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Stewart Menzies

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|caption=Sir Stewart Menzies, 1953 (Navana Vandyk)
| name = Sir Stewart Menzies
| occupation = Army officer; Chief of SIS 1939–1952
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Sir [[Stewart Menzies]] was head of the [[Secret Intelligence Service]] from 1939<ref>Stephen Dorril, MI6: Inside the Covert World of Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service, Touchstone, 2002, p.4.</ref> to 1952.<ref>Stephen Dorril, MI6: Inside the Covert World of Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service, Touchstone, 2002, p.494.</ref>

==Career==
Menzies was Deputy Chief of SIS and became 'C' when [[Hugh Sinclair]] died in November 1939.<ref>[https://www.gchq.gov.uk/information/dennistons-support-culture-individualism-and-ingenuity Denniston's support for a culture of individualism and ingenuity], GCHQ.</ref> During the war the Chief of SIS was also Director of the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS) at [[Bletchley Park]].<ref>[https://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/our-story/e184-the-sis-at-bletchley-park/ E184 – The SIS at Bletchley Park], Bletchley Park Trust.</ref> 'Ultra' intelligence went out to commanders in the field from MI6 through Special Liaison Units.<ref>[https://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/our-story/the-path-of-a-message-4-dissemination/ The Path of a Message 4 – Dissemination], Bletchley Park Trust.</ref>

His time as Chief overlapped with [[Kim Philby]]'s rise in the service, including Philby's posting as head of the anti-Soviet Section IX.<ref>Richard Norton-Taylor, [https://www.theguardian.com/world/defence-and-security-blog/2012/sep/27/espionage-mi6 How Kim Philby infiltrated MI6, with a lot of help from his friends], guardian.co.uk, 27 September 2012.</ref>

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Sir Stewart Menzies, 1953 (Navana Vandyk). Source: [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sir-Stewart-Graham-Menzies.jpg Wikimedia Commons]. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, photographer Navana Vandyk.

Michael Williams (1949)

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{{short description|'''British UN diplomat and Labour special adviser (1949–2017); former director of BBC Media Action'''}}
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|caption=Lord Williams of Baglan at Chatham House
| name = Michael Williams
| birth_date = June 1949
| death_date = April 2017
| nationality = British
| occupation = UN official; special adviser; member of the House of Lords (2010–2017)
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'''Michael Charles Williams, Lord Williams of Baglan''' (June 1949 – April 2017) was a British United Nations official, Labour special adviser and crossbench life peer. He is not the [[Michael Williams]] of the [[Royal United Services Institute]]. He sat in the [[House of Lords]] from 23 July 2010 until his death on 23 April 2017.<ref name="MPWilliams">UK Parliament, [https://members-api.parliament.uk/api/Members/4185 The Lord Williams of Baglan: membership record] ''UK Parliament Members API'', accessed 17 October 2026.</ref> Companies House records him as a director of [[BBC Media Action]], a CSSF contractor, from 7 September 2005 to 20 April 2009.<ref name="CHOWilliams">Companies House, [https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/officers/fxBRI4cgTJSZqhmrPjLViAN381o/appointments Michael Charles WILLIAMS: personal appointments] ''Companies House'', accessed 16 October 2026.</ref>

== Career ==
''[[The Guardian]]''’s obituary says he worked for the [[BBC World Service]] and [[Amnesty International]] before running the UN mission's radio station in Cambodia and serving as spokesman for the UN Protection Force in the former Yugoslavia. It says that in 2000 he "moved to Whitehall ... as special adviser to the foreign secretary, Robin Cook", and that [[Jack Straw]] kept him on in 2001. His role in Lebanon between 2006 and 2011 after the 2006 Israel–Hezbollah war was "the culmination of his role as an effective, if largely unsung, troubleshooter for the UN".<ref name="GuardianWilliams">Alan Philps, The Guardian, [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/02/lord-williams-of-baglan-obituary Lord Williams of Baglan obituary] ''The Guardian'', 2 May 2017.</ref> ''[[The Independent]]'' said he advised three foreign secretaries, [[Robin Cook]], Jack Straw and [[David Miliband]]. It said that, although "initially in favour of the war in Iraq", he became "increasingly concerned" about the lack of post-war planning.<ref name="IndyWilliams">Ben Williams, The Independent, [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-lord-williams-of-baglan-academic-and-human-rights-campaigner-who-opposed-blair-on-iraq-a7704231.html Obituary: Lord Williams of Baglan, academic and human rights campaigner who opposed Blair on Iraq] ''The Independent'', 3 May 2017.</ref>
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Lord Williams of Baglan at Chatham House. Source: [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lordwilliams.jpg Wikimedia Commons]. Licence: CC BY 2.0, Chatham House.

Vivien Stern

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{{short description|'''British penal-reform campaigner and retired crossbench peer; former director of Penal Reform International'''}}
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| name = Vivien Stern
| birth_date = September 1941
| nationality = British
| occupation = Penal-reform campaigner; member of the House of Lords (1999–2025)
}}
'''Vivien Helen Stern, Baroness Stern''' (born September 1941) is a British penal-reform campaigner. She sat in the [[House of Lords]] as a crossbench life peer from 13 July 1999 until she retired under the House of Lords Reform Act 2014 on 2 December 2025.<ref name="MPStern">UK Parliament, [https://members-api.parliament.uk/api/Members/2475 The Baroness Stern CBE: membership record] ''UK Parliament Members API'', accessed 17 October 2026.</ref> Companies House records her as a director of [[Penal Reform International]], a CSSF contractor, from 5 February 2001 to 3 December 2006.<ref name="CHOStern">Companies House, [https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/officers/AtPmUA7fnXRQjIGII-wNmrWl8gk/appointments Vivien Helen STERN: personal appointments] ''Companies House'', accessed 16 October 2026.</ref>

== Career ==
A 2014 British Embassy Dushanbe announcement of her official visit to Tajikistan said she "served as a Secretary General of Penal Reform International from 1989 until 2006". It said she had made several visits to Tajikistan to work with its government on prison reform and chaired the All Party Parliamentary Group on Tajikistan.<ref name="GovUKStern">British Embassy Dushanbe, [https://www.gov.uk/government/news/baroness-vivien-stern-pays-an-official-visit-to-tajikistan Baroness Vivien Stern pays an official visit to Tajikistan] ''GOV.UK'', 20 May 2014.</ref> King's College London lists her as a senior research fellow at the International Centre for Prison Studies.<ref name="KCLStern">King's College London, [https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/vivien-stern Vivien Stern] ''KCL Pure'', accessed 17 October 2026.</ref> In the Lords she sat on the Joint Committee on Human Rights (2004–08) and the European Union Committee (1999–2003).<ref name="MPBioStern">UK Parliament, [https://members-api.parliament.uk/api/Members/2475/Biography The Baroness Stern CBE: biography] ''UK Parliament Members API'', accessed 17 October 2026.</ref>
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Baroness Stern, official portrait. Source: [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Official_portrait_of_Baroness_Stern_crop_2.jpg Wikimedia Commons]. Licence: CC BY 3.0, photographer Roger Harris (UK Parliament).

Edward Bickham

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In April 2000, Edward Bickham joined [[Anglo American]] as Executive Vice president, External Affairs. {{ref|1}} Anglo American is a global leader in mining and natural resources. {{ref|2}}

Edward Bickham is responsible for Anglo American's "Good Citizenship" Business Principles, sustainable development, politcal risk, public policy issues and communications strategy. From 1990-1993 he served as a Special Adviser to the Foreign Secretary. Previously (1985-1985), he had served as a Special Adviser to the Home Secretary and to the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland. From 1988-1990 he was DIrector of Corporate Communications for [[British Satellite Broadcasting]].{{ref|3}}

Edward Bickham graduated in law from St John's College, Oxford, and is married with two children.

==Affiliations==
*[[Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative]], Advisory board

==External Links==
Anglo American http://www.angloamerican.co.uk/

==CARE International UK==
Companies House records Edward Sidney Cover Bickham (born August 1956) as a director of [[CARE International UK]], a CSSF contractor, from 24 December 2013 to 8 December 2022.<ref name="CHOBickham">Companies House, [https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/officers/lYCOMw88LJ2IVmZsg-lKChrYSIo/appointments Edward Sidney Cover BICKHAM: personal appointments] ''Companies House'', accessed 16 October 2026.</ref> An EITI speaker profile describes him as senior adviser to the [[World Gold Council]]. It says that after "a career that included being political adviser to the British Foreign Secretary", he joined Anglo American plc in 2000 as global head of external relations, for ten years, and served for six years on the EITI international board.<ref name="EITIBickham">Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, [https://eiti.org/2026-eiti-global-conference/people/edward-bickham Edward Bickham] ''EITI'', accessed 17 October 2026.</ref>

==References==
#{{note|1}} Business in the Community, 'Leadership Teams', http://www.bitc.org.uk/who_we_are/leadership_teams/business_action_on_economic_renewal/edward_bickham.html
#{{note|2}} Anglo American Website, http://www.angloamerican.co.uk/
#{{note|3}} Business in the Community, 'Leadership Teams', http://www.bitc.org.uk/who_we_are/leadership_teams/business_action_on_economic_renewal/edward_bickham.html
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Peace Direct

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Since 2004, [[Carolyn Hayman]] has been Chief Executive of Peace Direct which ‘supports and promotes the work of people seeking to use non-violent methods to resolve conflict’. Hayman has worked in the civil service (DfID and the Cabinet Office).

Peace Direct, directors include [[Ben Cuthbertson]] who has worked [[RAND Corporation|RAND Europe]] and [[Paul Wilkinson]]’s somewhat notorious [[Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence]] at St Andrews University.[http://www.peacedirect.org/peace-direct/people/staff.html] [http://www.variant.randomstate.org/8texts/Robin_Ramsay.html] {{ref|1}}

Their trustees have Lieutenant Colonel [[Howard Pritchard]] MBE, Commissioned into the Army in 1988 with operational tours of Derry (or 'Londonderry' as Peace Direct calls it[http://www.peacedirect.org/peace-direct/people/trustees.html]), Balkans and Iraq, and part of the Army Staff Course at Camberley with an MA in Military Studies 1996. On return from Iraq he was posted to the MOD Strategic Analysis Programme, shaping policy on Defence and security.

Peace Direct was established in February 2004, when the [[Woodstock Research Trust]] adopted a new look. Unconnected with the University, it is an initiative of the [[Oxford Research Group]] (ORG) — of which Hayman is also an associate — founded by Dr [[Scilla Elworthy]] to initiate dialogue with ‘nuclear decision makers.’ [http://www.oxfordresearchgroup.org.uk/aboutus/associates.htm] [http://www.oxfordresearchgroup.org.uk/programmes/conflict.htm]

Elworthy is also a member of several ‘liberal’ elite organisation, including [[Women for Peace]] [http://www.womenforpeaceinternational.org/Home/BoardMembers.htm] set up by the wife of the president of Egypt, Mrs. [[Suzanne Mubarak]], and the [[UK Defence Forum]]. [http://www.ukdf.org.uk/meetinghistory.htm]

The ORG is so laden with government and military personel that it was described by Commodore [[Tim Hare]], Director of Nuclear Policy, UK Ministry of Defence as a:

:“warm benign and trusting atmosphere where one feels safe in the knowledge that the views expressed will be treated with respect and the uttmost discretion.”

ORG has jointly hosted meetings with the [[RUSI]], [[Chatham House]] and St. Antony’s College and is funded by the [[Ford Foundation]]. They say “we have worked both behind the scenes with officials from the Ministry of Defence, the Foreign Office and Cabinet Advisors and publically through seminars and research reports.” [http://www.oxfordresearchgroup.org.uk/aboutus/aims.htm]

== Project Syndicate ==
Hayman is also part of [[Project Syndicate]]. [http://www.project-syndicate.org] Somewhat reminiscant of [[Encounter]] and the CCF operation — funded by Soros’ [[Open Society Institute]] — this syndicates commentaries by a narrow range of ‘prominent figures’ to mainstream newspapers (the Guardian & Scotsman in the UK). They would hardly seem to need assistance: and include [[Richard Haass]] President of The [[Council on Foreign Relations]], [[Kofi Annan]], former NATO Secretary General [[George Robertson]], [[Zbigniew Brzezinski]] former US National Security Advisor, [[James D. Wolfensohn]] former President of the [[World Bank]] Group, [[George Soros]], Lord [[Ralph Dahrendorf]] and so on.

Project Syndicate is run by Anders Åslund (Director of the Russian and European Program at the [[Carnegie Endowment for International Peace]]) and [[Hans Bergström]] (formerly Editor-in-chief of "Dagens Nyheter," Sweden’s leading newspaper) and [[Christoph Bertram]] (formerly director of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs in Berlin).

== Development ==
Hayman was also appointed by the FCO to the board of the [[Commonwealth Development Corporation]] from 1994 to 1999 with [[Pendarell Kent]] and Sir [[William Ryrie]], He worked in the Colonial Office and then the Treasury, including four years on the Boards of the [[World Bank]] and the [[IMF]]. For two years he managed the British aid programme, as Permanent Secretary of the [[Overseas Development Administration]]. Then from 1984 to 1993 he was Head of the [[International Finance Corporation]], a part of the World Bank Group. also a member of the International Centre for Economic Growth. [http://www.iceg.org/management.cfm]

CDC provided assistance to commercial enterprises in some 54 developing countries around the world, and in the early 90s announced a programme for its own privatizations. Its sale was managed by [[Baroness Amos]]]. Gone is the rhetoric of aid and development now: “CDC is one of the world’s leading equity investors in emerging markets.” [http://www.cdcgroup.com/download/CDC_1999_annualreview.pdf]

Transformed from a statutory corporation by the “positive power of capital” in colonial investments — this is a return to the past not a vision for the future. [http://www.act.is/about/about.asp]

CDC owns a great deal of assets, such as copper mines in Zambia, a senior policy advisor at Oxfam, Tricia Feeny, has stated:

:"A lot of (CDCs) African investments are in things like shopping malls stuffed with imported luxury goods, which cater to the wealthy elite or expatriate community. These have a neutral or even negative impact for the poor." [http://www.theyworkforyou.com/whall/?id=2002-04-10.1.1&s=speaker%3A10001]

The previous link documents a Westminster Hall debate on CDC, Wednesday, 10 April 2002.

==People==
===Staff===
*[[Francesca Cerletti]], Head of UK Programmes
*[[Ben Cuthbertson]], Communications and Administration Assistant
*[[Carolyn Hayman]] OBE, Chief Executive
*[[Chris Jameson]], Head of Communications
*[[Cressida Langlands]], Financial Administrator
*[[Babette May]], Project Manager, Insight on Conflict
*[[Mohamed Osman]], Head of International Liaison

==Affiliations==

===PR/Lobbying firms===
*[[Catalyst Works]]

==UK government funding and the CSSF==
A 2016 FCO expression-of-interest document for a CSSF "MENA Strategic Comms: Countering DAESH Propaganda" call-off lists Peace Direct among the suppliers on the CSSF Lot 2 framework. The document was published online in 2020 among files that the hacker group Anonymous said came from the FCO. (On the later 2023–27 framework, the names of Lot 2 suppliers were redacted on national-security grounds.)<ref name="Lot2List2016">Foreign and Commonwealth Office (document published by the hacker group Anonymous), [https://avalonlibrary.net/Operation_Trojan_Horse/Part_1_Taming_Syria_II/OTHER_FCO_FILES_ON_SYRIA/cpg-1044-2016-eoi---potential-partnering-message.pdf CPG/1044/2016 – Expressions of Interest: MENA Strategic Comms: Countering DAESH Propaganda (CSSF Lot 2 Call-Off), Annex A: List of suppliers on CSSF Lot 2 framework] ''avalonlibrary.net'', 2016.</ref> Peace Direct's 2017 annual report lists among that year's highlights "securing some major grants from the EU, the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, German Federal Foreign Office, the Canadian Government and the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs".<ref name="PD2017AR">Peace Direct (via DocsLib), [https://docslib.org/doc/115055/annual-report-2017-contents Annual Report 2017] ''DocsLib'', 2018.</ref> FCO spending data record payments to Peace Direct from October 2014, when it received £34,889 under the FCO "Programme Spend" account,<ref name="FCOspendOct2014">Foreign and Commonwealth Office, [https://www.gov.uk/csv-preview/5a7d88d8ed915d3fb959458d/Publishable_October_2014_Spend.csv Foreign Office spend over £25,000 for October 2014] ''GOV.UK'', 2014.</ref> to 2018. The total is about £737,500 (all FCO programmes).<ref name="FCOspend">Foreign and Commonwealth Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/foreign-office-spend-over-25000 FCO departmental spending over £25,000] ''GOV.UK'', 2010–2020; Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/fcdo-departmental-spending-over-25000 FCDO: departmental spending over £25,000] ''GOV.UK'', 2020–2026.</ref> Companies House records Peace Direct (06458464) as incorporated on 20 December 2007, with registered office at 1st Floor 6-8 Sycamore Street, London, England, EC1Y 0SW.<ref name="CH06458464">Companies House, [https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/06458464 Peace Direct (06458464)] ''Companies House'', accessed 16 October 2026.</ref>

=== FCO/FCDO payments ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ FCO/FCDO payments over £25,000 (all programmes; calendar year of payment)
! Year !! Amount (£)
|-
| 2014 || 34,889
|-
| 2015 || 188,407
|-
| 2016 || 409,745
|-
| 2017 || 73,994
|-
| 2018 || 30,493
|-
| '''Total''' || '''737,529'''
|}
<ref name="FCOspend" />

== Notes ==
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# {{note|1}} See also Robin Ramsay, ‘Friends of the British Secret State’, ''Lobster'' 16 June 1988 and [http://www.spinprofiles.org/index.php/Category:The_%22Terrorism%22_Industry The 'Terrorism' Industry], Edward S. Herman and Gerry O’ Sullivan, Random House 1990 page 176. Wilkinson was chair of the [[Research Foundation for the Study of Terrorism]], an institution closely linked to the British Conservative Party and industry and openly designed to serve their security and ideological needs.
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National Democratic Institute for International Affairs

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The National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI) is "a nonprofit organization working to strengthen and expand democracy worldwide. Calling on a global network of volunteer experts, NDI provides practical assistance to civic and political leaders advancing democratic values, practices and institutions. NDI works with democrats in every region of the world to build political and civic organizations, safeguard elections, and to promote citizen participation, openness and accountability in government."

==History==
===Project Democracy===
In 2005, ''Venezuelanalysis.com'' reported an interview with former CIA operative [[Philip Agee]]<ref>Gindin, J. (2005) [http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/1015 The Nature of CIA Intervention in Venezuela] ''Venezuelanalysis.com''. 22nd March 2005. Accessed 14th May 2009</ref> In the interview, Agee described some of the background of how he understood the purpose behind the establishment of agencies such as the NDI.

According to Agee, the CIA had in the past supported "brutal military dictatorships in all of the Cono Sur [Southern Cone]—Uruguay, Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil, and of course, in Chile with Pinochet". However a "process of new thinking began in the upper echelons of the makers of US foreign policy, the new thinking being that these military dictatorships, with all the repression and the disappearances and death squads and so forth, might not be the best way to preserve US interests in Latin America, or other areas for that matter". Agee goes on to claim that the "new thinking was that the preservation of US interests could better be achieved through the election of democratic governments formed by political elites who identify with the political class in the United States". These were not the popular forces, but the traditional political classes in Latin America, such as the ‘Oligarchies.’ Agee continues by saying "So the new American program, which became known as “Project Democracy,” was adopted and United States policy would seek to promote free, fair, transparent democratic elections but in such a way that it would assure that power went to the elites and not to the people".

To work towards the aims of Project Democracy, Agee reports that the “[[American Political Foundation]]” was established in 1979. This foundation was set up with major participation from the main labor center in the United States the [[AFL-CIO]], with the [[United States Chamber of Commerce]] and with the Democratic and Republican parties. The four main organizations and the financing for this foundation came both from the government and from private sources. Their job is described as being to study how the United States could best apply this new thinking in promoting democracy and the solution is reported to have been the [[National Endowment for Democracy]] (NED) and its four associated foundations: the [[International Republican Institute]] (IRI) of the Republican Party, the [[National Democratic Institute]] (NDI) of the Democratic Party, the [[American Center of International Labor Solidarity]] (ACILS) of the AFL-CIO, and the [[Center for International Private Enterprise]] (CIPE) of the United States Chamber of Commerce. According to Agee, "where the AFL-CIO foundation is concerned, they took an existing organization which had worked hand-in-glove with the CIA for many years called the [[American Institute for Free Labor Development]] (AIFLD) and simply changed the name".

== Activities ==

*'''Supplying election observers''' The four organizations receiving most of the [[NED]] funding also supply election observers. These either will validate the election of someone who the US government would like to see elected, or they can undermine election results of someone opposed by the USG. Validating election results of despots or dictatorships favorable to US interests are referred to as demonstration elections. NDI has supplied election observers for the Nicaraguan elections, and have also been paid by USAID [http://www.usaid.gov/press/releases/2001/fs011010_1.html]. (Account of NDI's [http://www.ndi.org/NDI/library/1233_ni_presselect82401.pdf activities])
*'''Election observers''' to the Palestinian 2005 elections. NDI supplied 80 observers working in tandem with the [[Carter Center]]. NDI was also instrumental in setting up the [[Civic Forum]], a Palestinian grassroots civic education program [http://www.cartercenter.org/doc1959.htm]. The NDI contingent was led by [[Patrick Merloe]], NDI Director for Elections Program. NB: Most of the same group of observers had just spent a weeks observing the recent elections in Ukraine. <br>[Source: YourCallRadio.org, January 10, 2005] (Also see [[Scott Lasensky]])
*'''Funding political parties''' Where the US is attempting to create a political framework compatible with its interests, it is willing to create and fund parties. In the case of Iraq:
::"The [[U.S. Agency for International Development]] has spent $80m (£42m) on voter education and training in Iraq through two organisations, the [[International Republican Institute]] (IRI) and the National Democratic Institute. Critics of these groups, and those of the [[National Endowment for Democracy]], say they have a long history in places such as Haiti of favouring groups friendly to Washington and undermining "unfriendly" or dissident groups. [[Les Campbell]], IRI Iraq manager, told ''The Independent'' his organisation had only spent money on voter training. No money had been spent to fund political parties, he said.<ref>Buncombe, A. (2005) [http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=605742 Iranian and Saudi cash weighs against local parties], ''The Independent'', January 29, 2005</ref>.

The ''New Standard'' states that whilst both these groups publicly assert that they are nonpartisan, they each have extremely close ties to their namesake American political party and are deeply partial to the perceived national interests of their home country<ref>Croke, L. A. & Dominick, B. (2004) [http://newstandardnews.net/content/index.cfm/items/1311 Controversial U.S. Groups Operate Behind Scenes on Iraq Vote] ''The New Standard''. 13th December 2004. Accessed 14th May 2009</ref> According to the report:
:'Both groups have highly controversial reputations and are described throughout much of the world as either helpful, meddlesome, or downright subversive, depending on who you ask. In some places their work has earned praise from independent grassroots democracy advocates, but in many Third World republics, both groups have been tied to alleged covert plans to install US-favored governments'.

