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Dear readers,

We are launching our new consulting service, called Human Rights Consulting.

We invite you to have a look at the profiles of our consultants. Collectively, they offer a wide range of confirmed expertise in many areas of human rights, and can work in a range of languages, including English, French, Spanish, Russian and Chinese:
http://www.humanrightstools.org/consulting.htm

We decided to offer this new service after having a look at existing consulting firms targeting the nonprofit sector. We found that many of them have one or more of the following weaknesses:

- They are often too large to offer very good quality control (when you have a 300-person consultant database, how can you be sure who is really good?) or too small to offer sufficient diversity of expertise (typically a couple of friends who open a micro-firm).

- Fees at larger firms are often high because of expensive overhead - sometimes the consulting firm gets more than the consultant who does all the work.

- Larger firms put up all sorts of barriers to stop clients from interacting with the consultant directly until the deal is signed - a model based on mistrust.

- Learning and knowledge generated by a consultancy is not systematically shared with the wider the human rights community (there are some remarkable exceptions).

So, we decided to do things differently. Our model is based on trust, quality, wide scope, fair costs, and sharing of knowledge:

- Quality guaranteed: we know our consultants well. All have strong experience in their areas of competence, and a proven ability to work as consultants and trainers.

- Wide range of expertise: our group is large enough to cover most areas of human rights and most types of human rights work.

- Easy to access: its really quick and easy to access our consultants, individually or collectively. No complex barriers, no up-front fees, no registration. Simply email them!

- Competitive fees: our services are very reasonably priced, because we have very little overhead. You pay for expert, and not the intermediary!

- Exchange: the Human Rights Tools website + newsletter is the ideal platform to share knowledge generated from consulting work, and accelerate collective learning.

Of the points above, quality is the most important to us. From working with consultants ourselves, we know first-hand that making the wrong choice of consultant can be a costly mistake: not only are the fees wasted, but also the expenses, time and energy spent by the members of your team who have to take the consultant around. We are doing what we can to make sure that this does not happen at Human Rights Tools - we know all our consultants personally and have a lot of respect for their work.

Human Rights Tools will receive 10% percent of the first contract between a client and a consultant, and 5% of the second contract. That's all. This will be used to fund the development of Human Rights Tools as a learning platform.

How does it work? It could not be more simple:
1. Clients browse the online profiles of the consultants.
2. Clients can email their chosen consultants directly, or email consulting@humanrightstools.org to ask us to help identify the right consultant.
3. Client and consultants agree on terms of reference and fees.

Once the project is completed, and with the consent of the client, Human Rights Tools will publish a concise case-summary, in order to share the learning with the wider human rights community. So that others can benefit from the experience!

Visit this web-page to get started:
http://www.humanrightstools.org/consulting.htm

VERY IMPORTANT: If you do not find the expertise you are looking for, or would like advice, then just write to us at consulting@humanrightstools.org. We have an extensive network and we should be able to find exactly what you need.

So, from now on, please make sure you you send a copy of all human rights-related TORs to us at consulting@humanrightstools.org.

We hope you will find this new service useful! As usual, we welcome all feedback and comments, just reply to this email.

Best regards, and good luck in your efforts to promote and defend human rights,

Daniel D'Esposito
Editor, Human Rights Tools
editors@humanrightstools.org
http://www.humanrightstools.org

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