Education

“Design with clarity. Act with purpose. Create change that lasts.”

At Viridus, we believe social change and impact are not a matter of chance — it is a matter of design.
Interventions succeed not just because of good intentions or abundant resources, but because they are rooted in clarity, context, and a shared understanding of how change actually happens.

Our program and intervention design work helps individuals, teams, organisations, and communities uncover hidden assumptions, make better choices, and design initiatives that are sustainable, purposeful, and alive to social complexity.

Because when interventions are designed with wisdom, they don’t just deliver outputs — they create transformations.

Why Intervention and Program Design?

Development work is often urgent, ambitious, and deeply needed. Yet:

• Programs and interventions struggle when solutions are copied without context.
   

• Impact gets reduced to numbers, missing deeper shifts.
   

• Funders and implementers speak different languages.
   

• Teams lose sight of why they are doing what they do.
   

At Viridus, we help bridge these gaps. Program design turns vague hopes into clear pathways. It allows organisations to see not only what they are achieving, but also what might be missing, unintended, or possible in the future.

Our Approach

We treat intervention and program design as a living, breathing process — not a bureaucratic requirement.
Through immersive workshops and consulting, participants learn to:

• Understand the real context behind problems.
   

• Make assumptions visible — and test them.
   

• Design programs that are adaptive, not one-size-fits-all.
   

• Map ripple effects, both intended and unintended.
   

• Build shared ownership between funders, implementers, and communities.
   

What We Offer

1. Capacity-Building Workshops
    

   • Introduction to Program Design and Theory – Making invisible assumptions visible.
      

   • Designing for Context – Creating programs that work where people actually live.
      

   • Evaluating Beyond Numbers – Capturing transformation, not just targets.
      

2. Follow-up Learning Circles
    

   • Ongoing reflection sessions to keep theory alive in practice.
      

3. Collaborative Consulting
    

   • Long-term engagements to co-create meaningful theories of change, align stakeholders, and strengthen both program design and evaluation.
      

Why Organisations Partner with Us

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• Clarity → Better choices, fewer wasted resources.
   

• Shared Vision → Stronger alignment between teams and funders.
   

• Deeper Impact → Programs touch lives in lasting ways, beyond outputs.
   

• Resilience → Programs evolve with changing contexts instead of breaking down.
   

 

The Viridus Promise

We don’t just produce logframes or diagrams.
We create reflective spaces where assumptions are surfaced, complexities embraced, and pathways of change made visible.

Our work brings together research, practical tools, and human wisdom to help organisations and communities design programs that are contextual, grounded, effective, and deeply meaningful.