Analysis
Understanding the context in which decisions take place is essential to designing good policy and building programming.
PACE Global Strategies research is customized and designed to help decipher complicated environments, including those experiencing or at-risk of violence, conflict and fragility and complex, multi-faceted emergencies. We help clients understand risks, trends, interests and incentives of key actors and institutions by situating them in their proper context, and by offering the following services:
- Researching, and drafting political risk analyses and fragility assessments, attuned to the structures of institutions and clients’ needs;
- Researching and preparing conflict analyses, which unpack drivers of conflict, identify key conflict actors and, as appropriate, analyzes modern forms of conflict (such as cross-border, organized crime, sub-national) and approaches to peace negotiations and transition strategies;
- Undertaking political power and stakeholder mapping, baselining and horizon scans, and project and impact assessments;
- Designing, researching and drafting macro-, county-level and problem-driven political economy analyses in order to understand how factors such as geography, historical legacies, social structures, natural resources, demography, and so on, interact with its institutions and decision-making processes, both formal (rule of law-based) and informal;
- Appraising the impact of development and humanitarian programs and operations through evaluations of project designs, outcomes and results;
- Assessing institutional partnerships, evaluating conditions for effective institutional collaboration and joint approaches, including through the prism of the Humanitarian-Development Nexus.
PACE Global Strategies will help navigate the process by weighing options, designing and implementing strategies, prioritizing objectives and helping to resolve and troubleshoot political and practical bottlenecks.
