Catalystas: Beatrice Maneshi (Mandaean religious communities, who reside in Iraq and throughout the Middle East, follow a Gnostic religion that conducts spiritual practices around bodies of water - In Iraq these rituals a ...
The need for SME Finance: Good Practices for Small Businesses
Catalystas: Judith Vollebregt & Aviva SteinOver the last three years, Catalystas Consulting has conducted a plethora of market studies, research, and scoping missions, and our teams have worked with incubators and start-ups in a variety of different c ...
Media: A Key to Addressing and Ending Gender-Based Violence (GBV)
Catalysta: Lucila Carrasco Over the occasion of the 2021 “16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence”, millions of posts, articles, reports, and information were published and disseminated in the media, in all its forms, and more than 225 e ...
Case Study: Informing DFI Financing for Women Owned MSMEs in the Sahel
Catalysta: Dr. Leva RouhaniIn 2021, Catalystas supported our client, a development financial institution, in conducting a market study of four Sahel countries to provide a macro level snapshot of the economic ecosystems and sociocultural constraints faci ...
Case Study: Designing SPARK’s Covid Response Program
Case Study: SPARKCatalysta: Beatrice ManeshiOver the course of 2020-2021, Catalystas supported SPARK in adapting programming to support SMEs and interns in overcoming the impacts of COVID-19 through innovative online programming that has been adopted for ...
Case Study: Holistic Prevention of Violent Extremism
Client: SPARK Catalystas: Beatrice Maneshi and Aviva Stein Date: Summer 2019 / January 2021 In the summer of 2019, SPARK presented us with a proposal: an idea for a project that would allow us to combine our expertise in counterterrorism and our ...
A Beginner’s Guide to Cryptocurrencies
Currently, NGOs around the world are facing several challenges when it comes to raising funds. The COVID-19 pandemic has forced traditional donors to cut their spending or reprioritize the areas, projects, and organizations they are willing to support ...
Case Study: Catalyzing Women’s Entrepreneurship in Cote D’Ivoire
Client: Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Enterprise Agency (RVO)Catalystas: Beatrice Maneshi and Judith VollebregtDate: June-November 2020 In 2020, despite a global pandemic, Catalystas continued to forge ahead in our efforts to tackle challenges of ...
COVID-19? Data Appropriation as a Feminist Issue (Part 1)
When US President Donald Trump announced that "we're waging a war against the invisible enemy", it became clear that the novel COVID-19 global pandemic is no longer considered just a health or socio-economic crisis. It is a matter of national security. ...