Mind the Gap undertakes a broad range of consultancy, policy research, action research and evaluation with government ministries and agencies, local authorities, businesses, communities, research centres, universities, non-government organisations, UN agencies and the voluntary sector.

Our main areas of work are:

• Conflict management and partnerships
• Conservation, biodiversity and natural resources management (forestry, fisheries, wildlife, rivers, waterways, parks and protected areas)
• Community Development, Crime and Community Safety, Regeneration, and Neighbourhood Management

Our key experience and strengths are:

• Programme and project evaluation
• Building partnerships among local authorities, communities, agencies, the voluntary sector and political partners
• Strengthening links between practice, strategy and policy
• Participatory approaches to evaluation, research and policy development
• Working alongside local people and organisations to build local research and evaluation capacity
• Linking qualitative and quantitative evaluation and research tools across the social and natural sciences
• Policy research for agencies, government departments