. Designing outcome-level measurement approaches and harvesting results for the work of the UK’s National Crime Agency (Kenya, Nigeria, and Tanzania)
  4. Evaluating the work of a inter-regional programme designed to combat the movement of drugs within and across borders (Pakistan, Ukraine, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, and Tanzania)
Security and Justice

Conflict and peacebuilding

Our programme design and measurement expertise for conflict and peacebuilding programmes includes community policing, social cohesion between and within communities, countering disinformation, and strategic communications. All our work explores and embeds gender and social inclusion and conflict-sensitivity.

Examples of recent work include:

  1. Review and future design recommendation for a social cohesion and strategic communications programme in the Baltics
  2. Programme and measurement design/mapping of peacebuilding initiatives in Georgia, Armenia/Azerbaijan, and Central Asia
  3. Programme design for community policing programmes in Nepal, South Sudan, Kenya, and Kosovo
Conflict peacebuilding

Inclusive business

We have substantive experience working with social enterprises at various stages of their business. Our engagements include designing and/or refining business models, identifying appropriate metrics and data collection approaches, designing impactful data aggregation infographics and dashboards, and gathering/synthesising evidence to validate the business model.

Examples of recent work include:

  1. Designing and refining business models for blueprint/scaling stage social enterprises, including those that focus on digital health, last-mile entrepreneurship, sustainable agriculture, and circular economy.
  2. Developmental evaluation of a market-systems development programme in Ethiopia.
Inclusive business

Circular economy

Our network of experts bring insights on how to design and deliver successful businesses in the circular economy. We have helped businesses in Nigeria, Kenya, Indonesia, Bangladesh, and India refine their business models and share insights to amplify and consolidate their results. We design data collection systems and create dashboards/visuals to help these businesses communicate their impact and leverage additional investments.

Examples of recent work include:

  1. Evaluating the impact of a portfolio of circular economy enterprises in Nigeria, Indonesia, India, and Kenya.
  2. Assessing the impact of waste recycling business in Bengaluru, India.
Circular economy