The [[U.S. Agency for International Development]] (USAID) is the official governmental agency funding the consortium's operations in Iraq. Which according to the ''New Standard'' 'contracts with and provides grants to private organizations that uphold its objectives, which include, according to the Agency's own literature, "furthering America's foreign policy interests in expanding democracy and free markets while improving the lives of citizens in the developing world."' In the words of Herbert Docena of think tank, [[Focus on the Global South]], "USAID has learned that ?legitimate? leaders are not just found, they're made,"... "Before the US withdraws from the scene, it first has to ensure that its Iraqis will know what to do." He went on to add that USAID's activity in Iraq, as carried out by non-governmental proxies, is drawn straight out of the Agency's handbook, which advocates "capitalizing on national openings" and "[taking] advantage of national-level targets of opportunity" as they emerge, all while looking for a "strategic doorway" -- called an "entry point" -- that enables an Agency project to "anchor its program and optimize overall impact" in a target area. "In Iraq, the ?entry point? was the invasion," Docena explained. "The ?national opening? was the collapsed state left in its wake."

The ''New Standard'' quotes Robinson of the Global and International Studies Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara as calling groups like NDI and IRI as "extensions" of the US State Department. Robinson, who is reported to have researched and written extensively on US foreign political and economic policies, states that the perception of an alignment between the US government and the private organizations it funds is well deserved. He describes that agencies such as those involved in the consortium are in effect "trying to select individual leaders and organizations that are going to be very amenable to the US transnational project for Iraq," In the report he goes on to describe those actors as willing to engage in "pacifying the country militarily and legitimating the occupation and the formal electoral system" and added that developing relationships with "economic, political and civic groups that are going to be favorable to Iraq's integration into the global capitalist economy" would prove even more important for US-based organizations in the long run.

According to Robinson this would include altering Iraq's 'political and economic infrastructure to be more open to international trade and investment, as well as more favorable to global financial lending institutions such as the [[International Monetary Fund]] and the [[World Bank]]. It is stated that Robinson sees the Middle East as one of the few viable areas of the world yet to be drawn into the US's sphere of economic influence, and he is reported to have concluded that, more than a way to exploit oil, the US-led invasion and occupation serve as potential doorways into broader, more advantageous economic engagement in the region.

Representative Ron Paul (R-Texas) is reported to have written about the roles of NDI and IRI, where he claimed that the purposes for which both organizations are utilized elsewhere in the world "would be rightly illegal in the United States."<ref>Croke, L. A. & Dominick, B. (2004) [http://newstandardnews.net/content/index.cfm/items/1311 Controversial U.S. Groups Operate Behind Scenes on Iraq Vote] ''The New Standard''. 13th December 2004. Accessed 14th May 2009</ref>

==Principals==
*[[Madeleine K. Albright]], Chairman
*[[Kenneth Wollack]]
[http://www.ndi.org/about/bdadv/bdadv.as NDI Board of Directors & Senior Advisory Committee (February 2005)]

== Contact Details ==
:2030 M Street, NW
:Fifth Floor
:Washington, DC 20036-3306
:202 728-5500
:URL: [http://www.ndi.org www.ndi.org]

==UK government funding and the CSSF==
A 2016 FCO expression-of-interest document for a CSSF "MENA Strategic Comms: Countering DAESH Propaganda" call-off lists the National Democratic Institute among the suppliers on the CSSF Lot 2 framework. The document was published online in 2020 among files that the hacker group Anonymous said came from the FCO. (On the later 2023–27 framework, the names of Lot 2 suppliers were redacted on national-security grounds.)<ref name="Lot2List2016">Foreign and Commonwealth Office (document published by the hacker group Anonymous), [https://avalonlibrary.net/Operation_Trojan_Horse/Part_1_Taming_Syria_II/OTHER_FCO_FILES_ON_SYRIA/cpg-1044-2016-eoi---potential-partnering-message.pdf CPG/1044/2016 – Expressions of Interest: MENA Strategic Comms: Countering DAESH Propaganda (CSSF Lot 2 Call-Off), Annex A: List of suppliers on CSSF Lot 2 framework] ''avalonlibrary.net'', 2016.</ref> Tussell's supplier list for the FCO's 2015 CSSF framework, which is based on the official award notice, independently records the National Democratic Institute For International Affairs as a supplier.<ref name="Tussell2015">Tussell, [https://client.tussell.com/frameworks/169769-faeb86e7b025ce86a68f06c7e6d864ea-conflict-stability-and-security-fund-framework/suppliers Conflict, Stability and Security Fund Framework (contract notice published 11 December 2015): suppliers] ''Tussell'', accessed 16 October 2026.</ref> FCDO DevTracker lists NDI, with UNDP, as an implementing organisation of the FCDO's Zambian ''Effective State and Democracy Programme'' (GB-GOV-1-400139), which "aims to embed democratic values in Zambia’s institutions and practices".<ref name="DTZambiaESD">FCDO DevTracker, [https://devtracker.fcdo.gov.uk/programme/GB-GOV-1-400139/summary Effective State and Democracy Programme (GB-GOV-1-400139)] ''DevTracker'', accessed 16 October 2026.</ref> FCO and FCDO payments over £25,000 to NDI, recorded under several name variants, total about £20.6m between 2010 and 2022. These cover all FCO/FCDO programmes, not only the CSSF.<ref name="FCOspend">Foreign and Commonwealth Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/foreign-office-spend-over-25000 FCO departmental spending over £25,000] ''GOV.UK'', 2010–2020; Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/fcdo-departmental-spending-over-25000 FCDO: departmental spending over £25,000] ''GOV.UK'', 2020–2026.</ref>

=== FCO/FCDO payments ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ FCO/FCDO payments over £25,000 (all programmes; calendar year of payment)
! Year !! Amount (£)
|-
| 2010 || 131,003
|-
| 2012 || 106,744
|-
| 2013 || 1,571,702
|-
| 2014 || 2,825,873
|-
| 2015 || 1,254,346
|-
| 2016 || 1,222,831
|-
| 2017 || 1,536,003
|-
| 2018 || 1,193,448
|-
| 2019 || 1,943,037
|-
| 2020 || 2,736,472
|-
| 2021 || 4,603,065
|-
| 2022 || 1,370,283
|-
| ? || 92,214
|-
| '''Total''' || '''20,587,020'''
|}
<ref name="FCOspend" />

==External links==
*Lisa Ashkenaz Croke and Brian Dominick, "[http://newstandardnews.net/content/index.cfm/items/1311 Controversial U.S. Groups Operate Behind Scenes on Iraq Vote]," The New Standard, 13 Dec. 2004.
*Ian Traynor,"[http://www.guardian.co.uk/ukraine/story/0,15569,1360236,00.html US Campaign Behind the Turmoil in Kiev]," Friday November 26, 2004 The Guardian, Friday 26 Nov. 2004.
* Interview with former CIA operative describing [http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/1015 The Nature of CIA Intervention in Venezuela] which includes information relating to the NDI.
:Gindin, J. (2005) [http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/1015 The Nature of CIA Intervention in Venezuela] ''Venezuelanalysis.com''. 22nd March 2005.

==References==
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Robert Armstrong

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Lord [[Robert Armstrong|Robert Temple Armstrong]], Baron Armstrong of Ilminster is a former civil servant. Armstrong was educated at Eton College and Christ Church College, Oxford University. He was with the Treasury between 1950 and 1964. He held the office of assistant secretary of the cabinet office between 1964 and 1966, the office of assistant secretary of Treasury between 1967 and 1968, when he was [[Roy Jenkins]]' PPS, joint PPS to the Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1968, under-secretary of the Treasury between 1968 and 1970, PPS to the prime minister between 1970 and 1975, deputy undersecretary to the Home Office between 1975 and 1977, and private undersecretary to the Home Office between 1977 and 1979. From 1979 to 1987, he served as secretary of the Cabinet under prime minister Margaret Thatcher.

He was invested as a Knight Commander, Order of the Bath (K.C.B.) in 1978 and was invested as a Knight Grand Cross, Order of the Bath (G.C.B.) in 1983.

He was a director of [[N M Rothschild & Sons]] in 1988, a director of [[Shell]] Transport and Trading in 1988, a director of [[BAT]] Industries between 1988 and 1997 and was created a Baron in 1988. He was a director of the Bank of Ireland in 1991 and a director of Carlton TV between 1991 and 1995, Bristol & West Building Society 1988-, [[Inchcape]] 1988-, [[Lucas Industries]] 1989-92, [[RTZ Corporation]] 1988-, Chairman [[Biotechnical Investments Ltd]] since 1989, and member of [[Robeco Group]] 1988-. He held the office of Chancellor of Hull University in 1994.<ref>All biographical information is from "[http://www.thepeerage.com/p4448.htm Sir Robert Temple Armstrong, Baron Armstrong of Ilminster]" Person page 4448, ThePeerage.com website, accessed January 2009</ref>

==Attempt to prosecute anti-apartheid activist: 1973==

Declassified files state that Armstrong, while principal private secretary to Prime Minister [[Edward Heath]], wrote to the Attorney General's office in September 1973 in an attempt to invoke a little-used criminal libel law to prosecute [[Peter Hain]], who was at that time a thorn in the government's side over his activities with the anti-apartheid movement.<ref>"[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/3582858.stm Hain libel threat shown in papers]", BBC News, 20 August 2004, accessed January 2009</ref> Hain had been a target of [[BOSS]], the South African Secret Intelligence Service, since 1968 and they planned to set him up and discredit his activities, which they did.<ref>Gordon Winter (1981) ''Inside Boss'', Penguin, p370</ref>According to BOSS's Gordon Winter these activities included aid from the [[Society for Individual Freedom]], which he describes as a British Intelligence front involving [[George K. Young]], [[Ross McWhirter]] (both with UK intelligence connections) and [[Gerald Howarth]].<ref>Gordon Winter (1981) ''Inside Boss'', Penguin, p382-383</ref> This is taken up by Hain himself in his account of being framed for bank robbery.<ref>Peter Hain (1987) A Putney Plot, p146-147, Spokesman.</ref> The Armstrong letter may well be connected to this given his membership of the [[Institute for the Study of Conflict]].

==Thatcher's closest adviser: 1979==

According to the Civil Service website, Armstrong, as the new secretary to UK prime minister Margaret Thatcher's Cabinet, "effortlessly took on the role as her most senior closest official adviser"<ref>"[http://www.civilservice.gov.uk/about/do/evolution/5.asp The evolution of the United Kingdom Civil Service 1848-1997]", Civil Service website, February 2007, accessed January 2009</ref>. This was despite that fact that:

:The arrival of Margaret Thatcher’s government in the corridors of Whitehall in May 1979 was the biggest jolt that the Civil Service had experienced in living memory. For a while the whole Whitehall system almost visibly juddered... It was a culture shock. The elite administrative grade of the Civil Service in Whitehall has come to think of itself as the guardian and trustee of national continuity...The Prime Minister and a small group of sympathetic ministers...were arguing that its ideas and advice had proved bankrupt, that now was the time for an entirely new approach.<ref>"[http://www.civilservice.gov.uk/about/do/evolution/5.asp The evolution of the United Kingdom Civil Service 1848-1997]", Civil Service website, February 2007, accessed January 2009</ref>

==Anglo-Irish negotiations: 1982==

According to Jonathan Powell in his book ''Great Hatred, Little Room, Making Peace in Northern Ireland'', Armstrong played a role in Northern Ireland peace talks in 1982:

:The first tentative contacts between the British and the Irish took place in 1982. [[David Goodall]], a senior British diplomat attached to the [[Cabinet Office]], from a Catholic family with connections to Ireland, began talking to [[Michael Lillis]], a senior Irish diplomat, ferociously clever and with staunch republican antecedents. The [[Northern Ireland Office|NIO]] disapproved of the whole exercise and, as a result, was largely kept out of the loop. The negotiations were conducted in great secrecy with Goodall joined by the Cabinet Secretary [[Robert Armstrong]] on the British side and Lillis joined by another senior Irish diplomat, [[Sean Donlon]], along with [[Dermot Nally]], the Irish Cabinet Secretary.<ref>Great Hatred, Little Room, Making Peace in Northern Ireland by [[Jonathan Powell]],The Bodley Head, 2008, p59.</ref>

==Snuffing out the public interest: 1985==

In the 1980s there was debate about the extent of civil servants' duty towards the government and whether it should overrule any duty to the wider public. This was prompted by the case of [[Clive Ponting]], the civil servant who in 1984 leaked information to an MP about the sinking of the Argentine Navy ship, the Belgrano, by the British during the Falklands War two years previously, killing 360 people. The government had claimed that the Belgrano was threatening British lives when it was sunk. But the document leaked by Ponting indicated that it was sailing away from the Royal Navy taskforce, and was outside the exclusion zone, when it was attacked and sunk.<ref>"[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/216868.stm Troubled history of Official Secrets Act]", BBC News, 18 November 1998, accessed January 2009</ref>

The publication of this information was a massive embarrassment for Thatcher's government. Ponting was prosecuted under the Official Secrets Act of 1911, which prohibited revealing confidential information but allowed the defence that revealing the information was in the public interest.<ref>For more information on this defence, see "[http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1989/feb/22/public-interest-defence Public Interest Defence]", Hansard, HC Deb 22 February 1989 vol 147 cc1036-50, accessed January 2009.</ref> Ponting used the public interest defence in court and the jury acquitted him in spite of the judge's direction to convict.

On 25 February 1985 Armstrong, in his role as Head of the Civil Service and Secretary to the Cabinet, produced a memorandum on the duties and responsibilities of civil servants to Ministers. The memorandum, which has become known as the Armstrong Memorandum, stated that Servants of the crown meant servants of the government of the day. Armstrong stated:

:Civil servants are servants of the Crown. For all practical purposes the Crown in this context means and is represented by the Government of the day... Civil Service as such has no constitutional personality or responsibility separate from the duly elected Government of the day.<ref>Robert Armstrong, ''The Duties and Responsibilities of Civil Servants in Relation to Ministers'', cited in "[http://www.civilservice.gov.uk/about/do/evolution/5.asp The evolution of the United Kingdom Civil Service 1848-1997]", Civil Service website, February 2007, accessed January 2009</ref>

In early 1986 the Thatcher government was rocked by another scandal involving the leaking of information – the Westland affair. Westland was a struggling British helicopter manufacturer which was the subject of Cabinet-level discussions about the choice between two different rescue packages: one European and the other American. Information from these discussions was leaked to the press in an affair that led to the resignation of the then defence secretary [[Michael Heseltine]]. Armstrong led the inquiry into one of the leaks. He concluded that trade and industry secretary Leon Brittan had told chief information officer of the department of trade and industry, Colette Bowe, to leak a letter written by the solicitor-general Patrick Mayhew to Heseltine.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the Thatcher government revised the Official Secrets Act in 1989, removing the public interest defence by repealing Section 2.

=="Economical with the truth": 1986==

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Armstrong, who retired as head of the Civil Service in late 1987, is credited with coining a memorable phrase (others credit Edmund Burke) in 1986 when cross-examined in the supreme court in New South Wales, Australia during the 'Spycatcher' trial. Armstrong was asked whether a letter contained a lie and replied that it was a "misleading impression":

:Lawyer: What is the difference between a misleading impression and a lie?

:Armstrong: A lie is a straight untruth.

:Lawyer: What is a misleading impression - a sort of bent untruth?

:Armstrong: As one person said, it is perhaps being "economical with the truth".<ref>"[http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/127700.html Economical with the truth]", Phrase Finder website, accessed January 2009</ref>

==CARE International UK==
Companies House records Lord Armstrong of Ilminster (Robert Temple Armstrong, born March 1927) as a former director of [[CARE International UK]], a CSSF contractor, with his directorship ending on 24 June 1993.<ref name="CHOArmstrong">Companies House, [https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/officers/NsndCX15O-UZS_bf-2hGhiDhj60/appointments Robert Temple ARMSTRONG OF ILMINSTER: personal appointments] ''Companies House'', accessed 16 October 2026.</ref> He sat in the House of Lords as a crossbench life peer from 26 February 1988 until his death on 3 April 2020.<ref name="MPArmstrong">UK Parliament, [https://members-api.parliament.uk/api/Members/3434 The Lord Armstrong of Ilminster GCB CVO: membership record] ''UK Parliament Members API'', accessed 17 October 2026.</ref>

==External Resources==
*[http://report.bloody-sunday-inquiry.org/evidence/K/KA_0005.pdf Witness Statement of Lord Armstrong of Ilminster], Bloody Sunday Inquiry, 16 January 2003.
*[http://report.bloody-sunday-inquiry.org/transcripts/Archive/Ts294.htm Transcript day 294], Bloody Sunday Inquiry, 5 February 2003.

==References==
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William Ryrie

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{{Infobox person
| name = William Ryrie
| birth_date = November 1928
| death_date = July 2012
| nationality = British
| occupation = Civil servant; World Bank official
}}
'''Sir William Sinclair Ryrie''' (November 1928 – July 2012) was a senior British Treasury civil servant. He was permanent secretary of the [[Overseas Development Administration]] and from 1984 to 1993 executive vice-president and chief executive of the World Bank's International Finance Corporation (IFC).<ref name="ScotsmanRyrie">The Scotsman, [https://www.scotsman.com/news/obituaries/obituary-sir-william-ryrie-uk-treasury-and-world-bank-official-1617511 Obituary: Sir William Ryrie, UK Treasury and World Bank official] ''The Scotsman'', 17 July 2012.</ref> Companies House records him as a director of [[CARE International UK]], a CSSF contractor, from 18 December 1992 to 1 November 2001.<ref name="CHORyrie">Companies House, [https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/officers/mNT6C2z6kE7TiBHGH3a7Lc7HkY8/appointments William Sinclair RYRIE: personal appointments] ''Companies House'', accessed 16 October 2026.</ref>

== Career ==
''The Scotsman''’s obituary says Ryrie "famously drew up the so-called Ryrie Rules on private investment in the public sector during Margaret Thatcher's government". Those rules later gave way to the [[Private Finance Initiative]]. During his Treasury years he served in Washington as economic minister at the British embassy and as British representative at the [[International Monetary Fund]]. He was "head hunted" by World Bank president Tom Clausen for the IFC post in 1984, where he was "directly responsible to the World Bank president".<ref name="ScotsmanRyrie" />
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Vivien Stern

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{{Infobox person
| name = Vivien Stern
| birth_date = September 1941
| nationality = British
| occupation = Penal-reform campaigner; member of the House of Lords (1999–2025)
}}
'''Vivien Helen Stern, Baroness Stern''' (born September 1941) is a British penal-reform campaigner. She sat in the [[House of Lords]] as a crossbench life peer from 13 July 1999 until she retired under the House of Lords Reform Act 2014 on 2 December 2025.<ref name="MPStern">UK Parliament, [https://members-api.parliament.uk/api/Members/2475 The Baroness Stern CBE: membership record] ''UK Parliament Members API'', accessed 17 October 2026.</ref> Companies House records her as a director of [[Penal Reform International]], a CSSF contractor, from 5 February 2001 to 3 December 2006.<ref name="CHOStern">Companies House, [https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/officers/AtPmUA7fnXRQjIGII-wNmrWl8gk/appointments Vivien Helen STERN: personal appointments] ''Companies House'', accessed 16 October 2026.</ref>

== Career ==
A 2014 British Embassy Dushanbe announcement of her official visit to Tajikistan said she "served as a Secretary General of Penal Reform International from 1989 until 2006". It said she had made several visits to Tajikistan to work with its government on prison reform and chaired the All Party Parliamentary Group on Tajikistan.<ref name="GovUKStern">British Embassy Dushanbe, [https://www.gov.uk/government/news/baroness-vivien-stern-pays-an-official-visit-to-tajikistan Baroness Vivien Stern pays an official visit to Tajikistan] ''GOV.UK'', 20 May 2014.</ref> King's College London lists her as a senior research fellow at the International Centre for Prison Studies.<ref name="KCLStern">King's College London, [https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/vivien-stern Vivien Stern] ''KCL Pure'', accessed 17 October 2026.</ref> In the Lords she sat on the Joint Committee on Human Rights (2004–08) and the European Union Committee (1999–2003).<ref name="MPBioStern">UK Parliament, [https://members-api.parliament.uk/api/Members/2475/Biography The Baroness Stern CBE: biography] ''UK Parliament Members API'', accessed 17 October 2026.</ref>
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Michael Williams (1949)

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{{short description|'''British UN diplomat and Labour special adviser (1949–2017); former director of BBC Media Action'''}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Michael Williams
| birth_date = June 1949
| death_date = April 2017
| nationality = British
| occupation = UN official; special adviser; member of the House of Lords (2010–2017)
}}
'''Michael Charles Williams, Lord Williams of Baglan''' (June 1949 – April 2017) was a British United Nations official, Labour special adviser and crossbench life peer. He is not the [[Michael Williams]] of the [[Royal United Services Institute]]. He sat in the [[House of Lords]] from 23 July 2010 until his death on 23 April 2017.<ref name="MPWilliams">UK Parliament, [https://members-api.parliament.uk/api/Members/4185 The Lord Williams of Baglan: membership record] ''UK Parliament Members API'', accessed 17 October 2026.</ref> Companies House records him as a director of [[BBC Media Action]], a CSSF contractor, from 7 September 2005 to 20 April 2009.<ref name="CHOWilliams">Companies House, [https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/officers/fxBRI4cgTJSZqhmrPjLViAN381o/appointments Michael Charles WILLIAMS: personal appointments] ''Companies House'', accessed 16 October 2026.</ref>

== Career ==
''[[The Guardian]]''’s obituary says he worked for the [[BBC World Service]] and [[Amnesty International]] before running the UN mission's radio station in Cambodia and serving as spokesman for the UN Protection Force in the former Yugoslavia. It says that in 2000 he "moved to Whitehall ... as special adviser to the foreign secretary, Robin Cook", and that [[Jack Straw]] kept him on in 2001. His role in Lebanon between 2006 and 2011 after the 2006 Israel–Hezbollah war was "the culmination of his role as an effective, if largely unsung, troubleshooter for the UN".<ref name="GuardianWilliams">Alan Philps, The Guardian, [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/02/lord-williams-of-baglan-obituary Lord Williams of Baglan obituary] ''The Guardian'', 2 May 2017.</ref> ''[[The Independent]]'' said he advised three foreign secretaries, [[Robin Cook]], Jack Straw and [[David Miliband]]. It said that, although "initially in favour of the war in Iraq", he became "increasingly concerned" about the lack of post-war planning.<ref name="IndyWilliams">Ben Williams, The Independent, [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-lord-williams-of-baglan-academic-and-human-rights-campaigner-who-opposed-blair-on-iraq-a7704231.html Obituary: Lord Williams of Baglan, academic and human rights campaigner who opposed Blair on Iraq] ''The Independent'', 3 May 2017.</ref>
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Harold Walker

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{{short description|'''Retired British diplomat, former ambassador to Iraq; former director of CARE International UK'''}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Harold Walker
| birth_date = October 1932
| nationality = British
| occupation = Diplomat
| known_for = British ambassador to Iraq at the time of the 1990–91 Gulf crisis
}}
'''Sir Harold Berners Walker''' (born October 1932) is a retired British diplomat. He was ambassador successively to Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Ethiopia and Iraq between 1979 and 1991.<ref name="CCPSWalker">Cambridge Centre for Palestine Studies, [https://ccps21.org/boards/distinguished-diplomatic-board/sir-harold-walker/ Ambassador Sir Harold Walker] ''CCPS'', accessed 17 October 2026.</ref> Companies House records him as a director of [[CARE International UK]], a CSSF contractor, from 23 September 1992 to 1 November 2001.<ref name="CHOWalker">Companies House, [https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/officers/EM9U2UReF_seDS2C3PRKZOf81Vk/appointments Harold Berners WALKER: personal appointments] ''Companies House'', accessed 16 October 2026.</ref>

