IP3 turns complex development challenges into evidence, policy, and practical action.
Independent policy analysis, action research and management consulting for governments, development partners, multilateral development banks, universities, think tanks and private-sector institutions.
Or go straight to our 8 sectors and 6 capabilities.
A fiscal squeeze shows up in schools. A heatwave shows up in the power grid. A weak institution turns a good budget into a stalled project.
The first job is to see how these pressures connect. Select a system to see what it is tied to.
Growth, jobs and public revenue set what governments can afford to do about everything else.
Tied to climate, education, energy and institutions.
Heat, floods and drought hit harvests, grids and city budgets, and the transition reshapes the economy.
Tied to economy, energy and cities.
Skills decide who can take the jobs growth creates, and schools are only as good as the budget and management behind them.
Tied to economy and institutions.
Growing cities need energy, water and transport, and the revenue to provide them.
Tied to climate, energy and institutions.
Cost, reliability and emissions shape household welfare, business costs and climate targets at once.
Tied to economy, climate, cities and institutions.
Laws, budgets and agencies decide whether any policy in this list reaches the people it is meant for.
Tied to economy, education, cities and energy.
We build the evidence base from five kinds of material and keep each one traceable to its source.
Layering them lets us test one against another, so a finding does not rest on a single number or a single interview.
Two questions come up in almost every engagement: did it work, and is it worth it? These diagrams show how we frame each one.
Evidence rarely points to a single answer. We set out the options, what each costs and risks, who has to act, and what implementation will take, so the decision is made with open eyes.
Worked example, hypothetical: a ministry must widen access to secondary school on a fixed budget.
Where children are missing out, and the reasons behind it.
Three routes compared on the same terms.
Each option tested for what it costs, who benefits, how fast it works and how likely it is to succeed.
Who delivers, how it is financed, which rules must change and how results will be tracked.
A recommended option, the conditions attached to it and the indicators to watch after launch.
Policy moves through ministries, agencies and municipalities into budgets, rules and front-line services. We help design the delivery arrangements, skills and monitoring that let a change hold.
Mandates, structures and procedures are set so the right body owns the change.
Budgets, eligibility rules and delivery plans turn a policy into something a team can run.
Schools, clinics, utilities and municipal offices receive the skills, tools and guidance to deliver.
Households and firms are reached, and their experience is fed back to decision-makers.
We agree how success will be recognised before the work starts, so results can be tracked, learned from and reported honestly.
Clear mandates, budgets that are spent as planned, and decisions that can be traced to evidence.
How it can be shownBudget execution, procurement and planning records, audit findings.
Services that reach more of the people entitled to them and work when they arrive.
How it can be shownCoverage and quality measures from administrative data and user surveys.
Public finances, infrastructure and programmes that absorb shocks instead of breaking under them.
How it can be shownStress tests, risk registers and performance through disruptions.
Households with better health, learning, income and security than they would otherwise have had.
How it can be shownEvaluation designs that compare outcomes against a credible counterfactual.
Thirty seconds on how we work: start with the system, test what can be checked, and stay until policy works on the ground.
Six kinds of help, each written as the problem a client brings to us.
“We need to understand the problem and choose a defensible course of action.”
Climate · Education · Health Systems · Governance · Economic Transformation · Sustainable Finance · AI
Policy & Economics“We have a mandate or funding window but need an implementable program.”
Climate · Education · Health Systems · Digital Government · Economic Transformation · Sustainable Finance · AI
Program Design“Public funding is insufficient; how do we make this investable?”
Climate · Governance · Economic Transformation · Sustainable Finance
Development Finance“A policy exists, but institutions cannot implement it consistently.”
Health Systems · Digital Government · Governance · AI
Institutions“We need to know what is working, why, for whom, and whether it can scale.”
Climate · Education · Health Systems · Digital Government · Governance · Economic Transformation · Sustainable Finance
MEL & Impact“We need to modernize systems without creating new governance, exclusion or accountability risks.”
