
Our Work

Innovating in organisations
P&I offers organisations a wide range of approaches to navigate change in a positive tone. We help them produce holistic self-assessments (even if focused on one strategic function such as fundraising and governance we approach them as interdependent functions), detect leverage points for change, and decide what actions could be taken for the wellbeing and evolution of everyone.
We have also studied and worked with organisations that are manifesting new co-leadership approaches that enable them to become spaces of innovation, self-organisation, and unravelling of talents and purposes.
Some of our projects
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Re-thinking funding models for ASIES (Guatemala) and ARU (Bolivia) (2017)
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Creating new ways to develop a strategic plan for CIPPEC (Argentina) (2016)
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Mentoring for new fundraising strategies for Providus (Latvia), Seechange, Praxis (EE) and Panoptykon (Poland) (2015)
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Development of Context Matters Framework to strengthen the use of evidence in policy decisions (2015)
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Innovating in governance for ASIES (Guatemala) and Grupo FARO (Ecuador) (2014)
Facilitating meaningful processes
Whether its a strategic planning process, an external consultation or evaluation or the reform of a specific area, our approach is systemic and
participatory: it takes into account the individuals as well as the complexities
of the living systems in which we all exist. Through approaches like design thinking,
Theory U, the Art of Hosting, Liberating Structures and others we create safe spaces that allow collective intelligence to emerge. This then turns into meaningful results.
When we work in change processes, we focus on the visible and measurable elements that contribute to change (processes, capacities, etc.) and also on the invisible ones (culture, ideas, values, etc) which may times remain hidden or implicit.

Some of our projects
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Re-designing the strategic planning process for CIPPEC (Argentina) (2021)
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Unleashing Southern Research Leadership with Technology with INASP, AuthorAid, The Institute of Coding, and The Open University (Global) (2021)
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Strengthening the financial sustainability of ILAIPP and its members (2016-2017)
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Facilitating CIPPEC´s ideation for 2021-2031 (Argentina) (2016)

Empowering teams
People relate to each other and collaborate naturally if they are able to connect their personal purpose to the bigger, shared mission and vision of their team and organsisation. to strengthen collaboration within teams.
The more organisations are able to listen and incorporate different voices, views and interests into their creative processes the more effective they will be. We empower collaboration in teams by bringing everyone together in safe spaces where transparent and deep conversations create the necessary trust and empathy to solve challenges and co-create the better possible future.
We use different methods and tools that enable more inclusive, agile, and fruitful interactions such as Liberating structures, the Dare to lead toolkit (Brené Brown), and Agile methods.
Some of our projects
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Helping Epica develop its manifesto and identity through team collaboration (Argentina) (2021)
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Empowering middle managers to lead engaged teams for Latcom (Argentina) (2019)
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Face to face workshops on “Engaged teams” at American Express (Argentina) (2019)
Unfolding leadership
Within our VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous) world, more and more leaders today acknowledge that they do not know how to effectively lead and inspire others.
We support leaders who are transitioning to new ways of co-leading organisations that capitalise on collective intelligence, self-management, and shared purposes.
We also help leaders integrate different sources of knowledge, ranging from inner wisdom to local and indigenous knowledge and research generated by experts and professionals.

Some of our projects
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Graduate courses on Emerging Leadership at Universidad Austral (Argentina) (2018-2019)
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Integral Leaders for Global Challenges under the OnThink Tanks School (Global) (2018)
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Mentoring directors and coordinators to design and implement M&E strategies for Open Society´s grantees (Eastern Europe) and funding strategies (Eastern Europe and Latin America) (2018)

Evolving capacities
With a mix of interactive learning approaches and activities we help a wide range of stakeholders further develop their knowledge, skills and attitudes to better contribute to their organisations and contexts. We do this with an emphasis on horizontal exchange and an artful combination of theory and practice.
Learning for us needs to be context-relevant and fit for purpose. We always strive to help individuals apply what they learn to their workplace: through development of plans and strategies for their institutions, to mentoring and technical assistance for implementation.
We help participants improve their skills in areas such as policy engagement, policy-relevant research, communications, fundraising, monitoring, evaluation and learning, leadership, and gender and diversity, among others.
Our capacity building activities also integrate good practices from around the world to inspire our participants with new approaches, tools, and ideas and also learn from them.
Some of our projects
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Assisting UNEDAP to convert its annual evaluation workshop into a virtual learning experience (South East Asia) (2020-2021)
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FAO workshop on Monitoring, evaluation, and learning of policy influence (2019)
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United Nations Evaluation Group workshop on Monitoring, evaluation, and learning of policy influence (2019)
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Capacity building of African researchers and policymakers to improve evidence use in policy decisions (Pretoria) (2018)
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Seminar to encourage Argentinean policymakers to try innovative approaches to plan and manage their work (2018)
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Technical support and advice to the Capacity Building Phase 2 in Latin America for the Think Tank Initiative (Latin America) (2017-2019)
Learning & Evaluating
We contribute to strengthening organisations’ learning culture by designing and applying co-creative, participatory, and diversity-aware evaluation approaches (from data collection, to use and communication), that embrace both successes and failures.
We have vast experience in multi-country and multi-stakeholder programmes, projects and organisational evaluation.
We have extensive knowledge systematization capacity: we produce practical research that can be used in specific ways by different practitioners to inform activities, projects and other decisions.

Some of our projects
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Evaluation of the global initiative Research4Life. Case study: Honduras (2020)
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Evaluation of Rimisp’s Project “Transforming Territories” (Chile, Colombia, and Mexico) (2018)
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Evaluation of Rimisp’s Project “Transforming Territories” (Chile, Colombia, and Mexico) (2016)
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External Review of Rimisp’s Territorial Cohesion for Development (CTD) Program (2015)
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Developing MEL strategies for think tanks in Ukraine (2017)
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Light touch review of the online course Leaders of change: developing Latin American policymakers’ capacity to promote the use of knowledge in policy (2016)
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Evaluation of the influence of the Rimisp’s program Knowledge and Change in Rural Poverty and Development (Colombia) (2013)
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Development of Links of policy influence, a methodology to evaluate Rimisp’s initiatives (2013)
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Development of an M&E methodology to monitor and evaluate the policy impact of Save the Children UK’s EVERY ONE campaign (2010-2011)