Development cooperation and performance management

Effective development cooperation depends on more than well-designed interventions. It requires a clear understanding of context, a credible logic for achieving change, capable institutions, and systems that allow organisations to monitor progress, learn and adapt. 

Beyond Intent supports governments, public authorities, development agencies and organisations in turning strategic ambitions into practical results. We combine extensive experience of development cooperation with expertise in strategic planning, results-based management, monitoring and evaluation, institutional development and organisational change.

Our work spans the full results cycle — from problem and context analysis, theory of change and strategic planning to performance frameworks, monitoring, evaluation, learning and reporting. We help organisations strengthen both the systems and the capabilities needed to use evidence for better decisions and improved performance.

With experience from more than 50 countries and decades of work with governments, development agencies, international organisations and civil society, we understand the institutional and operational realities in which development cooperation takes place. Our experience covers public administration and governance, democracy and human rights, economic development, trade, environment and statistics, as well as complex and conflict-affected environments.

The result is development cooperation that is more strategically focused, evidence-based and capable of learning — connecting policy and strategy with institutional capacity, implementation and measurable results.

”Huron”

In 2019 Beyond Intent carried out the evaluation of Sweden’s support of Liberia's WTO accession process through cooperation with the Swedish National Board of Trade and Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

”Baikal”

A Swedish NGO with operations in about ten countries received support from Beyond Intent in assessing and creating a structure for risk management for partners. Beyond Intent also
completed an analysis of the organization's key
performance indicators (KPI).