Commitment

Altai Consulting’s Public Policy team delivers sound evidence-based research and technical assistance to aid and development actors and governments. Through our long-term commitment in a small number of countries, we aim to support key pillars of the state building process:

–Governance, at the national and subnational level

–Public service delivery, with a strong focus on health, education, justice and security

–Economic growth, through the development of a sustainable private sector

–Civil society and independent media

Main clients

The World Bank, DFID and the British FCO, USAID / OTI, AFD, GIZ, the European Commission, UNHCR, IOM, UNDP, UNICEF, UNOPS, the Aga Khan Development Network, ILO, Mercy Corps, AKF, Save the Children and a large number of international NGOs

Global Capacity

Altai Public Policy team includes a permanent team of 30 international and 100 national staff based in our countries of focus, as well as a part-time network of over 40 international experts and 500 local interviewers, researchers and data entry officers mobilized on mission.

Technical expertise:

Research, monitoring & evaluation, and knowledge transfer to local counterparts

– Our research supports the design of large development programs and informs policies at the donor level. Our tools include socio-anthropological research, political economy analysis, value chains analysis, needs assessments, sector and program mapping, big data analysis and visualization tools.

– Our Monitoring and Evaluation support is built into short and long term development programs. We design M&E frameworks in line with large donors’ standards, and build real-time learning tools to improve programs all along their life cycle. We adapt traditional M&E tools to the specific context of fragile states, and integrate innovative approaches to turn M&E into an agile and adaptive tool and combine it with the best practices of knowledge management and data visualization.

– Our capacity building projects aim at building research and monitoring capacity of local counterparts, to integrate these tools into country development plans and strategies in a sustainable way. We create ad-hoc curricula and long term knowledge transfer plans for the research, statistics and M&E teams of local ministries and agencies, as well as local NGOs and independent research teams.