Built in the region, for the region

GICP was founded on a simple conviction: development programs succeed when decisions rest on credible evidence and when delivery is grounded in the realities of the communities they serve. Too many well-funded initiatives stall between the strategy document and the field — we exist to close that gap.

Our multidisciplinary network brings together researchers, evaluators, program managers, and institutional development specialists. We support governments, multilateral institutions, development partners, NGOs, and private-sector organizations through every stage of the project lifecycle — from first strategic workshop to final evaluation and the institutional capability that remains afterward.

Headquartered in Hargeisa with regional offices in Nairobi and Mogadishu, we pair internationally recognized standards with a depth of regional knowledge that no report can substitute. Our teams work where the decisions are made — and where their consequences are felt.

GICP began with a small team of analysts and evaluators in Hargeisa who kept seeing the same pattern: programs designed far from the field, evaluated after the money was spent, and rarely transformed into lasting institutional strength. They believed a firm rooted in the region could change that.

Early engagements in monitoring and evaluation for local governance programs proved the model. Word traveled — first to national ministries, then to multilateral agencies and international NGOs working across the Horn. Each engagement added a discipline to the practice: strategic planning, then implementation support, then capacity development.

Today, a multidisciplinary network of more than twenty-five experts supports programs from three offices, and our evaluations have informed funding decisions, national strategies, and community-level services alike. The pattern we set out to break is slowly breaking — one well-evidenced decision at a time.