Listen
Understand the need, context, stakeholders, constraints and intended result.
Our approach
Understand. Act.
Transfer.
The starting point is not a catalogue of solutions. It is the partner’s strategic, institutional or operational challenge.
The operational cycle
Seven steps.
One continuous thread.
From the first conversation to assessing effects, expertise comes together around a pathway for decision-making and action.
Diagnose
Establish a strategic reading of the problem, risks and available levers.
Integrate expertise
Designate the lead practice area and mobilise contributing expertise.
Design
Turn the diagnosis into priorities, options, recommendations and an action plan.
Support decision-making
Prepare decision-makers and support dialogue, negotiations and strategic choices.
Implement & transfer
Combine technical assistance, training, tailored advisory support and knowledge transfer.
Measure impact
Assess immediate results, institutional transformation and sustainability.
The integrated strategic response
A report is not enough.
A pathway must be built.
Understand the problem, weigh the options, take action and assess the effects.
01Diagnosis
02Priorities
03Options
04Recommendation
05Action plan
06Impact indicators
People and sustainability
Support without
creating dependency.
A Mission Lead coordinates a team tailored to the mandate. Its composition adapts to the expertise required and the context.
Whenever the assignment allows, strategic advisory is combined with technical assistance, training, tailored support and knowledge transfer. Success is also measured by the partner’s ability to continue, adapt and consolidate the gains.
Assessing impact
Three levels
of assessment.
Immediate results
What products, decisions, tools or capacities have been generated?
Institutional transformation
What changes in practices, policies or institutional functioning have been initiated?
Lasting impact
Are the changes locally owned, resilient and likely to endure?
Partnerships & governance
Complementarity
before visibility.
Alignment with MDI Consulting’s mission and identity.
Genuine complementarity of expertise and clearly defined responsibilities.
Measurable and documented results.
Credibility, integrity and operational feasibility.
Respect for institutional independence and neutrality.
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) provides strategic direction and validates major commitments. Each programme has a clearly identified Mission Lead.
The conversation starts here