Based on our experience and expertise we offer a variety of services.

  • Analyses and assessments

    • Political analysis, political economy analysis
    • Stakeholder analysis
    • Context assessment
    • Conflict analysis, conflict sensitivity assessment
    • Gender assessment
    • Risk analysis

  • Process Support

    • Process design, in particular multi-layered processes
    • Facilitation of large group events
    • Multi-stakeholder mediation and dialog
    • Process-sensitive expert inputs, briefings for experts
    • Advice on consultations, participatory approaches, support for negotiations
    • Organizational and network development
    • Trauma-sensitive approaches

  • Governance and constitutional advice

    • Assessment of and advice on legal drafts, in particular constitutional drafts, legislation, peace agreements, outcome papers of dialog processes
    • Assessments, advice and capacity-building on approaches related to good governance, access to justice, gender, human rights, state organization including on confederalism, federalism, and decentralization, power-sharing, accommodation of non-majority groups
    • Development of reform options
    • Support for the development of policies, government strategies, implementation measures
    • Support for drafting of legal texts, including constitutional provisions
    • Support of parliaments, parliamentary committees and parliament secretariats for legislative, oversight and outreach work
    • Capacity building for politicians, government officials, civil society groups, development partners

  • Project management and implementation support

    • Needs and risk assessments
    • Development of theories of change, identifying outcome indicators and forms of results-based management
    • Program and project design and planning, project cycle management
    • Monitoring and evaluation of strategies, programs and projects
    • Conflict-sensitive project management
    • Thematic and methodological back-stopping
    • Mediation of conflicts within or between organizations, organizational development, team building

  • Learning processes

    • Design of learning processes focusing on individual, peer and institutional learning, learning within networks
    • Facilitation of learning processes
    • Expert inputs to learning processes
    • Provision of trainings, capacity building, coaching
    • Methodological support to facilitators, trainers, and experts
    • Analysis and documentation of lessons and development of best practices
    • Participatory development of guidance notes as learning processes
    • Web-based tools and e-learning
    • Organization of study visits to Switzerland (on behalf of PolitExchange)

  • Policy-oriented studies and applied research

    • Policy notes
    • Guidance and how-to notes
    • Background and briefing papers
    • Case studies
    • Option papers
    • Research publications
    • Speech writing

 

Clients and Partners

We support a broad range of clients with varying roles and functions:

  • State agencies with legislative, executive, judicial and administrative functions
  • Non-state participants, non-governmental organisations, think-tanks, civil society organisations
  • Conflict parties
  • Bilateral and multilateral donors
  • International organisations
  • Private business actors

We work with different partner organisations and experts to provide comprehensive, tailored services.