Specialist consulting · Africa & beyond

Building stronger organisations. Mobilising sustainable funding. Generating evidence for scale.

We help mission-driven organisations move from ideas to implementation, from implementation to evidence, and from evidence to scale — backed by 40+ years of implementation experience and $50M+ in mobilised funding.

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$50M+

Institutional funding mobilised in 20 years

40+

Years of combined team implementation experience across the globe

14 yrs

Longest client journey — from first grant to a 14-year institution

CMC · FIMC

Certified Management Consultants

Experience supporting programmes funded by

Who we serve

We partner with organisations solving complex social challenges.

Organisations doing important work often need stronger funding, evidence, governance, or growth systems to achieve their full potential. That is where we come in.

NGOs INGOs Social enterprises Foundations Government agencies Research institutions Development consortia

Working across health, education, livelihoods, governance, and social protection.

Services snapshot

From first proposal to full sustainability.

01 / Funding strategy

Funding strategy & BD advisory

Donor mapping, pipeline development, and strategic positioning — helping organisations build the long-term funding architecture that survives beyond a single grant cycle.

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02 / Proposals

Grant proposal writing

End-to-end proposal development for bilateral and multilateral donors including Global Fund, EU, FCDO, UN Agencies, and private foundations.

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03 / Evidence

Research, Learning & Scale

We design and manage the evidence systems that make your programmes fundable, scalable, and credible.

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04 / Leadership

Executive coaching & advisory

Strategic coaching for NGO founders and senior leaders — monthly coaching, strategic planning, board advisory, and organisational health assessment.

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05 / Systems

Organisational development

Systems that make organisations donor-ready and operationally sustainable — finance policy, HR manuals, procurement, USAID pre-award preparation.

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Why organisations choose us

Most consulting firms advise from the outside. We have built from the inside.

Our team combines expertise in resource mobilisation, implementation research, organisational development, governance, and programme management — gained from decades of work across Africa.

We have written the proposals. We have managed the compliance. We have failed, learned, and scaled. That experience is what we bring to every client engagement.

Not theory — practised knowledge of what funders actually fund, what systems actually hold, and what leadership actually takes.

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