== Diplomatic career ==
A biography published by the Cambridge Centre for Palestine Studies, on whose Distinguished Diplomatic Board he sits, says he spent 35 years in the diplomatic service, "during which all but two of his postings overseas were in the Arab world". As a first secretary he worked on trade policy in Washington DC.<ref name="CCPSWalker" /> His 1996 interview for the British Diplomatic Oral History Programme is held at the Churchill Archives Centre, Cambridge.<ref name="DOHPWalker">Churchill Archives Centre, [https://archivesearch.lib.cam.ac.uk/repositories/9/archival_objects/431442 Transcript of interview: Sir Harold Walker, 1996 (GBR/0014/DOHP 16)] ''ArchiveSearch, University of Cambridge'', accessed 17 October 2026.</ref>

== Later roles ==
The same biography says that "for the first ten years of his retirement he gave most of his time to the emergency relief and development aid organisation CARE International, eventually becoming President". It says he was later a Commissioner of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and chairman of the Bahrain Society. He chaired the Royal Society for Asian Affairs from 2001 to 2008 and was president of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies from 2006 to 2010.<ref name="CCPSWalker" />
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Anne Mueller

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{{short description|'''British senior civil servant (1930–2000); former director of CARE International UK'''}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Anne Mueller
| birth_date = October 1930
| death_date = July 2000
| nationality = British
| occupation = Civil servant
}}
'''Dame Anne Elisabeth Mueller''' (October 1930 – July 2000) was a senior British civil servant. ''[[The Guardian]]''’s obituary called her "the most successful woman civil servant of her generation". She rose to be second permanent secretary in the [[Cabinet Office]] and then, from 1987 to 1990, at the [[HM Treasury|Treasury]].<ref name="GuardianMueller">Colette Bowe, The Guardian, [https://www.theguardian.com/news/2000/aug/01/guardianobituaries2 Dame Anne Mueller (obituary)] ''The Guardian'', 1 August 2000.</ref> Companies House records her as a former director of [[CARE International UK]], a CSSF contractor, until 4 July 1999.<ref name="CHOMueller">Companies House, [https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/officers/iU_0pa5rHNv-xv9RsRCcnKusgRo/appointments Anne Elisabeth MUELLER: personal appointments] ''Companies House'', accessed 16 October 2026.</ref>

== Career ==
The ''Guardian'' says she joined the Ministry of Labour and National Service in 1953. She became an under-secretary at the Department of Industry in 1972 and a deputy secretary in 1977, leading its work on regional policy after 1979. In 1984 she moved to the Cabinet Office, "where she was responsible for the personnel management side of the civil service".<ref name="GuardianMueller" />
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World Vision UK

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{{short description|'''UK branch of the Christian humanitarian organisation World Vision; CSSF framework supplier'''}}
{{Infobox organization
| name = World Vision UK
| type = Registered at Companies House
| founded = 3 November 1982 (incorporated)
| location = World Vision House, Opal Drive, Fox Milne, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, MK15 0ZR
| status = Active
| registration_id = Companies House 01675552
}}
'''[[World Vision UK]]''' (World Vision Uk, Companies House number 01675552) was a supplier on the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's [[Conflict, Stability and Security Fund]] (CSSF) frameworks of 2015 and 2018. Companies House records it as incorporated on 3 November 1982, status "Active", nature of business "88990 - Other social work activities without accommodation not elsewhere classified", with registered office at World Vision House, Opal Drive, Fox Milne, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, MK15 0ZR.<ref name="CH01675552">Companies House, [https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/01675552 World Vision Uk (01675552)] ''Companies House'', accessed 16 October 2026.</ref><ref name="CHO01675552">Companies House, [https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/01675552/officers World Vision Uk (01675552): officers] ''Companies House'', accessed 16 October 2026.</ref> FCO and FCDO payments to it over £25,000 recorded in published departmental spending data total about £7,371,679; these figures cover all FCO/FCDO (and, after September 2020, former [[Department for International Development]]) programmes and are not limited to the CSSF.<ref name="FCOspend">Foreign and Commonwealth Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/foreign-office-spend-over-25000 FCO departmental spending over £25,000] ''GOV.UK'', 2010–2020; Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/fcdo-departmental-spending-over-25000 FCDO: departmental spending over £25,000] ''GOV.UK'', 2020–2026.</ref>

== CSSF and other UK government work ==
A 2016 FCO expression-of-interest document for a CSSF "MENA Strategic Comms: Countering DAESH Propaganda" call-off lists World Vision among the suppliers on the CSSF Lot 2 framework. The document was published online in 2020 among files that the hacker group Anonymous said came from the FCO. (On the later 2023–27 framework, the names of Lot 2 suppliers were redacted on national-security grounds.)<ref name="Lot2List2016">Foreign and Commonwealth Office (document published by the hacker group Anonymous), [https://avalonlibrary.net/Operation_Trojan_Horse/Part_1_Taming_Syria_II/OTHER_FCO_FILES_ON_SYRIA/cpg-1044-2016-eoi---potential-partnering-message.pdf CPG/1044/2016 – Expressions of Interest: MENA Strategic Comms: Countering DAESH Propaganda (CSSF Lot 2 Call-Off), Annex A: List of suppliers on CSSF Lot 2 framework] ''avalonlibrary.net'', 2016.</ref> Tussell's supplier list for the FCO's 2015 CSSF framework, which is based on the official award notice, independently records World Vision UK as a supplier.<ref name="Tussell2015">Tussell, [https://client.tussell.com/frameworks/169769-faeb86e7b025ce86a68f06c7e6d864ea-conflict-stability-and-security-fund-framework/suppliers Conflict, Stability and Security Fund Framework (contract notice published 11 December 2015): suppliers] ''Tussell'', accessed 16 October 2026.</ref> Tussell also lists World Vision UK among the 103 suppliers on the 2018 CSSF framework re-tender.<ref name="Tussell2018">Tussell, [https://client.tussell.com/frameworks/708010-4eb6685764e9f51a850e4fb8b06c1603-conflict-stability-security-fund-cssf-framework-re-tender-2018-extensi/suppliers Conflict, Stability & Security Fund (CSSF) Framework Re-Tender 2018 – Extension and Value Uplift: suppliers] ''Tussell'', accessed 16 October 2026.</ref> ''Caucasian Knot'' reported in April 2015 that World Vision was among the organisations presenting peace projects in Tbilisi as British embassies in Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan invited funding applications from the CSSF.<ref name="KavkazCSSF">Caucasian Knot, [https://www.eng.kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/31335 British Embassies accept applications for funding new projects of NPOs in Southern Caucasus] ''Caucasian Knot'', 5 April 2015.</ref> The payments below combine several World Vision entities.

=== FCO/FCDO payments ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ FCO/FCDO payments over £25,000 (all programmes; calendar year of payment)
! Year !! Amount (£)
|-
| 2014 || 25,497
|-
| 2020 || 2,632,752
|-
| 2021 || 3,353,211
|-
| 2022 || 1,360,220
|-
| '''Total''' || '''7,371,679'''
|}
<ref name="FCOspend" />

== People ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Current officers recorded at Companies House
! Name !! Role !! Appointed
|-
| Alexander Godfrey Morley || Secretary || 24 July 2023
|-
| Sarah Louise Bissell || Director || 23 February 2024
|-
| Rachel Elizabeth Blanshard || Director || 23 May 2024
|-
| Courtney Daniella Boateng Smith || Director || 1 May 2026
|-
| Constantine Alexander Botha || Director || 1 May 2026
|-
| Jin Pang Chong || Director || 23 May 2024
|-
| Andrew Atta Darfoor || Director || 30 September 2021
|-
| Tara Mary Doyle || Director || 27 February 2026
|-
| Marcus James Frost || Director || 13 June 2018
|-
| Alexander Jacob Harris || Director || 14 September 2024
|-
| Abisola Nneka Lavie Mustapha-Maduakor || Director || 23 February 2024
|-
| Oluwabukola Temitope Obayiuwana || Director || 1 May 2026
|-
| Nicolette Georgina Robinson || Director || 7 September 2023
|}
<ref name="CHO01675552" />

== See also ==
* [[Conflict, Stability and Security Fund]]
* [[:Category:CSSF Contractors]]

==Notes==
<references/>

[[Category:CSSF Contractors]]
[[Category:UK]]
[[Category:Charities]]

Wasafiri Consulting

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{{short description|'''Brighton- and Nairobi-based conflict and systems-change consultancy; CSSF contractor'''}}
{{Infobox company
| name = Wasafiri Consulting
| type = Registered at Companies House
| founded = 25 March 2010 (incorporated)
| location = Preston Park House, South Road, Brighton, England, BN1 6SB
| industry = Other business support service activities not elsewhere classified
}}
'''[[Wasafiri Consulting]]''' (Wasafiri Consulting Limited, Companies House number 07202110) is a contractor to the [[Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office]] (FCDO) under the [[Conflict, Stability and Security Fund]] (CSSF). Companies House records it as incorporated on 25 March 2010, status "Active", nature of business "82990 - Other business support service activities not elsewhere classified", with registered office at Preston Park House, South Road, Brighton, England, BN1 6SB.<ref name="CH07202110">Companies House, [https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/07202110 Wasafiri Consulting Limited (07202110)] ''Companies House'', accessed 16 October 2026.</ref><ref name="CHO07202110">Companies House, [https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/07202110/officers Wasafiri Consulting Limited (07202110): officers] ''Companies House'', accessed 16 October 2026.</ref> It is a named supplier on Lot 1 of the CSSF Framework Agreement 2023–27.<ref name="FTS2023">Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, [https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/029743-2023 Conflict, Stability and Security Fund (CSSF) Framework Agreement (2023-2027): contract award notice 029743-2023] ''Find a Tender Service'', 2023.</ref> FCO and FCDO payments to it over £25,000 recorded in published departmental spending data total about £522,775; these figures cover all FCO/FCDO (and, after September 2020, former [[Department for International Development]]) programmes and are not limited to the CSSF.<ref name="FCOspend">Foreign and Commonwealth Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/foreign-office-spend-over-25000 FCO departmental spending over £25,000] ''GOV.UK'', 2010–2020; Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/fcdo-departmental-spending-over-25000 FCDO: departmental spending over £25,000] ''GOV.UK'', 2020–2026.</ref>

== CSSF and other UK government work ==
Wasafiri says the British High Commission committed to "a 3-year programme to tackle the drivers, narratives and enablers of violent extremism" in East Africa. It says that in 2015 the High Commission "commissioned Wasafiri as its Regional Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) Research Unit".<ref name="WasCVE">Ian Randall, Wasafiri Consulting, [https://wasafirihub.com/case-studies/new-approaches-for-preventing-violent-extremism-in-east-africa/ New approaches for preventing violent extremism in East Africa] ''Wasafiri'', 30 January 2020.</ref> It also says its director Hamish Wilson was "deployed to the British Embassy in the newly created post of Senior Stabilisation Adviser" in Somalia in early 2012.<ref name="WasSomalia">Hamish Wilson, Wasafiri Consulting, [https://wasafirihub.com/blog/foundations-laid-peace-stability-somalia/ Foundations laid for peace and stability in Somalia] ''Wasafiri'', 22 November 2013.</ref>

=== FCO/FCDO payments ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ FCO/FCDO payments over £25,000 (all programmes; calendar year of payment)
! Year !! Amount (£)
|-
| 2015 || 115,530
|-
| 2016 || 136,596
|-
| 2018 || 106,226
|-
| 2019 || 164,424
|-
| '''Total''' || '''522,775'''
|}
<ref name="FCOspend" />

== People ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Current officers recorded at Companies House
! Name !! Role !! Appointed
|-
| George Ephraim Kaburu || Director || 1 October 2025
|-
| Martin Mubanga Kalungu || Director || 25 April 2014
|-
| Catherine Mwendwa Mbutu || Director || 22 January 2021
|-
| Ian Randall || Director || 25 March 2010
|-
| Liberal Aloys Seburikoko || Director || 15 January 2011
|-
| Dr Katherine Jane Simpson || Director || 12 January 2017
|-
| David Hayden Williams || Director || 25 April 2014
|-
| Hamish Henderson Wilson || Director || 25 March 2010
|}
<ref name="CHO07202110" />

== See also ==
* [[Conflict, Stability and Security Fund]]
* [[:Category:CSSF Contractors]]

==Notes==
<references/>

[[Category:CSSF Contractors]]
[[Category:UK]]
[[Category:Kenya]]
[[Category:Somalia]]

WYG International

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{{short description|'''Dutch-registered international arm of the former UK consultancy WYG (now Tetra Tech); CSSF contractor'''}}
{{Infobox company
| name = WYG International
| location = Netherlands
}}
'''[[WYG International]]''' is a contractor to the [[Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office]] (FCDO) under the [[Conflict, Stability and Security Fund]] (CSSF). [[Contracts Finder]] lists 3 published CSSF award(s) to it with a combined stated value of £3,893,344.

== Overview ==
WYG plc, the parent of WYG International B.V., was acquired by Tetra Tech UK Holdings, a subsidiary of the US firm Tetra Tech Inc., in a recommended cash offer completed on 9 July 2019.<ref name="WYGTetra">WYG plc (RNS via SharePrices), [https://shareprices.com/rns/completion-of-acquisition-by-tetra-tech-5ma1302g8x65kox/ Completion of acquisition by Tetra Tech (RNS 9703E)] ''SharePrices.com'', 9 July 2019.</ref>

== CSSF and other UK government work ==
WYG International is not among the named suppliers on Lots 1 and 3 of the 2023–27 CSSF framework. Its published CSSF awards (below) include a 2018 "Western Balkans – Target Audience Analysis" contract and infrastructure advisers for [[Anguilla]].

=== Published CSSF contracts ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ CSSF awards published on Contracts Finder
! Award date !! Contract !! Value (£) !! Supplier name as published !! Source
|-
| 2018-06-08 || CSSF: LOT B WESTERN BALKANS - TARGET AUDIENCE ANALYSIS || 693,000 || WYG INTERNATIONAL || <ref>Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, [https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/7cf4fdee-b181-4c74-b3d0-14c36eb32b12 CSSF: LOT B WESTERN BALKANS - TARGET AUDIENCE ANALYSIS] ''Contracts Finder'', 2018-06-08.</ref>
|-
| 2018-06-13 || CSSF Anguilla Infrastructure Advisors - Phase II || 170,344 || WYG INTERNATIONAL || <ref>Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, [https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/7dc31d9e-488e-47d6-a1de-f779b12046cc CSSF Anguilla Infrastructure Advisors - Phase II] ''Contracts Finder'', 2018-06-13.</ref>
|-
| 2019-10-12 || Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Services for CSSF West Africa || 3,030,000 || WYG INTERNATIONAL B.V. || <ref>Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, [https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/b243a12c-5271-43d4-96dd-16de159eb02a Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Services for CSSF West Africa] ''Contracts Finder'', 2019-10-12.</ref>
|}

== See also ==
* [[Conflict, Stability and Security Fund]]
* [[:Category:CSSF Contractors]]
* [[Tetra Tech International Development]]

==Notes==
<references/>

[[Category:CSSF Contractors]]
[[Category:Netherlands]]
[[Category:Psychological operations]]

Triple Line Consulting

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{{short description|'''London-based development consultancy; CSSF contractor'''}}
{{Infobox company
| name = Triple Line Consulting
| type = Registered at Companies House
| founded = 11 June 1999 (incorporated)
| location = Tintagel House, 92 Albert Embankment, London, London, England, SE1 7TY
| industry = Management consultancy activities other than financial management
}}
'''[[Triple Line Consulting]]''' (Triple Line Consulting Ltd., Companies House number 03788027) is a contractor to the [[Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office]] (FCDO) under the [[Conflict, Stability and Security Fund]] (CSSF). Companies House records it as incorporated on 11 June 1999, status "Active", nature of business "70229 - Management consultancy activities other than financial management", with registered office at Tintagel House, 92 Albert Embankment, London, London, England, SE1 7TY.<ref name="CH03788027">Companies House, [https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/03788027 Triple Line Consulting Ltd. (03788027)] ''Companies House'', accessed 16 October 2026.</ref><ref name="CHO03788027">Companies House, [https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/03788027/officers Triple Line Consulting Ltd. (03788027): officers] ''Companies House'', accessed 16 October 2026.</ref> It is a named supplier on Lot 1 of the CSSF Framework Agreement 2023–27.<ref name="FTS2023">Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, [https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/029743-2023 Conflict, Stability and Security Fund (CSSF) Framework Agreement (2023-2027): contract award notice 029743-2023] ''Find a Tender Service'', 2023.</ref> FCO and FCDO payments to it over £25,000 recorded in published departmental spending data total about £990,315; these figures cover all FCO/FCDO (and, after September 2020, former [[Department for International Development]]) programmes and are not limited to the CSSF.<ref name="FCOspend">Foreign and Commonwealth Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/foreign-office-spend-over-25000 FCO departmental spending over £25,000] ''GOV.UK'', 2010–2020; Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/fcdo-departmental-spending-over-25000 FCDO: departmental spending over £25,000] ''GOV.UK'', 2020–2026.</ref>

== CSSF and other UK government work ==
Triple Line says it helped the FCO "understand and communicate the results achieved by the UK Commonwealth 18-20 Fund", the £70 million fund set up after the 2018 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in London, with the FCDO named as client.<ref name="TLCHOGM">Triple Line Consulting, [https://tripleline.com/insight/article/helping-the-fco-understand-and-communicate-the-results-achieved-by-the-uk-commonwealth-18-20-fund Helping the FCO understand and communicate the results achieved by the UK Commonwealth 18-20 Fund] ''Triple Line'', accessed 16 October 2026.</ref> It also produced the independent evaluation of ''Creating Hope in Conflict'' (2018–22), a humanitarian grand challenge backed by UK aid among others.<ref name="TLCHIC">Triple Line Consulting, [https://humanitariangrandchallenge.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/CHIC-Independent-Evaluation-Report-13-06-23.pdf Creating Hope in Conflict (2018-2022): Independent Evaluation] ''Humanitarian Grand Challenge'', June 2023.</ref>

=== FCO/FCDO payments ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ FCO/FCDO payments over £25,000 (all programmes; calendar year of payment)
! Year !! Amount (£)
|-
| 2010 || 26,137
|-
| 2019 || 42,250
|-
| 2020 || 86,385
|-
| 2023 || 223,305
|-
| 2024 || 612,237
|-
| '''Total''' || '''990,315'''
|}
<ref name="FCOspend" />

== People ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Current officers recorded at Companies House
! Name !! Role !! Appointed
|-
| Nikolaos Papachristodoulou || Director || 1 April 2024
|-
| Clarissa Poulson || Director || 28 August 2020
|-
| Mathis Richter Primdal || Director || 24 March 2015
|-
| Pallak Seth || Director || 19 June 2019
|-
| Himanshu Sikka || Director || 30 June 2014
|-
| Ashwajit Singh || Director || 30 June 2014
|}
<ref name="CHO03788027" />

== See also ==
* [[Conflict, Stability and Security Fund]]
* [[:Category:CSSF Contractors]]

==Notes==
<references/>

[[Category:CSSF Contractors]]
[[Category:UK]]

Toro Risk Solutions

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{{short description|'''London-based converged-security consultancy; CSSF contractor'''}}
{{Infobox company
| name = Toro Risk Solutions
| type = Registered at Companies House
| founded = 2 March 2015 (incorporated)
| location = 124 City Road, London, England, EC1V 2NX
| industry = Other professional, scientific and technical activities not elsewhere classified
}}
'''[[Toro Risk Solutions]]''' (Toro Risk Solutions - Global Limited, Companies House number 09465940) is a contractor to the [[Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office]] (FCDO) under the [[Conflict, Stability and Security Fund]] (CSSF). Companies House records it as incorporated on 2 March 2015, status "Active", nature of business "74909 - Other professional, scientific and technical activities not elsewhere classified", with registered office at 124 City Road, London, England, EC1V 2NX.<ref name="CH09465940">Companies House, [https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/09465940 Toro Risk Solutions - Global Limited (09465940)] ''Companies House'', accessed 16 October 2026.</ref><ref name="CHO09465940">Companies House, [https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/09465940/officers Toro Risk Solutions - Global Limited (09465940): officers] ''Companies House'', accessed 16 October 2026.</ref> It is a named supplier on Lot 1 and Lot 3 of the CSSF Framework Agreement 2023–27.<ref name="FTS2023">Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, [https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/029743-2023 Conflict, Stability and Security Fund (CSSF) Framework Agreement (2023-2027): contract award notice 029743-2023] ''Find a Tender Service'', 2023.</ref>

== Overview ==
Toro says it "was founded in 2015 by Peter Connolly". It says that after "a career in the military", Connolly was asked to create "the UK's first Red Team penetration testing methodology blending ethical hacking, physical intrusion, and social engineering".<ref name="ToroAbout">Toro Solutions, [https://www.torosolutions.co.uk/about/about-toro/ About Toro] ''Toro Solutions'', accessed 16 October 2026.</ref>

== CSSF and other UK government work ==
Toro is named on Lots 1 and 3 of the 2023–27 CSSF framework.

