Our Services
3 ways we work with you
Gender equality, diversity and inclusion work fails for predictable reasons: a strategy nobody is accountable for, a training that ends when the room empties, a commitment nothing can measure. We work across the full arc — establishing the evidence, designing the change, and building the capacity to sustain it — with an intersectional approach, in French or English.
Every mandate begins with a free 30-minute scoping call, and comes with a written proposal, a defined budget and a fixed timeline.
Research, Diagnostics & Evaluation
Know where you stand, with evidence you can defend.
The problem. You need to answer a hard question credibly. A funder wants to know what your investment produced. Your board wants to know why the same patterns persist. A policy team needs evidence before it commits. Or you suspect something isn't working — a retention gap, a survey result, a complaint — but you don't want to spend budget solving the wrong problem.
What we do
• Applied research — commissioned studies, evidence and literature reviews, sector and policy scans, baseline and endline studies, participatory and consultative research with affected communities
• Organizational diagnostics — GEDI baselines (representation, recruitment, promotion, retention, pay, decision-making bodies), climate assessments through confidential interviews and focus groups, maturity assessment, benchmarking against comparable organizations
• Evaluation & audit — gender audits of policies, practices and culture; mid-term and final programme evaluations with an intersectional lens; pay and representation analysis; accessibility and inclusion audits; compliance assessment against donor and legal frameworks
Key deliverables
Methodology and evaluation matrix validated prior to data collection, mixed-method data collection, data-based findings report, prioritized and costed recommendations, validation workshop, and summary and presentation for decision-making.
From 4 to 16 weeks.
Depending on scope and number of sites. Deliverables meet standard donor evaluation and reporting requirements.
Ideal for
Organizations reporting to funders or boards; teams closing a programme cycle; employers facing pay-equity or inclusion obligations; anyone who needs a baseline before setting targets.
Strategy & Systems Transformation
Change what produces the outcome, not just the messaging.
The problem. You've run the trainings. The commitment is on your website. And the same dynamics persist — because the issue isn't awareness. It's how decisions get made, who holds power, how budgets are allocated, and what your systems quietly reward. This is the layer most organizations skip. It's also the only one that changes results.
What we do
• Strategic planning — multi-year GEDI strategies with measurable targets, results frameworks with indicators and baselines, and clear accountability lines for who owns what
• Systems and policy architecture — governance structures, policy design and revision, and integration of GEDI into HR systems, programme cycles and budgets so it stops being a side initiative
• Decolonizing practice — rebalancing power in partnerships, funding relationships and decision-making, particularly for organizations working across North–South relationships
• Technical assistance and accompaniment — embedded expert support for the people carrying the work: drafting tools and policies, gender-responsive proposal and budget design, coaching focal points and GEDI committees, donor reporting support, and change management with internal champion networks
Key deliverables
Multi-year strategy co-developed through participatory workshops; results framework with indicators and clearly assigned responsibilities; accountability structure; revised and integrated policies; costed implementation plan; and ongoing support provided via a monthly bank of days.
3 to 6 months
For strategy design; accompaniment by retainer or fixed-scope mandate thereafter. Remote with optional on-site or field missions.
Ideal for
Leadership teams committed to structural change; organizations whose GEDI results have plateaued; teams with a mandate but no dedicated GEDI staff; international organizations rethinking power in their partnerships.
Training, Facilitation & Capacity Building
Sessions people apply on Monday morning.
The problem. Your teams have heard the terms but don't know what to do differently in their actual work. Or you've booked awareness sessions before and watched them change nothing — because they were generic, one-directional, and disconnected from how your organization really operates.
What we do
• Custom training design — built from your real cases, not an off-the-shelf deck: GEDI foundations, intersectionality, gender-based analysis (ADS+), inclusive leadership, decolonizing development practice, gender-responsive project and budget design, bystander intervention, inclusive communication
• Facilitation — participatory throughout, using live interactive tools (Kahoot!, Slido, Klaxoon, live polling) so every participant contributes rather than watches
• Workshop and process facilitation — strategic planning sessions, team dialogues, consultations, and difficult conversations that need a neutral, skilled outsider in the room
• Train-the-trainer — so your own people can deliver the content after we leave
Key deliverables
Needs assessment, tailored program, facilitation in French or English, in-person, remote, or hybrid delivery, participant workbook, toolkit, facilitation guide for internal roll-out, pre- and post-training assessment, 60-day follow-up session.
Half-day to multi-day programmes, for 8 to over 200 people.
Ideal for
Organizations rolling out a GEDI commitment; corporations building manager capability; programme teams who must apply gender analysis to their work; leadership groups needing a neutral facilitator.
A modular offer, built around your real needs
None of these categories is a closed package. Every mandate is designed around what your organization actually needs right now — its context, its capacity, its budget and its timeline. Our consulting services are available à la carte or as integrated accompaniment, and the offer is fully customizable.
Start where you are.
You don't have to begin with a diagnostic. If your priority is already clear, we start there.
Combine categories.
Most mandates draw on two or three: a diagnostic that leads into a strategy, or a strategy supported by a series of trainings.
Take only what you need.
Individual components can be delivered on their own — a single workshop, a policy review, a results framework, an external opinion on an evaluation design.
Adjust as we go.
Scope, pace and level of support are reviewed together and adapted as your priorities shift.
Work within your budget.
Tell us what's available and we'll propose what delivers the most value within it, rather than quoting a fixed offer and asking you to find the funds.
Delivered on your terms.
In French or English, in person, virtual or hybrid, on your calendar and in your working formats.
We offer PRO BONO solutions
Each year, F.Dramé Consulting reserves a limited number of pro bono partnerships for grassroots organizations and women-led initiatives that could not otherwise access strategic GEDI support. These are full mandates — not scaled-down favors — selected through a short expression of interest. Contact us to learn how we could work together.
Not sure where to start?
Take the orientation survey: five questions, two minutes. It tells you which category your real need falls into — or suggests a scoping conversation if several needs overlap.