What we do?
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The Platinum Partnership brings together decades of individual experience to provide expert consultancy services and hands-on management support to the international development sector as well as to governments, institutions and management entities.
We specialize in the following areas:
Project management
Our project management approach is based on the principles of accountability, adaptability, responsiveness and compliance.
We have worked in needs assessment, project design, management and implementation, and evaluations. In their individual capacities, our team has managed complex democratic development projects for over twenty years in multiple countries including hardship and conflict regions.
Members have led and managed diverse, electoral and governance-needs projects with budgets ranging from USD$3 million to USD$300 million, staffed by international and national personnel. Projects have focused on broad-based electoral support including project design and management, civic and voter education, media development, security, advocacy, communications, political party development, technical support, IT, observation, legal reform, conflict mitigation, grant and issue-based programming, and related areas.
In governance-focused programs, our team members have worked in areas including education, legal aid, political analysis especially focusing on electoral analysis; human rights, access to justice, gender equity and social inclusion; domestic observation, environmental protection, conflict resolution, strategic communications and livelihood sustainability.
In 0rganisations members have worked with include Trocaire, UNHCR, UN,UNDP, DFID/FCDO, USAID, the EU, the Westminster Foundation, Comic Relief, the development agencies of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, the Netherlands, and up to 30 other countries either directly or through donor basket modalities. Team members have been engaged in needs assessment missions, project design and evaluations.
With this strong experience-based background our team is well-placed to advise and support on project management issues.
Evaluations
Relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, value-for-money, sustainability, impact and inclusion are some of the core elements of qualitative and quantitative evaluation processes. Our team members have been engaged in in-country and remote project and institutional evaluations including sensitive After Action Reviews and inception period analyses for over twenty years.
Our team members have been engaged in in-country and remote project and institutional evaluations including sensitive After Action Reviews and inception period analyses over twenty years.
We have a strong understanding of the criticality of qualitative and quantitative assessments and of the comprehensive evaluation matrices that inquire into core criteria of relevance, adherence to the logical framework, efficiency, value-for-money, effectiveness, sustainability, coordination and complementarity, social inclusion and other cross-cutting issues, communication and visibility, and adaptability.
Electoral Support and Democratic Development
The Partnership brings extensive experience in project design and implementation across interconnected governance areas including complex electoral project management, human rights, civic and voter education, access to justice, strategic communications and advocacy, electoral observation, legal reform, political party development and conflict mitigation.
Other team members, Margie and Mary, as Managers, Chiefs of Party, and Chief Electoral Advisors, have extensive and varied experience in the management of the scope of interventions demanded in electoral and broader based governance and democratic development projects.
Political analysis
Contextual understanding is core to responsive and successful project management and democratic development, as is continued review and analysis of the political, economic and social environment in which projects are implemented. Our team is experienced in contextual analysis at the highest levels.
Toby and Ralph bring superior expertise in the areas of political analysis. Toby is an expert electoral analyst. Toby has worked on over 50 elections in four continents. He has advised on political campaigns in Australia for more than twenty five years and is a sought-after political and business strategist for political parties, national institutions and business.
Ralph, who holds a PhD in Political Science, is an expert political and electoral analyst. He has provided high level political economy analysis and evaluation expertise to election and governance programmes and to multiple EU Election Observation Missions.
Mary formerly worked with political parties in the Irish Parliament before moving to the international sector where she has specialised in political party development and electoral management.
Electoral Legal Reform and Analysis
Effective democratic development requires an understanding of the legitimacy and effectiveness of the legal context in which elections take place, an appreciation of legal frameworks as they impact on the lives of citizens and an awareness of where and how advocacy for legal reform might be best addressed.
Barrister Festus Okoye has been engaged in on-going electoral reform debate and advocacy since the early 2000s. As the head of the Transition Monitoring Group – the domestic observer body in Nigeria, he was engaged early on in critical reform issues in Nigeria that set in train a revised legislative and constitutional framework for elections.
Festus is also an international trainer in electoral dispute mechanisms and in INEC was Commissioner responsible for voter and civic education. Other team members have been engaged in evaluative processes that have included recommendations for electoral, legislative, regulatory and constitutional reform.
Communications and Advocacy
Strategic communications, advocacy, campaign development and support to media strategies and capacity development are critical elements of governance.
Our team embeds high level communication, campaign and media expertise. Toby is a marketer by profession and former Director of a major Australian Advertising agency. He provides strategic communications, advocacy and campaign advice to political parties , national institutions and business and has supported the public affairs work of electoral commissions and civil society across three continents. Electoral -related projects have spanned communications advice to the Malawi and Cambodian electoral commissions; strategic communications advice to the Afghanistan Electoral Commission and, in Zimbabwe, the development of the Tolerance Campaign as well as advocacy training to domestic observer bodies and civil society.
Mary began her career as a journalist in the BBC. Her project management leadership in crisis countries has relied upon her strategic communications skills in the most complex of environments.
EU SEA Framework Contract LOTS
in which expertise can be provided include:
LOT 9
Democracy, human rights, rule of law, gender equality & human rights based approach (HRBA)
LOT 10
Civil Society & Local
Authorities
LOT 11
Security, conflict prevention, sustained peace & building resilience
LOT 14
Migration & forced
displacement
LOT 15
Monitoring
LOT 16
Evaluations at International
Level
LOT 17
Strategic evaluations
Blogs
The Role Of Courts/Tribunals In Electoral Disputes
Nigerian courts and election tribunals have faced intense pressure and scrutiny over their management of electoral disputes, from pre-election cases to post-election petitions. Each
Appetite For Electoral Reforms
On Monday, 29 September 2025, the Policy and Legal Advocacy Centre (PLAC) and several of its partners, including PAACA and WRA- PA, launched a
Pragmatism In Inmates’ Voting
Ordinarily, inmates’ voting should not be a matter for prolonged debate or dispute, as voting at elections is a key aspect of sovereignty, and
Why By-Elections Threaten Nigeria’s Democracy
A general election may be the most significant logistical undertaking in peacetime. However, conducting one is not as demanding, cumbersome, violenceprone, or challenging as
Political Parties, Primaries, And The Courts
As the 2027 general elections get closer, this article by Festus Okoye examines the role of political parties with regard to the process of conducting primaries,
