Service · Housing & Policy

Workshops and training
that change how teams work.

Capacity building for policy teams, development organisations, financial institutions and agencies working in housing. Workshops, intensive training programmes, and custom curricula — built around the specific gaps in your team's knowledge and practice.

Positioning

Training that meets your team where they are.

Generic training programmes are easy to find. Useful ones are not. Most off-the-shelf housing courses teach concepts your team already knows and skip the specifics they actually struggle with. My approach starts with a needs assessment and adapts the material to your context.

Sessions draw on academic teaching experience at the University of Johannesburg, ongoing research in housing finance, and applied work with agencies across sub-Saharan Africa. The training translates research into practice — not the other way around.

Pricing

Three ways to engage.

Snapshot

Half-day Workshop

From $1,800

A focused session on one specific topic.

  • Half-day session (3.5 hours)
  • Up to 20 participants
  • One focused topic (e.g. housing finance fundamentals)
  • Workbooks and reference materials provided
  • Q&A and applied case discussion
Turnaround 2–3 week lead time
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Programme

Custom Curriculum

From $12,000

A full training programme designed and delivered for your organisation.

  • Curriculum design (4 weeks)
  • Delivery across multiple sessions (typically 6 weeks)
  • Modules tailored to your team's gaps
  • Pre and post-training assessment
  • Documentation and handover materials
  • Optional: train-the-trainer for internal continuation
Turnaround 10–14 weeks total
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Pricing reflects standard scope. Local and international market rates considered in final quotes.

Common training topics

Housing finance systems

Mortgage markets, affordable housing finance instruments, blended finance structures, green finance.

Land administration

Tenure systems, land registration, formalisation pathways, urban land markets.

Market analysis

Demand modelling, affordability analysis, regulatory and policy scans, comparative methods.

Programme design

Theory of change, programme logic models, implementation planning, evaluation.

Research methods

Scoping reviews, mixed methods, qualitative interviewing, policy analysis frameworks.

Custom topics

If your training need is specific, we design the curriculum around it rather than retrofitting.

Why this works

What makes this different.

Needs assessment first

Every engagement starts with understanding what your team already knows and where the gaps actually sit. The training adapts.

Research-led teaching

You get the same material that academic students get, but framed around the practical questions your team faces every day.

Practitioners, not academics alone

Sessions include case studies from real projects across sub-Saharan Africa. People apply what they learn, not just understand it.

Got a training need to discuss?

Tell me about your team and the gap. We can scope from there.

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