== Controversies and criticism ==
In February 2021 ''[[The Canary]]'', a critical source, discussed documents published by Anonymous about FCO counter-disinformation programmes. It quoted an earlier leak-based analysis stating that, in the FCO's EXPOSE network, "risk management and security [was] almost certainly provided by Toro Risk Solutions". This is a hedged inference, not a documented contract, and no independent corroboration was found.<ref name="CanaryExpose2021">Tom Coburg, The Canary, [https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2021/02/28/unsurprisingly-leaked-files-confirm-the-foreign-office-coordinates-multi-agency-propaganda-programmes/ Unsurprisingly, leaked files confirm the Foreign Office coordinates multi-agency propaganda programmes] ''The Canary'', 28 February 2021.</ref>

== People ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Current officers recorded at Companies House
! Name !! Role !! Appointed
|-
| Peter David Connolly || Director || 2 March 2015
|}
<ref name="CHO09465940" />

== See also ==
* [[Conflict, Stability and Security Fund]]
* [[:Category:CSSF Contractors]]
* [[Open Information Partnership]]
* [[Zinc Network]]

==Notes==
<references/>

[[Category:CSSF Contractors]]
[[Category:UK]]

Thomson Reuters Foundation

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{{short description|'''Charitable arm of Thomson Reuters; CSSF contractor'''}}
{{Infobox organization
| name = Thomson Reuters Foundation
| type = Registered at Companies House
| founded = 4 August 2000 (incorporated)
| location = Five Canada Square, Canary Wharf, London, United Kingdom, E14 5AQ
| status = Active
| registration_id = Companies House 04047905
}}
'''[[Thomson Reuters Foundation]]''' (Thomson Reuters Foundation, Companies House number 04047905) is a contractor to the [[Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office]] (FCDO) under the [[Conflict, Stability and Security Fund]] (CSSF). Companies House records it as incorporated on 4 August 2000, status "Active", nature of business "74990 - Non-trading company", with registered office at Five Canada Square, Canary Wharf, London, United Kingdom, E14 5AQ.<ref name="CH04047905">Companies House, [https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/04047905 Thomson Reuters Foundation (04047905)] ''Companies House'', accessed 16 October 2026.</ref><ref name="CHO04047905">Companies House, [https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/04047905/officers Thomson Reuters Foundation (04047905): officers] ''Companies House'', accessed 16 October 2026.</ref> It is a named supplier on Lot 1 of the CSSF Framework Agreement 2023–27.<ref name="FTS2023">Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, [https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/029743-2023 Conflict, Stability and Security Fund (CSSF) Framework Agreement (2023-2027): contract award notice 029743-2023] ''Find a Tender Service'', 2023.</ref> FCO and FCDO payments to it over £25,000 recorded in published departmental spending data total about £791,578; these figures cover all FCO/FCDO (and, after September 2020, former [[Department for International Development]]) programmes and are not limited to the CSSF.<ref name="FCOspend">Foreign and Commonwealth Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/foreign-office-spend-over-25000 FCO departmental spending over £25,000] ''GOV.UK'', 2010–2020; Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/fcdo-departmental-spending-over-25000 FCDO: departmental spending over £25,000] ''GOV.UK'', 2020–2026.</ref>

== Overview ==
The framework supplier is recorded as "Thomson Reuters Foundation Group (DBA Reuters Foundation Consultants Limited)". Reuters Foundation Consultants Limited (03740741) is a separate company at the same Canary Wharf address.<ref name="CH03740741">Companies House, [https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/03740741 Reuters Foundation Consultants Limited (03740741)] ''Companies House'', accessed 16 October 2026.</ref>

== CSSF and other UK government work ==
Documents published by Anonymous in 2021 include an FCO letter dated 30 May 2019, signed by a CSSF commercial adviser. The letter told Thomson Reuters Foundation Group that its tender for ''Enhancing Journalistic Standards in Russia through Themed Press Tours'' (contract CPG/3266/2019, ITT 2949) had been ranked first of two bids.<ref name="TRFaward2019">Foreign and Commonwealth Office (document published by the hacker group Anonymous), [https://avalonlibrary.net/Operation_Trojan_Horse/Part_4_Undermining_Russia/TRF_bid_on_Enhancing_Journalistic_Standards_in_Russia_through_Themed_Press_Tours_(Russia_III)/ITT_2949%20Award%20Letter%20TRF.pdf Notice of Contract Award Decision: CPG/3266/2019 Enhancing Journalistic Standards in Russia through Themed Press Tours] ''avalonlibrary.net'', 30 May 2019.</ref> ''[[The Grayzone]]'', a critical source, reported on these files in February 2021. It said they showed the foundation and [[BBC Media Action]] in programmes of the FCO's [[Counter Disinformation and Media Development]] (CDMD) unit aimed at countering Russia. It also said a 2017 TRF tender for "Capacity Building in Russian Media" through the British Embassy Moscow described being "in constant communication with the British Embassy in Moscow, to assess levels of risk, including reputational risk to the embassy".<ref name="GZRussia2021">Max Blumenthal, The Grayzone, [https://thegrayzone.com/2021/02/20/reuters-bbc-uk-foreign-office-russian-media/ Reuters, BBC, and Bellingcat participated in covert UK Foreign Office-funded programs to "weaken Russia," leaked docs reveal] ''The Grayzone'', 20 February 2021.</ref>

== Controversies and criticism ==
Responding to ''The Grayzone'', TRF spokesperson Jenny Vereker said: "The inference that the Thomson Reuters Foundation was engaged in 'secret activities' is inaccurate and misrepresents our work in the public interest. We have for decades openly supported a free press and have worked to help journalists globally to develop the skills needed to report with independence." She said the funding "supports our independent work to assist journalists and journalism all over the world".<ref name="GZRussia2021" />

=== FCO/FCDO payments ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ FCO/FCDO payments over £25,000 (all programmes; calendar year of payment)
! Year !! Amount (£)
|-
| 2012 || 247,768
|-
| 2013 || 206,294
|-
| 2017 || 209,127
|-
| 2023 || 56,382
|-
| 2024 || 72,007
|-
| '''Total''' || '''791,578'''
|}
<ref name="FCOspend" />

== People ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Current officers recorded at Companies House
! Name !! Role !! Appointed
|-
| Yee Man Chan || Secretary || 11 November 2025
|-
| Michael Keith Eastwood || Director || 15 May 2026
|-
| Mary Katherine Friedrich || Director || 15 May 2026
|-
| Eileen Lynch-Sussan || Director || 5 December 2011
|-
| Margaret Mendi Njonjo || Director || 1 January 2021
|-
| Brian Peccarelli || Director || 12 November 2018
|-
| Ragunath Ramanathan || Director || 1 January 2025
|-
| Vivian Luisa Schiller || Director || 1 January 2021
|-
| Mary Alice Vuicic || Director || 1 January 2021
|-
| Vedat Can Yeginsu || Director || 1 November 2025
|}
<ref name="CHO04047905" />

== See also ==
* [[Conflict, Stability and Security Fund]]
* [[:Category:CSSF Contractors]]
* [[Counter Disinformation and Media Development]]
* [[BBC Media Action]]
* [[Aktis Strategy]]

==Notes==
<references/>

[[Category:CSSF Contractors]]
[[Category:UK]]
[[Category:Russia]]
[[Category:Charities]]
[[Category:Psychological operations]]

Stratagem Consulting

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{{short description|'''UK political-affairs consultancy; CSSF contractor'''}}
{{Infobox company
| name = Stratagem Consulting
| type = Registered at Companies House
| founded = 6 July 2015 (incorporated)
| location = 71-75 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London, United Kingdom, WC2H 9JQ
| industry = Other service activities not elsewhere classified
}}
'''[[Stratagem Consulting]]''' (Stratagem Consulting Limited, Companies House number 09672611) is a contractor to the [[Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office]] (FCDO) under the [[Conflict, Stability and Security Fund]] (CSSF). Companies House records it as incorporated on 6 July 2015, status "Active", nature of business "96090 - Other service activities not elsewhere classified", with registered office at 71-75 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London, United Kingdom, WC2H 9JQ.<ref name="CH09672611">Companies House, [https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/09672611 Stratagem Consulting Limited (09672611)] ''Companies House'', accessed 16 October 2026.</ref><ref name="CHO09672611">Companies House, [https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/09672611/officers Stratagem Consulting Limited (09672611): officers] ''Companies House'', accessed 16 October 2026.</ref> It is a named supplier on Lot 1 and Lot 3 of the CSSF Framework Agreement 2023–27.<ref name="FTS2023">Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, [https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/029743-2023 Conflict, Stability and Security Fund (CSSF) Framework Agreement (2023-2027): contract award notice 029743-2023] ''Find a Tender Service'', 2023.</ref> FCO and FCDO payments to it over £25,000 recorded in published departmental spending data total about £10,937,102; these figures cover all FCO/FCDO (and, after September 2020, former [[Department for International Development]]) programmes and are not limited to the CSSF.<ref name="FCOspend">Foreign and Commonwealth Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/foreign-office-spend-over-25000 FCO departmental spending over £25,000] ''GOV.UK'', 2010–2020; Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/fcdo-departmental-spending-over-25000 FCDO: departmental spending over £25,000] ''GOV.UK'', 2020–2026.</ref>

== CSSF and other UK government work ==
Stratagem Consulting is one of only a few suppliers named on both Lot 1 and Lot 3 of the 2023–27 CSSF framework. Published FCO/FCDO spending data record payments to it every year from 2016 to 2023 (see below), but no programme-level description of its CSSF work was found in official sources during this research. The company's own website could not be retrieved for verification.

=== FCO/FCDO payments ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ FCO/FCDO payments over £25,000 (all programmes; calendar year of payment)
! Year !! Amount (£)
|-
| 2016 || 882,921
|-
| 2017 || 3,184,915
|-
| 2018 || 1,874,830
|-
| 2019 || 1,378,835
|-
| 2020 || 860,580
|-
| 2021 || 1,319,712
|-
| 2022 || 899,504
|-
| 2023 || 535,805
|-
| '''Total''' || '''10,937,102'''
|}
<ref name="FCOspend" />

== People ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Current officers recorded at Companies House
! Name !! Role !! Appointed
|-
| Hannah Marisa Harring || Secretary || 31 March 2017
|-
| Debbie Jo Noble || Secretary || 31 March 2017
|-
| John Peter Harring || Director || 6 July 2015
|-
| Andrew John Noble || Director || 30 March 2017
|}
<ref name="CHO09672611" />

== See also ==
* [[Conflict, Stability and Security Fund]]
* [[:Category:CSSF Contractors]]

==Notes==
<references/>

[[Category:CSSF Contractors]]
[[Category:UK]]

Sovereign Global UK

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{{short description|'''London-registered arm of the Franco-British government-services firm Sovereign Global (dissolved); CSSF framework supplier'''}}
{{Infobox company
| name = Sovereign Global UK
| type = Registered at Companies House
| founded = 25 April 2012 (incorporated)
| location = Mazars, 30 Old Bailey, London, United Kingdom, EC4M 7AU
| industry = Management consultancy activities other than financial management
| defunct = 31 January 2023
}}
'''[[Sovereign Global UK]]''' (Sovereign Global (UK) Limited, Companies House number 08044838) was named, in documents published by Anonymous, as a supplier on Lot 2 of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's [[Conflict, Stability and Security Fund]] (CSSF) framework. Companies House records it as incorporated on 25 April 2012, status "Dissolved", nature of business "70229 - Management consultancy activities other than financial management", with registered office at Mazars, 30 Old Bailey, London, United Kingdom, EC4M 7AU.<ref name="CH08044838">Companies House, [https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/08044838 Sovereign Global (UK) Limited (08044838)] ''Companies House'', accessed 16 October 2026.</ref><ref name="CHO08044838">Companies House, [https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/08044838/officers Sovereign Global (UK) Limited (08044838): officers] ''Companies House'', accessed 16 October 2026.</ref> FCO and FCDO payments to it over £25,000 recorded in published departmental spending data total about £118,232; these figures cover all FCO/FCDO (and, after September 2020, former [[Department for International Development]]) programmes and are not limited to the CSSF.<ref name="FCOspend">Foreign and Commonwealth Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/foreign-office-spend-over-25000 FCO departmental spending over £25,000] ''GOV.UK'', 2010–2020; Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/fcdo-departmental-spending-over-25000 FCDO: departmental spending over £25,000] ''GOV.UK'', 2020–2026.</ref>

== Overview ==
Two dissolved companies have been registered as Sovereign Global (UK) Limited. The one most likely to be the CSSF supplier is company 08044838 (2012–2023), whose directors were Jerome Paolini and Bruno Pardigon.<ref name="CHO08044838" /> A separate company registered in Enfield (05620809), apparently unconnected, used the same name from 2005 to 2011.

== CSSF and other UK government work ==
A 2016 FCO expression-of-interest document for a CSSF "MENA Strategic Comms: Countering DAESH Propaganda" call-off lists Sovereign Global UK among the suppliers on the CSSF Lot 2 framework. The document was published online in 2020 among files that the hacker group Anonymous said came from the FCO. (On the later 2023–27 framework, the names of Lot 2 suppliers were redacted on national-security grounds.)<ref name="Lot2List2016">Foreign and Commonwealth Office (document published by the hacker group Anonymous), [https://avalonlibrary.net/Operation_Trojan_Horse/Part_1_Taming_Syria_II/OTHER_FCO_FILES_ON_SYRIA/cpg-1044-2016-eoi---potential-partnering-message.pdf CPG/1044/2016 – Expressions of Interest: MENA Strategic Comms: Countering DAESH Propaganda (CSSF Lot 2 Call-Off), Annex A: List of suppliers on CSSF Lot 2 framework] ''avalonlibrary.net'', 2016.</ref> It does not appear in Tussell's 2015 framework list. FCO spending files record a single 2017 payment of £118,232 to "Sovereign Global" (see below).

=== FCO/FCDO payments ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ FCO/FCDO payments over £25,000 (all programmes; calendar year of payment)
! Year !! Amount (£)
|-
| 2017 || 118,232
|-
| '''Total''' || '''118,232'''
|}
<ref name="FCOspend" />

== People ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Current officers recorded at Companies House
! Name !! Role !! Appointed
|-
| Jerome Paolini || Director || 25 April 2012
|-
| Bruno Pardigon || Director || 25 April 2012
|}
<ref name="CHO08044838" />

== See also ==
* [[Conflict, Stability and Security Fund]]
* [[:Category:CSSF Contractors]]

==Notes==
<references/>

[[Category:CSSF Contractors]]
[[Category:UK]]

Social Development Direct

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{{short description|'''London-based gender and social-inclusion consultancy; CSSF contractor'''}}
{{Infobox company
| name = Social Development Direct
| type = Registered at Companies House
| founded = 23 September 1999 (incorporated)
| location = Discovery House, 28-42 Banner Street, London, England, EC1Y 8QE
| industry = Other service activities not elsewhere classified
}}
'''[[Social Development Direct]]''' (Social Development Direct Limited, Companies House number 03846881) is a contractor to the [[Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office]] (FCDO) under the [[Conflict, Stability and Security Fund]] (CSSF). Companies House records it as incorporated on 23 September 1999, status "Active", nature of business "96090 - Other service activities not elsewhere classified", with registered office at Discovery House, 28-42 Banner Street, London, England, EC1Y 8QE.<ref name="CH03846881">Companies House, [https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/03846881 Social Development Direct Limited (03846881)] ''Companies House'', accessed 16 October 2026.</ref><ref name="CHO03846881">Companies House, [https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/03846881/officers Social Development Direct Limited (03846881): officers] ''Companies House'', accessed 16 October 2026.</ref> It is a named supplier on Lot 1 of the CSSF Framework Agreement 2023–27.<ref name="FTS2023">Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, [https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/029743-2023 Conflict, Stability and Security Fund (CSSF) Framework Agreement (2023-2027): contract award notice 029743-2023] ''Find a Tender Service'', 2023.</ref> [[Contracts Finder]] lists 1 published CSSF award(s) to it with a combined stated value of £98,086. FCO and FCDO payments to it over £25,000 recorded in published departmental spending data total about £1,191,729; these figures cover all FCO/FCDO (and, after September 2020, former [[Department for International Development]]) programmes and are not limited to the CSSF.<ref name="FCOspend">Foreign and Commonwealth Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/foreign-office-spend-over-25000 FCO departmental spending over £25,000] ''GOV.UK'', 2010–2020; Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/fcdo-departmental-spending-over-25000 FCDO: departmental spending over £25,000] ''GOV.UK'', 2020–2026.</ref>

== CSSF and other UK government work ==
SDDirect and the Yemen Polling Center produced ''Women as Peacebuilders in Yemen'' (June 2018), which states it was "produced for: CSSF Yemen" and "funded through the UK's Conflict, Stability and Security Fund". The CSSF for Yemen "commissioned this qualitative study to understand more about women's engagement in conflict prevention, peace and stability in Yemen".<ref name="SDDYemen">Marie-Christine Heinze and Sophie Stevens, SDDirect and Yemen Polling Center, [https://www.sddirect.org.uk/sites/default/files/2022-12/sdd_yemenreport_full_v5.pdf Women as Peacebuilders in Yemen] ''Social Development Direct'', June 2018.</ref> SDDirect also says it is "part of a multidisciplinary consortia delivering the Global Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (GMEL) service for the Conflict, Stability and Security Fund" for the Joint Funds Unit, leading on gender and social inclusion.<ref name="SDDGMEL">Social Development Direct, [https://sddirect.org.uk/project/global-monitoring-evaluation-and-learning-gmel-partnership-conflict-stability-and-security Global Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (GMEL) Partnership, Conflict, Stability and Security Fund (CSSF)] ''SDDirect'', accessed 16 October 2026.</ref>

=== Published CSSF contracts ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ CSSF awards published on Contracts Finder
! Award date !! Contract !! Value (£) !! Supplier name as published !! Source
|-
| 2018-01-26 || CSSF Yemen research and gender analysis on the impact of conflict on women's experience of violence and roles in peace-b || 98,086 || Social Development Direct LTd || <ref>Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, [https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/fc5032d3-0b93-46c0-9cb5-389c50f6f071 CSSF Yemen research and gender analysis on the impact of conflict on women's experience of] ''Contracts Finder'', 2018-01-26.</ref>
|}

=== FCO/FCDO payments ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ FCO/FCDO payments over £25,000 (all programmes; calendar year of payment)
! Year !! Amount (£)
|-
| 2018 || 32,303
|-
| 2020 || 121,455
|-
| 2022 || 70,034
|-
| 2023 || 294,441
|-
| 2024 || 673,496
|-
| '''Total''' || '''1,191,729'''
|}
<ref name="FCOspend" />

== People ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Current officers recorded at Companies House
! Name !! Role !! Appointed
|-
| Muge Begum Rice || Secretary || 12 January 2026
|-
| Kate Eleanor Bishop || Director || 19 December 2025
|-
| Edith Rose Caldwell || Director || 10 March 2020
|-
| Jonathan Geoffrey Elms || Director || 16 June 2025
|-
| John Andrew Kerr || Director || 10 March 2020
|-
| John Duncan Lockett || Director || 16 December 2024
|-
| Helen Victoria Thompson || Director || 20 April 2026
|}
<ref name="CHO03846881" />

== See also ==
* [[Conflict, Stability and Security Fund]]
* [[:Category:CSSF Contractors]]

==Notes==
<references/>

[[Category:CSSF Contractors]]
[[Category:UK]]
[[Category:Yemen]]

Save the Children Fund

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{{short description|'''UK children's charity, the founding member of Save the Children International; CSSF framework supplier'''}}
{{Infobox organization
| name = Save the Children Fund
| type = Registered at Companies House
| founded = 1 December 1921 (incorporated)
| location = 1 St. John's Lane, London, EC1M 4AR
| status = Active
| registration_id = Companies House 00178159
}}
'''[[Save the Children Fund]]''' (Save The Children Fund, Companies House number 00178159) was a supplier on the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's 2015 [[Conflict, Stability and Security Fund]] (CSSF) framework. Companies House records it as incorporated on 1 December 1921, status "Active", nature of business "88990 - Other social work activities without accommodation not elsewhere classified", with registered office at 1 St. John's Lane, London, EC1M 4AR.<ref name="CH00178159">Companies House, [https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00178159 Save The Children Fund (00178159)] ''Companies House'', accessed 16 October 2026.</ref><ref name="CHO00178159">Companies House, [https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00178159/officers Save The Children Fund (00178159): officers] ''Companies House'', accessed 16 October 2026.</ref> FCO and FCDO payments to it over £25,000 recorded in published departmental spending data total about £39,079,705; these figures cover all FCO/FCDO (and, after September 2020, former [[Department for International Development]]) programmes and are not limited to the CSSF.<ref name="FCOspend">Foreign and Commonwealth Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/foreign-office-spend-over-25000 FCO departmental spending over £25,000] ''GOV.UK'', 2010–2020; Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/fcdo-departmental-spending-over-25000 FCDO: departmental spending over £25,000] ''GOV.UK'', 2020–2026.</ref>

== CSSF and other UK government work ==
A 2016 FCO expression-of-interest document for a CSSF "MENA Strategic Comms: Countering DAESH Propaganda" call-off lists The Save the Children Fund among the suppliers on the CSSF Lot 2 framework. The document was published online in 2020 among files that the hacker group Anonymous said came from the FCO. (On the later 2023–27 framework, the names of Lot 2 suppliers were redacted on national-security grounds.)<ref name="Lot2List2016">Foreign and Commonwealth Office (document published by the hacker group Anonymous), [https://avalonlibrary.net/Operation_Trojan_Horse/Part_1_Taming_Syria_II/OTHER_FCO_FILES_ON_SYRIA/cpg-1044-2016-eoi---potential-partnering-message.pdf CPG/1044/2016 – Expressions of Interest: MENA Strategic Comms: Countering DAESH Propaganda (CSSF Lot 2 Call-Off), Annex A: List of suppliers on CSSF Lot 2 framework] ''avalonlibrary.net'', 2016.</ref> Tussell's supplier list for the FCO's 2015 CSSF framework, which is based on the official award notice, independently records Save The Children Fund as a supplier.<ref name="Tussell2015">Tussell, [https://client.tussell.com/frameworks/169769-faeb86e7b025ce86a68f06c7e6d864ea-conflict-stability-and-security-fund-framework/suppliers Conflict, Stability and Security Fund Framework (contract notice published 11 December 2015): suppliers] ''Tussell'', accessed 16 October 2026.</ref> No specific CSSF call-off to Save the Children was identified in public sources during this research. The payments below combine Save the Children UK and Save the Children International entries. The large sums from 2020 reflect the merger of DFID into the FCDO and are not CSSF-specific.

=== FCO/FCDO payments ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ FCO/FCDO payments over £25,000 (all programmes; calendar year of payment)
! Year !! Amount (£)
|-
| 2010 || 29,000
|-
| 2011 || 156,369
|-
| 2013 || 50,738
|-
| 2016 || 56,696
|-
| 2019 || 34,933
|-
| 2020 || 11,096,643
|-
| 2021 || 17,841,960
|-
| 2022 || 9,813,366
|-
| '''Total''' || '''39,079,705'''
|}
<ref name="FCOspend" />

== People ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Current officers recorded at Companies House
! Name !! Role !! Appointed
|-
| Krystle Nyemkuna El-Vera Sargent || Secretary || 10 July 2026
|-
| Dr Tamsyn Sherlle Barton || Director || 1 July 2025
|-
| Dr Tsitsi Dadirai Chawatama-Kwambana || Director || 25 January 2021
|-
| Catherine Ann Doran || Director || 1 December 2022
|-
| Timothy Fallowfield || Director || 23 February 2023
|-
| Laura Catherine King || Director || 31 January 2024
|-
| Stuart Russell McMinnies || Director || 6 March 2025
|-
| Kajal Odedra || Director || 16 July 2019
|-
| Richard Thomas George Winter || Director || 13 January 2020
|}
<ref name="CHO00178159" />

== See also ==
* [[Conflict, Stability and Security Fund]]
* [[:Category:CSSF Contractors]]

==Notes==
<references/>

[[Category:CSSF Contractors]]
[[Category:UK]]
[[Category:Charities]]

SNV Netherlands Development Organisation

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{{short description|'''Dutch international development organisation; CSSF contractor'''}}
{{Infobox organization
| name = SNV Netherlands Development Organisation
| location = The Hague, Netherlands
}}
'''[[SNV Netherlands Development Organisation]]''' is a contractor to the [[Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office]] (FCDO) under the [[Conflict, Stability and Security Fund]] (CSSF). It is a named supplier on Lot 1 of the CSSF Framework Agreement 2023–27.<ref name="FTS2023">Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, [https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/029743-2023 Conflict, Stability and Security Fund (CSSF) Framework Agreement (2023-2027): contract award notice 029743-2023] ''Find a Tender Service'', 2023.</ref> FCO and FCDO payments to it over £25,000 recorded in published departmental spending data total about £35,330,910; these figures cover all FCO/FCDO (and, after September 2020, former [[Department for International Development]]) programmes and are not limited to the CSSF.<ref name="FCOspend">Foreign and Commonwealth Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/foreign-office-spend-over-25000 FCO departmental spending over £25,000] ''GOV.UK'', 2010–2020; Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/fcdo-departmental-spending-over-25000 FCDO: departmental spending over £25,000] ''GOV.UK'', 2020–2026.</ref>

== CSSF and other UK government work ==
SNV implements ''BRILHO'', which it describes as "a five-year programme (2019-2024), funded by the British Government's Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO)" to expand off-grid clean energy in [[Mozambique]]. SNV says BRILHO offers companies grants and results-based finance of up to £1.5 million each. It says the programme aims to give 1.5 million Mozambicans and 15,000 local businesses access to off-grid energy by the end of 2024.<ref name="SNVBrilho">SNV, [https://www.snv.org/update/brilho-boosting-companies-and-lighting-lives BRILHO – Boosting companies, and lighting lives!] ''SNV'', 17 February 2021.</ref> DevTracker also lists SNV as the implementing organisation of the FCDO's ''Vietnam Business Challenge Fund''.<ref name="DTVBCF">FCDO DevTracker, [https://devtracker.fcdo.gov.uk/programme/GB-1-203012/summary Vietnam Business Challenge Fund (GB-1-203012)] ''DevTracker'', accessed 16 October 2026.</ref> No CSSF-specific SNV programme was identified in public sources during this research; the payments below appear to relate mainly to former DFID development programmes.

