Areas of Work
We work in a wide range of areas including:
- Processes for community empowerment
Issues of governance – in education, health and forestry - Organisation development with civil society organisations
- Working with communities
- Decentralisation
- Policy analysis and advocacy
- Poverty and social assessments
- Child labour
- Reproductive health, including HIV/AIDS
- Gender and development
- Monitoring and evaluation
- Strategic planning
Our Main Areas of Competence
- Qualitative research, using participatory rapid appraisal (PRA/PLA) approaches among others
- Quantitative research and methodological approaches using advance tools and software’s for analysis
- Facilitation, using participatory learning and action approaches to working with communities and organizations
- Facilitation/moderation of workshops and meetings
- Training & Capacity Building, using participatory learning methodologies
- Accompanying facilitators and managers of change processes in organisations and communities
- Organisation development – in particular accompanying NGOs and other civil society organisations
- Managing projects in our areas of work shown above
PDA also has experience in the following:
- Managing projects in our areas of work
- Fund/grant design and management
- Project design and management
- Proposal development