Bilateral & multilateral staff
Programme officers, sector specialists, and leadership at agencies shaping national and international cooperation strategy.
A new paradigm in development cooperation. The Techvelopment programme equips practitioners to harness the potential of technology in a development context — with the rigour, humility and local grounding the sector deserves.
The development cooperation sector is being reshaped by technology in every direction — from digital public infrastructure and AI-assisted service delivery to the geopolitics of data and platforms. But most practitioners were never trained for this moment.
The Techvelopment programme is our answer. It's designed for people working inside bilateral and multilateral agencies, foundations, INGOs, and implementing partners who need to develop a working fluency with technology without becoming technologists themselves.
Escalino co-founder Jacob Lennheden's Techvelopment white paper set out the argument for this work. The programme puts the argument into practice.
What's actually happening in digital public infrastructure, data governance, AI and platform economies — and what it means for programmes on the ground.
Colonial patterns in tech, digital rights, surveillance risks, platform dependencies, and the hard trade-offs no framework resolves automatically.
How to scope, commission, evaluate and govern programmes with serious technology components — without hiding behind vendors or pretending the complexity isn't there.
Centring partners in the Global South as principals, not beneficiaries. Practical models for co-design, sustainable capacity, and avoiding extractive tech-for-good patterns.
Programme officers, sector specialists, and leadership at agencies shaping national and international cooperation strategy.
Grant-makers and portfolio leads who need to evaluate and support technology-intensive programmes responsibly.
INGO country directors, senior staff at implementing partners, and leadership at technical assistance providers.
We actively cohort Global South practitioners into every Techvelopment programme. This is a deliberate design choice, not a marketing line.
If you lead a team, a programme or a portfolio that touches technology and development — we'd like to talk. Individual and institutional enquiries both welcome.
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