What we got wrong about SME formalisation
Registration was never the barrier we assumed it was. Three years of enterprise data from Gaziantep and Mersin say the constraint sits elsewhere.
March 2026
international development advisory
Evidence first, then the programme.
Global Expertise is a research, evaluation and programme advisory company working across Türkiye, the Middle East, East Africa and Eastern Europe — with a roster of consultants who have delivered the programmes they now advise on.
11Service areas
42Consultants on roster
9Countries covered
48hTo a written scope
about us
Advisory built on delivery
Global Expertise specialises in cash and voucher assistance, livelihoods and SME development, market systems, assessment, monitoring and donor reporting. We work with UN agencies, international NGOs, donors and public institutions in displacement and crisis settings — from Türkiye and cross-border Syria to Iraq, the Levant, East Africa and Ukraine.
Every consultant on our roster has held delivery responsibility inside an implementing organisation. That is our entry condition, and it is why our deliverables arrive in your reporting template with the compliance questions already answered.
Named people, always
You meet the consultant before you sign, not after the award.
Learning that lands
Lessons-learned work that changes the next design, not just the file.
Practical tools
KoBo, ODK, SurveyCTO, NVivo — and clean datasets you can reuse.
We say what we find
Honest limitations, even when the finding is inconvenient.
how we work
Operational approach
A fixed sequence, with timings we commit to rather than estimate.
- Written scope within 48 hours — deliverables, level of effort and the decision the evidence will inform
- Two or three named candidates within five working days, with references and comparable work
- Standard orientation and enumerator training on every data collection assignment
- Paperless data collection through KoBo, SurveyCTO, ODK and secure online forms
- Qualitative analysis in NVivo, MAXQDA and ATLAS.ti, with coding frameworks shared openly
- Consultants based in the regions they work in, keeping mobilisation fast and field costs low
- Reporting written to your donor template, plus the clean dataset behind it
coverage
Where we work
Registered in Türkiye, with consultants based across four regions and assignments delivered in nine countries.
Türkiye
Ankara, Gaziantep, Istanbul, Mersin, Şanlıurfa
Syria
Cross-border programming from Gaziantep
Iraq & Levant
Erbil, Amman, Beirut
East Africa
Nairobi and the wider Horn of Africa
Eastern Europe
Ukraine and Moldova response
areas we work
Our services
Eleven service areas, each with a short code we use in scopes, contracts and roster records so your request stays clear from the first email to the final report.
our team
The consultant roster
Profiles are listed by reference until an assignment is agreed. Full CVs, references and rates go to the contracting organisation as soon as a request is confirmed — write to roster@globalexpertise.org.
who we work with
Donors and partners
Our consultants have delivered assignments funded or commissioned by the following organisations while working with implementing agencies.
FCDO
European Union
ECHO
USAID / BHA
UNHCR
IOM
UNDP
UNICEF
WFP
GIZ
SIDA
Japan / JICA
insights
Notes from the field
Short pieces from our consultants on what the data looked like before it became a report.
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get involved
Join our roster
The roster is open all year. A practitioner in your field reads every submission, and you receive an answer either way within ten working days.
- At least five years of field or programme experience
- One completed assignment in a displacement or crisis setting
- Working English, plus a regional language if you have one
- Two referees from an implementing or donor organisation
- Available for short assignments of two to twelve weeks
Trouble with the form?
If the application form does not work for you, send your CV and cover letter to roster@globalexpertise.org and we will register your application manually.
Consultant application
Takes about three minutes. Fields marked * are required.
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