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Co-Creation & Multi-Stakeholder Engagement

Lean Startup for Social Innovation

Collective Impact and Partnership Facilitation

Design and Systems Thinking

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We specialize in working with multi-disciplinary teams, across multiple cultures, and at multiple levels of economic development.

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CollaborateUp is an innovative, international consulting firm and SBA certified 8(a) small business. We accelerate cooperation among governments, companies, and nonprofits as they tackle some of our world’s toughest challenges.

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CollaborateUp brings people together around the tough issues they face in common to quickly create innovative solutions using the CollaborateUp Formula.

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Partners in Localization

Check this out! A summary report of an amazing collaboration we helped design and facilitate that brought more than 300 participants together from around the world to co-create ideas to support USAID’s efforts to advance locally led development. In partnership with...

Blended Finance for Education in Latin America and the Caribbean

CollaborateUp partnered with The Palladium Group in support of the USAID CATALYZE EduFinance activity, a program that unites private sector ingenuity with public resources to improve access to quality education in Latin America and the Caribbean. CollaborateUp led a...

Co-Creation: African Leadership

African Leadership Project Highlight- CollaborateUp specializes in designing and supporting co-creation workshops that bring together organizations to find solutions to development challenges. These co-creations emphasize shared power and collaborative effort to...

VukaNow SPARCCie 4: Cost-Benefit Analysis for Combating Wildlife Crime

(Black rhino in Namibia; Baron Reznik via Flickr) As part of CollaborateUp's work on USAID’s VukaNow Activity, a multi-stakeholder partnership focused on combating wildlife crime (CWC) across Southern Africa, CollaborateUp recently designed and facilitated a workshop...

“CollaborateUp’s expert guidance of the co-creation process played a critical role in aligning a diverse set of stakeholders under a shared vision and approach. Their toolkit was instrumental in developing fresh, outside-the-box ideas for a critical new USAID work area.”

John Harris, USAID/Ukraine Mission

Academy Participant

Extremely practical and extremely easy to implement once you have an understanding of the steps and the formula and the requirements of the process.

– CollaborateUp Academy Participant

Doreen Robinson

“CollaborateUp’s expertise in co-creation and facilitation made a significant contribution to our ability to design a collective impact program spanning multiple countries, implementing partners, and stakeholders.”

Doreen Robinson, UNEP Chief for Wildlife (formerly USAID/Southern African Mission)

Cate O'Kane

“I soon discovered that it doesn’t really matter whether your introduction to CollaborateUp is through an issue solving workshop, or at an event as Richard brings all the chaos together with his savvy charm and good humour – the most important thing is that you get to engage and work with these great folks! My biggest take out over the past five years of being a part of their world – collaboration is a process and you’re not going to get very far unless you know what problem you’re all trying to solve together. The CollaborateUp framework helps by asking simple questions to help reveal the big answers.”

Cate O’Kane, Founder, &co partnership consultancy

“The CollaborateUp Workshop gave our delegates a set of tools they can use immediately to collaborate more effectively across multiple departments and organizations.”

Erika Lopez, Global Impact

Academy Participant #2

“The course was great! Great value and great insights into collaborating with various partners in multiple situations. It really change my thought process and how I view situations with our clients and stakeholders.”

CollaborateUp Academy Participant

Academy Participant #3

“The course actually aids with more than just collaboration – it helps drive thinking into issue clarification, meeting handling and setting up, communicating with stakeholders. I loved it!”