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?
The evaluation of Sida’s support to education has been successfully concluded
NCG is happy to announce the finalisation of a major evaluation titled Evaluation of Sida’s support to education: Lessons learned from 20 years and 5 countries (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Cambodia and Tanzania). The evaluation was commissioned in 2021 and...
Supporting women in business
We are happy to say that an impact evaluation for the “Women in Business” programme with EBRD has been finalised. The programme has been ongoing since 2014 and is now in phase 2. NCG has been able to assess the programme’s impact on women-owned enterprises in the...
Inclusion of people with disabilities in Mongolia
NCG Sweden is implementing a project with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in Mongolia. The project team is supporting a Mongolian wholesale distributor in their goal of employing and providing inclusive and accessible support for people...
TIPS AND NUGGEST
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...
