Advice
The Centre provides confidential, tailored advice to governments, multilateral and non-governmental organisations, and private sector actors engaging with armed groups.
Our offer
The Centre on Armed Groups’ unique understanding of—and access to—armed groups and the territories they control positions us to provide context-specific advice to our partners. We help develop policies and programming approaches that are best suited to achieve impact in the environments where they operate. Our advisory work supports partners aiming to reduce violence, resolve and transform conflict, and improve humanitarian access and protection.
Our approach
Our experience
The Centre’s advisory approach is fully bespoke, ensuring that our guidance is tailored to each partner’s needs. We take a highly collaborative approach, investing in understanding our partners’ goals, capacities, and resources to determine how our expertise and access can best enhance their policy and programming outcomes. This allows us to support partners in adopting policies and practices aligned with their objectives, while helping them strengthen internal capacities and adapt how they work.
We have delivered advisory support to partners on a range of issues. We have advised on access negotiations for humanitarian response, helped development actors adapt to fast-moving dynamics, and supported diplomatic missions in identifying new tracks for engagement—on issues ranging from service delivery to climate resilience. We have also supported initiatives that include integrating engagement strategies into programming, designing guidelines for field operations, and helping partners understand the risks and trade-offs of different forms of dialogue and monitoring and measuring outcomes.