Climate, Resilience & Emerging Challenges
Understanding how climate reshapes health, gender, livelihoods, and development outcomes—and building practical pathways for resilience.
Work that connects systems, sectors, and people.
Counterpoint works across interconnected challenges where evidence, policy, implementation, and partnership must move together.
Our engagements are tailored to context and supported by a network of practitioners, researchers, and sector leaders.
Areas of Engagement
Nine connected pathways for meaningful change.
Public Affairs & Policy Engagement
Navigating policy environments and translating evidence into government action for innovations across the public and private sectors.
Gender Equity & Leadership
Supporting agency, participation, and inclusive leadership across institutions, systems, and communities.
Technology & AI for Sustainable Development
Supporting responsible digital innovation while keeping women, children, families, and equitable outcomes at the centre.
Health Systems
Strengthening institutions, services, implementation pathways, and partnerships to improve quality and equitable access.
Sexual & Reproductive Health and Rights
Advancing reproductive autonomy, choice, and access through policy engagement, service innovation, and systems strengthening.
Coalitions & Partnerships
Convening stakeholders, building alignment, and fostering collaboration around shared priorities and outcomes.
Evidence, Knowledge & Evaluation
Creating evidence papers, analytical frameworks, policy briefs, evaluations, MEL systems, and learning assets that support adaptation.
High Impact Grant-making
Helping funders design, deploy, and execute evidence-informed grant-making strategies with an equity lens and a focus on systems change.
Service 01
Climate & Sustainable Transitions
Relevant SDGs: SDG 3 (Good Health) · SDG 5 (Gender Equality) · SDG 7 (Clean Energy) · SDG 12 (Responsible Consumption) · SDG 13 (Climate Action)
Climate change is reshaping health systems, livelihoods, and development outcomes across Africa and Asia. Businesses and institutions are simultaneously navigating structural transitions in energy, resource use, and supply chains. We work across both dimensions, from community resilience and gender-health responses to private sector strategy and coalition building.
Track 1: Climate, Gender, Health & Resilience
- Evidence synthesis on climate-health-gender intersections
- Adaptive capacity building in health systems and communities
- Policy analysis and stakeholder engagement on climate-health response
- Reproductive health and climate vulnerability analysis
- Multi-stakeholder facilitation and coalition building
Track 2: Climate-Sensitive Transitions
- Anchor evidence papers and thought leadership for climate transitions
- Private sector engagement, positioning, and policy engagement
- Cross-sector partnership development across clean energy, circular economy, and adjacent areas
Service 02
Public Affairs & Policy Engagement
Relevant SDGs: SDG 16 (Strong Institutions & Accountable Governance) · SDG 17 (Partnerships for the Goals) · SDG 10 (Reduced Inequalities)
Translating evidence into policy requires evidence-informed engagement, collaborating with partners to understand and map key stakeholders, and meaningful engagement informed by the geo-political landscape. Navigating critical stakeholder relationships and regulatory environments is central to market access, programme success, and sustained impact. We support companies and foundations to develop credible policy positions, engage decision-makers strategically, and translate sector priorities into government action.
Engagements include:
- Government affairs strategy and stakeholder mapping for market access and entry
- Regulatory pathway navigation and health technology assessment advisory
- Policy positioning for private sector participation in public health systems
- CSR and foundation strategy alignment with national health and development priorities
- Industry association and multi-stakeholder coalition engagement
Service 03
Gender Equity & Leadership
Relevant SDGs: SDG 5 (Gender Equality & Women's Empowerment) · SDG 8 (Decent Work & Economic Growth) · SDG 10 (Reduced Inequalities)
Gender inequality remains one of the most persistent structural barriers to sustainable development. Despite decades of investment and advocacy, women and girls continue to face systemic disadvantages in access to education, economic opportunity, healthcare, political representation, and protection from violence. At current rates of progress, global gender parity is over 130 years away, with women systematically underrepresented in leadership across governments, health systems, and the private sector across sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. We work with organisations to make gender equity structural, embedding it in leadership pathways, programme design, and institutional decision-making.
Engagements include:
- Gender-responsive strategy and programme design
- Inclusive leadership development and pathway design
- Gender equity frameworks and institutional advisory
- Facilitation of gender-sensitive stakeholder processes
- Coalition building with gender equity as a central pillar
Service 04
Technology & AI for Health
Relevant SDGs: SDG 3 (Good Health & Well-being) · SDG 9 (Industry, Innovation & Infrastructure) · SDG 10 (Reduced Inequalities)
The rapid expansion of digital technologies and artificial intelligence presents transformative opportunities for health systems globally. Adoption and adaptation require intentionality so that interventions are grounded with an equity lens, are evidence-informed, and have clear governance models. We support the responsible assessment, contextualisation, and integration of digital health innovations that improve outcomes for women, children, and adolescents.
