Strategy and design

What we do

• Participatory strategic planning and strategy review processes

• Strategic learning processes

• Systems and complexity analysis

• Empathic research and participatory needs assessment

• Inclusive and human-centred design

• Developmental evaluation for new and evolving interventions and social innovation

• Theory of change and program logic development

Designing effective strategies to address complex social challenges requires designing together with key stakeholders, including people with lived experience. It requires understanding and building on past experience and existing evidence about what works. And most importantly, it requires recognising that we cannot know what will work in advance and designing interventions through experimentation, learning and adaptation.

We help organisations design strategies and interventions that are based on a strong understanding of the complexity of social issues they’re trying to address and the lived experience of people affected by those issues. 

We can help you:

• Design strategy together with the people you’re trying to impact

• Analyse complex and systemic social challenges

• Clarify your purpose, priorities and goals

• Design theories of change that explain your assumptions and help you learn about how change happens

• Design programs that can learn and adapt as they go.