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?
NCG participating in the ISO Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment Guideline Event in Paris
For the ISO Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment Guideline Event in Paris, NCG's Anja Nordlund was present as Head of the Swedish Delegation. NCG also had Suzana Zivkovic and Ulf Färnsveden participating virtually, all three forming part of the team from the...
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 ISO’s work with the standardisation of gender equality in all types of organisations
NCG is engaged in the ISO standardisation process for guidelines for the promotion and implementation of gender equality (ISO/PC 337). The work is led by the French National Standard Institute (AFNOR) and reaches approximately 180 countries worldwide. From the Swedish...
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...
