DeftEdge helps governments, nonprofits and businesses improve their effectiveness and efficiency and ensure continued responsiveness to stakeholders through institutional reforms and changing development contexts. From providing the initial impetus for the current UN reforms process (UNDG) and reorganization of field operations in light of the Sustainable Development Goals (ILO, UNIDO) to re-envisioning security architecture in Western Balkans (EU) and identifying major strategic gaps such as trade-based money-laundering (UNODC, UNCTAD), DeftEdge has done it all. It also helps ensure organizations meet ethical standards and objectives on a range of issues such as economically empowering women and refugees through access to finance and markets and mitigating the impact of climate change on vulnerable communities. (WFP, FAO, Pact, ActionAid, UNHCR livelihoods partners)
Cutting-edge Solutions
DeftEdge helps organizations address complex issues from UN reforms and international money laundering to restructuring field operations and planning for the enhancement of the sustainability of agriculture.
On the Ground
DeftEdge and its associates have extensive experience managing international organizations, innovating in government, designing Monitoring And Evaluation( M&E) systems, and undertaking evaluations across five continents. Our broad portfolio ranges from strategic evaluations of UN systems to assessing the impact of Internal Non Government Organizations (INGOs) working to transform rural agriculture systems and gender norms.
Benchmarking and Setting Standards
DeftEdge has been entrusted with assessing the quality of evaluations and evaluation systems at organizations such as ILO, UNICEF, UNFPA and UNODC.
Breadth of Work
DeftEdge has helped over 100 organizations manage for results, hone their practice, and articulate their success. These include the Swedish International Development Agency (Sida), Earth Rights International (ERI), START, New Economic Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD), African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), The Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS), Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSDW), International Council for Science (ICSU), International Vaccine Institute (IVI), International Center for Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe), the World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), the UN Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD), the European and Developing Country Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP), International Center for Diarrheal Disease Research (icddr,b) and INDEPTH network.