Engagements include:
- Technology and AI readiness assessment for health system contexts
- Equity and gender analysis of digital health tool design and data
- Health system integration and regulatory pathway navigation
- Governance frameworks for data accountability and algorithmic fairness
- MedTech market entry strategy and health system adoption support
- AI-assisted tool development and pilot implementation in partnership with government
Service 05
Health Systems Strengthening
Relevant SDGs: SDG 3 (Good Health & Well-being) · SDG 10 (Reduced Inequalities) · SDG 17 (Partnerships for the Goals)
Health systems across the globe face compounding pressures with demographic shifts, rising non-communicable disease burdens, and climate-driven health shocks. These are straining institutions that were never designed for this level of concurrent demand. We work with governments, funders and development partners to build the analytical foundations, stakeholder alignment, and strategic clarity that enable durable system-level change including:
- Institutional analysis and health systems assessment
- National and state-level policy advisory and programme design
- Innovation introduction and scale-up strategy and implementation design
- Health governance and accountability strengthening
- Stakeholder engagement and implementation planning
Service 06
Sexual & Reproductive Health and Rights
Relevant SDGs: SDG 3.7 (Universal access to SRH services) · SDG 5 (Gender Equality) · SDG 10 (Reduced Inequalities)
An estimated 218 million women in low- and middle-income countries have an unmet need for modern contraception, while sub-Saharan Africa accounts for approximately 70 per cent of global maternal deaths. We work across government, civil society, and professional associations to strengthen access, navigate complex policy environments, and build coalitions for lasting reform.
Engagements include:
- Coalition building for SRHR policy reform
- Professional association engagement and capacity strengthening
- Programme design for reproductive, maternal, and adolescent health
- Introduction of clinical innovations and care models
- Analysis of climate-reproductive health intersections and adaptive responses
Service 07
Coalitions & Partnerships
Relevant SDGs: SDG 17 (Partnerships for the Goals) · SDG 16 (Strong Institutions) · SDG 10 (Reduced Inequalities)
Complex challenges in health, gender, climate, and development require complementary skills, approaches and tactics. A key strategy for collective impact are coalitions, networks and partnerships. An effective coalition requires skilled convening, shared analysis, and the ability to navigate competing interests without losing strategic momentum. We design and facilitate processes that create the ground for alignment, meaningful consensus leveraging networks across government, philanthropy, civil society, and the private sector.
Engagements include:
- Stakeholder analysis and coalition design
- Curated roundtables and structured multi-stakeholder dialogues
- Learning exchanges and facilitated convenings
- Long-term partnership brokering across sectors and geographies
- Cross-sector coalition building for health, gender, climate, and development priorities
Service 08
Evidence, Knowledge & Evaluation
Relevant SDGs: SDG 16 (Strong Institutions & Accountable Governance) · SDG 17 (Partnerships & Means of Implementation)
Strategies and implementation plans are set for success when they are evidence based. A critical pathway to success is periodic review of progress against strategic vision and knowledge management is critical for this. We bring two complementary capabilities to close this gap: intellectual architecture for knowledge products, and decades of monitoring, evaluation and learning experience.
Track 1: Evidence & Knowledge Products
- Anchor evidence papers, analytical frameworks, and evidence synthesis
- Policy briefs and strategic reports positioned for decision-maker audiences
- Knowledge products for funders, governments, and professional associations
Track 2: Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning
- Programme evaluations and mixed-methods impact assessments
- Theory of change design and review
- Monitoring, evaluation and learning framework design and real-time learning systems
- Monitoring, evaluation and learning capacity strengthening for partner organisations
Service 09
High Impact Grant-making
Philanthropic capital is among the most flexible and catalytic resources in the development ecosystem. We work with funders to design, deploy and execute high-impact grant-making strategies informed by evidence, with an equity lens, and systems focussed for impact at scale.
Engagements include:
- Philanthropic strategy development and investment thesis design
- Grant portfolio design and landscape analysis
- Grantee due diligence and co-funding opportunity identification
- Outcomes frameworks that measure near-term results and long-term systems change
- Equity-centred learning agendas to guide adaptation and accountability
- Funder positioning, narrative development, and thought leadership
Climate
Working across vulnerability and transition.
Climate change is reshaping health, gender, livelihoods, development outcomes, energy systems, supply chains, and resource use. Counterpoint works across both the social and institutional dimensions of this transition.
Climate, Gender, Health & Resilience
Exploring how climate intersects with health systems, reproductive health, and gender vulnerability—and how communities and institutions can build adaptive capacity.
Climate-sensitive Transitions
Helping private-sector organisations translate sustainability commitments into credible strategies across clean energy, circular economy, and broader economic transition.
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