Strategic Planning and Development

Ulo provides expert support to organisations, movements, and institutions in developing strategies that are evidence-based, inclusive, and impact-oriented. With over 30 years of combined experience in organisational development, institutional reform, and gender-transformative approaches, we bring both rigour and creativity to the planning process — with particular expertise in supporting children and young people.

Our services include:

1. Collaborative Strategy Design: Facilitating participatory processes to ensure strategies reflect diverse perspectives — including the voices of children and young people — and foster shared ownership.

2. Organisational Development: Strengthening structures, systems, and governance for long-term sustainability, accountability, and child safeguarding.

3. Policy & Programme Alignment: Supporting integration of gender equality, child rights, and trauma-informed principles into planning and delivery.

4. Capacity Development: Designing and delivering bespoke training, mentoring, and knowledge-sharing tools to enhance organisational effectiveness in serving children, young people, and wider communities.

5. Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning (MEL): Developing frameworks that are practical, adaptable, and designed to capture both outcomes and impact, particularly in relation to gender and child protection.

Our strategic planning work is rooted in feminist, trauma-informed, and cross-cultural approaches, ensuring that plans are ambitious and actionable while supporting gender equality, child protection, and transformative change.