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 ritu ...
Case Study: Caritas Austria
Case Study: Caritas AustriaCatalystas: Aviva Stein, Judith Vollebregt, Haley Dillan, Daphne MulderOver the summer of 2021, Catalystas took the Caritas Austria team on a learning journey, helping them to solidify the foundation of their Middle East ed ...
Case Study: Financing Feminism – Católicas por el Derecho a Decidir-Argentina
Catalysta: Sofia CossarHow do you widen the organizational and financial capacity of a Catholic NGO that promotes SRHR in Latin America?Católicas por el Derecho a Decidir (CDD)-Argentina (in English, Catholics for the Right to Choose-Argentina) is pa ...
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 ...
Case Study: Examining Economic Empowerment – Chadian Entrepreneurship among Youth and Women
Client: Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO)Catalystas: Aviva Stein and Beatrice Maneshi Date: November 2019 - January 2020 In late 2019, Catalystas was commissioned by the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) ...
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 ...
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 challenge ...
Case Study: Dutch MFA- Sahel Entrepreneurship
In 2019, the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs is aiming to Start a powerful new initiative across Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger to boost Youth Job Creation in Ag Value Chains and Empower Women and Youth Entrepreneurship — But Where to start and how to be the most impactful in the Sahel? Catalysts Consulting has just the right team, gender focus, and drive to undertake the baseline country assessment to provide insights how the Embassy and the Netherlands Enterprise Development Agency(RVO) could best make soon to be in place strategy for intervention.
Tenants of Equity-Focused Project Evaluation
Catalystas helped Stichting Help Kobanê grow from a small group of friends to a fully-fledged NGO, organizing internal structures, creating strategies, developing projects, and ultimately launching and running an initial fundraising campaign to support the education of young children in a war-torn region of Syria.
By enhancing their internal organizational structure, focusing on both short and long term goals, and planning and executing a social-media driven crowdfunding campaign, SHK outperformed all expected targets, better positioning itself to continue with a solidified financial foundation to take on new projects and campaigns.
CASE STUDY: ActionAid Kenya Isiolo
Aviva Stein worked alongside ActionAid Netherlands in order to assist the Country Office in Kenya with mid-project evaluation reporting. ActionAid is an international NGO dedicated to supporting women’s rights, empowering local communities, and combating inequality in developing countries.