Category: Our services

Our Services
Scanteam’s core competence is methodology. Our services are based on field-proven knowledge and the robust use of international standards, methodology tools and good practice.
The scope of our experience allows Scanteam to innovate with different approaches, according to the needs of each client.
Our Services

We help clients achieve results, with:
The design of instruments for the delivery of international assistance. We specialise with Multi Donor/Partner Funds.
Feasibility studies, needs assessment, planning and appraisal
Risk assessment and risk management strategies
Stakeholder mapping, consultation and social dialogue
Developing results-based performance monitoring frameworks and systems
Performance monitoring over the full life or a programme or investment
Mid-term reviews, final evaluation and lessons learned studies
Conflict assessment and analysis
Political economy studies
Capacity development and training
Integration of gender equality into all service areas

International Standards and Good Practice
Scanteam Partners use international standards, guidance and good practice, including:

Those used by the OECD DAC, the World Bank, the United Nations and European Union, for appraisal, monitoring and evaluation. We regularly work with standards used by the major bilateral donors and non-governmental organisations.
International responsible business due diligence standards, among them the United Nations Guidance on Human Rights and World Bank IFC Performance Standards for Environmental and Social Impact Assessment, among others.
World Bank standards for Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability.

Organisational reviews

Scanteam conducts organisational reviews, using participatory methods to create internal learning and ownership, and establish new insight.

Organisational reviews are useful to create insight ahead of strategic or restructuring processes. They are often requested by different donors to verify that organisations follow good governance principles, have abilities to follow up their strategies and reach their expected goals, have good Human Resources management, communications and administrative procedures and routines, and solid financial management and anti-corruption policies and procedures.

Strategic advice and process facilitation

Scanteam provides strategic advise and facilitates strategic planning processes for organisations and companies. We facilitate participatory processes to establish results-based management systems, monitoring systems, and risk management systems. We provide advise on programme design and approach, and programme proposals.

Evaluations and Reviews

Documenting Results, Producing Accountability, Learning Lessons

Our evaluations and reviews provide evidence-based findings and recommendations, documenting achievements and identifying practical areas for improvement. Our work is based on internationally-agreed “best practice” standards and field-based experience from having evaluated programmes and projects in over 100 countries. We involve stakeholders throughout, to ensure relevance, and realistic and implementable proposals.

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Research and Studies

Producing Knowledge

Scanteam produces policy briefs and other knowledge products based on practical experience and evaluations done in our thematic fields. We lead a research consortium with the Danish Institute for International Studies and the Netherlands Institute for International Relations (“Clingendael”) that has a multi-year framework agreement with Norway’s MFA to deliver studies in the fields of conflict, vulnerability, development policy and development economics.

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Capacity Development

Building Skills and Organisations

Actors invest huge sums in developing human resources, organisations and institutions, yet this field consistently receives poor ratings in evaluations. Typical causes are poor understanding of context, inappropriate forms of capacity building, inadequate results tracking and insufficient support. Scanteam has extensive experience in providing the analytics and delivering actual capacity development services across a wide range of situations, sectors and actors.

Stakeholder engagement and collective action

Stakeholder Engagement: Helping companies build real social licence for operations

When companies enter into a new area with an operation, it is imperative that they gain local acceptance, a so-called social license for their operation. To achieve this, affected communities and other local stakeholders should be engaged in order for win-win-solutions to be identified. is particularly important in large area-requiring investments such as infrastructure and resource extraction with high risk of causing or contributing to adverse impacts on affected local communities. Such negative impact might be human rights infringements, environmental degradation and economic set-backs for the affected communities. The highest risks of negative impacts are historically shown to occur in conflict-affected, developing, frontier and emerging markets.

Scanteam helps plan, map, design and implement representative local stakeholder consultations. We assist in setting up structures for ongoing stakeholder engagement in order for the company gain and maintain social license for its operation.

Collective actions: Developing collaborative and collective action solutions

Societies often grapple with challenges that need multi-party stakeholders to find a solution. The term “collective action problem” describes the situation in which multiple individuals would all benefit from a certain action, i.e. curbing corruption, but has an associated cost making it implausible that any individual can or will undertake and solve it alone. The ideal solution is then to undertake this as a collective action, thereby holding each other accountable and sharing the costs (financial as well as social). Scanteam helps actors identify collective actions and set up suitable multi-stakeholder structures to solve challenges.

While generating desired win-win outcomes is often time demanding, collaborative efforts at identifying common interests and space for joint action is often necessary for achieving sustainable solutions.