
Jafsadi.works collaborates with public interest organizations at the intersection of research, investigations, design & planning, transformative strategy & advocacy.
What we do
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Our strategy, analysis, and policy advising uses a combination of anticipatory, participatory, spatial, systems shifting, political economy, supply chain, and 'crisis as constant' approaches.
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We provide landscape responsive and context-specific mapping, diagnostic, coaching, assessment, and learning tools for a a spectrum of standalone programs, initiatives in various stages from pre-launch to sunset, and complex inter-agency or transnational efforts.
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We craft and execute action and applied research through a combination of long form interviews, open source data searches, participatory and landscape mapping, and investigative approaches to produce informed, responsive, and actionable internal feedback loops, external strategies, and public research.
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Unlike crisis management or reactive risk-mitigation, the coaching we provide takes crisis as a constant, and focuses on strategizing for organizational, political, and resource uncertainty, while introducing and committing to longer-term visions of narrative, political, or social transformation triggered by crisis contexts.
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We focus on designing tailored structural assessments, frameworks, and databases for documentation, disclosure, or following the money or influence--that draw on hybrid data and narrative sources for specific user groups ranging from journalists, lawyers, coders, and engineers, to advocates, policy-makers, civil society groups, and socially conscious investors.
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We analyze authoritarian, corporate, or general political strategy playbooks along with developing and deploying organizational, coalition, or network playbooks across sectors, goals, and time.
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We design and facilitate simulations, scenario-mapping, experiential education, and complex multi-stakeholder decision-making processes for collective strategy, learning, preparedness, rapid response, and coordination, or positioning.
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While the urgency of resource, crisis, and reporting needs creates limited conditions for imagining—let alone planning for—alternate futures, we facilitate and design a series of organizational, policy, and coalition-based simulations, exercises, and coaching efforts to support operational and strategic shifts toward futures beyond current resource, political, or social constraints.
Areas of work
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Civic and political strategy, fault lines & movements
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Horizontal equity & upward accountability
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Philanthropy, non-profit, and aid orgs in public life
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Public interest and civic tech
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Restorative economies & built environments
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Climate and environmental health justice
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Displacement, mobility, borders & citizenship
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Crisis, disaster & humanitarian politics
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Power, political economy, disclosure & following-the-money