=== FCO/FCDO payments ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ FCO/FCDO payments over £25,000 (all programmes; calendar year of payment)
! Year !! Amount (£)
|-
| 2020 || 1,439,274
|-
| 2021 || 8,101,947
|-
| 2022 || 10,681,120
|-
| 2023 || 5,195,034
|-
| 2024 || 9,913,536
|-
| '''Total''' || '''35,330,910'''
|}
<ref name="FCOspend" />

== See also ==
* [[Conflict, Stability and Security Fund]]
* [[:Category:CSSF Contractors]]

==Notes==
<references/>

[[Category:CSSF Contractors]]
[[Category:Netherlands]]

RA International

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{{short description|'''AIM-listed remote-site services contractor; CSSF contractor'''}}
{{Infobox company
| name = RA International
| type = Registered at Companies House
| founded = 13 March 2018 (incorporated)
| location = 1 Fleet Place, London, EC4M 7WS
| industry = Other specialised construction activities not elsewhere classified
}}
'''[[RA International]]''' (Ra International Group Plc, Companies House number 11252957) is a contractor to the [[Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office]] (FCDO) under the [[Conflict, Stability and Security Fund]] (CSSF). Companies House records it as incorporated on 13 March 2018, status "Active", nature of business "43999 - Other specialised construction activities not elsewhere classified", with registered office at 1 Fleet Place, London, EC4M 7WS.<ref name="CH11252957">Companies House, [https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/11252957 Ra International Group Plc (11252957)] ''Companies House'', accessed 16 October 2026.</ref><ref name="CHO11252957">Companies House, [https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/11252957/officers Ra International Group Plc (11252957): officers] ''Companies House'', accessed 16 October 2026.</ref> It is a named supplier on Lot 3 of the CSSF Framework Agreement 2023–27.<ref name="FTS2023">Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, [https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/029743-2023 Conflict, Stability and Security Fund (CSSF) Framework Agreement (2023-2027): contract award notice 029743-2023] ''Find a Tender Service'', 2023.</ref> FCO and FCDO payments to it over £25,000 recorded in published departmental spending data total about £1,401,998; these figures cover all FCO/FCDO (and, after September 2020, former [[Department for International Development]]) programmes and are not limited to the CSSF.<ref name="FCOspend">Foreign and Commonwealth Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/foreign-office-spend-over-25000 FCO departmental spending over £25,000] ''GOV.UK'', 2010–2020; Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/fcdo-departmental-spending-over-25000 FCDO: departmental spending over £25,000] ''GOV.UK'', 2020–2026.</ref>

== CSSF and other UK government work ==
RA International Group PLC announced in September 2023 that it had won a "minimum two-year global framework agreement with the FCDO" to provide operational support funded through the CSSF. It said the relevant sub-lot was valued "in aggregate, at a maximum of GBP 375m (over 2 years)". The work covers "providing and delivering operational and technical equipment to organisations in hostile environments in a Human Rights compliant manner", including "non-lethal aid and equipment" and advice on "UK and international military protocols, structures and practice in third party conflicts". Chief executive Soraya Narfeldt said the award followed earlier contracts with the Ministry of Defence's OSCC in 2022 and with the FCDO.<ref name="RAIRNS2023">RA International Group PLC (RNS via Investegate), [https://www.investegate.co.uk/announcement/rns/ra-international-group--rai/new-contract-award-/7761762 New Contract Award] ''Investegate'', 18 September 2023.</ref> A separate company, R A International (UK) Ltd (08494931), appears in Companies House searches and is not connected to it.

=== FCO/FCDO payments ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ FCO/FCDO payments over £25,000 (all programmes; calendar year of payment)
! Year !! Amount (£)
|-
| 2017 || 94,787
|-
| 2018 || 28,798
|-
| 2023 || 1,227,749
|-
| 2024 || 50,663
|-
| '''Total''' || '''1,401,998'''
|}
<ref name="FCOspend" />

== People ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Current officers recorded at Companies House
! Name !! Role !! Appointed
|-
| Soraya Muriel Narfeldt || Secretary || 6 May 2025
|-
| Lars Ola Narfeldt || Director || 13 March 2018
|-
| Soraya Muriel Narfeldt || Director || 13 March 2018
|}
<ref name="CHO11252957" />

== See also ==
* [[Conflict, Stability and Security Fund]]
* [[:Category:CSSF Contractors]]

==Notes==
<references/>

[[Category:CSSF Contractors]]
[[Category:UK]]

Plan International UK

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{{short description|'''UK member of the children's charity Plan International; CSSF contractor'''}}
{{Infobox company
| name = Plan International UK
| type = Registered at Companies House
| founded = 20 April 1978 (incorporated)
| location = Discovery House, 28-42 Banner Street, London, England, EC1Y 8QE
| industry = Other social work activities without accommodation not elsewhere classified
}}
'''[[Plan International UK]]''' (Plan International (UK), Companies House number 01364201) is a contractor to the [[Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office]] (FCDO) under the [[Conflict, Stability and Security Fund]] (CSSF). Companies House records it as incorporated on 20 April 1978, status "Active", nature of business "88990 - Other social work activities without accommodation not elsewhere classified", with registered office at Discovery House, 28-42 Banner Street, London, England, EC1Y 8QE.<ref name="CH01364201">Companies House, [https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/01364201 Plan International (UK) (01364201)] ''Companies House'', accessed 16 October 2026.</ref><ref name="CHO01364201">Companies House, [https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/01364201/officers Plan International (UK) (01364201): officers] ''Companies House'', accessed 16 October 2026.</ref> It is a named supplier on Lot 1 of the CSSF Framework Agreement 2023–27.<ref name="FTS2023">Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, [https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/029743-2023 Conflict, Stability and Security Fund (CSSF) Framework Agreement (2023-2027): contract award notice 029743-2023] ''Find a Tender Service'', 2023.</ref> FCO and FCDO payments to it over £25,000 recorded in published departmental spending data total about £6,488,554; these figures cover all FCO/FCDO (and, after September 2020, former [[Department for International Development]]) programmes and are not limited to the CSSF.<ref name="FCOspend">Foreign and Commonwealth Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/foreign-office-spend-over-25000 FCO departmental spending over £25,000] ''GOV.UK'', 2010–2020; Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/fcdo-departmental-spending-over-25000 FCDO: departmental spending over £25,000] ''GOV.UK'', 2020–2026.</ref>

== CSSF and other UK government work ==
Plan International UK is a named Lot 1 supplier on the 2023–27 CSSF framework, and FCDO payments to it over £25,000 are recorded from 2021. A Freedom of Information request on WhatDoTheyKnow ("Egypt CSSF") reportedly concerns Plan's role in the CSSF Egypt programme. The page could not be retrieved for verification, so no detail from it is used here.

=== FCO/FCDO payments ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ FCO/FCDO payments over £25,000 (all programmes; calendar year of payment)
! Year !! Amount (£)
|-
| 2021 || 1,883,775
|-
| 2023 || 63,342
|-
| 2024 || 4,411,370
|-
| 2025 || 130,067
|-
| '''Total''' || '''6,488,554'''
|}
<ref name="FCOspend" />

== People ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Current officers recorded at Companies House
! Name !! Role !! Appointed
|-
| John Duncan Lockett || Secretary || 8 July 2024
|-
| Michael Connelly Anderson || Director || 16 July 2024
|-
| Sarah Ansah || Director || 21 March 2023
|-
| Dr Nanna Chidi-Emmanuel || Director || 16 July 2024
|-
| John William Good || Director || 30 June 2025
|-
| John Andrew Kerr || Director || 8 October 2019
|-
| Hope Nyokabi Mbuthi || Director || 28 May 2026
|-
| Emily Kate Middleton || Director || 24 September 2019
|-
| Meredith Niles || Director || 9 March 2017
|-
| John Plastow || Director || 30 June 2025
|-
| Cathy Ann Riley || Director || 16 April 2024
|-
| Minal Shah || Director || 21 March 2023
|-
| Baroness Elizabeth Grace Sugg || Director || 22 May 2025
|-
| Beverley Jane Tew || Director || 24 September 2019
|-
| Michael Andrew Coultas Wade || Director || 30 June 2025
|}
<ref name="CHO01364201" />

== See also ==
* [[Conflict, Stability and Security Fund]]
* [[:Category:CSSF Contractors]]

==Notes==
<references/>

[[Category:CSSF Contractors]]
[[Category:UK]]

Pilgrims Group

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{{short description|'''Woking-based private security company; CSSF contractor'''}}
{{Infobox company
| name = Pilgrims Group
| type = Registered at Companies House
| founded = 19 March 1998 (incorporated)
| location = Pilgrims House The Links Business Park, Old Woking Road, Woking, Surrey, England, GU22 8BF
| industry = Private security activities
}}
'''[[Pilgrims Group]]''' (Pilgrims Group Limited, Companies House number 03531080) is a contractor to the [[Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office]] (FCDO) under the [[Conflict, Stability and Security Fund]] (CSSF). Companies House records it as incorporated on 19 March 1998, status "Active", nature of business "80100 - Private security activities", with registered office at Pilgrims House The Links Business Park, Old Woking Road, Woking, Surrey, England, GU22 8BF.<ref name="CH03531080">Companies House, [https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/03531080 Pilgrims Group Limited (03531080)] ''Companies House'', accessed 16 October 2026.</ref><ref name="CHO03531080">Companies House, [https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/03531080/officers Pilgrims Group Limited (03531080): officers] ''Companies House'', accessed 16 October 2026.</ref> It is a named supplier on Lot 1 of the CSSF Framework Agreement 2023–27.<ref name="FTS2023">Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, [https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/029743-2023 Conflict, Stability and Security Fund (CSSF) Framework Agreement (2023-2027): contract award notice 029743-2023] ''Find a Tender Service'', 2023.</ref> FCO and FCDO payments to it over £25,000 recorded in published departmental spending data total about £1,193,281; these figures cover all FCO/FCDO (and, after September 2020, former [[Department for International Development]]) programmes and are not limited to the CSSF.<ref name="FCOspend">Foreign and Commonwealth Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/foreign-office-spend-over-25000 FCO departmental spending over £25,000] ''GOV.UK'', 2010–2020; Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/fcdo-departmental-spending-over-25000 FCDO: departmental spending over £25,000] ''GOV.UK'', 2020–2026.</ref>

== CSSF and other UK government work ==
SecurityInformed.com reported that the FCO had employed Pilgrims Group, after "a process of fair and open tender", to deliver ''Security Awareness in Fragile Environments'' (SAFE) training over three years. The training, for staff posted to "politically unstable and often highly dangerous parts of the world", was held at Pilgrims' centre "set in 200 acres of Surrey countryside". Pilgrims' then chief operating officer, David Freear, was quoted.<ref name="SIPilgrims">SecurityInformed.com, [https://www.securityinformed.com/news/co-2227-ga.7707.html FCO Employs Pilgrims Group To Provide Safety Training To Its Key Departments] ''SecurityInformed.com'', undated.</ref> ''Professional Security'' reported in 2013 that Pilgrims had a four-year contract with the International Executive Service Corps in Afghanistan. The contract included training and overseeing members of the Afghan Public Protection Force assigned to protect IESC staff.<ref name="PSPilgrims">Mark Rowe, Professional Security, [https://professionalsecurity.co.uk/news/case-studies/afghan-contract/ Afghan contract] ''Professional Security'', 4 April 2013.</ref>

=== FCO/FCDO payments ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ FCO/FCDO payments over £25,000 (all programmes; calendar year of payment)
! Year !! Amount (£)
|-
| 2014 || 29,400
|-
| 2015 || 25,800
|-
| 2018 || 1,138,081
|-
| '''Total''' || '''1,193,281'''
|}
<ref name="FCOspend" />

== People ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Current officers recorded at Companies House
! Name !! Role !! Appointed
|-
| Sarah Jayne Freear || Secretary || 28 September 2005
|-
| David Jonathan Freear || Director || 1 August 2009
|-
| William Edward Freear || Director || 1 July 2000
|}
<ref name="CHO03531080" />

== See also ==
* [[Conflict, Stability and Security Fund]]
* [[:Category:CSSF Contractors]]

==Notes==
<references/>

[[Category:CSSF Contractors]]
[[Category:UK]]
[[Category:Afghanistan]]

People in Need

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{{short description|'''Czech humanitarian and human-rights organisation (Člověk v tísni); CSSF contractor'''}}
{{Infobox organization
| name = People in Need
| location = Prague, Czech Republic
}}
'''[[People in Need]]''' is a contractor to the [[Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office]] (FCDO) under the [[Conflict, Stability and Security Fund]] (CSSF). It is a named supplier on Lot 1 of the CSSF Framework Agreement 2023–27.<ref name="FTS2023">Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, [https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/029743-2023 Conflict, Stability and Security Fund (CSSF) Framework Agreement (2023-2027): contract award notice 029743-2023] ''Find a Tender Service'', 2023.</ref> FCO and FCDO payments to it over £25,000 recorded in published departmental spending data total about £4,739,103; these figures cover all FCO/FCDO (and, after September 2020, former [[Department for International Development]]) programmes and are not limited to the CSSF.<ref name="FCOspend">Foreign and Commonwealth Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/foreign-office-spend-over-25000 FCO departmental spending over £25,000] ''GOV.UK'', 2010–2020; Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/fcdo-departmental-spending-over-25000 FCDO: departmental spending over £25,000] ''GOV.UK'', 2020–2026.</ref>

== CSSF and other UK government work ==
People in Need (PIN) says its ''Amplifying Local Voices for Equitable Development'' (ALVED) project in south Serbia is "supported by the UK Government's Conflict, Stability and Security Fund (CSSF)". PIN implements the project with [[Peaceful Change Initiative]] and Građanske inicijative in Bujanovac, Lebane and Vranje, and says it has run since September 2020.<ref name="PINALVED">People in Need, [https://westernbalkans.peopleinneed.net/en/grant-opportunities-7352gp Grants for Youth in South of Serbia: Call for Applications] ''People in Need Western Balkans'', 8 April 2021.</ref> PIN also lists the CSSF as donor of a three-year project, ''Mostar – Spaces to Activate and Rejuvenate'' (2021–23), in Bosnia and Herzegovina.<ref name="PINBiH">People in Need, [https://www.peopleinneed.net/what-we-do/humanitarian-aid-and-development/bosnia-and-herzegovina/civil-society-inclusive-governance Bosnia and Herzegovina: Civil society and inclusive governance] ''People in Need'', accessed 16 October 2026.</ref> A GOV.UK list of UK programme assistance to Ukraine for 2019–20 records a PIN project in conflict-affected eastern Ukraine, including non-government-controlled Luhansk, funded from "DFID humanitarian" rather than the CSSF.<ref name="GovUKUkr1920">GOV.UK, [https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-programme-assistance-to-2019-2020 UK programme assistance to Ukraine 2019-2020] ''GOV.UK'', accessed 16 October 2026.</ref>

=== FCO/FCDO payments ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ FCO/FCDO payments over £25,000 (all programmes; calendar year of payment)
! Year !! Amount (£)
|-
| 2020 || 206,252
|-
| 2021 || 37,383
|-
| 2022 || 543,310
|-
| 2023 || 2,122,091
|-
| 2024 || 1,652,454
|-
| 2025 || 177,614
|-
| '''Total''' || '''4,739,103'''
|}
<ref name="FCOspend" />

== See also ==
* [[Conflict, Stability and Security Fund]]
* [[:Category:CSSF Contractors]]

==Notes==
<references/>

[[Category:CSSF Contractors]]
[[Category:Czech Republic]]

Moonshot CVE

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{{short description|'''London-based online counter-extremism technology company; CSSF contractor'''}}
{{Infobox company
| name = Moonshot CVE
| type = Registered at Companies House
| founded = 21 May 2015 (incorporated)
| location = 18 St. Cross Street, Moonshot Cve Ltd, 4th Floor, London, England, EC1N 8UN
| industry = Other information service activities not elsewhere classified
}}
'''[[Moonshot CVE]]''' (Moonshot Cve Ltd, Companies House number 09603360) is a contractor to the [[Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office]] (FCDO) under the [[Conflict, Stability and Security Fund]] (CSSF). Companies House records it as incorporated on 21 May 2015, status "Active", nature of business "63990 - Other information service activities not elsewhere classified", with registered office at 18 St. Cross Street, Moonshot Cve Ltd, 4th Floor, London, England, EC1N 8UN.<ref name="CH09603360">Companies House, [https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/09603360 Moonshot Cve Ltd (09603360)] ''Companies House'', accessed 16 October 2026.</ref><ref name="CHO09603360">Companies House, [https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/09603360/officers Moonshot Cve Ltd (09603360): officers] ''Companies House'', accessed 16 October 2026.</ref> It is a named supplier on Lot 1 of the CSSF Framework Agreement 2023–27.<ref name="FTS2023">Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, [https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/029743-2023 Conflict, Stability and Security Fund (CSSF) Framework Agreement (2023-2027): contract award notice 029743-2023] ''Find a Tender Service'', 2023.</ref> FCO and FCDO payments to it over £25,000 recorded in published departmental spending data total about £383,957; these figures cover all FCO/FCDO (and, after September 2020, former [[Department for International Development]]) programmes and are not limited to the CSSF.<ref name="FCOspend">Foreign and Commonwealth Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/foreign-office-spend-over-25000 FCO departmental spending over £25,000] ''GOV.UK'', 2010–2020; Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/fcdo-departmental-spending-over-25000 FCDO: departmental spending over £25,000] ''GOV.UK'', 2020–2026.</ref>

== Overview ==
''[[The Guardian]]'' reported in 2020 that Moonshot, founded in September 2015 by Vidhya Ramalingam and Ross Frenett, "is a for-profit company that earns its income from government contracts in the UK, US, Canada, Australia and across western Europe". It said the company works from "a secret location in London" and uses "a mixture of software and human judgment" to identify people interested in extremist propaganda and serve them counter-messaging.<ref name="GuardianMoonshot">The Guardian, [https://amp.theguardian.com/society/2020/may/02/a-threat-to-health-is-being-weaponised-inside-the-fight-against-online-hate ‘A threat to health is being weaponised’: inside the fight against online hate crime] ''The Guardian'', 2 May 2020.</ref> The European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network describes Moonshot's ''Redirect Method'' as using "targeted advertising to connect people searching online for harmful content with constructive alternative messages". The method was piloted with Google's Jigsaw in 2016.<ref name="RANRedirect">European Commission, Radicalisation Awareness Network, [https://home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/networks/radicalisation-awareness-network-ran/collection-inspiring-practices/ran-practices/redirect-method-trm_en The Redirect Method (TRM)] ''Migration and Home Affairs'', accessed 16 October 2026.</ref>

== CSSF and other UK government work ==
Moonshot is a named Lot 1 supplier on the 2023–27 CSSF framework; FCO payments to it are recorded in 2016–17 (see below).

=== FCO/FCDO payments ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ FCO/FCDO payments over £25,000 (all programmes; calendar year of payment)
! Year !! Amount (£)
|-
| 2016 || 93,115
|-
| 2017 || 290,842
|-
| '''Total''' || '''383,957'''
|}
<ref name="FCOspend" />

== People ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Current officers recorded at Companies House
! Name !! Role !! Appointed
|-
| Ross Frenett || Director || 21 May 2015
|-
| Vidhya Ramalingam || Director || 1 October 2015
|}
<ref name="CHO09603360" />

== See also ==
* [[Conflict, Stability and Security Fund]]
* [[:Category:CSSF Contractors]]

==Notes==
<references/>

[[Category:CSSF Contractors]]
[[Category:UK]]
[[Category:Counter-Terrorism]]

Maxwell Stamp

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{{short description|'''London economic and development consultancy (dissolved 2022); CSSF framework supplier'''}}
{{Infobox company
| name = Maxwell Stamp
| type = Registered at Companies House
| founded = 25 September 1959 (incorporated)
| location = 2nd Floor 110 Cannon Street, London, EC4N 6EU
| industry = Other professional, scientific and technical activities not elsewhere classified
| defunct = 24 April 2022
}}
'''[[Maxwell Stamp]]''' (Maxwell Stamp Plc, Companies House number 00637978) was a supplier on the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's [[Conflict, Stability and Security Fund]] (CSSF) frameworks of 2015 and 2018. Companies House records it as incorporated on 25 September 1959, status "Dissolved", nature of business "74909 - Other professional, scientific and technical activities not elsewhere classified", with registered office at 2nd Floor 110 Cannon Street, London, EC4N 6EU.<ref name="CH00637978">Companies House, [https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00637978 Maxwell Stamp Plc (00637978)] ''Companies House'', accessed 16 October 2026.</ref><ref name="CHO00637978">Companies House, [https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00637978/officers Maxwell Stamp Plc (00637978): officers] ''Companies House'', accessed 16 October 2026.</ref> FCO and FCDO payments to it over £25,000 recorded in published departmental spending data total about £296,799; these figures cover all FCO/FCDO (and, after September 2020, former [[Department for International Development]]) programmes and are not limited to the CSSF.<ref name="FCOspend">Foreign and Commonwealth Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/foreign-office-spend-over-25000 FCO departmental spending over £25,000] ''GOV.UK'', 2010–2020; Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/fcdo-departmental-spending-over-25000 FCDO: departmental spending over £25,000] ''GOV.UK'', 2020–2026.</ref>

== Overview ==
A Bournemouth University impact case study for REF2014 describes Maxwell Stamp PLC as "leading international consultants" and credits university economic-modelling research with increasing the firm's profits "to the tune of £12 million to date".<ref name="REFMaxwell">Bournemouth University (REF2014), [https://impact.ref.ac.uk/casestudies/CaseStudy.aspx?Id=43199 Impact on Maxwell Stamp PLC, its Government Clients and the Government of Azerbaijan] ''REF Impact Case Studies'', accessed 16 October 2026.</ref>

== CSSF and other UK government work ==
A 2016 FCO expression-of-interest document for a CSSF "MENA Strategic Comms: Countering DAESH Propaganda" call-off lists Maxwell Stamp among the suppliers on the CSSF Lot 2 framework. The document was published online in 2020 among files that the hacker group Anonymous said came from the FCO. (On the later 2023–27 framework, the names of Lot 2 suppliers were redacted on national-security grounds.)<ref name="Lot2List2016">Foreign and Commonwealth Office (document published by the hacker group Anonymous), [https://avalonlibrary.net/Operation_Trojan_Horse/Part_1_Taming_Syria_II/OTHER_FCO_FILES_ON_SYRIA/cpg-1044-2016-eoi---potential-partnering-message.pdf CPG/1044/2016 – Expressions of Interest: MENA Strategic Comms: Countering DAESH Propaganda (CSSF Lot 2 Call-Off), Annex A: List of suppliers on CSSF Lot 2 framework] ''avalonlibrary.net'', 2016.</ref> Tussell's supplier list for the FCO's 2015 CSSF framework, which is based on the official award notice, independently records Maxwell Stamp PLC as a supplier.<ref name="Tussell2015">Tussell, [https://client.tussell.com/frameworks/169769-faeb86e7b025ce86a68f06c7e6d864ea-conflict-stability-and-security-fund-framework/suppliers Conflict, Stability and Security Fund Framework (contract notice published 11 December 2015): suppliers] ''Tussell'', accessed 16 October 2026.</ref> Tussell also lists Maxwell Stamp PLC among the 103 suppliers on the 2018 CSSF framework re-tender.<ref name="Tussell2018">Tussell, [https://client.tussell.com/frameworks/708010-4eb6685764e9f51a850e4fb8b06c1603-conflict-stability-security-fund-cssf-framework-re-tender-2018-extensi/suppliers Conflict, Stability & Security Fund (CSSF) Framework Re-Tender 2018 – Extension and Value Uplift: suppliers] ''Tussell'', accessed 16 October 2026.</ref> FCO payments to it of about £296,800 are recorded in 2016–17 (see below).

