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Programme Design

Programme Design & Strategic Advisory

Supporting context-sensitive programme and strategy design for fragile and climate-affected contexts. Our strongest advisory capability sits at the intersection of livelihoods, climate change, disaster risk reduction (DRR), and anticipatory action (AA).

Core Advisory Services

Systems Mapping and Problem Diagnostics

Clarifying what is failing and why

We clarify what is failing and why—mapping actors, incentives, bottlenecks, and institutional dynamics across climate risk, livelihoods, and related systems (food, natural capital, services), to identify leverage points for resilience and risk reduction.

Theory of Change (ToC) Development and Testing

Evidence-grounded and risk-aware ToCs

We develop and stress-test ToCs that are evidence-grounded and risk-aware. We strive for TOCs with explicit on assumptions, causal pathways, feasibility, and what must hold true for results, with clear articulation of climate and livelihood risk pathways.

Programme and Portfolio Design

Layered and sequenced responses

We design integrated programmes and portfolios that combine immediate risk management with livelihood protection and recovery to system building and promoting adaptation and mitigation capacities.

  • Layered and sequenced approaches
  • Resilience and climate-smart programming
  • Targeting logic
  • Portfolio coherence reviews

Anticipatory Action and Shock-Responsive Design

Early action frameworks and trigger-linked interventions

We support AA and shock-responsive models, including:

  • Early action frameworks
  • Trigger-linked intervention packages
  • Contingency planning
  • Design inputs for shock-responsive social protection
  • Adaptive delivery systems

Strategy and Investment Advisory

Sector strategies and investment frameworks

We support sector strategies and investment frameworks:

  • Prioritizing options
  • Sequencing investments
  • Defining implementation pathways
  • Embedding learning and adaptive management
  • Focus on climate resilience and livelihood systems

Cross-Cutting Lenses

All our advisory work integrates the following cross-cutting considerations:

Governance and Institutions: Understanding institutional roles, capacities, incentives, and power dynamics that shape programme implementation and outcomes.
Gender Equity and Social Inclusion (GESI): Ensuring programmes address differential vulnerabilities, opportunities, and needs across gender, age, disability, and social groups.
Data, Evidence, and Learning: Embedding evidence use, monitoring, and adaptive management systems from the design stage.

Typical outputs: problem diagnostic notes; systems maps and actor analyses; ToCs and results frameworks; programme and portfolio design documents; AA and contingency frameworks; sector strategies and investment briefs; concise advisory memos

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