{ "meta": { "title": "Services - Pivot Collective", "description": "Consultancy services rooted in participatory research, facilitation, and transformative knowledge translation." }, "hero": { "badge": "Collaboration", "title": "Our", "title_gradient": "Services", "description": "We partner with communities, institutions, and funders to co-create knowledge, strengthen practice, and support systemic change. Our work is rooted in participatory research, facilitation, and transformative knowledge translation, and takes shape through collaborative, values-driven consultancy and partnership. We don't offer services as standalone products. Our work brings together different areas of practice depending on the needs of each partnership. The areas below reflect how we work across research, learning, and implementation." }, "intro": { "lead": "Our work brings together research, facilitation, strategy, and learning to support change that is grounded, adaptive, and collaborative.", "body": "Across our partnerships, we move between these areas—co-designing research, supporting reflection and decision-making, and offering technical guidance where it's needed. We often work as learning partners over time, accompanying organisations to make sense of emerging insights and shape approaches that are rooted in lived realities and collective experience. This allows us to respond to complexity as it unfolds, working alongside partners to make sense of emerging insights and shape approaches that are rooted in lived realities and collective experience.", "closing": "The areas below reflect the different ways we contribute to this work in practice." }, "service_areas": { "heading": "Service Areas", "items": [ { "icon": "people", "title": "Participatory and Peer-Led Research", "description": "We design and facilitate collaborative, transdisciplinary research that centres lived experience and community leadership. Our approach challenges extractive models by creating space for shared inquiry, collective reflection, and action—recognising participants as knowledge holders and co-researchers throughout the process. We bring experience in qualitative, mixed methods, and ethnographically-informed research, working alongside communities to generate evidence that is both rigorous and grounded in context. This includes a strong commitment to ethical practice and to research approaches that are responsive to the realities of people navigating structural inequality. This work enables more relevant, accountable forms of evidence that can inform practice, policy, and collective action.", "activities": [ "Co-designing participatory and peer-led research and evaluation processes", "Supporting youth and community researchers through training and accompaniment", "Designing and conducting qualitative and mixed-methods research", "Facilitating participatory analysis and collaborative sense-making processes", "Supporting co-authorship and shared ownership of research outputs" ] }, { "icon": "book", "title": "Transformative Knowledge Translation", "description": "We support knowledge to move across contexts and into action through approaches that are accessible, relational, and grounded in equity. Our work focuses on how knowledge is shaped, shared, and used in practice, recognising that it is not simply transferred unidirectionally, but co-created through relationships and lived experience. We work across the full knowledge cycle, from analysis and interpretation through to communication and engagement. This includes supporting collaborative sense-making, co-authorship, and the development of outputs that speak to diverse audiences—from peer-reviewed publications and policy briefs to visual, creative, and multimedia formats. A core part of this work is ensuring that knowledge is not only shared, but owned and used by those closest to the issues at hand. This work enables more inclusive, contextually grounded, and actionable forms of knowledge that can inform decision-making, strengthen practice, and contribute to more equitable systems.", "activities": [ "Supporting co-authorship, writeshops, and inclusive publication processes", "Developing knowledge products across formats (technical, creative, and multimedia)", "Designing strategies for inclusive knowledge-sharing and engagement", "Building capacity for relational knowledge brokering and evidence use" ] }, { "icon": "globe", "title": "Strategy, Co-Design, and Systems Change", "description": "We work with organisations, networks, and movements to shape strategies and systems that are grounded in lived experience and oriented toward equity. Our approach centres co-design, bringing together diverse stakeholders to collectively define priorities, navigate complexity, and build shared direction. Drawing on insights from research and practice, we support partners to move beyond static strategy documents toward approaches that are adaptive, values-driven, and responsive to context. This includes engaging with questions of power, accountability, and governance, and supporting shifts in how decisions are made, how resources flow, and how institutions relate to the communities they serve. This work enables more inclusive, responsive, and effective systems, where strategy is not only defined, but lived through everyday practice and relationships.", "activities": [ "Facilitating co-design processes to shape strategy, vision, and programme direction", "Supporting inclusive strategic planning and organisational development", "Conducting systems and power analysis to inform decision-making", "Supporting governance processes and redesign of decision-making structures", "Advising leaders and teams on embedding equity, care, and accountability into strategy and practice" ] }, { "icon": "location", "title": "Facilitation, Training, and Reflective Learning", "description": "We design and facilitate inclusive, participatory