Experience & Impact

Our experience includes multi-country, multi-partner engagements across fragile, transitional, and high-growth contexts in the MENA region. At EmpowerMENA, experience and impact are inseparable. We believe meaningful impact is achieved through thoughtful practice, strong partnerships, and solutions that are grounded in context and sustained over time.

This page highlights selected engagements and partner reflections that illustrate how we work with public institutions, civil society organizations, and development partners across diverse contexts in the MENA region. The examples below reflect the types of challenges we support and the outcomes we help enable, while respecting the leadership, complexity, and confidentiality of our partners.

Our Experience at a Glance

EmpowerMENA’s work builds on extensive regional experience supporting institutions and communities across the Middle East and North Africa.

Our engagements span fragile, transitional, and high-growth contexts and cut across multiple sectors, including education and lifelong learning, workforce development, youth and gender inclusion, leadership, sustainability, and social innovation.
Across all contexts, our focus remains consistent: strengthening institutions, improving delivery, and enabling sustainable, long-term impact.

Our five-year objectives

Selected Engagements

What Our Partners Say

Our partners consistently highlight the value of our collaborative, context-aware approach.

What set EmpowerMENA apart was their ability to balance ambition with practicality, ensuring that programs were both impactful and sustainable.

Development partner

The team worked as true partners, helping us move from ideas to implementation while building the capacity of our staff throughout the process

Civil society organization leader

EmpowerMENA brought a rare combination of strategic thinking and deep contextual understanding. Their approach strengthened .

Senior public-sector partner

How We Think About Impact

We view impact as both an outcome and a process. Sustainable results are achieved not only through successful delivery, but through stronger systems, capable teams, and institutional learning.

Across all engagements, we prioritize:

Clear outcomes and performance indicators
Practical and realistic implementation pathways
Continuous learning, reflection, and adaptation
Long-term institutional value and resilience

Our goal is to leave partners better equipped to sustain and build on impact well beyond the life of any single engagement.