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Current Projects
African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes (ACCORD)
African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes (ACCORD)
We are leading the endline evaluation of ACCORD’s Building Inclusive and Multi-Dimensional Approaches and Capacities for Effective Conflict Prevention in Africa project, funded by Sida. This work spans the African Union, Regional Economic Communities, and grassroots organizations across the continent. Through a gender-responsive, mixed-methods approach, we are assessing how ACCORD has strengthened institutional responses, built local peace infrastructures, and generated evidence-based analysis to prevent conflict. Our evaluation prioritizes actionable recommendations that connect high-level policy frameworks with the realities of community-level peacebuilding.
Center for Disaster Philanthropy (CDP)
Center for Disaster Philanthropy (CDP)
We are partnering with CDP to map the global landscape of disaster philanthropy. This initiative uses social network analysis, stakeholder interviews, and participatory sensemaking to reveal how resources, expertise, and information flow through the field. The resulting maps and insights will help CDP identify key influencers, strengthen relationships, and design strategies for more equitable and effective disaster response and recovery. By making the invisible connections visible, this project will support CDP and its partners to catalyze collective impact in a rapidly evolving ecosystem.
Track Record
Headwind Partners: Our Collective Experience
Headwind Partners: Our Collective Experience
Global Development Experience
Before forming Headwind Partners, our team members built decades of experience across 50+ countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East, and the United States. Much of this work was as individuals, often alongside one another, on institutional support contracts for USAID or as USAID staff. Collectively, we’ve designed and managed programs, led major evaluations, strengthened monitoring and learning systems, and supported governments, donors, and grassroots organizations to co-create sustainable, locally led solutions.
Our founders and principals bring especially deep experience with USAID, ranging from community-level grants to agency-wide systems. Individually, we advanced USAID’s localization efforts, developed country-wide MEL frameworks, led $80+ million multi-country programs, and equipped staff with practical, participatory tools to measure progress and adapt. Several of us also contributed to U.S. Department of State initiatives, guiding stabilization, conflict prevention, crime and violence prevention, and rule of law programs in challenging environments.
Together, this background gives Headwind Partners a foundation of proven expertise in:
Strategic Design and Adaptive Learning – facilitating theory of change processes, building participatory learning systems, and integrating gender, youth, and equity into strategy and evaluation.
Evaluation Leadership and Evidence Generation – leading complex, multi-country evaluations; conducting portfolio reviews; and building MEL capacity for hundreds of program managers and local partners.
Cross-Functional Facilitation and Leadership – driving collaborative strategic planning, supporting programs like Local Works, and managing diverse teams across regions and technical sectors.
Communications and Knowledge Sharing – translating evidence into action through global impact reports, organization-wide data systems, and learning communities.
Our Team's Previous Clients and Employers
Our Team's Previous Clients and Employers
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