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: 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: Moving Stichting Voice of Afghan Wo=Men into the International Sphere
Catalystas is delighted to be working with Voice of Afghan Wo=Men, a fantastic Rotterdam-based activist group focusing on gender equality and ending harmful traditional practices in diaspora communities. The organisation is now moving into internati ...
Case Study: Iraq Part I- KRI From Emergency to Development
Overview: I was asked by Catalysta's client organization SPARK to undertake a project scoping, eco-system analysis, and needs inquiry in Iraq. My combined Middle East and North African policy, security, and linguistic expertise and my conflict ...
Case Study: Iraq Part III: Baghdad-Welcome to the Jungle
Catalysta: Beatrice Maneshi | Client: SPARKI was asked by Catalystas’ client organization SPARK to undertake a project scoping, eco-system analysis, and needs inquiry in Iraq. My combined Middle East and North African policy, security, ...
Case Study: Mosul – One Year After The Islamic State
Catalysta:Beatrice Maneshi | Client: SPARKI was asked by Catalystas’ client organization SPARK to undertake a project scoping, eco-system analysis, and needs inquiry in Iraq. My combined Middle East and North African policy, security, and linguistic ...
Case Study: Stichting Help Kobane
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.