Four areas of thematic depth. Five service lines.

Governance failure is the structural root of most of North Africa's most acute problems. Yet the term itself is often used so loosely that it loses analytical purchase.

We analyse governance not as an administrative phenomenon but as a political and social one — examining the distribution of power, the incentives facing institutions, the erosion of accountability mechanisms, and the ways in which governance fragility produces security and development deficits. The work is grounded in primary research, structured interviews with insider actors, and institutional analysis that takes politics seriously rather than treating it as a constraint to be planned around.

Our governance research focuses particularly on the period since the Arab Spring and its subsequent reversals — examining what worked, what did not, and what the next decade of governance reform in the region will need to confront.

Programmes that ignore conflict dynamics do not just fail — they often deepen the conflicts they were meant to help resolve.

Our peacebuilding and P/CVE work draws on years of field experience implementing community-based prevention programmes, designing national counter-terrorism strategy components, and conducting youth vulnerability analyses across some of the region's most contested environments. This is not generic CVE programming — it is analysis grounded in the specific ideological, social, and political dynamics of North Africa and the Sahel.

We work with donors and implementing organisations on conflict analysis, programme design, Do No Harm integration, and the methodological questions that determine whether prevention work strengthens or undermines the contexts it operates in.

Economies recover when intervention compounds rather than dissipates. Designing for that requires understanding markets as they actually function — not as they appear in a sector strategy.

North Africa sits at the intersection of displacement and migration dynamics that shape European policy debates as much as regional ones. We analyse these phenomena not as migration management problems but as development, governance, and economic challenges requiring structural responses.

Our team has led market systems analyses, designed labour market assessments, and implemented MSME and private sector engagement programmes across Algeria, Libya, and Tunisia. The questions we are best positioned to answer: which value chains genuinely have potential, where intervention will build durable economic infrastructure versus subsidised fragility, and how livelihoods programmes connect to the formal economies they sit alongside.

Evidence-based policy is not simply a methodology — it is a governance commitment.

We treat knowledge production as a public good and invest in strengthening the evidence systems that allow institutions to make better decisions. Our research designs are rigorous yet practical: built to generate insights that are scientifically defensible and directly useful to decision-makers operating under time and resource constraints.

Increasingly, this practice also produces our own published work — policy briefs, working papers, country assessments, and forthcoming flagship publications on the state of governance, security, and economic recovery in North Africa. Public goods, when we judge them useful to the field.