=== FCO/FCDO payments ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ FCO/FCDO payments over £25,000 (all programmes; calendar year of payment)
! Year !! Amount (£)
|-
| 2016 || 122,685
|-
| 2017 || 174,114
|-
| '''Total''' || '''296,799'''
|}
<ref name="FCOspend" />

== People ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Current officers recorded at Companies House
! Name !! Role !! Appointed
|-
| Martyn James William Kebbell || Director || –
|-
| Richard Lewis Kitchen || Director || 8 October 2007
|-
| Rowan Ian Mactaggart || Director || 1 October 2013
|-
| Jeremy Christopher West || Director || 1 April 2016
|}
<ref name="CHO00637978" />

== See also ==
* [[Conflict, Stability and Security Fund]]
* [[:Category:CSSF Contractors]]

==Notes==
<references/>

[[Category:CSSF Contractors]]
[[Category:UK]]

Living Earth Foundation

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{{short description|'''UK environmental-education and governance charity (dissolved 2021); CSSF framework supplier'''}}
{{Infobox organization
| name = Living Earth Foundation
| type = Registered at Companies House
| founded = 30 December 1988 (incorporated)
| location = 1 C/O The Conservation Foundation, 1 Kensington Gore, London, England, SW7 2AR
| status = Dissolved
| registration_id = Companies House 02332585
}}
'''[[Living Earth Foundation]]''' (Living Earth Foundation, Companies House number 02332585) was named, in documents published by Anonymous, as a supplier on Lot 2 of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's [[Conflict, Stability and Security Fund]] (CSSF) framework. Companies House records it as incorporated on 30 December 1988, status "Dissolved", nature of business "88990 - Other social work activities without accommodation not elsewhere classified", with registered office at 1 C/O The Conservation Foundation, 1 Kensington Gore, London, England, SW7 2AR.<ref name="CH02332585">Companies House, [https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/02332585 Living Earth Foundation (02332585)] ''Companies House'', accessed 16 October 2026.</ref><ref name="CHO02332585">Companies House, [https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/02332585/officers Living Earth Foundation (02332585): officers] ''Companies House'', accessed 16 October 2026.</ref> FCO and FCDO payments to it over £25,000 recorded in published departmental spending data total about £99,840; these figures cover all FCO/FCDO (and, after September 2020, former [[Department for International Development]]) programmes and are not limited to the CSSF.<ref name="FCOspend">Foreign and Commonwealth Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/foreign-office-spend-over-25000 FCO departmental spending over £25,000] ''GOV.UK'', 2010–2020; Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/fcdo-departmental-spending-over-25000 FCDO: departmental spending over £25,000] ''GOV.UK'', 2020–2026.</ref>

== CSSF and other UK government work ==
A 2016 FCO expression-of-interest document for a CSSF "MENA Strategic Comms: Countering DAESH Propaganda" call-off lists Living Earth Foundation among the suppliers on the CSSF Lot 2 framework. The document was published online in 2020 among files that the hacker group Anonymous said came from the FCO. (On the later 2023–27 framework, the names of Lot 2 suppliers were redacted on national-security grounds.)<ref name="Lot2List2016">Foreign and Commonwealth Office (document published by the hacker group Anonymous), [https://avalonlibrary.net/Operation_Trojan_Horse/Part_1_Taming_Syria_II/OTHER_FCO_FILES_ON_SYRIA/cpg-1044-2016-eoi---potential-partnering-message.pdf CPG/1044/2016 – Expressions of Interest: MENA Strategic Comms: Countering DAESH Propaganda (CSSF Lot 2 Call-Off), Annex A: List of suppliers on CSSF Lot 2 framework] ''avalonlibrary.net'', 2016.</ref> It does not appear in Tussell's list of 2015 framework suppliers. Living Earth led a DFID Global Transparency Fund programme, ''Strengthening Local Government Capacity for Effective Service Delivery'', in the Niger Delta from 2008 to 2013, with Nigerian partners including Academic Associates PeaceWorks.<ref name="AAPWLEF">Academic Associates PeaceWorks, [https://aapw.org/programs/developing-good-governance-in-the-niger-delta/ Developing Good Governance in the Niger Delta] ''AA PeaceWorks'', accessed 16 October 2026.</ref> FCO payments to it of about £99,840 are recorded in 2014–15 (see below).

=== FCO/FCDO payments ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ FCO/FCDO payments over £25,000 (all programmes; calendar year of payment)
! Year !! Amount (£)
|-
| 2014 || 74,684
|-
| 2015 || 25,156
|-
| '''Total''' || '''99,840'''
|}
<ref name="FCOspend" />

== People ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Current officers recorded at Companies House
! Name !! Role !! Appointed
|-
| Alexander Jonathan Birch || Director || 8 July 1996
|-
| Elizabeth Anne-Marie Mullings-Smith || Director || 7 December 2010
|-
| Niraj Kumar Saraf || Director || 6 October 2009
|}
<ref name="CHO02332585" />

== See also ==
* [[Conflict, Stability and Security Fund]]
* [[:Category:CSSF Contractors]]

==Notes==
<references/>

[[Category:CSSF Contractors]]
[[Category:UK]]
[[Category:Charities]]

Lion's Head Global Partners

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{{short description|'''London investment bank and development-finance adviser; CSSF contractor'''}}
{{Infobox company
| name = Lion's Head Global Partners
| type = Registered at Companies House
| founded = 2 July 2008 (incorporated)
| location = 22 Grosvenor Gardens, London, England, SW1W 0DH
| industry =
}}
'''[[Lion's Head Global Partners]]''' (Lion'S Head Global Partners Llp, Companies House number OC338440) is a contractor to the [[Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office]] (FCDO) under the [[Conflict, Stability and Security Fund]] (CSSF). Companies House records it as incorporated on 2 July 2008, status "Active", with registered office at 22 Grosvenor Gardens, London, England, SW1W 0DH.<ref name="CHOC338440">Companies House, [https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/OC338440 Lion'S Head Global Partners Llp (OC338440)] ''Companies House'', accessed 16 October 2026.</ref><ref name="CHOOC338440">Companies House, [https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/OC338440/officers Lion'S Head Global Partners Llp (OC338440): officers] ''Companies House'', accessed 16 October 2026.</ref> [[Contracts Finder]] lists 1 published CSSF award(s) to it with a combined stated value of £200,000. FCO and FCDO payments to it over £25,000 recorded in published departmental spending data total about £934,662; these figures cover all FCO/FCDO (and, after September 2020, former [[Department for International Development]]) programmes and are not limited to the CSSF.<ref name="FCOspend">Foreign and Commonwealth Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/foreign-office-spend-over-25000 FCO departmental spending over £25,000] ''GOV.UK'', 2010–2020; Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/fcdo-departmental-spending-over-25000 FCDO: departmental spending over £25,000] ''GOV.UK'', 2020–2026.</ref>

== Overview ==
Lion's Head describes itself as "a trusted advisor to Development Banks, Sovereigns, the donor community, foundations as well as the private sector", offering "a full suite of services to Ministries of Finance".<ref name="LHGPserv">Lion’s Head Global Partners, [https://lionsheadglobalpartners.com/services/ Services] ''Lion’s Head Global Partners'', accessed 16 October 2026.</ref> The CSV entry is "Lion's Head Global Partners 18 Ltd"; the Companies House record used here is the LLP of the same name.

== CSSF and other UK government work ==
Its published CSSF award was a January 2021 contract, ''CSSF Iraq: Bespoke Economic Advice'' (£200,000).

=== Published CSSF contracts ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ CSSF awards published on Contracts Finder
! Award date !! Contract !! Value (£) !! Supplier name as published !! Source
|-
| 2021-01-18 || CSSF Iraq: Bespoke Economic Advice || 200,000 || Lion's Head Global Partners 18 LTD || <ref>Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, [https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/e9620ef8-6907-4287-b4f3-314f60c228e7 CSSF Iraq: Bespoke Economic Advice] ''Contracts Finder'', 2021-01-18.</ref>
|}

=== FCO/FCDO payments ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ FCO/FCDO payments over £25,000 (all programmes; calendar year of payment)
! Year !! Amount (£)
|-
| 2017 || 326,911
|-
| 2019 || 100,162
|-
| 2021 || 393,188
|-
| 2022 || 55,852
|-
| 2024 || 58,550
|-
| '''Total''' || '''934,662'''
|}
<ref name="FCOspend" />

== People ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Current officers recorded at Companies House
! Name !! Role !! Appointed
|-
| Christopher Geoffrey Egerton Warburton || LLP Designated Member || 2 July 2008
|-
| Jasper Siegfried || LLP Designated Member || 1 June 2023
|}
<ref name="CHOOC338440" />

== See also ==
* [[Conflict, Stability and Security Fund]]
* [[:Category:CSSF Contractors]]

==Notes==
<references/>

[[Category:CSSF Contractors]]
[[Category:UK]]

Landell Mills

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{{short description|'''UK international development consultancy; CSSF contractor'''}}
{{Infobox company
| name = Landell Mills
| type = Registered at Companies House
| founded = 16 July 1981 (incorporated)
| location = Bryer Ash Business Park, Bradford Road, Trowbridge, Wiltshire, BA14 8HE
| industry = Management consultancy activities other than financial management
}}
'''[[Landell Mills]]''' (Landell Mills Limited, Companies House number 01574821) is a contractor to the [[Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office]] (FCDO) under the [[Conflict, Stability and Security Fund]] (CSSF). Companies House records it as incorporated on 16 July 1981, status "Active", nature of business "70229 - Management consultancy activities other than financial management", with registered office at Bryer Ash Business Park, Bradford Road, Trowbridge, Wiltshire, BA14 8HE.<ref name="CH01574821">Companies House, [https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/01574821 Landell Mills Limited (01574821)] ''Companies House'', accessed 16 October 2026.</ref><ref name="CHO01574821">Companies House, [https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/01574821/officers Landell Mills Limited (01574821): officers] ''Companies House'', accessed 16 October 2026.</ref> It is a named supplier on Lot 1 of the CSSF Framework Agreement 2023–27.<ref name="FTS2023">Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, [https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/029743-2023 Conflict, Stability and Security Fund (CSSF) Framework Agreement (2023-2027): contract award notice 029743-2023] ''Find a Tender Service'', 2023.</ref> FCO and FCDO payments to it over £25,000 recorded in published departmental spending data total about £5,093,596; these figures cover all FCO/FCDO (and, after September 2020, former [[Department for International Development]]) programmes and are not limited to the CSSF.<ref name="FCOspend">Foreign and Commonwealth Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/foreign-office-spend-over-25000 FCO departmental spending over £25,000] ''GOV.UK'', 2010–2020; Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/fcdo-departmental-spending-over-25000 FCDO: departmental spending over £25,000] ''GOV.UK'', 2020–2026.</ref>

== CSSF and other UK government work ==
Landell Mills is a named Lot 1 supplier on the 2023–27 CSSF framework. Its March 2026 announcement of "four new contracts in the governance, peace and security sector" concerns European Union evaluation contracts in Morocco, Zimbabwe, Jordan and Kenya, not CSSF work.<ref name="LMnews2026">Landell Mills, [https://www.landell-mills.com/news/landell-mills-wins-four-new-contracts-in-the-governance-peace-and-security-sector Landell Mills wins four new contracts in the governance, peace and security sector] ''Landell Mills'', 17 March 2026.</ref> No specific CSSF programme for Landell Mills was found in public sources during this research.

=== FCO/FCDO payments ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ FCO/FCDO payments over £25,000 (all programmes; calendar year of payment)
! Year !! Amount (£)
|-
| 2021 || 2,466,420
|-
| 2022 || 1,357,275
|-
| 2023 || 1,269,902
|-
| '''Total''' || '''5,093,596'''
|}
<ref name="FCOspend" />

== People ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Current officers recorded at Companies House
! Name !! Role !! Appointed
|-
| Dean Willacy || Secretary || 6 May 2022
|-
| Simon Foxwell || Director || 4 July 2017
|-
| David Thomas Uglow || Director || 18 December 2009
|}
<ref name="CHO01574821" />

== See also ==
* [[Conflict, Stability and Security Fund]]
* [[:Category:CSSF Contractors]]

==Notes==
<references/>

[[Category:CSSF Contractors]]
[[Category:UK]]

Interpeace

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{{short description|'''Geneva-based international peacebuilding organisation; CSSF framework supplier'''}}
{{Infobox organization
| name = Interpeace
| location = Geneva, Switzerland
}}
'''[[Interpeace]]''' was a supplier on the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's [[Conflict, Stability and Security Fund]] (CSSF) frameworks of 2015 and 2018. FCO and FCDO payments to it over £25,000 recorded in published departmental spending data total about £3,829,687; these figures cover all FCO/FCDO (and, after September 2020, former [[Department for International Development]]) programmes and are not limited to the CSSF.<ref name="FCOspend">Foreign and Commonwealth Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/foreign-office-spend-over-25000 FCO departmental spending over £25,000] ''GOV.UK'', 2010–2020; Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/fcdo-departmental-spending-over-25000 FCDO: departmental spending over £25,000] ''GOV.UK'', 2020–2026.</ref>

== CSSF and other UK government work ==
A 2016 FCO expression-of-interest document for a CSSF "MENA Strategic Comms: Countering DAESH Propaganda" call-off lists Interpeace among the suppliers on the CSSF Lot 2 framework. The document was published online in 2020 among files that the hacker group Anonymous said came from the FCO. (On the later 2023–27 framework, the names of Lot 2 suppliers were redacted on national-security grounds.)<ref name="Lot2List2016">Foreign and Commonwealth Office (document published by the hacker group Anonymous), [https://avalonlibrary.net/Operation_Trojan_Horse/Part_1_Taming_Syria_II/OTHER_FCO_FILES_ON_SYRIA/cpg-1044-2016-eoi---potential-partnering-message.pdf CPG/1044/2016 – Expressions of Interest: MENA Strategic Comms: Countering DAESH Propaganda (CSSF Lot 2 Call-Off), Annex A: List of suppliers on CSSF Lot 2 framework] ''avalonlibrary.net'', 2016.</ref> Tussell's supplier list for the FCO's 2015 CSSF framework, which is based on the official award notice, independently records Interpeace as a supplier.<ref name="Tussell2015">Tussell, [https://client.tussell.com/frameworks/169769-faeb86e7b025ce86a68f06c7e6d864ea-conflict-stability-and-security-fund-framework/suppliers Conflict, Stability and Security Fund Framework (contract notice published 11 December 2015): suppliers] ''Tussell'', accessed 16 October 2026.</ref> Tussell also lists Interpeace among the 103 suppliers on the 2018 CSSF framework re-tender.<ref name="Tussell2018">Tussell, [https://client.tussell.com/frameworks/708010-4eb6685764e9f51a850e4fb8b06c1603-conflict-stability-security-fund-cssf-framework-re-tender-2018-extensi/suppliers Conflict, Stability & Security Fund (CSSF) Framework Re-Tender 2018 – Extension and Value Uplift: suppliers] ''Tussell'', accessed 16 October 2026.</ref> Interpeace's 2022 financial statements list income from "The United Kingdom" of US$513,253 that year.<ref name="Interpeace2022">Interpeace, [https://annualreport.interpeace.org/annual-report-2022/2022-financial-statements/ 2022 Financial Statements] ''Interpeace Annual Report 2022'', 2023.</ref> FCO/FCDO payments to it total about £3.83m between 2013 and 2022 (see below).

=== FCO/FCDO payments ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ FCO/FCDO payments over £25,000 (all programmes; calendar year of payment)
! Year !! Amount (£)
|-
| 2013 || 231,894
|-
| 2014 || 589,260
|-
| 2015 || 39,736
|-
| 2016 || 650,976
|-
| 2017 || 93,720
|-
| 2018 || 99,764
|-
| 2019 || 381,487
|-
| 2020 || 746,665
|-
| 2021 || 699,100
|-
| 2022 || 297,084
|-
| '''Total''' || '''3,829,687'''
|}
<ref name="FCOspend" />

== See also ==
* [[Conflict, Stability and Security Fund]]
* [[:Category:CSSF Contractors]]

==Notes==
<references/>

[[Category:CSSF Contractors]]
[[Category:Switzerland]]

IOD PARC

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{{short description|'''Sheffield-based evaluation consultancy; CSSF contractor'''}}
{{Infobox company
| name = IOD PARC
| type = Registered at Companies House
| founded = 12 August 1998 (incorporated)
| location = Omega Court, 362 Cemetery Road, Sheffield, S11 8FT
| industry = Management consultancy activities other than financial management
}}
'''[[IOD PARC]]''' (International Organisation Development Ltd., Companies House number 03613839) is a contractor to the [[Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office]] (FCDO) under the [[Conflict, Stability and Security Fund]] (CSSF). Companies House records it as incorporated on 12 August 1998, status "Active", nature of business "70229 - Management consultancy activities other than financial management", with registered office at Omega Court, 362 Cemetery Road, Sheffield, S11 8FT.<ref name="CH03613839">Companies House, [https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/03613839 International Organisation Development Ltd. (03613839)] ''Companies House'', accessed 16 October 2026.</ref><ref name="CHO03613839">Companies House, [https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/03613839/officers International Organisation Development Ltd. (03613839): officers] ''Companies House'', accessed 16 October 2026.</ref> It is a named supplier on Lot 1 of the CSSF Framework Agreement 2023–27.<ref name="FTS2023">Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, [https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/029743-2023 Conflict, Stability and Security Fund (CSSF) Framework Agreement (2023-2027): contract award notice 029743-2023] ''Find a Tender Service'', 2023.</ref> FCO and FCDO payments to it over £25,000 recorded in published departmental spending data total about £3,651,159; these figures cover all FCO/FCDO (and, after September 2020, former [[Department for International Development]]) programmes and are not limited to the CSSF.<ref name="FCOspend">Foreign and Commonwealth Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/foreign-office-spend-over-25000 FCO departmental spending over £25,000] ''GOV.UK'', 2010–2020; Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/fcdo-departmental-spending-over-25000 FCDO: departmental spending over £25,000] ''GOV.UK'', 2020–2026.</ref>

== Overview ==
IOD PARC describes itself as an "employee-owned" "specialist consultancy" established in 1998.<ref name="IODhome">IOD PARC, [https://www.iodparc.com/ IOD PARC] ''IOD PARC'', accessed 16 October 2026.</ref> It carried out the 2024 external evaluation of the multi-donor Aid Fund for Northern Syria.<ref name="AFNS2023">Aid Fund for Northern Syria, [https://aidfundforsyria.org/volumes/doc/AFNS-2023-Annual-Report-Final.pdf?v=1732633051 AFNS Annual Report 2023] ''AFNS'', 2024.</ref>

== CSSF and other UK government work ==
''[[Middle East Eye]]'' reported in November 2018 that a British Council-commissioned assessment of the ''Strengthening Resilience in MENA'' programme, "written by management consultancy firm IOD Parc", documented the role of the Home Office's [[Research, Information and Communications Unit]] (RICU) in counter-extremism campaigns in Tunisia, Morocco and Lebanon. The campaigns used rap music, graffiti, film and social media. MEE said the report described local civil-society groups being used as "buffer organisations" and was removed from the British Council website after MEE saw it. MEE quoted the report as concluding that the British Council and RICU had "succeeded in creating a platform where government and civil society can communicate more effectively". It said the programme was funded by the European Union.<ref name="MEERICU2018">Simon Hooper, Middle East Eye, [https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/revealed-how-uk-counter-terror-unit-uses-rap-graffiti-target-middle-eastern-youth REVEALED: How UK counter-terror unit uses rap, graffiti to target Middle Eastern youth] ''Middle East Eye'', 21 November 2018.</ref>

=== FCO/FCDO payments ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ FCO/FCDO payments over £25,000 (all programmes; calendar year of payment)
! Year !! Amount (£)
|-
| 2020 || 615,564
|-
| 2021 || 1,091,504
|-
| 2022 || 388,700
|-
| 2023 || 647,810
|-
| 2024 || 863,660
|-
| 2025 || 43,922
|-
| '''Total''' || '''3,651,159'''
|}
<ref name="FCOspend" />

== People ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Current officers recorded at Companies House
! Name !! Role !! Appointed
|-
| Joanne Claire Roe || Secretary || 23 January 2023
|-
| Matthew Thomas Crump || Director || 2 September 2013
|-
| Harriet Katherine Dinsmore || Director || 1 July 2025
|-
| Mark John Keen || Director || 18 July 2001
|-
| Elizabeth Jane McCormick || Director || 20 November 2023
|-
| Erica Jane Mitchell Packington || Director || 16 October 2017
|-
| Sarah Emily Watson || Director || 1 November 2024
|}
<ref name="CHO03613839" />

== See also ==
* [[Conflict, Stability and Security Fund]]
* [[:Category:CSSF Contractors]]
* [[Research, Information and Communications Unit]]
* [[British Council]]

==Notes==
<references/>

[[Category:CSSF Contractors]]
[[Category:UK]]
[[Category:Psychological operations]]

Harquebus

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{{short description|'''UK intelligence and security training company; CSSF contractor'''}}
{{Infobox company
| name = Harquebus
| type = Registered at Companies House
| founded = 7 June 2010 (incorporated)
| location = 10 Town Gate, Leeds, England, LS20 9JA
| industry = Other professional, scientific and technical activities not elsewhere classified
}}
'''[[Harquebus]]''' (Harquebus Limited, Companies House number 07276305) is a contractor to the [[Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office]] (FCDO) under the [[Conflict, Stability and Security Fund]] (CSSF). Companies House records it as incorporated on 7 June 2010, status "Active", nature of business "74909 - Other professional, scientific and technical activities not elsewhere classified", with registered office at 10 Town Gate, Leeds, England, LS20 9JA.<ref name="CH07276305">Companies House, [https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/07276305 Harquebus Limited (07276305)] ''Companies House'', accessed 16 October 2026.</ref><ref name="CHO07276305">Companies House, [https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/07276305/officers Harquebus Limited (07276305): officers] ''Companies House'', accessed 16 October 2026.</ref> It is a named supplier on Lot 3 of the CSSF Framework Agreement 2023–27.<ref name="FTS2023">Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, [https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/029743-2023 Conflict, Stability and Security Fund (CSSF) Framework Agreement (2023-2027): contract award notice 029743-2023] ''Find a Tender Service'', 2023.</ref> [[Contracts Finder]] lists 1 published CSSF award(s) to it with a combined stated value of £150,000. FCO and FCDO payments to it over £25,000 recorded in published departmental spending data total about £373,642; these figures cover all FCO/FCDO (and, after September 2020, former [[Department for International Development]]) programmes and are not limited to the CSSF.<ref name="FCOspend">Foreign and Commonwealth Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/foreign-office-spend-over-25000 FCO departmental spending over £25,000] ''GOV.UK'', 2010–2020; Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/fcdo-departmental-spending-over-25000 FCDO: departmental spending over £25,000] ''GOV.UK'', 2020–2026.</ref>

== Overview ==
Harquebus says it provides "intelligence and security risk management products, services, and solutions" using "techniques adopted from military and civil intelligence and security practice".<ref name="HarqHome">Harquebus, [https://harquebus.co.uk/ Harquebus Intelligence and Security] ''Harquebus'', accessed 16 October 2026.</ref> It says it designs training for "military (including SF), police, and intelligence personnel".<ref name="HarqTrain">Harquebus, [https://harquebus.co.uk/service/training-and-capacity-enhancement/ Training and Capacity Enhancement] ''Harquebus'', accessed 16 October 2026.</ref>

== CSSF and other UK government work ==
Harquebus is a Lot 3 supplier on the 2023–27 CSSF framework. Its published CSSF award (below) was for counter-IED training related to civil aviation in East Africa.

