About Us
Let us introduce ourselves and let you know what we’re all about.
How We Work
- We know that we do better work together, hence our collaboration.
- We use our extensive networks to identify local partners, ensuring our work is culturally appropriate.
- We are committed to approaching every project with curiosity and enthusiasm (despite our expertise) to minimise assumptions and ensure high product quality.
- We’re a lean, agile team. Projects are allocated based on expertise and bandwidth. Not every team member works on every project, ensuring you aren’t saddled with extra costs or double billing.
Our Vision
We are committed to being an ethical, collaborative, diverse, and inclusive collective that generates knowledge, information and learning.
Our Core Team
As experts and emerging experts in our field, we are committed to providing timely, accurate and appropriately sourced and documented work.
All team members hold certifications in safeguarding and ethics on top of existing and ongoing education and experience.
We can work with you in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Ukrainian, Romanian, Dutch, Flemish, Hungarian and Urdu.
Carin Van Der Hor
She / Her
Carin is a senior manager, trainer and consultant specialising in governance, project performance, gender and management in the broadest sense of the word.
Carin Van Der Hor
She / Her
She brings experience in the international development sector, health- and education sectors from previous roles as Country Director, International Programme Director and Project Manager. In addition she is a certified confidential councelor, a SEAH expert and a safeguarding investigator. She holds a Masters in Social Science (MSS) from Erasmus University.
Primary Sectors: poverty reduction, DRR, Gender, community driven work
Primary Skills: Organisation Building, Facilitation, Coaching, Training, Advocacy
Languages: English, Dutch, Flemish
Your one superpower: relationship management and generating ideas with groups and individuals
Coffee making skills on a scale from 0-100: 150
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Denise Ferris
She / Her
Denise is a Social Epidemiologist specialising in integrating participatory methods and a decolonisation lens in monitoring, evaluation, and research in both humanitarian and development settings.
Denise Ferris
She / Her
Based in Kampala, Uganda since 2015, she has led several impact evaluation and qualitative research studies for BRAC International covering sub-Saharan Africa and Asia.
She holds a Master of Arts in Integrated Studies with a specialisation in Community Development and Equity Studies.
Primary Sectors: gender based violence, domestic violence, sexual health and reproductive health, health promotion, women’s economic empowerment
Primary Skills: qualitative inductive and deductive research, advanced quantitative analysis (descriptive statistics, odds ratios, regression, propensity score matching, etc.), project management, participatory facilitation and training
Languages: English, conversational Kiswahili
Your one superpower: thinking outside the box
Coffee making skills on a scale from 0-100: 0 - (I don’t drink coffee, much prefer matcha, Earl Grey or Pu-erh)
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Sara Diamond
She / Her
Sara is an interdisciplinary Geographer specialising in themes relating to gender, climate, and sustainable livelihoods. She particularly enjoys working on projects that focus on climate change mitigation, adaptation, natural resource management and governance, and rural livelihoods.
Sara Diamond
She / Her
She brings experience in the international development, environmental conservation, experiential education and climate change sectors from previous roles with various universities, CIFOR, USAID, and INGOs.
She holds a Masters Degree in Entomology from the University of California at Davis (USA) and a Doctoral Degree in Geography from the University of Texas at Austin (USA). She has spent several years living and working in South America.
Languages: English, Portuguese, Spanish
Primary Sectors: Climate Change Mitigation, Adaptation, Climate Justice, Natural Resource Management and Governance, and Rural Livelihoods, Environmental Policy, Agriculture
Primary Skills: Sara’s most significant strength is her interdisciplinary training and approach to her work. She understands that environmental actions require social buy-in, and all social programs have environmental impacts. She is particularly skilled at project design, policy development and evaluation, conducting program assessments, and using research to inform “what next” actions and strategies for projects, programs, and /or organisational strategic plans.
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Natalia Saeed
She / Her
Natalia is an experienced manager, trainer and international development consultant specialising in gender empowerment, qualitative research, program management and policy development.
Natalia Saeed
She / Her
She is a Case Manager at the Australian Red Cross for the Humanitarian Settlement Program. She brings experience in the international development sector from previous roles with UNESCO in Jakarta & Timor-Leste, Western Australia State Government and the University of Western Australia. She is also involved with the Muslim Women Support Centre WA, UNESCO Future Literacy Lab and the RDI Network.
She holds a Master of Development Studies from Murdoch University & is currently completing a Master of Social Work from Curtin University.
Languages: English and Urdu
Primary Sectors: gender, refugees and settlement, DRR, urban development, community development, migration, futures thinking and SDGs
Primary Skills: qualitative research and analysis, training, facilitation, process improvement, policy implementation and operationalisation
Superpower: super organised and analytical
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Kate Herrier
She / Her
Kate is a consultant and trainer specialising in disability and inclusion, accessibility, inclusive education, psychosocial support, and designing and delivering trainings.
Kate Herrier
She / Her
She brings experience in the international development, government, and private sectors from previous roles with iNGOs, state government, educational institutions, and private business.
She holds a Masters in International Development from the Université Grenoble Alpes and a Master of Science in Counceling and Guidance from California Lutheran University.
Languages: English, French Primary Sectors: Disability inclusion, inclusive education, MHPSS, DEI, accessibility
Primary Skills: Training design and facilitation, capacity building, policy development, accessibility audits.
Superpower: My sensitivity allows me to read people and situations and detect and respond to changes adeptly and appropriately.
Coffee making skills on a scale from 0-100: 80, but 100 at coffee enjoyment skills
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Cecilia Deme
She / Her
Cecilia is a Social Scientist specialising in peace-building, women and youth empowerment, education and training, governance and democratisation sector, in both peaceful and conflict or post-conflict settings.
Cecilia Deme
She / Her
She brings experience in the international development, human rights, education and peace and security sectors from previous roles with UN Peacekeeping Missions, OECD Ukraine, the German Civil Peace Service, and INGOs.
She holds a Master and Doctoral Degree in Public Administration, and a Bachelor Degree in Social Sciences, from the Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
Languages: English, Portuguese, Hungarian, Romanian, French
Primary Sectors: conflict, peace and security,peacebuilding, migration, civic education and democratic governance, education and capacity dev.
Primary Skills: Cecilia's most significant strength is providing strategic direction to organisations and programs and developing the capacities of communities and individuals in conflict resolution, organisational development, uplifting professional and interpersonal skills in the development and humanitarian sectors. Main interests include conducting program and project evaluations, research, capacity development, curriculum development, assessments, and training facilitation.
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