Advocacy
Explaining, persuading, convincing...it's often hard to identify the right tone and approach for your pitch, let alone making it pitch-perfect.
Effective, successful advocacy means refining your strategy, identifying your goals and tailoring your approach to achieve enduring results.
Fortzer supports and hones your advocacy whatever your goals, wherever you operate - with political decision-makers and opinion formers, whether in the public sphere and behind closed doors.
Advocacy is often accompanied by communication and public diplomacy activities, to reinforce in public the dialogue you pursue in private. Effective, successful communication means identifying your audience and tailoring your message in the most appropriate way to achieve your goals.
Diplomatic support
Whatever your diplomatic and policy support needs, Fortzer can help you make an enduring impact.
Here are some of the areas where we can add depth and substance, whether for public or private stakeholders in the diplomatic space:
• establishing, preparing for, managing or contributing to dialogues, reviews, negotiations, agreements or consultations on international policy, whether bilateral or multilateral
• strategic support for major international frameworks such as COPs, G77, WTO ministerials, UNGA, World Health Assembly, EU strategic partnership summits, Dubai World Government Summit, etc.
• advising on and supporting the negotiation and establishment of diplomatic relations and a diplomatic presence in a new jurisdiction
• advising on the preparation and supporting the delivery of ad hoc international conferences, such as donors’ conferences
• devising and delivering bespoke training and information packages for diplomats, parliamentarians and officials
Delegations
Fortzer organises all kinds of high-level and working delegations, helping participants to better grasp the opportunities presented by the international dimension of their work and build their professional networks.
We create and supervise impactful delegation visits by everyone from parliamentarians to military staff, government officials to business people, law officers to trainee diplomats.
We focus on providing dynamic opportunities for participants to grow professionally and personally through tailored programmes across bilateral and multilateral institutions.
Finance & funding
The areas where we work include some of the world's most active development assistance partners: major players in diplomacy, trade and development finance.
We help actors in the diplomatic space to build long-term partnerships with public and private project financing bodies to further their political and developmental goals - whether on security, climate action, infrastructure, environment, trade, health, public sector reform, resource stewardship or peacebuilding.
Fortzer guides you to identify and finesse your development finance needs. We help build strong partnerships that result in effective project preparation, implementation and management – whether it’s bilateral or multilateral, public or private, through grant finance, blended investment or preferential loans.
Law & regulation
Diplomacy and law are indivisible partners. We guide you on legal and regulatory matters as part of our comprehensive package of services.
Many international actors are increasingly affected by global regulatory developments that touch on their fundamental political and economic interests - ranging from sustainability to energy, from human rights to anti-money laundering regulation, from sanctions issues to law enforcement cooperation.
Insight into how evolving regulatory landscapes affects you, diplomatically, commercially and legally, will help you to navigate an uncertain world more effectively.
And beyond that insight, you need to proactively shape regulatory processes through the strategic advocacy and diplomatic support that we offer.
Partnerships
Public diplomacy is sometimes referred to as ‘soft’ power - the pursuit of objectives on the international stage, parallel to official diplomatic channels, engaging civil society, opinion formers, the media and the public.
Effective public diplomacy, as a strategy complementary to conventional engagement, can help to reinforce an international stakeholder’s long-term goals and interests.
We help clients to forge new and innovative partnerships with other stakeholders on the international scene to act as a platform for public diplomacy goals - whether through participation in international expositions, cultural and academic exchanges, trade and economic partnership platforms, sports diplomacy, climate diplomacy or parliamentary diplomacy.
