INTRAC - International NGO Training and Research Centre

INTRAC exists to support and strengthen civil society. We seek to increase the effectiveness of civil society organisations (CSOs) in all parts of the world. Civil society is key to establishing democratic societies and CSOs play a key role in promoting sustainable development in a just society.

INTRAC offers specialist consultancy services for major international civil society.

We help organisations through development and change processes, which can involve strategy development and programme design. We assist NGOs and monitoring and evaluation. We also offer short term consultancies including desk studies, mentoring, peer reviews and workshop facilitation.

Areas of expertise:

• reviews, evaluations and impact assessment
• design and assessment of M&E systems
• partnership capacity building
• issues-based advocacy support
• organisational and programme learning
• organisational assessment
• organisational development, strategic planning and change management
• putting policy and strategy into practice
• scoping, mapping and design of programmes
• strengthening development relationships between international NGOs, civil society and state
• development and application of participatory methodologies
• mainstreaming gender and disability
• effective networking and alliance building
• enhancing programmatic approaches

We also have experience of working within sectoral approaches - many of our consultants and associates have individual areas of expertise:

• Livelihoods and security
• Rights-based approaches
• Environment
• HIV/Advocacy
• Disability as a rights issue

Consultancy assignments are conducted by experienced staff members and a core group of external consultants, based in the UK and around the world. All of our consultants have extensive experience of working in international development in both the North and in the South. Our team has an impressive depth of regional knowledge and language skills.