What we do · 03
Understanding what happens, and making it known
You have been at this for months, sometimes years.
What remains is to establish what your program actually produces, for whom, and at what cost to the people concerned. Then to do something with it: decide internally, or carry weight externally. The two call for distinct skills, and it is rare to find a team that brings the same rigor to both.
It happens to be our original trade. The practice was built on advocacy before it refocused on climate and rights: we know what a finding needs in order to change a decision.
What we do
- Evaluations of programs, partnership approaches and funding mechanisms.
- Applied research and qualitative studies, from protocol design to publication.
- Position papers and policy briefs.
- Findings-based advocacy support: building the argument, identifying the moments and the interlocutors, preparing the organizations that carry the message. Coalition support.
- Training: safeguards for program teams, advocacy, negotiation and public speaking.
One point that matters: independent evaluation and advocacy do not mix within a single engagement. We do both, never for the same program at the same time.
What we bring
A PhD completed at the end of 2026 at the Geneva Graduate Institute, on this same intersection. A strategic evaluation for Forest Peoples Programme in the DRC that became a five-year program. A study for Fern on nationally determined contributions and forest governance in six African countries. An analysis of the cumulative impacts of REDD+ in Mai-Ndombe for Rights and Resources Initiative. Work for Rainforest Foundation Norway, Réseau CREF, 350.org, WeMove, OIF, GIZ, Humanity & Inclusion and Caritas. A current study for SPIA/CGIAR. Two research assignments under way in 2026: community experiences with carbon initiatives, for Rights and Resources Initiative, and research on pesticides for CCFD-Terre Solidaire.
Close to three hundred AFEV professionals trained in advocacy, negotiation and public speaking over an eight-year partnership. We sit on the scientific committee of the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation and on IUCN’s Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy.