Strategy, programme concepts, theories of change and design work for governments, donors and consortia, together with proposal development and donor engagement. Informed by senior experience inside humanitarian and multilateral funding institutions — we have sat on both sides of the funding relationship.
Evidence synthesis, analysis and the development of data-driven methodologies, including satellite remote sensing and geospatial analytics, developed with university partners and validated in live field conditions. Outputs are designed to be interpretable and actionable inside real operational decision-making, not only publishable.
Organisational advisory and systems design for institutions building the governance, procedures and partnerships needed to deliver and sustain programmes at scale — grounded in the corporate and governance systems we established for ourselves from inception.
Building and holding together the partnerships complex programmes require, across government, universities, donors, local consortia and the private sector — including brokering the relationships between academic institutions and operational delivery partners.
End-to-end programme design, management and delivery oversight, including community mobilisation and the design of referral pathways into existing government systems.
Across every sector we work in, programmes succeed or fail on the same question: whether people adopt, trust and sustain what is offered.
A climate adaptation measure only works if households take it up. An agricultural technology only works if farmers act on it. A health intervention only works if behaviour changes and the service functions when someone arrives.
We therefore treat social and behavioural change as a core technical capability that shapes design, implementation and evaluation across all our work — not as a communications component added at the end of a programme. It is the through-line connecting our climate, agriculture and health portfolios, and the reason we can work across them coherently rather than as three separate practices.
Climate resilience is the frame through which we approach agriculture and health alike. Climate change is an accelerating driver of agricultural risk, food and water security, heat exposure, vector-borne disease and displacement — which makes it a driver of health and livelihood outcomes, not a separate sector beside them.
We work on adaptation and resilience for the communities and systems most directly exposed, and on the predictive and data systems that let governments and partners anticipate risk rather than respond to it after the fact.
Our most operationally advanced area. Through our partnership with the University of Auckland, we apply satellite remote sensing and yield estimation to smallholder agriculture — generating actionable data in exactly the contexts where field-based monitoring is operationally constrained or prohibitively expensive.
This work runs from a live commercial pilot with Good Nature Agro, improving agricultural credit decisions, through to ZAPIR, a national-scale remote-sensing programme in development. The common thread is making agricultural risk legible, so that decisions — by lenders, institutions and farmers — can be made on evidence.
Zambia’s health challenge is no longer identifying effective interventions. The country has strong policies, technical guidelines and considerable implementation experience. The constraint is whether proven interventions reach people consistently and equitably, and hold once a funding cycle ends.
We work as a systems partner rather than another implementer. Zambia’s health sector already has a mature ecosystem of government, multilateral, donor and NGO actors; we strengthen how programmes are designed, implemented, adapted and sustained within it. Our focus is implementation quality, community-to-system linkage, social and behavioural change, and the integration of climate resilience into health programming — including women’s and adolescent health across the life course.
We are not a clinical provider. We work alongside clinical and research partners.
Governments and ministries — Direct engagement with national government on agricultural data systems, alongside established relationships in the education sector.
Universities and academic institutions — Formal research partnerships are central to our model, not peripheral. We hold a Memorandum of Understanding with the University of Auckland and collaborate with the University of Zambia. These partnerships are what allow a lean Zambian organisation to bring genuine technical depth to national-scale problems.
Donors and philanthropic funders — International donor engagement and proposal development are core capabilities, informed by senior experience within humanitarian and multilateral funding institutions.
Local consortia and civil society — We build and participate in Zambian and regional consortia, including our work with SAICRIO and a Zambian health implementation partner. Our role is typically strategy, coordination, donor engagement and technical bridging, complementing partners’ infrastructure and clinical capability.
Private sector — Commercial partners where the work is operationally serious, as with our Good Nature Agro collaboration on agricultural credit.