Consultancy Services

Experience across a wide range of issues, including climate change, marine biodiversity, fisheries conservation, the Arctic and Antarctic, maritime policy, nuclear safety, security, and arms control, toxic pollution and clean production, fresh water management and sanitation, sustainable consumption, tobacco control, international governance, international trade, access to information and transparency.

The Varda Group provides a wide range of consultancy services

Campaign coordination and leadership: Designing and coordinating international campaigns, including coalition campaigns

Political campaigning and advocacy: Designing and leading campaigns which integrate public activities and targeted communication strategies with efforts behind the scenes to influence international law and policy. Representation and advocacy in political or other fora

Strategic and policy analysis on specific issues as well as cross sectoral and geopolitical challenges

Strategic planning and project design for campaigns and organizations: this may involve preparing plans for our clients, or leading an organization through a strategic planning process. We also do this in the form of training

Project evaluation: Including assessment and review of projects prior to funding, as well as analysis of successes and failures after completion

Meeting facilitation: we prepare and facilitate many types of meetings, ranging from large, formal governance meetings (board and executive level) to informal campaign or strategy meetings

Organization of public events or meetings, including chairing, facilitation and panel moderation, logistical preparations, and reporting

Organizational support, designing governance, operational and management structures, personnel recruitment, coaching and training

Public lectures and speeches on a range of topics

Organization of field expeditions for advocacy or documentation purposes

Organizational management, staff coaching, and conflict resolution

Policy analysis

Public speaking, panel moderation, speech writing

Communications and social media support

Event organization: from internal meetings to major public events

Our team

Rémi Parmentier

Elaine Lawrence

Kelly Rigg

Isabel Leal Maldonado

Current projects

All projects

June

Organizing and facilitating the official curtain-raiser event The Emerging Protection Principle, at the Immersed in Change conference in San José, Costa Rica, on behalf of Let's Be Nice to the Ocean

May

Completion of member consultation and analysis for the International Network of Energy Transition Think Tanks (INETTT)

May

Facilitating Agora-Energiewende's Directors team meeting on the organisation's strategic framework

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May

"Plastics Treaty Negotiations: a Ray of Hope in Ottawa", an op-ed and analysis written in collaboration with the Institute on International Relations & Sustainable Development (IDDRI)

April

Participation in the 4th Session of the UN Plastics Treaty negotiations (INC4) in Ottawa on behalf of PR3-Resolve

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April

Guest presenter at the Hydra strategic ocean talks

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April

Project coordination for the design and development of a new Greenpeace ship

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April

Participation in the UN Ocean Decade Conference in Barcelona, in partnership with TBA21

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March

Organizing and facilitating the Let’s Be Nice to the Ocean round-table at the Monaco Ocean Week

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The Varda group has vast experience across a wide range of issues, including climate change, marine biodiversity, fisheries conservation, the Arctic and Antarctic, maritime policy, nuclear safety, security, and arms control, toxic pollution and clean production, fresh water management and sanitation, sustainable consumption, tobacco control, international governance, international trade, access to information and transparency.