Covenant Consult is an international operating consultancy, offering individual and innovative solutions to international organizations, non-governmental organizations, governments and actors within the private business sector. We have build a leading and diverse team that brings together unique skills, talents, expertise and experience.
Established in Yangon in 2011, Covenant Consult provides individual and innovative solutions in the development fields of livelihoods, education, security and peace building, governance and private sector development to international development agencies, non-governmental organizations, donor agencies, government and the private sector. This includes the design, management and delivery of complex research and development projects as well as strategic advisory services. We are highly dedicated to deliver impact, value and change for our clients and the lives we and they touch every day. We specialise in implementing projects in conflict-affected areas, such as southeast Myanmar and Northern Shan and Kachin States. Through our work in these areas and our cooperation with leading experts on ethnic politics in Myanmar for a number of years, we have established strategic networks and relationships with various stakeholders, including ethnic armed organizations and their social service departments, civil society networks, conflict-affect populations and government departments. This gives us a unique mandate in carrying out projects in a conflict-sensitive way, adhering to international best practices of ‘do-no-harm’.
Leadership of Covenant Consult have been members of the Norewgian led Myanmar Peace Support Initiative (MPSI) during 2012-2015 and have successfully brought conflict stakeholders together in order to build trust and confidence. Currently, Covenant implements the Myanmar Interim Arragenments Research Project (MIARP), which focuses on the relationship between EAOs and government service delivery systems, including education, during the period initial ceasefires and comprehensive political settlement. The list of our clients includes the Asian Development Bank, the United Nations Development Programme, the International Labour Organisation, the Swiss Agency for Development Cooperation, as well as international non-governmental organizations such as the Adventist Development and Relief Agency, Action Aid, Danish Church Aid, Johanniter International, Bread for the World. Among our local partners are organisations, which have assisted conflict-affected communities for decades, including Karen Development Network, Ethnic Peace Resource Project, Mon Women Organisation, Mon National Education Committee, Karen Teachers Working Group, Committee for Internally Displaced People, the Myanmar Council of Churches and others. Our projects are funded by institutions including the Livelihood and Food Security Trust Fund and the Joint Peace Fund.
