Stakeholder Consultation & Facilitation
Turn complex conversations into clear next steps.
Katalyst helps clients design, facilitate and document consultations and policy dialogue—bringing structure to different perspectives and producing practical outputs that can inform what happens next.
How we contribute
Good consultation is more than gathering people in a room.
It needs a clear purpose, useful questions and a process that helps people contribute. It also needs a disciplined way to capture what emerges.
Katalyst can support the whole process or one part of it—from consultation design and purpose-built canvases to bilingual moderation, facilitation, synthesis and reporting.
Sometimes we help shape the engagement from the start. Sometimes we work within a design developed by the client. In either role, our focus is the same: helping the process produce insight that is clear, faithful and useful.
Where Katalyst adds value
From careful preparation to usable insight.
Shape the process
Clarify the questions, stakeholders, sequence and tools needed to gather useful input.
Facilitate the discussion
Moderate plenary and group discussions so different perspectives can be heard and the conversation stays purposeful.
Make the outputs useful
Capture areas of agreement, difference and uncertainty—and turn them into clear findings, priorities and next steps.
Consultation design · Government and business engagement · Regulatory readiness
Building a shared picture of EUDR readiness
New European Union requirements for deforestation-free products created different questions for government, businesses and producers across the supply chains affected.
The European Union Delegation to Lao PDR asked Katalyst to help design and facilitate consultations with government and business stakeholders, alongside sector discussions covering coffee, rubber, timber and cattle.
The process brought regulatory, institutional and commercial perspectives together. Participants examined the practical implications of EUDR, current readiness, enabling conditions, support needs and recommendations—building a clearer picture of what preparation would require across both government and industry.
Government insight. Business perspectives. Sector-specific priorities.
Consultation design · MSME engagement · Solution development
Turning e-commerce challenges into practical support
When COVID made the planned in-person E-Commerce Solutions Forum impossible, The Asia Foundation and Katalyst reshaped the work as a connected consultation process.
Online interviews and sector discussions brought Lao MSMEs together with logistics, technology and payment providers, business associations and development partners. Smaller solution groups then worked through recurring challenges and developed five proposed scopes of work.
When meeting in person became possible, participants came together to review and finalize the solutions. The process then led into mentoring, Lao-language learning resources and research on digital payments—moving from consultation toward practical support.
Online discovery. In-person validation. Practical solutions.
Customs–business dialogue · Practical self-assessment · Feedback and follow-up
Connecting Customs and businesses around AEO implementation
Lao Customs wanted importers and exporters to understand the Authorized Economic Operator program—and to identify what would help more businesses take part.
Katalyst worked with Customs to shape the workshop around those practical questions. We built in work with the self-assessment questionnaire and a moderated panel that brought direct experience from Customs and business into the discussion, alongside perspectives from Korean AEO experts.
Participant feedback showed where the application process, legal information and self-assessment remained unclear, particularly for SMEs. Katalyst analyzed and documented the findings, then set up a follow-up channel connecting interested businesses with Customs.
Customs and business working through AEO requirements together.
Consultation co-design · Purpose-built canvases · Strategic synthesis
Connecting seven consultations around one mission
Preparing for an augmentation and extension mission required GIZ ProFEB to examine five technical outputs while building a comparable picture across the wider program.
Katalyst is supporting a connected seven-part process linking output-level reflection, mission-team validation and wider stakeholder consultation.
We co-designed five output consultations with the relevant team leads and developed canvases to examine progress, stakeholders, gaps, opportunities, targets and indicators across Forest Policy, Biodiversity Conservation, Education, Forest Landscape Restoration and Value Chains.
A common structure allows insights to be compared and consolidated while leaving space for the technical differences between outputs. Findings from the five consultations feed into the mission-team and wider stakeholder discussions that follow.
Five output consultations
Policy
Conservation
Restoration
Chains
Mission-team validation
Wider stakeholder consultation
Comparable evidence without losing the detail.
Start a conversation
Planning a consultation or policy dialogue?
Whether you need help shaping the process, moderating a complex discussion or turning multiple perspectives into a clear and usable record, we would be glad to explore how Katalyst could support the work.
Clear purpose.
Useful dialogue.
Practical next steps.