
International Policy | Practical Solutions
International Policy | Practical Solutions
What We Do
Acacia Development Associates Ltd helps development partners to plan for and adapt to change in complex political or security environments.
What We Do
Acacia Development Associates Ltd helps development partners to plan for and adapt to change in complex political or security environments.
Development programmes are about understanding, supporting, promoting and delivering change. But that change is rarely just technical. Working to understand the incentives and motivations of key actors and issues which affect a programme’s context is critical. Capable, resilient and adaptive programmes do this well.
Acacia Development Associates Ltd works with development partners in civil society, government and the profit and not-for-profit sectors to ensure that their programmes are as fully effective as possible. We work with programme teams to help them develop the means to do this for themselves. Real-time contextual analysis is a vital team behaviour which informs management decision making; and is essential to the adaptive programming approaches which distinguish successful programmes from others.
Development programmes are about understanding, supporting, promoting and delivering change. But that change is rarely just technical. Working to understand the incentives and motivations of key actors and issues which affect a programme’s context is critical. Capable, resilient and adaptive programmes do this well.
Acacia Development Associates Ltd works with development partners in civil society, government and the profit and not-for-profit sectors to ensure that their programmes are as fully effective as possible. We work with programme teams to help them develop the means to do this for themselves. Real-time contextual analysis is a vital team behaviour which informs management decision making; and is essential to the adaptive programming approaches which distinguish successful programmes from others.

Who We Are
Drawing on more than thirty years of combined experience, Acacia Development Associates Ltd is an effective partner to development programmes operating in complex political and security environments.
Who We Are
Drawing on more than thirty years of combined experience, Acacia Development Associates Ltd is an effective partner to development programmes operating in complex political and security environments.
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