Our strategic intent is to be globally acknowledged as an innovator in economic development practice. Combining theory, practice and reflection, we enable clients to explore options and support decision-making processes. We collaborate with strategic partners to create knowledge on contextually sound economic development.
Services
At Mesopartner, we focus on three main areas. First, we build development capacity through activities like diagnostics, process upgrades, events, coaching, and mentoring. Second, we conduct research, including literature reviews and action research, with results shared through publications, tools, training, podcasts, and policy recommendations. Finally, we create practical tools by applying academic theory, our own research, and global insights to make complex concepts accessible and useful.
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Mesopartner has assisted national and provincial governments, as well as donor organisations and international organisations, to develop and refine policies, in particular in the field of local and regional economic development.
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Over the years Mesopartner has built a reputation as a method developer with some widely applied instruments like PACA and Compass.
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In the process of developing local and regional economies, it is often necessary for organisations or stakeholders to change their role and their activities to improve developmental activities.
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It is our experience that teaching and training are important yet only a small part of effective capacity building.
Topics
Mesopartner is a research consultancy that strives to develop robust and empirically proven methodologies that enables our clients to improve their capability to make decisions under conditions of uncertainty, improve their impact despite resource constraints, and in general promote more sustainable and systemic interventions. To this end, we frequently conduct research and publish our findings either by ourselves or with our clients.
Mesopartner is involved in self funded or contracted research in several thematic areas. We conduct applied research in the broad area of economic development in partnership with think tanks, Universities, academics or with customers.
Some of our current research themes:
