Central to ESI capacity building efforts is the promise that ESI analysts will commit to working jointly with a local team on at least one major policy report, which should meet ESI’s own standards of excellence. Such collaboration continues from inception and field research through to drafting, publication, dissemination and presentation.

During the project period, ESI will organise a series of training seminars and workshops on practical and conceptual issues: information management, interview techniques, narratives, outreach, effective website management and development, organisational development, fundraising and strategies for influencing policy debates, both nationally and internationally.