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

Kelly Rigg

Elaine Lawrence

Isabel Leal Maldonado

Current projects

All projects

September

Guest speaker at the opening of the Nice Climate Summit (WATCH Rémi between 17’50 and 37’40)

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September

Drafting on behalf of PR3, the Global Alliance to Advance Reuse, comments on the non-paper of the Chair of the UN Plastics Treaty negotiations

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September

Guest speaker at the 7^th World Ocean Forum in Bizerte, Tunisia

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August

Keynote speech at the Stockholm World Water Week session on plastics pollution international policy

July

Development and coordination of the Let’s Be Nice to the Ocean movement

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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)

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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.