=== Published CSSF contracts ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ CSSF awards published on Contracts Finder
! Award date !! Contract !! Value (£) !! Supplier name as published !! Source
|-
| 2019-08-22 || CSSF 2018 FW (GBF) East Africa Civil Aviation CIED Training || 150,000 || Harquebus Ltd || <ref>Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, [https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/2a00df51-0998-4596-8620-aceaaba61b53 CSSF 2018 FW (GBF) East Africa Civil Aviation CIED Training] ''Contracts Finder'', 2019-08-22.</ref>
|}

=== FCO/FCDO payments ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ FCO/FCDO payments over £25,000 (all programmes; calendar year of payment)
! Year !! Amount (£)
|-
| 2016 || 33,533
|-
| 2018 || 27,480
|-
| 2019 || 220,125
|-
| 2020 || 43,522
|-
| 2022 || 48,983
|-
| '''Total''' || '''373,642'''
|}
<ref name="FCOspend" />

== People ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Current officers recorded at Companies House
! Name !! Role !! Appointed
|-
| Paul Easter || Director || 7 June 2010
|}
<ref name="CHO07276305" />

== See also ==
* [[Conflict, Stability and Security Fund]]
* [[:Category:CSSF Contractors]]

==Notes==
<references/>

[[Category:CSSF Contractors]]
[[Category:UK]]

GovRisk

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{{short description|'''London-based governance and anti-money-laundering consultancy; CSSF contractor'''}}
{{Infobox company
| name = GovRisk
| type = Registered at Companies House
| founded = 4 February 2010 (incorporated)
| location = Unit 4 Ivory Wharf, 4 Elephant Lane, London, England, SE16 4JD
| industry = Educational support services
}}
'''[[GovRisk]]''' (International Governance And Risk Limited, Companies House number 07145883) is a contractor to the [[Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office]] (FCDO) under the [[Conflict, Stability and Security Fund]] (CSSF). Companies House records it as incorporated on 4 February 2010, status "Active", nature of business "85600 - Educational support services", with registered office at Unit 4 Ivory Wharf, 4 Elephant Lane, London, England, SE16 4JD.<ref name="CH07145883">Companies House, [https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/07145883 International Governance And Risk Limited (07145883)] ''Companies House'', accessed 16 October 2026.</ref><ref name="CHO07145883">Companies House, [https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/07145883/officers International Governance And Risk Limited (07145883): officers] ''Companies House'', accessed 16 October 2026.</ref> It is a named supplier on Lot 1 of the CSSF Framework Agreement 2023–27.<ref name="FTS2023">Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, [https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/029743-2023 Conflict, Stability and Security Fund (CSSF) Framework Agreement (2023-2027): contract award notice 029743-2023] ''Find a Tender Service'', 2023.</ref> FCO and FCDO payments to it over £25,000 recorded in published departmental spending data total about £1,719,679; these figures cover all FCO/FCDO (and, after September 2020, former [[Department for International Development]]) programmes and are not limited to the CSSF.<ref name="FCOspend">Foreign and Commonwealth Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/foreign-office-spend-over-25000 FCO departmental spending over £25,000] ''GOV.UK'', 2010–2020; Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/fcdo-departmental-spending-over-25000 FCDO: departmental spending over £25,000] ''GOV.UK'', 2020–2026.</ref>

== Overview ==
GovRisk describes itself as "an independent UK-based consultancy" whose clients include "the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), the European Union, the World Bank, the United Nations, or the American Bar Association". It says it is delivering the anti-money-laundering strand of the FCDO-funded China Business Environment Programme, continuing technical assistance it has given with the People's Bank of China since 2016. It also says it worked as monitoring and learning agent on the cross-government ''Business Integrity Initiative'' pilots in Kenya and Mexico.<ref name="GovRiskWork">GovRisk, [https://www.govrisk.org/our-work-lr Our Work] ''GovRisk'', accessed 16 October 2026.</ref>

== CSSF and other UK government work ==
Belize's Channel 5 reported in January 2012 on a GovRisk workshop training Belizean judges to enforce money-laundering legislation. The initiative was "funded by the Foreign Commonwealth Office in the UK while being organized in conjunction with the American Bar Association".<ref name="C5Belize">News 5 (Channel 5 Belize), [https://archive.channel5belize.com/archives/65380 International Governance and Risk Institute Training for Judiciary] ''Channel 5 Belize'', 10 January 2012.</ref> In 2017 the British Embassy announced a joint initiative with GovRisk and Honduras's state procurement office (ONCAE), training about 100 people, "including ministers, senior officials and journalists".<ref name="GovUKHonduras">British Embassy Guatemala City, [https://www.gov.uk/government/news/the-uk-and-honduras-share-their-experience-to-improve-procurement-processes The UK and Honduras share their experience to improve procurement processes] ''GOV.UK'', 14 March 2017.</ref>

=== FCO/FCDO payments ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ FCO/FCDO payments over £25,000 (all programmes; calendar year of payment)
! Year !! Amount (£)
|-
| 2013 || 74,030
|-
| 2014 || 88,668
|-
| 2015 || 134,950
|-
| 2016 || 309,641
|-
| 2017 || 515,247
|-
| 2018 || 362,434
|-
| 2019 || 169,995
|-
| 2022 || 27,325
|-
| 2024 || 37,389
|-
| '''Total''' || '''1,719,679'''
|}
<ref name="FCOspend" />

== People ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Current officers recorded at Companies House
! Name !! Role !! Appointed
|-
| Dominic Le Moignan || Secretary || 4 February 2010
|-
| Marc Buchner || Director || 10 August 2018
|-
| Victoria Capel || Director || 31 August 2022
|-
| Dominic Le Moignan || Director || 4 February 2010
|-
| Nicolas Lemoignan || Director || 18 June 2026
|}
<ref name="CHO07145883" />

== See also ==
* [[Conflict, Stability and Security Fund]]
* [[:Category:CSSF Contractors]]

==Notes==
<references/>

[[Category:CSSF Contractors]]
[[Category:UK]]

GIST Research

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{{short description|'''Newport-registered conflict research and programme consultancy; CSSF contractor'''}}
{{Infobox company
| name = GIST Research
| type = Registered at Companies House
| founded = 13 February 2019 (incorporated)
| location = Bradbury House, Mission Court, Newport, Gwent, United Kingdom, NP20 2DW
| industry = Management consultancy activities other than financial management
}}
'''[[GIST Research]]''' (Gist Research Limited, Companies House number 11825438) is a contractor to the [[Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office]] (FCDO) under the [[Conflict, Stability and Security Fund]] (CSSF). Companies House records it as incorporated on 13 February 2019, status "Active", nature of business "70229 - Management consultancy activities other than financial management", with registered office at Bradbury House, Mission Court, Newport, Gwent, United Kingdom, NP20 2DW.<ref name="CH11825438">Companies House, [https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/11825438 Gist Research Limited (11825438)] ''Companies House'', accessed 16 October 2026.</ref><ref name="CHO11825438">Companies House, [https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/11825438/officers Gist Research Limited (11825438): officers] ''Companies House'', accessed 16 October 2026.</ref> It is a named supplier on Lot 1 of the CSSF Framework Agreement 2023–27.<ref name="FTS2023">Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, [https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/029743-2023 Conflict, Stability and Security Fund (CSSF) Framework Agreement (2023-2027): contract award notice 029743-2023] ''Find a Tender Service'', 2023.</ref> FCO and FCDO payments to it over £25,000 recorded in published departmental spending data total about £1,017,746; these figures cover all FCO/FCDO (and, after September 2020, former [[Department for International Development]]) programmes and are not limited to the CSSF.<ref name="FCOspend">Foreign and Commonwealth Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/foreign-office-spend-over-25000 FCO departmental spending over £25,000] ''GOV.UK'', 2010–2020; Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/fcdo-departmental-spending-over-25000 FCDO: departmental spending over £25,000] ''GOV.UK'', 2020–2026.</ref>

== Overview ==
GIST Research says it "was founded in 2019 by three experts" and has expanded from research and analysis into "project design, implementation and monitoring, evaluation and learning". It says one co-founding partner, Marc Parker, "spent over a decade in the UK government as an analyst and team leader" and attended the NATO senior staff college.<ref name="GISTabout">GIST Research, [https://www.gist-research.com/about About] ''GIST Research'', accessed 16 October 2026.</ref>

== CSSF and other UK government work ==
GIST is a named Lot 1 supplier on the 2023–27 CSSF framework, and FCO/FCDO payments to it are recorded from its first year of trading (see below).

=== FCO/FCDO payments ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ FCO/FCDO payments over £25,000 (all programmes; calendar year of payment)
! Year !! Amount (£)
|-
| 2019 || 99,812
|-
| 2021 || 320,812
|-
| 2022 || 126,218
|-
| 2023 || 219,932
|-
| 2024 || 250,971
|-
| '''Total''' || '''1,017,746'''
|}
<ref name="FCOspend" />

== People ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Current officers recorded at Companies House
! Name !! Role !! Appointed
|-
| Michele Cesari || Director || 13 February 2019
|-
| Mathieu Jean Louis Marie Dillais || Director || 13 February 2019
|-
| Marc Parker || Director || 13 February 2019
|}
<ref name="CHO11825438" />

== See also ==
* [[Conflict, Stability and Security Fund]]
* [[:Category:CSSF Contractors]]

==Notes==
<references/>

[[Category:CSSF Contractors]]
[[Category:UK]]

First Call Partners

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{{short description|'''UK stabilisation and conflict-analysis consultancy; CSSF contractor'''}}
{{Infobox company
| name = First Call Partners
| type = Registered at Companies House
| founded = 3 May 2017 (incorporated)
| location = Brigham House, 93 High Street, Biggleswade, Bedfordshire, England, SG18 0LD
| industry = Management consultancy activities other than financial management
}}
'''[[First Call Partners]]''' (First Call Partners Limited, Companies House number 10751194) is a contractor to the [[Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office]] (FCDO) under the [[Conflict, Stability and Security Fund]] (CSSF). Companies House records it as incorporated on 3 May 2017, status "Active", nature of business "70229 - Management consultancy activities other than financial management", with registered office at Brigham House, 93 High Street, Biggleswade, Bedfordshire, England, SG18 0LD.<ref name="CH10751194">Companies House, [https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/10751194 First Call Partners Limited (10751194)] ''Companies House'', accessed 16 October 2026.</ref><ref name="CHO10751194">Companies House, [https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/10751194/officers First Call Partners Limited (10751194): officers] ''Companies House'', accessed 16 October 2026.</ref> It is a named supplier on Lot 1 of the CSSF Framework Agreement 2023–27.<ref name="FTS2023">Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, [https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/029743-2023 Conflict, Stability and Security Fund (CSSF) Framework Agreement (2023-2027): contract award notice 029743-2023] ''Find a Tender Service'', 2023.</ref> [[Contracts Finder]] lists 1 published CSSF award(s) to it with a combined stated value of £42,410. FCO and FCDO payments to it over £25,000 recorded in published departmental spending data total about £1,172,372; these figures cover all FCO/FCDO (and, after September 2020, former [[Department for International Development]]) programmes and are not limited to the CSSF.<ref name="FCOspend">Foreign and Commonwealth Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/foreign-office-spend-over-25000 FCO departmental spending over £25,000] ''GOV.UK'', 2010–2020; Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/fcdo-departmental-spending-over-25000 FCDO: departmental spending over £25,000] ''GOV.UK'', 2020–2026.</ref>

== CSSF and other UK government work ==
First Call Partners lists "conflict and stability analysis for the UK Government in Central Asia, Middle East, North Africa and West Africa" among its recent projects. It also lists the "development of approaches to encourage the integration of armed groups in Iraq, Libya, Mali and Somalia for the German and UK Governments" and a "review of stabilisation initiatives in Ukraine".<ref name="FCPwhat">First Call Partners, [https://firstcallpartners.org/what-we-do/ What we do] ''First Call Partners'', accessed 16 October 2026.</ref> Its published CSSF award (below) was a 2019 review of the UK's [[Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative]].

=== Published CSSF contracts ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ CSSF awards published on Contracts Finder
! Award date !! Contract !! Value (£) !! Supplier name as published !! Source
|-
| 2019-11-07 || CSSF: Programme Review: PSVI - Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative || 42,410 || First Call Partners Ltd || <ref>Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, [https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/43e65ef6-1e40-4533-a5f4-b2e3f89edc6d CSSF: Programme Review: PSVI - Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative] ''Contracts Finder'', 2019-11-07.</ref>
|}

=== FCO/FCDO payments ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ FCO/FCDO payments over £25,000 (all programmes; calendar year of payment)
! Year !! Amount (£)
|-
| 2019 || 34,213
|-
| 2020 || 105,103
|-
| 2021 || 243,512
|-
| 2022 || 350,147
|-
| 2023 || 377,638
|-
| 2024 || 61,759
|-
| '''Total''' || '''1,172,372'''
|}
<ref name="FCOspend" />

== People ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Current officers recorded at Companies House
! Name !! Role !! Appointed
|-
| Andrew McLean || Director || 3 May 2017
|-
| Mark Andrew White || Director || 1 September 2017
|}
<ref name="CHO10751194" />

== See also ==
* [[Conflict, Stability and Security Fund]]
* [[:Category:CSSF Contractors]]

==Notes==
<references/>

[[Category:CSSF Contractors]]
[[Category:UK]]

European Institute of Peace

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{{short description|'''Brussels-based mediation foundation; CSSF contractor'''}}
{{Infobox organization
| name = European Institute of Peace
| location = Brussels, Belgium
}}
'''[[European Institute of Peace]]''' is a contractor to the [[Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office]] (FCDO) under the [[Conflict, Stability and Security Fund]] (CSSF). It is a named supplier on Lot 1 of the CSSF Framework Agreement 2023–27.<ref name="FTS2023">Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, [https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/029743-2023 Conflict, Stability and Security Fund (CSSF) Framework Agreement (2023-2027): contract award notice 029743-2023] ''Find a Tender Service'', 2023.</ref> FCO and FCDO payments to it over £25,000 recorded in published departmental spending data total about £1,317,340; these figures cover all FCO/FCDO (and, after September 2020, former [[Department for International Development]]) programmes and are not limited to the CSSF.<ref name="FCOspend">Foreign and Commonwealth Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/foreign-office-spend-over-25000 FCO departmental spending over £25,000] ''GOV.UK'', 2010–2020; Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/fcdo-departmental-spending-over-25000 FCDO: departmental spending over £25,000] ''GOV.UK'', 2020–2026.</ref>

== CSSF and other UK government work ==
FCDO DevTracker lists the European Institute of Peace (EIP) among the implementing organisations of the FCDO Conflict Resolution Department's ''Conflict Resolution Programme'' (GB-GOV-1-400035). The programme "primarily funds key mediation organisations delivering against the UK's negotiation, mediation and peace process ambitions". The other listed implementers include [[Wilton Park]], the [[Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue]], Inter Mediate, [[Conciliation Resources]], Geneva Call, CIVIC and [[Palladium International]].<ref name="DTCRP">FCDO DevTracker, [https://devtracker.fcdo.gov.uk/programme/GB-GOV-1-400035/summary Conflict Resolution Programme (GB-GOV-1-400035)] ''DevTracker'', accessed 16 October 2026.</ref>

=== FCO/FCDO payments ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ FCO/FCDO payments over £25,000 (all programmes; calendar year of payment)
! Year !! Amount (£)
|-
| 2020 || 69,352
|-
| 2021 || 602,457
|-
| 2022 || 92,771
|-
| 2023 || 131,376
|-
| 2024 || 421,383
|-
| '''Total''' || '''1,317,340'''
|}
<ref name="FCOspend" />

== See also ==
* [[Conflict, Stability and Security Fund]]
* [[:Category:CSSF Contractors]]

==Notes==
<references/>

[[Category:CSSF Contractors]]
[[Category:Belgium]]

Development Transformations

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{{short description|'''US international development contractor (now part of DT Global); CSSF framework supplier'''}}
{{Infobox company
| name = Development Transformations
| location = United States
}}
'''[[Development Transformations]]''' was named, in documents published by Anonymous, as a supplier on Lot 2 of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's [[Conflict, Stability and Security Fund]] (CSSF) framework.

== CSSF and other UK government work ==
A 2016 FCO expression-of-interest document for a CSSF "MENA Strategic Comms: Countering DAESH Propaganda" call-off lists Development Transformations, LLC among the suppliers on the CSSF Lot 2 framework. The document was published online in 2020 among files that the hacker group Anonymous said came from the FCO. (On the later 2023–27 framework, the names of Lot 2 suppliers were redacted on national-security grounds.)<ref name="Lot2List2016">Foreign and Commonwealth Office (document published by the hacker group Anonymous), [https://avalonlibrary.net/Operation_Trojan_Horse/Part_1_Taming_Syria_II/OTHER_FCO_FILES_ON_SYRIA/cpg-1044-2016-eoi---potential-partnering-message.pdf CPG/1044/2016 – Expressions of Interest: MENA Strategic Comms: Countering DAESH Propaganda (CSSF Lot 2 Call-Off), Annex A: List of suppliers on CSSF Lot 2 framework] ''avalonlibrary.net'', 2016.</ref> It does not appear in Tussell's 2015 framework list, and no FCO payments to it were found in the spending files examined. Global Affairs Canada's project browser records a ''Conflict Resolution in Syria'' project with Development Transformations as partner, running from March 2021 to August 2024, with a maximum Canadian contribution of $5,054,611.<ref name="GACDTSyria">Global Affairs Canada, [https://w05.international.gc.ca/projectbrowser-banqueprojets/project-projet/details/p009538001 Project profile – Conflict Resolution in Syria (CA-3-P009538001)] ''Canada.ca Project Browser'', accessed 16 October 2026.</ref>

== See also ==
* [[Conflict, Stability and Security Fund]]
* [[:Category:CSSF Contractors]]
* [[DT Global International Development UK]]
* [[Cardno Emerging Markets (UK)]]

==Notes==
<references/>

[[Category:CSSF Contractors]]
[[Category:United States]]
[[Category:Syria]]

Danish Refugee Council

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{{short description|'''Danish humanitarian organisation; CSSF contractor'''}}
{{Infobox organization
| name = Danish Refugee Council
| location = Copenhagen, Denmark
}}
'''[[Danish Refugee Council]]''' is a contractor to the [[Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office]] (FCDO) under the [[Conflict, Stability and Security Fund]] (CSSF). It is a named supplier on Lot 1 of the CSSF Framework Agreement 2023–27.<ref name="FTS2023">Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, [https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/029743-2023 Conflict, Stability and Security Fund (CSSF) Framework Agreement (2023-2027): contract award notice 029743-2023] ''Find a Tender Service'', 2023.</ref> FCO and FCDO payments to it over £25,000 recorded in published departmental spending data total about £78,973,729; these figures cover all FCO/FCDO (and, after September 2020, former [[Department for International Development]]) programmes and are not limited to the CSSF.<ref name="FCOspend">Foreign and Commonwealth Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/foreign-office-spend-over-25000 FCO departmental spending over £25,000] ''GOV.UK'', 2010–2020; Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/fcdo-departmental-spending-over-25000 FCDO: departmental spending over £25,000] ''GOV.UK'', 2020–2026.</ref>

== Overview ==
The Danish Refugee Council (DRC) describes itself as "a private humanitarian organisation, founded in 1956".<ref name="DRCSahel">Danish Refugee Council, [https://drc.ngo/en/news/the-sahel-regional-fund-launches-its-operational-phase/ The Sahel Regional Fund launches its operational phase] ''DRC'', 20 March 2023.</ref>

== CSSF and other UK government work ==
In October 2014 DRC announced a two-year partnership with the UK [[Department for International Development]] in Syria and Lebanon, under which "£21 million will ensure vital emergency relief operations".<ref name="DRCSyria2014">Danish Refugee Council (via ReliefWeb), [https://reliefweb.int/report/syrian-arab-republic/british-government-partnership-danish-refugee-council British Government in partnership with the Danish Refugee Council] ''ReliefWeb'', 20 October 2014.</ref> DRC's 2023 annual report states that DKK 91.8 million of its income that year "relates to FCDO". The largest FCDO-funded items it lists are the Sahel Regional Fund (DKK 40.4m), the Jordan Protection Programme (DKK 27.7m) and the Humanitarian Enablers Programme (DKK 11.9m). It also lists smaller sums under the FCDO's ''Humanitarian Emergency Response Operations and Stabilisation'' (HEROS) project and for Sudan, Tanzania, Ukraine and mixed-migration research.<ref name="DRCAR2023">Danish Refugee Council, [https://drc.ngo/media/govozt1e/annual-report-2023_drc_final-08-05-2024.pdf Annual Report 2023] ''DRC'', May 2024.</ref>

=== FCO/FCDO payments ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ FCO/FCDO payments over £25,000 (all programmes; calendar year of payment)
! Year !! Amount (£)
|-
| 2014 || 811,004
|-
| 2015 || 641,869
|-
| 2016 || 928,989
|-
| 2017 || 1,121,128
|-
| 2018 || 1,289,900
|-
| 2019 || 748,014
|-
| 2020 || 3,853,780
|-
| 2021 || 10,217,992
|-
| 2022 || 2,901,505
|-
| 2023 || 19,455,199
|-
| 2024 || 37,004,350
|-
| '''Total''' || '''78,973,729'''
|}
<ref name="FCOspend" />

== See also ==
* [[Conflict, Stability and Security Fund]]
* [[:Category:CSSF Contractors]]

==Notes==
<references/>

[[Category:CSSF Contractors]]
[[Category:Denmark]]

