WHO ARE WE?
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?
Gender perspectives in forest resilience
Armenia's forests need intervention. Deforestation and forest degradation are believed to have social causes (to an extent), like rural poverty and use of illegal firewood when alternative energy is growing more expensive. Climate change is also a major threat to...
NCG’s Advisory Board
Last week NCG arranged a meeting with our Advisory Board, welcoming three new members from different industries: Marsa Häyhänen from the Telecommunications and Electrical Engineering industry, David Creelman, a student of Peace and Development, and Christer B. Jansson...
Gender mainstreaming in the work of World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Sweden
Our consultant Ulf Färnsveden has carried out a gender spot-check on World Wildlife Fund and their partners: WWF Kenya, WWF Namibia and WWF Africa Youth Thematic Hub, as well as their cooperation partners and rightsholders. A spot-check is a quick organisational...
TIPS AND NUGGETS
Territorial peace initiative in four Colombian municipalities
Starting in September 2018, NCG will conduct a Mid-term review of a project aimed at strengthen national and municipal capacity to promote territorial peace in Colombia. The project, Fortalecimiento Institucional y Ciudadano para el Desarollo Territorial...
RBM and gender support to Rwanda Broadcasting Agency
NCG won a contract with Swedish Radio (SR) to support the Rwanda Broadcasting Agency (RBA) on results-based management and gender mainstreaming. SR carries out development projects with counterparts in low-and middle income countries with fiancial support from...