At Azimu Group, we collaboratively build resilient institutions and communities by generating future-oriented solutions to major global threats.
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Mission
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We solve Problems of Practice
Governance, institutional, and community stakeholders are well intentioned. However, barriers exist and persist (e.g. organizational norms, insufficient time, staffing shortage, revolving agenda setting preference based on executive term etc.), which impede critical cross-sector partnership capable of effectively and efficiently remediating social, public and economic challenges. Subsequently, the plans (strategic or implementation) are void of holistic or integrated solutions, so too are the impact metrics.
Governance and institutional stakeholders encounter challenges to authentic community engagement as a result of historical inequities and harm. The absence of trust, relationship equity, and engagement expertise impedes authentic community engagement and participation. Therefore, community-informed and co-designed solution building is difficult to achieve for non-community trusted stakeholders. We start by listening and partnering.
Governance and institutional stakeholders’ focus is rightfully dominated by the urgent and present need of clients’ in order to avert additional harm. Such pressing needs compete and sometimes dominate resources, often impacting the ability to develop a sustainable proactive forecasted plan.
When we see ourselves as members of a global community,
Then we are positioned for better collaboration and governance conceptualization of our policies, procedures, and practices.
Thereby, we are harnessing our best thinking to achieve the triple bottom line of profit, people, and planet.
Our approach is guided by our commitment to authentic community engagement, cross-sector collaboration and multidimensional solutions impacting communities quality of life and economies' vitality. Thus, our methods are informed by the fundamental principles of community based participatory research (CBPR). We believe the clients (i.e. governance & institutional stakeholders) combined with the invaluable knowledge of community yield the untapped capacity to steward outcomes in the direction of their “True North.”
- We start by listening. Therein, we aim to understand our client’s problem(s) of practice (PoP) and all its dimensions.
- Thereafter, we facilitate the process of determining the “desired state."
- Upon crystallization of the “desired state,” we conduct a thorough baseline analysis and client capacity assessment (e.g. resources, staffing etc.), operational frame, and service model design.
- To support entities, maintain resilience and gains, we also perform a hyper-localized analysis of the projected impact of the five global disruptors.
- Thereafter, we curate a multidimensional plan (i.e. spatial, economic, political, social, environmental, etc.) informed by the five global disruptors, in order to advise our recommendations so as to avoid the associated impediments and mitigate their impact. This yields our clients a resilience and implementation plan orienting their governance and operational model. We ensure this is accompanied by a monitoring and performance plan.
- Azimu Group is enduringly available for ongoing support for continuous improvement and cycles of inquiry.
Our efforts function to ameliorate the existing conditions while simultaneously planning for the forecasted future state. Thus, we deploy an ecosystem approach to contextualize and strategize in the context of the client. Some of our dimensions include the following:
The safest and ranked "best places to live" consist of features, assets and resources which cultivate sense of "belonging" for residents and nurture the community as a whole. People are reared in environments which either cultivates safety or activates a "fight or flight" response. Safety is an essential need. If a community is deficient in fulfilling its residents' needs it will function instead to impede healthy human development and even inflict harm caused by trauma. As a result, we support stakeholders (our client) by co-designing built environment designs informed by Maslow's hierarchy of needs-capitalizing upon local community’s assets, inspiration and potential, with the intention of creating public spaces that promote people's health, happiness, and well-being.
Access to a decent standard of living requires a healthy economy. A jurisdiction’s GDP will be largely impacted by the composition of its industry/employment sectors. Accordingly, economies must evolve and adapt if they are to survive global shocks (e.g. expiration of positions caused by automation, demand for STEM related positions etc.). Consequently, career and success pathways must be created, retained and maintained so that families are able to earn a livable wage. As a result, we support our clients in developing our plans and developing an economic and enterprise strategic plan, which will exhibit resilience to climate change and automation. We specialize in developing community economies which complement vs. compete with the central business district in order to fortify a jurisdiction's stability.
We strive to institutionalize the development of sustainable ecosystems which are stabilized by stakeholder ecologically responsible stewardship and regenerative landscape maintenance practices. Our recommendations are thoughtful and research-based to ensure a meaningful connection between people and nature. Therefore, we search the globe to inform our plans that are responsive to existing and emerging needs and challenges. We account for the needs of people, communities and evaluate, geographical capacity and resources as well as locational threats in order to devise plans.
