Introduction
Our core function is the provision of information for organisations engaging in policy or programme development, we do this particularly with a view to promoting peaceful co-existence and preventing violent conflict.
Transparency Research is an ISO 9001:2008 certified independent consulting company specialising in research, evaluation, training, advice and community information in particular with regard to hard-to-reach communities, countries and in sensitive situations.
Our work is complemented by an extensive technical capacity including on-line research and fieldwork databases, management database systems, and SMS servers.
Typically our work involves the Somali diaspora, refugees and asylum seekers, migrant workers, people living with HIV/AIDS, homeless people, ethnic minorities and young people. Transparency Research has offices in the United Kingdom and East Africa. Our major specialisms are refugees, asylum seekers, migrants communities and the Somali community worldwide.
We maintain contacts across various diasporas and can access communities that others cannot reach. This includes communities across the East and Horn of Africa areas.
Our clients include the UK Home Office, NATO, Bristol City Council, United States Institute of Peace, and other governmental and non-governmental and international organisations. We have undertaken work in the UK, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Somalia, Pakistan, Nigeria, UAE, DR Congo, Rwanda, Portugal, Holland, Uganda, The Philippines, Norway, Italy and Tanzania amongst other places
