Service Areas

Strategy and Planning
Program Development and Implementation
Organizational Effectiveness
Performance Management and Evaluation
Partnership Services
Business Process Outsourcing

Specializations

Education and National Skills Systems
Entrepreneurship
Cultural Development
Corporate Responsibility

Our Thinking

How Skills Surveys Can More Effectively Identify Workforce Skills Gaps
Through a multicountry review of skills surveys, we propose an alternative approach to establishment skills surveys that can play a more effective role in determining how workforce skills influence achievement of firm business objectives in the Arab World.
Using Social Networking for Change
We see IT as an important enabler for regional development, and we have worked with global technology leaders such as Intel and Microsoft to deepen the impact of regional development programs leveraging technology.
A Regional Institution for Improving the Quality of Education
There are many opportunities for synergies through cooperation between regional education quality programs as well as clear areas of overlap which can benefit from consolidation.
Using Awards Effectively for Social Change
Many award programs in the region focus on large monetary sums to award best practices. We argue that money is not enough, and award programs should reinforce social change through knowledge diffusion, network building initiatives, and follow on training to maximize social impact.
Increasing Female Labor Market Participation With Scholarships
In several countries in the Arab World, women face significant obstacles to obtaining higher education and entering the workforce. We propose an e-Scholarships for Women Initiative to mitigate access, equality, and labor participation challenges.

Services

Utilizing our firsthand experience serving Arab governments and social sector organizations, we offer clients unparalleled frontline experience working with key decision-makers – boards of directors, heads of state, C-level executives, heads of business units, senior managers – involving key areas of policy, strategy, and the implementation of change. We use our previous firsthand experiences on the front lines to deliver solutions with an acute understanding and empathy of each client’s challenges.


The services we provide are:

Strategy and Planning
We offer a range of strategy and planning capabilities grounded in evidence-based, fact driven approaches
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Organizational Effectiveness
We view building organizational and personal capacity as critical
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Performance Management and Evaluation
We help governments, social sector organizations, and corporations monitor and evaluate their activities to maximize impact
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Education and National Skills Systems
We perceive skills formation as a political and economic goal in which government intervention is warranted
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Corporate Responsibility
Our corporate sector engagements benefit from a strong grounding in regional socio-economic developments
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Program Development and Implementation
We design and deliver demand-driven, research-based programs
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Partnership Services
We develop partnerships with the public, private, and non-profit sectors to advance social goals
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Business Process Outsourcing
We offer a variety of specialized outsourcing services to free up resources for critical programs and operations
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Entrepreneurship
We help governments, social sector institutions, and corporations improve the enabling environment for entrepreneurship
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Cultural Development
We have extensive experience conceiving and executing strategies and programs for cultural development and mutual understanding
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