What is Narrate?
Since 2000, Narrate has been focused on improving decision-making in complex environments, combining complexity science, narrative approaches and cognitive neuroscience in ways that produce clear organisational benefits like improved sales, better impact measurement and lower cost, more effective interventions.
Narrate is collaborating on introducing new monitoring and evaluation approaches that enable donors, policy-makers and implementers to understand the true impact of interventions, to enable them to design and monitor smaller scale, context-appropriate projects and to allow them to share experience and improve the effectiveness of projects.
As part of an end-to-end process of collaborating with clients in complex environments, Narrate has particular skills in using the
recognises that complex systems are unpredictable and that they require agile and insightful ways of generating evidence to inform policy and action. A key element of Narrate’s work is to facilitate clients’ and stakeholders’ participation in engaging with research data to identify actionable insights.
Narrate offers technical leadership for all aspects of narrative-based research, including:
Narrate has a substantial portfolio of experience in conducting narrative-based research, monitoring and evaluation for development interventions globally.
Narrate has worked with a wide variety of commercial organisations around the world, from social enterprise startups to multi-national Silicon Valley tech companies. Its projects have run the gamut from one-day facilitation engagements for local teams to multi-country programmes incorporating research, facilitated insights and action-generation and management.
Since 2005, Narrate has worked with various governments and government agencies, including:
Improving service delivery (European Commission)