Strategic Advising and Mentoring
About
Strategic Capacity Group engages advisors and technical experts to work alongside counterparts. We assist partner ministries, agencies, specialized units, and forces to identify needs and develop solutions tailored to improve effectiveness and deliver results. Our advising work has included interministerial and cross border coordination, maritime concept of operations (CONOPs), law enforcement strategic communications, training, and public order management, drug interdiction, forensics, corrections administration, and training.
How We Do it
- Collaborate with partners to conduct a needs assessment and develop actionable recommendations for change.
- Tailor “conceptual roadmaps” for change based on best practices.
- Guide counterparts to assess their capacity, identify gaps, and develop solutions.
- Advise counterparts to improve processes and procedures to meet the recipient institution’s mission and goals.
- Offer counterparts technical expertise and solutions to support the resolution of lingering, stubborn, or seemingly insurmountable challenges.
- Advise counterparts to manage, implement, and effectively advocate for change.
Training and Instructional Design
About
Strategic Capacity Group offers solutions across the full training cycle. Our experienced trainers, instructional designers, subject matter experts, and seasoned practitioners work with partners around the world. Our engagement ranges from a single targeted course to designing an entire training program for an institution or sector. To ensure sustainability, we build mechanisms for performance assessment and continuous learning in each course, program, and institutional strengthening project we deliver.
How We Do it
- Conduct learning needs assessment to frame scope and content of training course or program.
- Assess any current curricula, pedagogy, and outcomes to identify needs and gaps.
- Develop and/or modernize curricular content by incorporating scenario-based training and other adult learning techniques to enhance learning outcomes, mission preparedness, and improved operations.
- “Educate the educator” using pedagogical tools that blend conceptual and field-based learning to maximize sustainability.
- Design institutional research and feedback loops to increase the capacity of partner training institutions to assess performance and maintain curricular relevance.
- Evaluate aggregate learning outcomes to identify impact on operations, institutional capacity, and mission.
Analytic Services and Knowledge Management
About
Strategic Capacity Group empowers clients with essential knowledge, business intelligence, and analytical tools to design, implement, evaluate, and learn from initiatives that advance criminal justice and security sector reform globally. Our expertise in Analytics and Knowledge Management has facilitated data-driven decision-making across a spectrum of programmatic activities, including UN peacekeeping, global corrections, police training, forensics, specialized law enforcement training, and logistics in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, and Eastern Europe. Our evidence-based practices ensure that clients can effectively sustain their projects and programs.
How We Do it
- Research and Assessments: We conduct baseline, needs/gaps, and stakeholder analyses using methodologies that incorporate cross-cutting issues.
- Project Design: Our project design process ensures that interventions are contextually appropriate, feasible, and aligned with monitoring and assessment criteria.
- Performance Monitoring: We collaborate with clients to develop robust theories of change, performance frameworks, indicators, and data management systems, ensuring best practices in monitoring.
- Project Evaluation: Our evaluations utilize mixed-method approaches tailored to client needs, employing advanced analytical techniques to capture insights on impact and opportunities for improvement.
- M&E System Design: We empower organizations to implement systematic data collection, maintain data integrity, and enhance performance tracking for continuous improvement.
- Knowledge Management and Learning: We establish feedback mechanisms that promote the dissemination of lessons learned, fostering organizational adaptation and effectiveness.
- MEL Capacity Building: We enable organizations to leverage acquired knowledge and skills to sustain their initiatives.
- Data Systems: We provide comprehensive solutions for data collection, analysis, management, and visualization to support M&E and learning.
Logistics and Facilities Support
About
Strategic Capacity Group delivers exceptional, customer-oriented, travel and event logistics and facilities management, including in austere locations. Backed by a 24/7 global operations support team, we have more than a decade of experience booking travel, distributing per diem, monitoring travelers, resolving contingencies, and supporting event delivery for both small groups and large delegations. We have also managed training facilities around the world. Our multilingual, 24/7 Global Operations Team provides real-time logistical support, books last-minute travel arrangements, and resolves travel-related contingencies. From the first touchpoint of service at booking to the safe return home, SCG ensures every detail of the travel and training experience is managed to the highest standards—every time.
How We Do it
- Provide globally available, responsive, and culturally adept travel assistance.
- Book federally compliant air travel and ground transportation, lodging, and insurance.
- Secure travel documents, venues, catering, and interpretation and translation services.
- Organize conferences, workshops, trainings, meetings and other events.
- Manage training, event, and lodging facilities.
- Arrange site visits and cultural activities.
- Distribute per diem and reimbursements.
- Coordinate Leahy Vetting.
- Monitor participant travel using a dedicated communications platform.
- Respond rapidly to last-minute requests
- Resolve travel contingencies with minimal disruption.
Program Management and Administrative Services
About
Strategic Capacity Group provides program management and administrative services to enhance, supplement, or deliver full programmatic life-cycle management for the United States and other donors delivering security assistance programming worldwide.
How We Do it
- Provide expert personnel with knowledge of security sector best practices and proven experience delivering results.
- Develop and implement solutions to problems or hurdles to program implementation in mission-critical environments.
- Lead the development of high-impact training materials, strategic documents, and technical content tailored to security sector needs.
- Streamline processes, planning, and data management for evidence-based decision making and reporting.
- Establish effective quality assurance/quality control.
- Provide effective management of risk, scope, schedule, and resources.
- Manage timely and compliant closeout and identification of lessons learned.
