Services
From climate change action and refugee support to cross-cultural and global education, NESA is working with governments, NGOs, agencies and institutions around the world to solve some of the most pressing challenges of our time. Our services fall into six main areas of focus:
1. International Development
NESA works with institutions and agencies around the world to end extreme poverty and empower resilient communities to realize their potential. Often our work involves collaboratively researching grassroots development issues and devising programs to train change agents and stakeholders. These include educators and development workers engaged in poverty alleviation, good governance, organizational reform, gender equity initiatives, human rights, environmental awareness and climate change action, and community mobilization.
Examples of our work in International Development can be found here.
NESA works with institutions and agencies around the world to end extreme poverty and empower resilient communities to realize their potential. Often our work involves collaboratively researching grassroots development issues and devising programs to train change agents and stakeholders. These include educators and development workers engaged in poverty alleviation, good governance, organizational reform, gender equity initiatives, human rights, environmental awareness and climate change action, and community mobilization.
Examples of our work in International Development can be found here.
2. Climate Change Action
Incorporating current research and developing strategies on climate change adaptation and mitigation, we work with organizations committed to raising awareness of climate change effects, causes and solutions and mobilizing individuals and communities to take positive and effective action. Often, our work in Climate Change Action includes partnering with organizational leaders to set goals for a specific group, developing strategies and materials for meaningful community-based engagement, and then working closely with local leaders to implement these strategies in a way that inspires new patterns and engagement. Whether training youth in Jamaica as Climate Change Action Agents; researching indigenous African solutions to climate change challenges; or providing educators with interactive, participatory curriculum materials for use in their classrooms, we are able to translate data into action.
Examples of our Climate Change Action work can be found here.
Incorporating current research and developing strategies on climate change adaptation and mitigation, we work with organizations committed to raising awareness of climate change effects, causes and solutions and mobilizing individuals and communities to take positive and effective action. Often, our work in Climate Change Action includes partnering with organizational leaders to set goals for a specific group, developing strategies and materials for meaningful community-based engagement, and then working closely with local leaders to implement these strategies in a way that inspires new patterns and engagement. Whether training youth in Jamaica as Climate Change Action Agents; researching indigenous African solutions to climate change challenges; or providing educators with interactive, participatory curriculum materials for use in their classrooms, we are able to translate data into action.
Examples of our Climate Change Action work can be found here.
3. Curriculum Development
Starting with a learner-centered philosophy which recognizes that effective learning materials must be relevant, culturally appropriate, enjoyable and practical, NESA helps empower communities, schools, teachers and learners through powerful and motivating curriculum development. We work with you to develop customized, appealing and high-impact curriculum materials to help learners of all ages acquire the skills, attitudes and knowledge to be more effective in their jobs, as change agents, or aspiring professionals. Always starting by identifying the real needs of learners through participatory consultation with local experts, practitioners and targeted learners, NESA associates have created training curricula recognized around the world for their excellence, creativity and innovation.
Examples of our Curriculum Development work can be found here.
Starting with a learner-centered philosophy which recognizes that effective learning materials must be relevant, culturally appropriate, enjoyable and practical, NESA helps empower communities, schools, teachers and learners through powerful and motivating curriculum development. We work with you to develop customized, appealing and high-impact curriculum materials to help learners of all ages acquire the skills, attitudes and knowledge to be more effective in their jobs, as change agents, or aspiring professionals. Always starting by identifying the real needs of learners through participatory consultation with local experts, practitioners and targeted learners, NESA associates have created training curricula recognized around the world for their excellence, creativity and innovation.
Examples of our Curriculum Development work can be found here.
4. Strategic Planning
By fully engaging key organizational figures as well as all major stakeholders in a reflective, provocative procedure that both values the positives of the past and focuses on the future, NESA leads organizations through a participatory process that results in a clear definition of the organization's purpose and the development of realistic goals and objectives consistent with the organization’s mission that can be accomplished in a defined timeframe within the organization’s capacity for implementation. The NESA bottom-up approach develops a sense of full ownership of the plan that brings together everyone’s best and most reasoned efforts in building a consensus about where the organization is going, ensures the most effective use of an organization’s resources by identifying and focusing on key priorities, and provides a baseline from which progress can be measured.
Examples of our Strategic Planning work can be found here.
By fully engaging key organizational figures as well as all major stakeholders in a reflective, provocative procedure that both values the positives of the past and focuses on the future, NESA leads organizations through a participatory process that results in a clear definition of the organization's purpose and the development of realistic goals and objectives consistent with the organization’s mission that can be accomplished in a defined timeframe within the organization’s capacity for implementation. The NESA bottom-up approach develops a sense of full ownership of the plan that brings together everyone’s best and most reasoned efforts in building a consensus about where the organization is going, ensures the most effective use of an organization’s resources by identifying and focusing on key priorities, and provides a baseline from which progress can be measured.
Examples of our Strategic Planning work can be found here.
5. Global & Multicultural Education
Global climate change. Global village. Global citizenship. From economics to the environment, our shrinking world and the challenges it presents has pushed global and cross-cultural training from the wings and onto centre stage. Not just a scattering of fringe courses anymore, global and cross-cultural training provides students, managers and employees with essential skills, attitudes and knowledge that are arguably as critical as those of any traditional core subject or business preparation. With their experience working in nearly 30 countries and history of providing effective global/cross-cultural workshops, courses and in-service training for more than 30 years, NESA associates work with schools, companies, and organizations to develop effective training materials and develop and deliver training for your students or staff that will make a world of difference.
Examples of our Global and Multicultural Education work can be found here.
Global climate change. Global village. Global citizenship. From economics to the environment, our shrinking world and the challenges it presents has pushed global and cross-cultural training from the wings and onto centre stage. Not just a scattering of fringe courses anymore, global and cross-cultural training provides students, managers and employees with essential skills, attitudes and knowledge that are arguably as critical as those of any traditional core subject or business preparation. With their experience working in nearly 30 countries and history of providing effective global/cross-cultural workshops, courses and in-service training for more than 30 years, NESA associates work with schools, companies, and organizations to develop effective training materials and develop and deliver training for your students or staff that will make a world of difference.
Examples of our Global and Multicultural Education work can be found here.
6. Training & Instructional Skills
Drawing on a richly diverse background of facilitation and teaching, from training literacy instructors in Chile and community development workers in Ghana to educating teachers at universities in Canada, NESA associates have developed and delivered successful training of instructors and trainers programs in a dizzying array of subjects and in venues ranging from university classrooms to mud-brick halls. Associates have developed unique, proven approaches to instructor training while staying abreast of best practices and changing resources. NESA works with you to develop training programs or workshops that meet your needs and circumstances. In collaboration with you and your staff, we can then implement the training by utilizing the experience and instructional skills of NESA's outstanding, credentialed facilitators selected for your unique instructional situation.
Examples of our Training and Instructional work can be found here.
Drawing on a richly diverse background of facilitation and teaching, from training literacy instructors in Chile and community development workers in Ghana to educating teachers at universities in Canada, NESA associates have developed and delivered successful training of instructors and trainers programs in a dizzying array of subjects and in venues ranging from university classrooms to mud-brick halls. Associates have developed unique, proven approaches to instructor training while staying abreast of best practices and changing resources. NESA works with you to develop training programs or workshops that meet your needs and circumstances. In collaboration with you and your staff, we can then implement the training by utilizing the experience and instructional skills of NESA's outstanding, credentialed facilitators selected for your unique instructional situation.
Examples of our Training and Instructional work can be found here.
