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Our services

Whether you need a one-off project delivered or an ongoing relationship with a dedicated policy team, we can deliver.

Policy expertise for any client

Island and city councils
Full-time specialist expertise for less cost than hiring full-time specialist experts. Whether by contract or on retainer, we can build development plans or registries, design investor materials, support councils with technical capacity, and be a backend for council services.

Council development plans

Development plans for island and city councils, with the analysis and consultation behind them, plus technical assistance on council processes, data, and reporting.

Investment prospectuses

Prospectus packages for councils, municipalities, and companies seeking foreign investment: opportunities, risks, regulation, infrastructure, and land, with photos and drone footage, in print and web versions.

Mapping & registry building

Geographic service mapping, provider registries, resource directories, and island-level data products built from fieldwork and direct outreach.

Embedded technical capacity

A fractional technical department on monthly retainer, for councils and agencies that cannot secure a full-time specialist. Data, reporting, digital systems, grant support, and M&E.

Resident services through the council

Your council offers services we handle behind it, on a subscription basis: CV feedback, research supervision for students, skill development plans, and university, business, and loan applications.

Grant & funding proposals

Proposals for international funds, bilateral donors, development banks, and philanthropies, and investment cases for government funding and development projects.

Stakeholder engagement

Focus groups, consultations, validation sessions, and participatory processes designed to gather evidence and build consensus around policy decisions.

Organizational diagnostics

A scoped assessment of operational capacity, information flows, and bottlenecks, with a report and concrete recommendations.

Foresight & futures planning

Facilitated planning workshops using structured foresight methodology: scenario analysis, driver mapping, and vision pathways.

Ongoing analytics support

Continuous data collection, analysis, reporting, and dashboard maintenance, with ad-hoc data requests as they come up.

Excel for forms & frameworks

Building professional forms, data collection instruments, and structured frameworks in Excel, beyond basic spreadsheets.

Tourism branding & marketing

Island branding for tourism: the identity and the story, beyond logos. We research the island’s past for stories that reach particular markets, and write tourism pages in major market languages.

Island reporting & mapping tools

A phone reporting tool for staff and residents. Tap a labelled tile and a pin lands on the map: potholes, mosquito sites, streetlights out, waste, missing ramps. Each report joins a council dataset.

Island needs analyses

Where your island ranks, what it lacks that comparable islands have, and what that gap costs your people, built from the national island datasets we maintain.

Books and publications

An island history, an anniversary volume, or a record of the council’s work, researched with citizens and archives and designed for print.

AI in the council office

AI built into council workflows: correspondence, summaries, translation drafting, data cleaning, and first drafts of routine papers. We also train staff on what to trust and what to verify.

Council websites

A council website built and maintained, with service forms digitised so residents can complete them without coming to the office. We build these directly rather than subcontracting.

Ministries and government agencies
Knowledge systems, sector reviews, evaluation frameworks, staff training, and analytical capacity.

Knowledge management systems

Searchable institutional knowledge platforms and indexed policy repositories, like the KnowHow system built for the Ministry of Health, Family and Welfare.

Sectoral review & policy reports

Comprehensive sector reviews, policy analysis papers, white papers, and evidence-based reports. Professionally designed, publication-ready outputs.

Monitoring & evaluation frameworks

Design and implementation of M&E frameworks, workplan systems, data collection instruments, KPI dashboards, and performance tracking tools.

Organizational diagnostics

A scoped assessment of operational capacity, information flows, and bottlenecks, with a report and concrete recommendations.

Training delivery & workshops

Design and delivery of practical trainings on policy implementation, M&E, foresight methodologies, AI workflow integration, data collection, and public administration. Locally and internationally.

Survey fieldwork & enumeration

Enumerators and field teams across the atolls, survey administration, household and school data collection, and quality checks, for organisations commissioning fieldwork here.

Stakeholder engagement

Focus groups, consultations, validation sessions, and participatory processes designed to gather evidence and build consensus around policy decisions.

Custom data tools & visualizations

Interactive data products, dashboards, explorers, and policy applications built for your specific analytical needs.

Policy advisory

Regular briefings and evidence-based guidance for councils, MPs, ministries, or companies, with a policy team on call when issues arise.

AI integration consultancy

We identify the specific AI tools that fit your use case, at industry-standard cost. Proprietary providers often charge more and perform worse than the best available option for the job.

Policy analysis & implementation

Practical seminars covering policy design, implementation planning, and evaluation methods – the skills university programmes often do not cover.

R for statistical analysis

Hands-on workshops on using R for statistical analysis of administrative and survey data.

International organisations and research partners
Fieldwork capacity in the Maldives, qualitative research, evaluation, and local delivery for studies run from outside the country.

Survey fieldwork & enumeration

Enumerators and field teams across the atolls, survey administration, household and school data collection, and quality checks, for organisations commissioning fieldwork here.

Stakeholder engagement

Focus groups, consultations, validation sessions, and participatory processes designed to gather evidence and build consensus around policy decisions.

Sectoral review & policy reports

Comprehensive sector reviews, policy analysis papers, white papers, and evidence-based reports. Professionally designed, publication-ready outputs.

Monitoring & evaluation frameworks

Design and implementation of M&E frameworks, workplan systems, data collection instruments, KPI dashboards, and performance tracking tools.