Concordis International

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{{short description|'''UK peacebuilding charity working in Sudan, South Sudan and the Central African borderlands; CSSF contractor'''}}
{{Infobox organization
| name = Concordis International
| type = Registered at Companies House
| founded = 13 October 2003 (incorporated)
| location = 1 Paternoster Lane, London, United Kingdom, EC4M 7BQ
| status = Active
| registration_id = Companies House 04930461
}}
'''[[Concordis International]]''' (Concordis International Trust, Companies House number 04930461) is a contractor to the [[Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office]] (FCDO) under the [[Conflict, Stability and Security Fund]] (CSSF). Companies House records it as incorporated on 13 October 2003, status "Active", nature of business "96090 - Other service activities not elsewhere classified", with registered office at 1 Paternoster Lane, London, United Kingdom, EC4M 7BQ.<ref name="CH04930461">Companies House, [https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/04930461 Concordis International Trust (04930461)] ''Companies House'', accessed 16 October 2026.</ref><ref name="CHO04930461">Companies House, [https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/04930461/officers Concordis International Trust (04930461): officers] ''Companies House'', accessed 16 October 2026.</ref> It is a named supplier on Lot 1 of the CSSF Framework Agreement 2023–27.<ref name="FTS2023">Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, [https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/029743-2023 Conflict, Stability and Security Fund (CSSF) Framework Agreement (2023-2027): contract award notice 029743-2023] ''Find a Tender Service'', 2023.</ref> FCO and FCDO payments to it over £25,000 recorded in published departmental spending data total about £1,063,379; these figures cover all FCO/FCDO (and, after September 2020, former [[Department for International Development]]) programmes and are not limited to the CSSF.<ref name="FCOspend">Foreign and Commonwealth Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/foreign-office-spend-over-25000 FCO departmental spending over £25,000] ''GOV.UK'', 2010–2020; Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/fcdo-departmental-spending-over-25000 FCDO: departmental spending over £25,000] ''GOV.UK'', 2020–2026.</ref>

== Overview ==
The Charity Commission decided in July 2004 that Concordis International Trust, a company limited by guarantee, "is established for exclusively charitable purposes" and should be registered.<ref name="CCConcordis2004">Charity Commission for England and Wales, [https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a7cfd2c40f0b60aaa293859/concordisdecision.pdf Application for registration of Concordis International Trust: decision of the Commission made on 23 July 2004] ''GOV.UK'', 2004.</ref>

== CSSF and other UK government work ==
FCO payments to Concordis over £25,000 are recorded between 2013 and 2016 (see below). Its later Abyei peacebuilding work has been funded by other donors: Global Affairs Canada announced $1.48m (2021–23) for a Concordis project promoting "social cohesion, peaceful seasonal cattle movements and trade in Abyei",<ref name="GACAbyei">Global Affairs Canada, [https://www.canada.ca/en/global-affairs/news/2022/10/peaceful-and-democratic-africa.html Peaceful and democratic Africa (backgrounder)] ''Canada.ca'', October 2022.</ref> and Concordis's own Abyei page describes its current work there as "co-funded by the European Union".<ref name="ConcAbyei">Concordis International, [https://concordis.international/sass-1 Abyei] ''Concordis International'', accessed 16 October 2026.</ref>

=== FCO/FCDO payments ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ FCO/FCDO payments over £25,000 (all programmes; calendar year of payment)
! Year !! Amount (£)
|-
| 2013 || 201,609
|-
| 2014 || 47,943
|-
| 2015 || 662,386
|-
| 2016 || 151,441
|-
| '''Total''' || '''1,063,379'''
|}
<ref name="FCOspend" />

== People ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Current officers recorded at Companies House
! Name !! Role !! Appointed
|-
| Susan Elizabeth Rooke || Secretary || 5 November 2020
|-
| Pieter Matthijs Alexander || Director || 25 April 2020
|-
| Joanna Inez Buckley || Director || 22 May 2023
|-
| Paul James Clough || Director || 12 November 2024
|-
| Fern Anne Margaret Curtis || Director || 22 May 2023
|-
| Katie Jane Johnson || Director || 14 February 2023
|-
| Peter Anthony McLoughlin || Director || 12 December 2019
|-
| Edward Granville Lionel Moore || Director || 20 January 2011
|-
| Samuel Slota-Newson || Director || 10 January 2022
|-
| Frances Imogen Tammer || Director || 10 January 2022
|-
| David Charles Tetlow || Director || 10 January 2022
|-
| Christopher John West || Director || 22 May 2023
|}
<ref name="CHO04930461" />

== See also ==
* [[Conflict, Stability and Security Fund]]
* [[:Category:CSSF Contractors]]

==Notes==
<references/>

[[Category:CSSF Contractors]]
[[Category:UK]]
[[Category:Sudan]]
[[Category:Charities]]

Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue

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{{short description|'''Geneva-based private diplomacy and mediation foundation (HD); CSSF framework supplier'''}}
{{Infobox organization
| name = Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue
| location = Geneva, Switzerland
}}
'''[[Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue]]''' is a supplier and grantee of the [[Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office]] (FCDO) under the [[Conflict, Stability and Security Fund]] (CSSF). FCO and FCDO payments to it over £25,000 recorded in published departmental spending data total about £5,457,435; these figures cover all FCO/FCDO (and, after September 2020, former [[Department for International Development]]) programmes and are not limited to the CSSF.<ref name="FCOspend">Foreign and Commonwealth Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/foreign-office-spend-over-25000 FCO departmental spending over £25,000] ''GOV.UK'', 2010–2020; Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/fcdo-departmental-spending-over-25000 FCDO: departmental spending over £25,000] ''GOV.UK'', 2020–2026.</ref>

== CSSF and other UK government work ==
A 2016 FCO expression-of-interest document for a CSSF "MENA Strategic Comms: Countering DAESH Propaganda" call-off lists The Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue among the suppliers on the CSSF Lot 2 framework. The document was published online in 2020 among files that the hacker group Anonymous said came from the FCO. (On the later 2023–27 framework, the names of Lot 2 suppliers were redacted on national-security grounds.)<ref name="Lot2List2016">Foreign and Commonwealth Office (document published by the hacker group Anonymous), [https://avalonlibrary.net/Operation_Trojan_Horse/Part_1_Taming_Syria_II/OTHER_FCO_FILES_ON_SYRIA/cpg-1044-2016-eoi---potential-partnering-message.pdf CPG/1044/2016 – Expressions of Interest: MENA Strategic Comms: Countering DAESH Propaganda (CSSF Lot 2 Call-Off), Annex A: List of suppliers on CSSF Lot 2 framework] ''avalonlibrary.net'', 2016.</ref> Tussell's supplier list for the FCO's 2015 CSSF framework, which is based on the official award notice, independently records the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue as a supplier.<ref name="Tussell2015">Tussell, [https://client.tussell.com/frameworks/169769-faeb86e7b025ce86a68f06c7e6d864ea-conflict-stability-and-security-fund-framework/suppliers Conflict, Stability and Security Fund Framework (contract notice published 11 December 2015): suppliers] ''Tussell'', accessed 16 October 2026.</ref> GOV.UK's list of UK programme assistance to Ukraine for 2018–19 includes a CSSF-funded HD project, ''Countering conflict in Ukraine through dialogue and facilitated engagement at the local, national and inter-state level'' (April 2017 – March 2019). It says HD "has been working in Ukraine since December 2013" on dialogue initiatives aimed at "preventing further polarisation between the conflict parties".<ref name="GovUKUkr1819">GOV.UK, [https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-programme-assistance-to-ukraine-2018-2019 UK programme assistance to Ukraine 2018-2019] ''GOV.UK'', accessed 16 October 2026.</ref> HD is also listed as an implementer of the FCDO's ''Conflict Resolution Programme''.<ref name="DTCRP">FCDO DevTracker, [https://devtracker.fcdo.gov.uk/programme/GB-GOV-1-400035/summary Conflict Resolution Programme (GB-GOV-1-400035)] ''DevTracker'', accessed 16 October 2026.</ref> FCO/FCDO payments to HD (recorded under several name variants) total about £5.46m between 2013 and 2022 (see below).

=== FCO/FCDO payments ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ FCO/FCDO payments over £25,000 (all programmes; calendar year of payment)
! Year !! Amount (£)
|-
| 2013 || 509,047
|-
| 2014 || 60,280
|-
| 2016 || 742,790
|-
| 2017 || 843,511
|-
| 2018 || 978,429
|-
| 2019 || 866,628
|-
| 2020 || 412,254
|-
| 2021 || 950,538
|-
| 2022 || 93,957
|-
| '''Total''' || '''5,457,435'''
|}
<ref name="FCOspend" />

== See also ==
* [[Conflict, Stability and Security Fund]]
* [[:Category:CSSF Contractors]]
* [[European Institute of Peace]]

==Notes==
<references/>

[[Category:CSSF Contractors]]
[[Category:Switzerland]]
[[Category:Ukraine]]

Cardno Emerging Markets UK

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{{short description|'''UK international development consultancy, now DT Global Emerging Markets UK; CSSF framework supplier'''}}
{{Infobox company
| name = Cardno Emerging Markets (UK)
| type = Registered at Companies House
| founded = 23 August 1979 (incorporated)
| location = The Leather Market, Unit 11.3.1 Weston Street, London, England, SE1 3ER
| industry = Management consultancy activities other than financial management
}}
'''[[Cardno Emerging Markets (UK)]]''' (Dt Global Emerging Markets UK Ltd, Companies House number 01445342) was a supplier on the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's [[Conflict, Stability and Security Fund]] (CSSF) frameworks of 2015 and 2018. Companies House records it as incorporated on 23 August 1979, status "Active", nature of business "70229 - Management consultancy activities other than financial management", with registered office at The Leather Market, Unit 11.3.1 Weston Street, London, England, SE1 3ER.<ref name="CH01445342">Companies House, [https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/01445342 Dt Global Emerging Markets UK Ltd (01445342)] ''Companies House'', accessed 16 October 2026.</ref><ref name="CHO01445342">Companies House, [https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/01445342/officers Dt Global Emerging Markets UK Ltd (01445342): officers] ''Companies House'', accessed 16 October 2026.</ref> FCO and FCDO payments to it over £25,000 recorded in published departmental spending data total about £5,621,767; these figures cover all FCO/FCDO (and, after September 2020, former [[Department for International Development]]) programmes and are not limited to the CSSF.<ref name="FCOspend">Foreign and Commonwealth Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/foreign-office-spend-over-25000 FCO departmental spending over £25,000] ''GOV.UK'', 2010–2020; Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/fcdo-departmental-spending-over-25000 FCDO: departmental spending over £25,000] ''GOV.UK'', 2020–2026.</ref>

== Overview ==
Companies House records company 01445342 under its current name, DT Global Emerging Markets UK Ltd; it previously traded as Cardno Emerging Markets (UK) Ltd.<ref name="CH01445342" />

== CSSF and other UK government work ==
A 2016 FCO expression-of-interest document for a CSSF "MENA Strategic Comms: Countering DAESH Propaganda" call-off lists Cardno Emerging Markets (UK) Ltd among the suppliers on the CSSF Lot 2 framework. The document was published online in 2020 among files that the hacker group Anonymous said came from the FCO. (On the later 2023–27 framework, the names of Lot 2 suppliers were redacted on national-security grounds.)<ref name="Lot2List2016">Foreign and Commonwealth Office (document published by the hacker group Anonymous), [https://avalonlibrary.net/Operation_Trojan_Horse/Part_1_Taming_Syria_II/OTHER_FCO_FILES_ON_SYRIA/cpg-1044-2016-eoi---potential-partnering-message.pdf CPG/1044/2016 – Expressions of Interest: MENA Strategic Comms: Countering DAESH Propaganda (CSSF Lot 2 Call-Off), Annex A: List of suppliers on CSSF Lot 2 framework] ''avalonlibrary.net'', 2016.</ref> Tussell's supplier list for the FCO's 2015 CSSF framework, which is based on the official award notice, independently records Cardno Emerging Markets (UK) Ltd as a supplier.<ref name="Tussell2015">Tussell, [https://client.tussell.com/frameworks/169769-faeb86e7b025ce86a68f06c7e6d864ea-conflict-stability-and-security-fund-framework/suppliers Conflict, Stability and Security Fund Framework (contract notice published 11 December 2015): suppliers] ''Tussell'', accessed 16 October 2026.</ref> Tussell also lists Cardno Emerging Markets (UK) Ltd among the 103 suppliers on the 2018 CSSF framework re-tender.<ref name="Tussell2018">Tussell, [https://client.tussell.com/frameworks/708010-4eb6685764e9f51a850e4fb8b06c1603-conflict-stability-security-fund-cssf-framework-re-tender-2018-extensi/suppliers Conflict, Stability & Security Fund (CSSF) Framework Re-Tender 2018 – Extension and Value Uplift: suppliers] ''Tussell'', accessed 16 October 2026.</ref> FCO/FCDO spending files record payments to "Cardno Emerging Markets (UK) Ltd" of about £5.62m between 2020 and 2022 (see below).

=== FCO/FCDO payments ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ FCO/FCDO payments over £25,000 (all programmes; calendar year of payment)
! Year !! Amount (£)
|-
| 2020 || 3,027,182
|-
| 2021 || 2,109,615
|-
| 2022 || 484,970
|-
| '''Total''' || '''5,621,767'''
|}
<ref name="FCOspend" />

== People ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Current officers recorded at Companies House
! Name !! Role !! Appointed
|-
| Beatrice Njeri Kinyanjui || Director || 28 April 2023
|-
| Gerome Adrian Rich || Director || 17 September 2026
|}
<ref name="CHO01445342" />

== See also ==
* [[Conflict, Stability and Security Fund]]
* [[:Category:CSSF Contractors]]
* [[DT Global International Development UK]]

==Notes==
<references/>

[[Category:CSSF Contractors]]
[[Category:UK]]

Atos IT Services UK

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{{short description|'''UK subsidiary of the French IT services group Atos; CSSF framework supplier'''}}
{{Infobox company
| name = Atos IT Services UK
| type = Registered at Companies House
| founded = 23 February 1976 (incorporated)
| location = Sixth Floor, Midcity Place, 71, High Holborn, London, England, WC1V 6EA
| industry = Manufacture of computers and peripheral equipment
}}
'''[[Atos IT Services UK]]''' (Atos It Services UK Limited, Companies House number 01245534) was a supplier on the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's 2015 [[Conflict, Stability and Security Fund]] (CSSF) framework. Companies House records it as incorporated on 23 February 1976, status "Active", nature of business "26200 - Manufacture of computers and peripheral equipment", with registered office at Sixth Floor, Midcity Place, 71, High Holborn, London, England, WC1V 6EA.<ref name="CH01245534">Companies House, [https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/01245534 Atos It Services UK Limited (01245534)] ''Companies House'', accessed 16 October 2026.</ref><ref name="CHO01245534">Companies House, [https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/01245534/officers Atos It Services UK Limited (01245534): officers] ''Companies House'', accessed 16 October 2026.</ref>

== CSSF and other UK government work ==
A 2016 FCO expression-of-interest document for a CSSF "MENA Strategic Comms: Countering DAESH Propaganda" call-off lists Atos IT Services UK Ltd among the suppliers on the CSSF Lot 2 framework. The document was published online in 2020 among files that the hacker group Anonymous said came from the FCO. (On the later 2023–27 framework, the names of Lot 2 suppliers were redacted on national-security grounds.)<ref name="Lot2List2016">Foreign and Commonwealth Office (document published by the hacker group Anonymous), [https://avalonlibrary.net/Operation_Trojan_Horse/Part_1_Taming_Syria_II/OTHER_FCO_FILES_ON_SYRIA/cpg-1044-2016-eoi---potential-partnering-message.pdf CPG/1044/2016 – Expressions of Interest: MENA Strategic Comms: Countering DAESH Propaganda (CSSF Lot 2 Call-Off), Annex A: List of suppliers on CSSF Lot 2 framework] ''avalonlibrary.net'', 2016.</ref> Tussell's supplier list for the FCO's 2015 CSSF framework, which is based on the official award notice, independently records Atos IT Services UK Limited as a supplier.<ref name="Tussell2015">Tussell, [https://client.tussell.com/frameworks/169769-faeb86e7b025ce86a68f06c7e6d864ea-conflict-stability-and-security-fund-framework/suppliers Conflict, Stability and Security Fund Framework (contract notice published 11 December 2015): suppliers] ''Tussell'', accessed 16 October 2026.</ref> No specific CSSF call-off awarded to Atos was found in public sources during this research, and no FCO payments to it appear in the departmental spending files examined.

== People ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Current officers recorded at Companies House
! Name !! Role !! Appointed
|-
| Hayley Marie Bevis || Secretary || 23 May 2025
|-
| Michael John Herron || Director || 28 February 2025
|}
<ref name="CHO01245534" />

== See also ==
* [[Conflict, Stability and Security Fund]]
* [[:Category:CSSF Contractors]]

==Notes==
<references/>

[[Category:CSSF Contractors]]
[[Category:UK]]

Altai Consulting

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{{short description|'''Research and evaluation consultancy (Lhassa Consulting FZE); CSSF contractor'''}}
{{Infobox company
| name = Altai Consulting
| location = United Arab Emirates
}}
'''[[Altai Consulting]]''' is a contractor to the [[Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office]] (FCDO) under the [[Conflict, Stability and Security Fund]] (CSSF). It is a named supplier on Lot 1 of the CSSF Framework Agreement 2023–27.<ref name="FTS2023">Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, [https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/029743-2023 Conflict, Stability and Security Fund (CSSF) Framework Agreement (2023-2027): contract award notice 029743-2023] ''Find a Tender Service'', 2023.</ref> FCO and FCDO payments to it over £25,000 recorded in published departmental spending data total about £497,996; these figures cover all FCO/FCDO (and, after September 2020, former [[Department for International Development]]) programmes and are not limited to the CSSF.<ref name="FCOspend">Foreign and Commonwealth Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/foreign-office-spend-over-25000 FCO departmental spending over £25,000] ''GOV.UK'', 2010–2020; Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/fcdo-departmental-spending-over-25000 FCDO: departmental spending over £25,000] ''GOV.UK'', 2020–2026.</ref>

== Overview ==
Altai Consulting says it has spent eighteen years developing tools to analyse migration and forced displacement. Its listed work includes a 21-country assessment of migration governance in Africa for the EU Emergency Trust Fund for Africa.<ref name="AltaiMig">Altai Consulting, [https://www.altaiconsulting.com/assignements-migration-and-forced-displacement Migration & Forced Displacement] ''Altai Consulting'', accessed 16 October 2026.</ref>

== CSSF and other UK government work ==
Altai's framework entry is under Lhassa Consulting FZE, a UAE free-zone entity. FCO payments to it are recorded from 2013 to 2018 (see below); no CSSF programme detail was verified in public sources during this research.

=== FCO/FCDO payments ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ FCO/FCDO payments over £25,000 (all programmes; calendar year of payment)
! Year !! Amount (£)
|-
| 2013 || 359,790
|-
| 2017 || 68,260
|-
| 2018 || 69,947
|-
| '''Total''' || '''497,996'''
|}
<ref name="FCOspend" />

== See also ==
* [[Conflict, Stability and Security Fund]]
* [[:Category:CSSF Contractors]]

==Notes==
<references/>

[[Category:CSSF Contractors]]
[[Category:United Arab Emirates]]

Alcis

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{{short description|'''Guildford-based geospatial and satellite-imagery analysis company; CSSF contractor'''}}
{{Infobox company
| name = Alcis
| type = Registered at Companies House
| founded = 16 June 2004 (incorporated)
| location = The Surrey Technology Centre, 40 Occam Road, Surrey Research Park, Guildford, Surrey, GU2 7YG
| industry = General public administration activities
}}
'''[[Alcis]]''' (Alcis Holdings Limited, Companies House number 05155300) is a contractor to the [[Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office]] (FCDO) under the [[Conflict, Stability and Security Fund]] (CSSF). Companies House records it as incorporated on 16 June 2004, status "Active", nature of business "84110 - General public administration activities", with registered office at The Surrey Technology Centre, 40 Occam Road, Surrey Research Park, Guildford, Surrey, GU2 7YG.<ref name="CH05155300">Companies House, [https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/05155300 Alcis Holdings Limited (05155300)] ''Companies House'', accessed 16 October 2026.</ref><ref name="CHO05155300">Companies House, [https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/05155300/officers Alcis Holdings Limited (05155300): officers] ''Companies House'', accessed 16 October 2026.</ref> It is a named supplier on Lot 1 and Lot 3 of the CSSF Framework Agreement 2023–27.<ref name="FTS2023">Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, [https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/029743-2023 Conflict, Stability and Security Fund (CSSF) Framework Agreement (2023-2027): contract award notice 029743-2023] ''Find a Tender Service'', 2023.</ref> [[Contracts Finder]] lists 1 published CSSF award(s) to it with a combined stated value of £299,810. FCO and FCDO payments to it over £25,000 recorded in published departmental spending data total about £1,438,807; these figures cover all FCO/FCDO (and, after September 2020, former [[Department for International Development]]) programmes and are not limited to the CSSF.<ref name="FCOspend">Foreign and Commonwealth Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/foreign-office-spend-over-25000 FCO departmental spending over £25,000] ''GOV.UK'', 2010–2020; Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/fcdo-departmental-spending-over-25000 FCDO: departmental spending over £25,000] ''GOV.UK'', 2020–2026.</ref>

== Overview ==
Alcis is best known for satellite-imagery analysis of opium-poppy cultivation in [[Afghanistan]]. After the Taliban's drugs ban it reported an 85% national reduction in cultivation in 2023, including a 99% fall in Helmand.<ref name="AlcisPoppy">Alcis, [https://www.alcis.org/poppy Unprecedented reduction of opium production] ''Alcis'', accessed 16 October 2026.</ref> The BBC used Alcis's imagery and analysis in a June 2023 report on the Taliban's campaign against poppy.<ref name="BBCPoppy2023">BBC News, [https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-65787391 Inside the Taliban’s war on drugs – opium poppy crops slashed] ''BBC News'', June 2023.</ref>

== CSSF and other UK government work ==
Alcis is named on Lots 1 and 3 of the 2023–27 CSSF framework. Its published CSSF award (below) was a 2017 contract for "Global Coalition Against Daesh – Digital Content", let under Lots A and B of the earlier framework.

=== Published CSSF contracts ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ CSSF awards published on Contracts Finder
! Award date !! Contract !! Value (£) !! Supplier name as published !! Source
|-
| 2017-09-28 || CSSF Lots A & B: Global Coalition Against Daesh - Digital Content || 299,810 || Alcis Holdings Ltd || <ref>Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, [https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/f797b79e-2f6b-473e-8dcf-afc37a0c9919 CSSF Lots A & B: Global Coalition Against Daesh - Digital Content] ''Contracts Finder'', 2017-09-28.</ref>
|}

=== FCO/FCDO payments ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ FCO/FCDO payments over £25,000 (all programmes; calendar year of payment)
! Year !! Amount (£)
|-
| 2017 || 115,009
|-
| 2018 || 644,031
|-
| 2019 || 438,157
|-
| 2021 || 58,010
|-
| 2022 || 90,000
|-
| 2023 || 93,600
|-
| '''Total''' || '''1,438,807'''
|}
<ref name="FCOspend" />

== People ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Current officers recorded at Companies House
! Name !! Role !! Appointed
|-
| Timothy Edward Buckley || Director || 1 May 2026
|}
<ref name="CHO05155300" />

== See also ==
* [[Conflict, Stability and Security Fund]]
* [[:Category:CSSF Contractors]]

==Notes==
<references/>

[[Category:CSSF Contractors]]
[[Category:UK]]
[[Category:Afghanistan]]
[[Category:Psychological operations]]