Consulting & Development

Consulting & Development

Bring complex work into focus.

Katalyst helps government institutions, development partners and businesses understand difficult challenges, shape practical responses and carry complex assignments through to delivery.

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A participant presenting findings from a Katalyst EUDR reflection canvas
A program team speaking with a woman in a rural community
Production control and livestream monitoring for a regional policy forum

Complex work, connected

The work has to hold together.

Complex assignments rarely depend on one technical answer.

Evidence, institutions, stakeholders, people, resources and delivery arrangements all have to connect. When they do not, even a strong idea can stall.

Katalyst works across those connections. We combine research and assessment, program and service design, institutional and organizational development, stakeholder engagement, facilitation and implementation support—keeping the work focused on what it must achieve.

Sometimes we lead the whole assignment. Sometimes we take responsibility for a defined part within a wider team. In either role, our job is to make the work clear, workable and useful.

How we work

A practical way through complexity.

01

Understand what is happening

Bring together evidence, experience and operational detail to see the challenge clearly.

02

Shape a workable response

Connect the objective with institutions, stakeholders, resources and the realities of delivery.

03

Carry the work through

Coordinate action, adapt as conditions change and leave clients with useful outputs and a clear next step.

Our consulting work

Start with the area closest to your assignment.

Our work combines sector knowledge with the consulting and delivery capabilities needed to make programs work in practice.

01

TVET & Skills Development

Connect skills with opportunity.

Research, institutional planning, employer engagement, service design and sustainability support for TVET and skills-development programs.

02

Health & Nutrition Program Support

Strengthen programs from planning to delivery.

Learning, planning, leadership, coordination and field support for health and nutrition programs.

03

Environment & Conservation Program Support

Turn priorities into practical action.

Stakeholder engagement, planning, institutional capability, facilitation, learning and implementation support for environmental and conservation programs.

04

Stakeholder Consultation & Facilitation

Turn dialogue into evidence, understanding and decisions.

Consultation design, bilingual facilitation, stakeholder engagement, synthesis and reporting.

05

Event Design & Delivery

Design the event around the outcome.

Program and content design, protocol, production, coordination, live delivery and documentation.

Across the practice

Capabilities that connect the work.

The right combination depends on the assignment. These capabilities often sit underneath the sector and delivery work above.

01

Institutional & organizational development

Help institutions and organizations clarify direction, strengthen services, improve coordination and build the capability to sustain the work.

02

Research, assessment & learning

Gather and interpret evidence to understand performance, inform decisions and improve programs and services.

03

Program design & implementation support

Turn objectives into workable plans, roles, tools, delivery arrangements and follow-through.

Start with the assignment

What does the work need to achieve?

Whether you need Katalyst to shape the assignment from the first brief or take responsibility for a defined part of delivery, we can help connect the evidence, people, systems and practical work.

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