Wasafiri is a consultancy and institute helping leaders and organisations tackle the toughest problems.

From climate change to conflict, from food security to healthcare, some challenges feel impossibly complex. Yet from our work on the frontlines, Wasafiri remains relentlessly optimistic. By building collective and adaptive responses to seemingly intractable issues, ordinary leaders can bring about extraordinary change.

What We Offer

Consulting

Strategy, research and project management services for organisations tackling complex problems

The Institute

Equipping leaders and organisations with the knowledge and resources needed to drive system change

Systemcraft

Our framework for helping change leaders and their institutions determine “What next?” when grappling with a complex problem

Change Initiatives

The issues we’re passionate about and have committed to for the long-term

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BLOGS AND EVENTS

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What can the Development Sector learn from the Private Sector about tackling complex problems?

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Achieving graduation from poverty at scale in Kenya: what next?

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/ November 22, 2018/Flora McCrone

Wasafiri Certified as B-Corp

Since inception, Wasafiri has understood profit as a goal secondary to achieving wider social value. Through the rigorous B-Corp certification process, this has now been formally recognised, joining the ranks of highly respected companies such as Patagonia and Ben & Jerry’s.

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/ November 12, 2018/Flora McCrone

When Less Empathy Is Desirable: The Complexity of Empathy and Intergroup Relationships in Preventing Violent Extremism

As practitioners of preventing violent extremism (PVE), our aim is to reduce the drivers and enablers of extremism, whatever they may be, and in doing so, reduce the willingness to engage in or support violent acts against ‘the other’. As empathy is traditionally associated with lower propensities towards violence, this has led to the fostering of empathy as a program goal in some PVE activities. Messaging and alternative narratives are often included in PVE programming in pursuit of this aim.

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/ October 29, 2018/Flora McCrone

Graduation from poverty at scale in Kenya

Could a new initiative on graduation from poverty help eliminate extreme poverty in Kenya? I’m heading out to Nairobi from London to help evolve how efforts to reduce poverty in Kenya are done. In the international development sector, and in the business world, improving the incentives for a large number of organisations to work together, and helping leaders in those organisations navigate a complex landscape that works better for the whole, can add genuine value.

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/ October 15, 2018/Flora McCrone

How do you create change in the face of complex systems challenges?

What do you do when faced with a problem so vast so complex and so confusing that you can’t really work out what’s going on and have little idea what to do or where to start? The short easy answer is – you don’t work on it; the longer, harder answer is you work on the conditions that create the problem.