Mapping & registry building

Geographic service mapping, provider registries, resource directories, and island-level data products built from fieldwork and direct outreach.

Custom data tools & visualizations

Interactive data products, dashboards, explorers, and policy applications built for your specific analytical needs.

Research department for hire

The output of a specialised research department on retainer, well below the cost of a permanent team: publications, research projects, analytical papers, and guidance that builds your own capacity.

Training delivery & workshops

Design and delivery of practical trainings on policy implementation, M&E, foresight methodologies, AI workflow integration, data collection, and public administration. Locally and internationally.

Working on small island developing states? Our SIDS policy research sets out how the conditions that define the category play out in the Maldives.

NGOs and civil society
Funding applications, evaluation, training, and research output without a permanent research team.

Grant & funding proposals

Proposals for international funds, bilateral donors, development banks, and philanthropies, and investment cases for government funding and development projects.

Monitoring & evaluation frameworks

Design and implementation of M&E frameworks, workplan systems, data collection instruments, KPI dashboards, and performance tracking tools.

Research department for hire

The output of a specialised research department on retainer, well below the cost of a permanent team: publications, research projects, analytical papers, and guidance that builds your own capacity.

Training delivery & workshops

Design and delivery of practical trainings on policy implementation, M&E, foresight methodologies, AI workflow integration, data collection, and public administration. Locally and internationally.

Sectoral review & policy reports

Comprehensive sector reviews, policy analysis papers, white papers, and evidence-based reports. Professionally designed, publication-ready outputs.

Stakeholder engagement

Focus groups, consultations, validation sessions, and participatory processes designed to gather evidence and build consensus around policy decisions.

Custom data tools & visualizations

Interactive data products, dashboards, explorers, and policy applications built for your specific analytical needs.

Community events & performances

Propose a community-focused event or small art performance to host at our venue. Free for artists holding events open to the general public, and heavily discounted for NGOs. If you have an idea for an event that brings people together, we want to hear it.

Private companies and international firms
Market entry, regulatory navigation, policy environment briefings, AI integration, and investor materials.

Market entry advisory

Ongoing advisory for international firms entering or operating in Maldivian markets: policy environment briefings, regulatory navigation, market intelligence, and bid support.

Policy advisory

Regular briefings and evidence-based guidance for councils, MPs, ministries, or companies, with a policy team on call when issues arise.

AI integration consultancy

We identify the specific AI tools that fit your use case, at industry-standard cost. Proprietary providers often charge more and perform worse than the best available option for the job.

Research department for hire

The output of a specialised research department on retainer, well below the cost of a permanent team: publications, research projects, analytical papers, and guidance that builds your own capacity.

Investment prospectuses

Prospectus packages for councils, municipalities, and companies seeking foreign investment: opportunities, risks, regulation, infrastructure, and land, with photos and drone footage, in print and web versions.

Grant & funding proposals

Proposals for international funds, bilateral donors, development banks, and philanthropies, and investment cases for government funding and development projects.

Custom data tools & visualizations

Interactive data products, dashboards, explorers, and policy applications built for your specific analytical needs.

Sectoral review & policy reports

Comprehensive sector reviews, policy analysis papers, white papers, and evidence-based reports. Professionally designed, publication-ready outputs.

Rent our outdoor spaces

Our 400 sq ft terrace and 500 sq ft rooftop in Hulhumalé are available for private events, both personal and professional. Birthday parties, friend meetups, outdoor dinners, movie or karaoke sessions, date nights, corporate gatherings, and small receptions. We provide a portable projector, speaker, seating, picnic mats, fairy lights, cards and games, and a mini-library of books.

Legislators, candidates, and political organisations
Briefings on specific policy areas, and help turning values into a coherent platform.

Policy briefings for legislators

Concise, evidence-based briefings on specific policy areas for policymakers, MPs, and decision-makers who need to get up to speed quickly on an issue.

Values & policy platform development

Facilitated workshops on identifying core values and translating them into a coherent policy platform and messaging.

Policy advisory

Regular briefings and evidence-based guidance for councils, MPs, ministries, or companies, with a policy team on call when issues arise.

Sectoral review & policy reports

Comprehensive sector reviews, policy analysis papers, white papers, and evidence-based reports. Professionally designed, publication-ready outputs.

Foresight & futures planning

Facilitated planning workshops using structured foresight methodology: scenario analysis, driver mapping, and vision pathways.

AI for policymakers

Technical briefings on what AI can and cannot do, for officials and decision-makers who need it without the hype.

Events and venue use
Our terrace and rooftop in Hulhumalé, open to organisations, artists, and the public.

Rent our outdoor spaces

Our 400 sq ft terrace and 500 sq ft rooftop in Hulhumalé are available for private events, both personal and professional. Birthday parties, friend meetups, outdoor dinners, movie or karaoke sessions, date nights, corporate gatherings, and small receptions. We provide a portable projector, speaker, seating, picnic mats, fairy lights, cards and games, and a mini-library of books.

Community events & performances

Propose a community-focused event or small art performance to host at our venue. Free for artists holding events open to the general public, and heavily discounted for NGOs. If you have an idea for an event that brings people together, we want to hear it.