Opale Consulting

Opale Consulting is a development and humanitarian consulting firm based in Bamako, Mali, serving public and private organisations across the subregion. Its clients include NGOs, donors, local authorities, foundations and businesses. The firm combines local and international expertise with a multidisciplinary network of development professionals and academics, aiming to deliver high-quality, practical work that partners can use and share.

Opale Consulting supports organisations throughout the project cycle. Its services include strategic advice, project design, exploratory studies and territorial diagnostics; monitoring and evaluation, baseline and endline studies, external evaluations, surveys and knowledge documentation; and operational research support, from methodology and data collection to analysis. The firm also develops tailored professional and thematic training, and helps organise workshops, conferences and communities of practice.

Drawing on its founder’s experience in development, social anthropology and information and communication technologies, Opale Consulting emphasises innovation, intercultural understanding and usefulness. It also offers professional manual transcription in verbatim, edited and summarised formats, with careful correction of transcripts and translations.