Fragility to Resilience.
Analysis to Action.
Services
Advising and Consulting Services
Helping clients invest, operate, and build responsibly in the world's most challenging environments
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Advising and Consulting Services
- Private sector engagement strategies in fragile contexts
- Conflict sensitive business advisory services
- Investment pipeline scoping and due diligence in fragile markets
- Heightened Human Rights Due Diligence (hHRDD)
Evaluation and Research Services
Rigorous evaluation and learning systems for clients operating in fragile and conflict-affected environments.
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Evaluation and Research Services
- Recurrent Evaluative Monitoring Systems
- Political Economy Analysis & Conflict Risk and Resilience Assessments
- Due diligence and compliance research (OECD, UNFP, CSDDD, UFLPA)
- Program, Operations, & Strategy Evaluations
Welcome!
I help multilateral institutions, corporations, and foundations understand and navigate conflict-affected environments.
For 20 years, my job has been making complexity make sense to people making billion-dollar decisions.
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There’s more conflict today than any time since World War II
Your operations research wasn't built for 170+ armed groups
Where I’ve worked: Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Mauritania, Senegal, Ghana, Benin, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea, Togo, Nigeria, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Republic of Congo, Sudan, Somalia, Kenya, Tunisia, Morocco, Libya, Algeria, Iraq, Ukraine, Afghanistan
What you get from working with me:
Conflict Analysis & Political Economy Assessment
Research and evaluation designed for complex environments, not generic frameworks that don't work in high-stakes contexts
Private sector engagement strategies in fragile contexts
Evidence systems that meet regulatory frameworks and requirements like UNGPs, OECD Responsible Business Guidelines, CSDDD, UFLPA, and other compliance frameworks
Facilitation, training & capacity building to prepare you and your company to work effectively in frontier markets