spaces for learning, dialogue, and reflection—supporting individuals and teams to deepen practice, navigate complexity, and build collective capacity for change. Our approach centres co-creation and care, creating environments where diverse perspectives can be shared, challenged, and meaningfully engaged. We work across a range of settings, from community consultations and stakeholder engagements to strategic retreats, learning journeys, and communities of practice. Alongside facilitation, we support capacity strengthening in participatory methods and ethical engagement, helping partners build the skills and confidence to lead inclusive, reflective processes over time. This work enables more thoughtful, collaborative, and adaptive ways of working—where learning is embedded in practice and teams are better equipped to respond to the challenges they face.", "activities": [ "Designing and facilitating participatory workshops, retreats, and learning processes", "Supporting community and stakeholder engagement and consultation processes", "Hosting reflective learning spaces and communities of practice", "Providing training in participatory facilitation and ethical engagement", "Facilitating cross-sector dialogue and collaborative problem-solving" ] }, { "icon": "pulse", "title": "Equity-Driven Organisational Learning and Change", "description": "We partner with organisations over time to support reflection, learning, and transformation in how they work. We help teams surface insights from their practice, engage critically with questions of power and accountability, and build more just, values-aligned approaches to change. Our work focuses on strengthening organisational cultures of learning, supporting partners to move beyond one-off reflection toward embedded, continuous processes that inform decision-making and practice. This includes working alongside teams to examine assumptions, navigate complexity, and translate learning into shifts in relationships, leadership, and ways of working. Grounded in feminist, anti-racist, and decolonial approaches, we support organisations to move from intention to action, bridging the gap between values and everyday practice. This work enables more reflective, adaptive, and accountable organisations that are better equipped to engage in equitable partnerships and contribute to systemic change.", "activities": [ "Designing and facilitating organisational learning processes and reflection cycles", "Supporting participatory monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL)", "Co-developing learning agendas, indicators, and narratives of change", "Supporting organisational change processes focused on equity, power, and accountability", "Accompanying teams to embed learning into decision-making and practice" ] }, { "icon": "gear", "title": "Adaptive Implementation and Technical Advising", "description": "We support organisations, implementers, and research teams to navigate the complexity of real-world programmes, where plans evolve, contexts shift, and learning needs to happen in motion. Our work focuses on strengthening how programmes are implemented, adapted, and sustained over time. Rather than treating evidence as something produced at the end of a project, we embed learning within implementation itself, creating ongoing cycles of reflection and action that keep programmes responsive to the people and systems they are part of. Alongside this, we provide technical advising that helps teams interpret evidence, navigate uncertainty, and refine programme delivery in context. We recognise that effective implementation is not only technical: it is also relational and shaped by systems of power, which is why we pay close attention to how decisions are made, whose knowledge informs them, and how programmes respond to the realities of people's lives.", "activities": [ "Designing and facilitating adaptive learning and evaluation systems", "Supporting programme adaptation through iterative learning cycles", "Embedding participatory research within implementation processes", "Strengthening internal evidence systems and feedback loops", "Translating research and data into actionable programme insights", "Providing technical advisory to support effective, context-responsive implementation" ] } ] }, "how_we_work": { "heading": "Our Collaborative Team", "text": "Our work is delivered by a collaborative team based in South Africa and globally, bringing together diverse lived and professional experience. We are a multilingual, transdisciplinary network of researchers, facilitators, and practitioners who work across contexts to support participatory, inclusive, and contextually grounded approaches to change. With experience spanning sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and Asia, we work alongside communities, organisations, and institutions to design processes that are both rigorous and responsive, combining strong evidence with deep attention to relationships, context, and practice." }, "focus_areas": { "heading": "Areas of Focus", "intro": "Our work spans a set of interconnected focus areas, shaped by our experience and the priorities of our partners. We approach these through an intersectional lens, recognising how health, wellbeing, and social justice are deeply connected and shaped by context.", "items": [ "Sexual and reproductive health and rights", "Adolescent and youth health and development", "HIV, TB, and infectious disease", "Mental health and wellbeing", "Climate and health systems", "Gender and sexuality", "Livelihoods and social determinants of health" ], "closing": "Our work in these areas is often cross-cut by approaches including community engagement and participation, social and behaviour change, ethics, and pathways to scale—ensuring that programmes are grounded, inclusive, and responsive to the realities of the people they aim to serve." } }