How we think about our work, our role and our impact.

We work together with people and organisations in ways that support meaningful change.

Change is driven by the people, communities and organisations doing the work. Our role is to contribute the evidence, learning and insight that strengthens their efforts, grounded in local knowledge and lived experience.

It is used to inform better decisions, stronger results and, ultimately, improvements in people's lives.

We are committed to locally led development.

We want to be more intentional about how we incorporate the knowledge, experience, and participation of local actors into our work. Priorities, activities and results are best shaped by those closest to them, leading to more effective and sustainable outcomes.

A gender and social inclusion lens, across everything we do.

We pay attention to power, and to whose voices are heard and whose are missed. Wherever we can, we design participatory approaches that reach a wide range of stakeholders, align our work with gender equality, diversity and social inclusion, and stay accountable to affected communities as well as the organisations commissioning the work.

Supporting the transformation to a climate-resilient world.

Complex socio-ecological problems often defy tidy logic models and reductive technical solutions. We use resilience thinking to explore how systems absorb, adapt and transform with change, and bring an intersectional lens to understand how different people and groups relate to, and are affected by, climate change.

We work across silos with our clients and partners connecting climate to health, forced migration and conflict, co-creating evidence and learning that supports long-term, system-wide change. We are also committed to reducing the environmental impact of our own operations, guided by an employee Climate Crisis Team that researches the choices that move us towards climate neutrality.