Technical Assistance

We help our clients overcome specific challenges by providing targeted, time-bound and demand-led expertise in a broad range of specific thematic and technical areas.

Technical Assistance enables our clients to benefit from technical rigour often in niche areas, such as conflict, climate or gender, to improve the effectiveness, equity and sustainability of their interventions.

We work collaboratively with clients and partners to assemble competent, skillful, and context-sensitive teams. We have rigorous consultant recruitment and management systems in place and are proven and practised in mobilising resources to respond to changing needs. We tap into a well-established and vetted cadre of external consultants with whom we have a long-term relationship. These relationships are built on two-way professional development, frank and honest performance feedback, and fair remuneration. Beyond this core cadre, our wider bench includes over 3,000 experts accessible at short notice and who have internationally recognised and sector-leading expertise.

We deliver technical assistance across all our service areas and across our thirteen thematics:

• Climate Security
• Humanitarian Assistance
• Fragility and Violent Conflict
• Health
• Gender Equality and Social Inclusion
• Education
• Economic Growth
• Aid Effectiveness
• Security and Justice
• Civil Society
• Media
• Governance
• Migration, Displacement and Slavery