Transform

Consult

Transform Consult

Consult

Transform

Transform Consult helps organisations design, deliver, fund and evidence people-centred change — through participatory communication, social and behaviour change, creative engagement, community research and practical systems support.

We support humanitarian, development, public-interest and cultural organisations move from awareness-raising to community-led change.

Advisory

Strategy

Institutional Support

Mentorship

We work with organisations that need more than awareness-raising, messaging or one-off training. We support teams to build communication, engagement and learning processes that are participatory, safer, locally grounded and capable of producing meaningful social and behavioural change.

What we help with

We support organisations with people-centred advisory, strategy, mentorship and training across six connected areas:

ORGANISATIONS & INDIVIDUALS

Humanitarian organisations

International NGOs, National & Local NGOS

Refugee Led Organisations & Locally led networks

UN agencies and donor-funded programmes

Foundations and public-interest funders

Arts, culture and media organisations working for social change

Consortia and commercial primes needing specialist community engagement, SBC, PSEA, MEL or creative communication expertise

Who we work with

We support teams working on:

Community engagement and accountability
Social and behaviour change
Localisation and locally-led action
PSEA and safeguarding communication
Protection, child protection and GBV prevention
Women’s rights and child rights
Health, WASH, hygiene, SRHR and RCCE
Climate resilience and disaster preparedness
Governance, justice and civic participation
Arts, media and culture for personal and social change

Participatory research and audience insight

We help organisations understand what communities know, believe, fear, value, trust and need — before designing interventions, campaigns or communication tools.

Strategic communication and campaign design

We help organisations communicate complex social change work clearly and persuasively to communities, partners, donors and decision-makers.

Participatory theatre for social change

We design and deliver participatory theatre processes that help communities explore lived experience, power, risk, rights, behaviour, social norms and possible change.

We also train staff, facilitators, artists and community changemakers to use and integrate powerful participatory theatre methods into existing programmes, campaigns, research, training, community engagement and behaviour-change initiatives.

Mixed-method Social & Behaviour Change Communication

We develop SBCC strategies and interventions that combine audience insight, behavioural analysis, social norms work, participatory research, creative facilitation, community dialogue, media, theatre-based methods to faciliatate action. This is distinct from strategic communications as the focus is on how people understand, trust, discuss, practise and sustain change.

PSEA, protection and accountability communication

We support organisations to communicate rights, risk, reporting pathways, feedback mechanisms and safeguarding responsibilities in ways people can understand, trust and use.

Delivery, Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning

We design monitoring, evaluation and learning approaches that help organisations understand whether communication, engagement and creative methods are changing trust, behaviour, participation or programme quality.

How we work

Our approach is practical, participatory and rooted in lived-experience and contextual real-world delivery. We combine:

Strategic analysis
Participatory research
Creative facilitation
Social and behaviour change communication
Theatre and arts-based methods
Design of practical communication toolkits
Monitoring, evaluation and learning
Coaching, training and follow-up support

We have developed a series of models based upon best practice, tried and tested these with communities and always adapt to the specifics of teams we work with and local partners - applyinbg methods to context, culture, language, risk and programme realities.

Our Core Offers

People-Centred Change Audit

A practical diagnostic for organisations that want to understand whether their engagement, communication and participation work is genuinely enabling change — or simply creating more activity, adding noise to the void.

SBCC and Community Engagement Strategy

Support to communicate rights, information, reporting pathways, feedback mechanisms and safeguarding responsibilities in ways communities can understand, trust and use.

Change Campaign Design

A campaign design package for organisations working with behaviour change and public engagement on rights, health, WASH, climate, governance or social justice.

Participatory Communication Toolkit

Design of practical tools such as dialogue guides, facilitator manuals, theatre exercises, communication guides, radio formats, visual explainers, social content packs or community feedback tools.

Fundable Change

Sprint

Focused support to translate an emerging programme idea into a compelling, donor-ready package for integrating social and behaviour change communication. This can include rapid programme framing, theory of change, concept, indicative budget, and a mutually agreed pitch narrative that clearly communicates need, strategic approach, outcomes, and results framework.

Embedded Advisory Support

Ongoing senior advisory support for programmes needing expertise across SBCC, community engagement, safeguarding communication, participatory MEL, campaign design or localisation.

Building Transformation Training and ToT

Practical training and trainer development in participatory theatre, SBCC, community engagement, facilitation, research and impact measurement.

Participatory MEL and Evidence Package

Monitoring, evaluation and learning support for organisations that need to evidence the impact of communication, engagement, creative methods or behaviour-change work.

Why
Transform

Consult?

Transform Consult brings together strategy, communication, participation, accountability, creativity and evidence, drawing on tested dialogic and creative methods developed through work with communities.

Through our sister organisation, Arts for Action, and our accumulated experience across humanitarian and development practice, participatory theatre, social research, SBCC, community engagement and arts for social change, we support organisations to design more participatory, accountable and context-sensitive approaches to change.