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Designing a high-level programme strategy

Designing a high-level programme strategy

Designing a high-level programme strategy

Expectation State was commissioned by American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) to develop a Context Analysis and High-Level Program Strategy Paper for AFSC work in Tunisia, Libya and Morocco. We delivered a Context Analysis and High-Level Program Strategy Paper for AFSC work in Tunisia, Libya and Morocco.  The objective of the context analysis was to provide AFSC with a general understanding of each of the three Read More

Supporting the growth of a tech firm focused on strategic communications

Supporting the growth of a tech firm focused on strategic communications

Technology and technology companies are increasingly playing a role in development. We supported one of Fast Company’s most innovative companies in 2022 to better understand the development landscape and how they can best build agency within it. We designed and Read More

Coaching Export Promotion and Trade Agencies in Tunisia

Coaching Export Promotion and Trade Agencies in Tunisia

The project PEMA II, is mandated by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and implemented by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), in cooperation with the Tunisian Ministry of Commerce and Export Development and CEPEX. Read More

Delivering Jordan’s investment strategy with the Ministry of Investment

Delivering Jordan’s investment strategy with the Ministry of Investment

The Government of Jordan’s Economic Modernisation vision, launched in June 2022, sets an ambitious direction for achieving sustainable growth and creating job opportunities over the next decade. It requires $30 billion of investment and financing to meet the expected demand Read More

Mapping the migration landscape across the MENA region

Mapping the migration landscape across the MENA region

People have always moved, and the MENA region, more than any other, has a long history of migration related to trade, tribal pastoralism, war, conflict and the growth of Islam. Migration has made MENA what it is today.  In 2021, Read More

Analysing Trends Likely to Affect the MENA Region over the Next Decade

Analysing Trends Likely to Affect the MENA Region over the Next Decade

Millions of column inches have been written in an effort to decode, understand and forecast the dynamics of the Middle East and North Africa. In 2019, we were commissioned by the implementation arm of a prominent European family office to Read More

Surveying private markets investment allocation strategies

Surveying private markets investment allocation strategies

We spent nine months speaking with 70+ C-Suite institutional investors and investment managers to increase their awareness of our focus states as investment destinations.  Following discussions with investors from our network in London, Edinburgh, New York, Washington DC, Zurich, Geneva, Read More

Developing an anti-corruption and transparency programme

Developing an anti-corruption and transparency programme

131 countries have made no significant progress against corruption in the last decade.  In 2022, we were commissioned by the UK chapter of Transparency International to support the development of a global anti-corruption and transparency programme. The concept development focused Read More

Evaluating Support to Civil Society in Lebanon and the Region

Evaluating Support to Civil Society in Lebanon and the Region

In 2022, we conducted an endline evaluation for the Lebanon office of an INGO. We were commissioned to assess the extent to which a multi-year project supporting civil society effectively contributed to maintaining civic space across the region.  The evaluation Read More