WHO WE ARE
Nordic Consulting Group Sweden is one of several companies of Nordic Consulting Group (NCG), a group of research and consultancy companies with offices in Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin-America.
NCG Sweden offers research and advisory services in international cooperation and development and business development. The group has more than 100 professional partners in political and social science, economics and business development and resource management with broad international experience speaking Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, English, French, Spanish, Arabic, Russian, Portugese etc.
WHAT’S UP
Evaluation of Strategy Goal 2 of the FBA’s Regional Strategy for Sub-Saharan Africa
Within the framework of the regional strategy for Sub-Saharan Africa 2016-2021, the Folke Bernadotte Academy (FBA) has been tasked to contribute towards the following result: Strengthened capacity of regional actors to implement the UN resolutions on Women, Peace and...
A new win for NCG: Evaluation of Sida’s support to education – lessons learned from 20 years and 5 countries
NCG Sweden is delighted to have been awarded the contract for the assignment “Evaluation of Sida’s support to education”. Education is one of eight prioritized thematic areas in the Policy framework for Swedish development cooperation and humanitarian assistance....
Evaluation of the Sida-funded project “Support to Increased Capacity in Standardization and Implementation of Standards in Bolivia: Focus on the Water Sector”
Bolivia is one of the countries in the region with the least access to drinking water and sewerage, with existing discrepancies in access between and among urban and rural areas. Standardization and quality certification of access to drinking water and basic...
TIPS AND NUGGETS
Illustrating qualitative results with quantifiable indicators – for practitioners!
The basic approach presented here is to break down the qualitative changes into smaller steps and thereafter apply a quantifiable approach. For the ones working with Outcome Mapping, inspiration can be drawn from development of so-called progress markers! Example 1 A...
Gender sensitive monitoring
A central step for gender mainstreaming is to be clear about the WHO. Who are the people you work with? What do they want and not? What do they do and not? How does this affect your project activites and how does this affect you monitoring of results? Here you find...
NCG tool for rapid assessment of organisational capacity to mainstream!
NCG would like to share a tool to assess organisational capacity to mainstream (e.g. projects), which we developed in 2014 and which has evolved since then. We have found that many projects lack mainstreaming, not because of lack of will, rather due to lack of...