Education · Digital Government · AI
Data, Digital & AIA policy choice in one sector lands in several. Select a sector to see which others share the same capabilities and the questions we are asked about it.
Climate commitments must become investment-ready adaptation and resilient infrastructure.
Shares capabilities with
EducationHealth SystemsGovernanceEconomic TransformationSustainable Finance
We are asked about
Learning systems must produce skills for changing economies.
Shares capabilities with
ClimateHealth SystemsDigital GovernmentEconomic TransformationSustainable FinanceAI
We are asked about
Coverage and protection must be fiscally sustainable and well targeted.
Shares capabilities with
ClimateEducationDigital GovernmentGovernanceEconomic TransformationSustainable FinanceAI
We are asked about
Digital transformation must improve services without creating governance or exclusion risks.
Shares capabilities with
We are asked about
Policies fail when institutions cannot implement them consistently.
Shares capabilities with
ClimateHealth SystemsEconomic TransformationSustainable Finance
We are asked about
Growth must create jobs through productive investment and diversification.
Shares capabilities with
ClimateEducationHealth SystemsGovernanceSustainable Finance
We are asked about
Sustainability commitments must become investable pipelines and credible disclosure.
Shares capabilities with
ClimateEducationHealth SystemsGovernanceEconomic Transformation
We are asked about
Public AI needs readiness, governance and accountability, not software hype.
Shares capabilities with
EducationHealth SystemsDigital Government
We are asked about
Feasibility studies, policy analysis, surveys and evaluations. Each one is a short case story on the engagements page.
Asian Development Bank2022–2023
Comprehensive economic, institutional and financial feasibility study for modernizing secondary and madrasah education infrastructure.
Education & Human Capital
SIDA / CPD2022–2023
Empirical investigation into firm-level green technology adoption and circular water management in the textile and RMG sector. Research and advocacy program for the Embassy of Sweden and the Centre for Policy Dialogue (Jan 2022 – Jun 2023): a nationwide survey of 400 firms, 120 key informant interviews and 8 focus groups on the barriers and drivers of the green transition and the policy and green-finance landscape, carried from research design to policy briefs.
Climate Action & ESG
World Bank2019–2020
Nationwide empirical survey measuring technology intensity and digital management practices across manufacturing firms. For the World Bank’s Firm-Level Adoption of Technology (FAT) Survey 2019 (Feb 2019 – Dec 2020): questionnaire design, survey programming guidance, fieldwork training, data quality control and analysis for a policy report covering eight manufacturing sectors, with dissemination seminars.
Economic & Survey Design
Ministry of Finance / BMDF2019–2020
Technical assistance and capacity-building program to strengthen municipal revenue generation.
Data & Digital GovernanceA governed execution platform for policy intelligence work. It watches tiered sources, merges what matters into one policy question, and turns it into briefs that show their evidence before anything is published.
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Live monitoring refreshes every five minutes. Each story arrives with its sources and their tier, the time it was fetched, and the ranking that put it on the board. Decision lenses re-read the same evidence for an executive, a macroeconomist, a development partner, a market analyst, a political economist or an academic.
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The Merged Policy Discussion Studio connects the day's discussions into a single piece of directed research. The analyst sets the perspective, the question and the audience, chooses the discussions to merge, and keeps every source link visible.
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MERLA, climate and ESG, and GovTech are native modules, not add-ons: outcome and milestone tracking with adaptive learning memos, adaptation finance and transition-risk maps, and digital public service maturity with reform roadmaps.
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The Brief Factory turns a story, the daily top ten or a fortnightly period into a brief. The original model draft, the refined policy brief, the evidence, each claim and its verification sit side by side before export.
The full method, with case examples, lives on our approach page.
Understand the system before moving to improve.
Turn evidence into decisions, not just reports.
Turn insight into a credible, testable system.
A good design means nothing if it isn't resourced.
Implementation is part of consulting — not what happens after consulting.
Measure to drive change, not justify it.
Let’s define the question, build the evidence, and identify a practical path forward.
