About us

Catalpa is a not-for-profit development organisation leveraging design and technology to create a more equitable world.

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About Catalpa

Who we are

We are diverse specialists who’ve come together to solve complex challenges with creative problem solving. We are international development practitioners, education specialists, engineers, public health researchers, software engineers, interaction designers, communicators, and graphic artists.

These multidisciplinary teams promote the collaboration of diverse ideas, experiences, and perspectives in every aspect of our design, technology development, and project implementation.

What we do

In collaboration with governments, NGOs and specialist partners, we design programs that strengthen service delivery, enhance oversight, and implement systems that ultimately improve the lives of vulnerable communities.

With teams across the Asia Pacific region, our programs span education, health, social protection, environment, aid transparency, governance, infrastructure management and beyond.

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How we work

We specialise in human-centred design, a creative approach to problem solving that puts people at the centre of designing their own solutions. With a focus on truly understanding the experience of the beneficiary, human-centred design achieves impact through co-designing solutions and an iterative process of creating, testing, refining and improving.

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Learn

Designing meaningful and innovative solutions begins with understanding people’s needs, goals and behaviours.

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Create

Prototyping a product or service helps us think realistically about how people would interact with it.

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Refine

Through feedback and monitoring, we iterate to make things more effective for people.

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Evaluate

Ongoing evaluation and project development means we can scale our impact while staying grounded and relevant.

Our People

Amjad Al Taleb

Backend Engineer

Minerva Caldeira

Program Manager

Paulo Amaral

Data Analyst

Christine Boude

Team Leader, Bilum Program

Junior Indart

Product Lead

Ligia Guterres

Education Technology Manager

Wilhemina Beki

Project Officer

Ruwel Kumar

Operations Manager

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