ield research on migration, climate mobility, Culture and heritage

We combine policy analysis with community voices, using mixed teams of local researchers, journalists and university students to deliver evidence decision-makers can act on.

WHO WE ARE

Where systems meet lived experience

The Caribbean is living through overlapping pressures including stronger storms, people leaving faster than institutions can adapt, and communities asking who their heritage, language and future belong to. Policy often reaches these issues late, and from the top down. Simon Global Consultancy aims to close that gap. We bring fieldwork, community voices and regional expertise to the questions governments and partners are grappling with right now.

A food vendor prepares orders at her market stall, with bags of ketan and tiwol in front
A market vendor sits under her tent behind piles of fruit, garlic and plantains
Old white wooden buildings with a covered passage in Paramaribo, Suriname

OUR APPROACH

Listen. Reframe. Connect.

Research

Fieldwork with communities. Local knowledge leads the way.

Narrative change

Clear analysis that changes how a certain topic is talked about, and decided on.

Partnerships

Communities, governments and universities around one table, building solutions together.

SERVICES

What we offer

A whole research project, or the part you need.

Full research project

From the first question to the final presentation.

Desk research

Literature and policy reviews.

Data collection

Interviews, focus groups and surveys.

Report writing

Clear findings, ready to act on.

Interview training

For your research team.

INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS

International Organization for Migration

Global Centre for Climate Mobility

International Organization for Migration

INTERNATIONAL

Global Centre for Climate Mobility

INTERNATIONAL

Samuel Hall

RESEARCH

University of Aruba

ACADEMIA

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

ACADEMIA

Modern Language Association

ACADEMIA

GOVERNMENTS

10

national governments across the region

Aruba · Bahamas · Barbados · Belize · Curaçao · Guyana · Jamaica · Sint Maarten · Suriname · Trinidad and Tobago

CLIENTS & PARTNERS

Trusted by institutions

across borders

A person with a plaid cloth over their head travels by boat on a river in Suriname

CLIMATE MOBILITY · SURINAME

Climate & mobility in frontline communities

MIGRATION GOVERNANCE · 6 COUNTRIES

Migration Governance Needs Assessments

INDIGENOUS PEOPLES · REGIONAL

Indigenous peoples and cross-border mobility

An Indigenous artisan laughs beside her handmade beadwork, baskets and crafts

WHERE WE WORK

Belize

Jamaica

Bahamas

Aruba

Curaçao

Sint Maarten

Barbados

Trinidad and Tobago

Guyana

Suriname

 

“What do the systems say, and what do the people experience?”

Tiarra Simon, anthropologist, founder of Simon Global Consultancy and panelist at the International Conference on Small Island States and Sub-National Jurisdictions and the Modern Language Association