Reimagining societal resilience

Need: Leadership tools managing teams in the context of a global pandemic and the world beyond

Solution: TOT training on evidence-based approaches to cultivating optimal functioning and flourishing

Impact: Ready to get-ahead strategies for WWF leaders working for natural resource protection and climate response.

Need: Minimisation of client reputational and financial risks

Solution: Desk-based due diligence review and informal investigation to assess the company reputation, financial standing, political exposure, litigation history and corruption risks

Impact: Strengthening clients’ decision-making in their investments

Need: Well-informed stakeholders of safe practices to mitigate human trafficking

Solution: Accessible and engaging e-Learning courses for the private sector, NGOs/CBOs/CSOs, the government, migrants, survivors and the public following rigorous needs assessment

Impact: Increased engagement by all stakeholders in counter trafficking activities

Need: National assessment and examinations system reform

Solution: Inception study to identify how the Assessment and Examinations system affects children’s learning in the different marginalised groups and contribution to further disparities

Impact: Evidence-based reforms to the national assessment and examinations system leaving no child behind

Need: Assisted Rwanda Down Syndrome Organization in developing a vocational training project

Solution: Advisory on Capacity Building strategies for youth with Down syndrome

Impact: Facilitated the access of people living with Down Syndrome either into service industry employment thereby building their capacity to reach their full creative and market potential, earn vital income and foster dignity and fulfillment for themselves, their families and their communities.

Need: Design of a needs-responsive, impactful strategic plan

Solution: Clarified HFL’s objectives, positioning and value proposition

Impact: Further promotion of the Client’s mandate and activities in their communities

Need: Investment readiness assessment to scale up the operations of a social enterprise which sells affordable and eco-friendly pads to stem period poverty, improving girls' health and education outcomes.

Solution: Advisory to strengthen business model and enhance investability narrative articulated to potential donors and capital providers.

Impact: Strengthened social enterprise’s financial sustainability in line with the institution’s values and objectives

Need: Facilitation workshop for 40 legal officers as public servants to prepare them with the tools they need to implement effective regulatory practices that reflect international standards for evidence-based and participatory decision-making.

Solution: Time was spent by the participants practicing specific techniques such as the use of open, closed, reflective and probing questions to talk to stakeholders, and engaging in simulations to help them work on their facilitation and communication skills.

Impact: Recognition of the role that good governance has in socio-economic progress