We strengthen the institutions and systems that underpin accountable, effective government — delivering reform programs in social protection, public administration, anti-corruption, and natural resource governance across some of the world’s most complex environments.
Strong governance is the foundation of sustainable development. When public institutions are ineffective or opaque, the consequences reach every dimension of economic and social life — deterring investment, undermining service delivery, enabling corruption, and eroding public trust.
We bring a practical, evidence-based approach — combining rigorous analytical work with deep field engagement to produce reforms that are institutionally feasible and politically informed.
Analyze the cost efficiency and effectiveness of public service delivery, using benchmarking and identifying structural reforms that improve value for money.
Research and design preventive anti-corruption mechanisms, including external incentives for SME compliance, mandatory disclosure rule frameworks, and governance reforms that build transparency.
Diagnose and reform the fiscal, administrative, and governance frameworks governing extractive industries and natural resources, from mining diagnostics to artisanal mining reform.
Support governments to modernize social protection systems, improving cost efficiency, optimizing staffing, and enabling transitions from institutional to community-based care models.
Calculated cost-per-beneficiary and efficiency metrics, identified structural drivers of inefficiency (low occupancy, high fixed costs, salary inequity), and delivered recommendations informing Moldova’s deinstitutionalization strategy and community-based care reforms.
Engaged tax authorities and finance ministries globally and produced a practical modular framework for Mandatory Disclosure Rules tailored to developing-country capacity constraints.
Delivered a practical blueprint for preventive, pro-compliance incentive design, finding that bundled incentives drive the highest adoption rates. Country case analysis covered Paraguay, Brazil, Argentina, Egypt, Philippines, South Africa, and Nigeria.
An estimated $167 million in foregone revenues over six years. Our field diagnostic in Guinea’s artisanal gold sector quantifies the governance gap — and what it would take to close it.
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Our behavioral research in Lesotho reveals that the most powerful barrier to voluntary compliance is not friction or ignorance — it is a rational calculation that compliance does not feel worthwhile.
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