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Strategic Communications

Whether you need an external team to develop all of your knowledge products, a campaign to promote and disseminate your work, or additional communications capacity on call, our Communications team will work with you and adapt to your specific needs.

Strategy Communications coordination Writing Creative design Website development SDGs Examples Clients

Communications strategy

Our experienced strategists can develop practical and innovative communications strategies that will help you achieve your real-world goals.

With an in-depth knowledge of the sustainable development sector, our communications strategists will collaborate with you to enhance your messaging and ensure it reaches the right audiences using relevant, engaging and cost-effective channels. We ensure that strategies are aligned with organisational goals, from securing funding to informing policy development.

Communications coordination

If you don’t have your own communications team, or if you just need a little help with a large project, our expert team can provide a cost-effective resource when you need it.

Our dedicated project managers will work with you to plan, produce and disseminate everything from knowledge products and legacy reports to social media campaigns and videos. This includes coordinating writers, editors, designers and web developers (in fact, everyone who needs to be involved), in order to produce powerful communications that demonstrate real impact.

Writing and content development

Scriptoria’s writers will work with you to develop engaging content that demonstrates an in-depth understanding of the subject matter – all tailored to the right audience.

Scriptoria has always been known for the exceptional quality of the writing we produce, which is why our clients commission us to develop some of their most prestigious publications. This means that our highly versatile writers and editors can step in at any point to research, draft, revise or polish your content, as well as advise you on what type of product you need to best connect with a specific audience.

Creative design

Our team has developed designs for some of the biggest players in sustainable development, including the United Nations, the European Commission and the World Bank.

The world of creative design is complex and ever-changing, and Scriptoria’s designers change with it to ensure that they produce modern, eye-catching designs. So, whether you need a new visual brand, or a range of knowledge products, infographics and event materials, our team will work with you to produce designs that reflect both the messaging you need to push to your audiences and the style that’s right for your sector.

Website development

Our web experts develop fast, modern, mobile-friendly sites that explain clearly and creatively what our clients are doing and why they are doing it.

Key to our service is an in-depth understanding of sustainable development programmes and what they need to achieve when communicating online. From programme websites and online resource centres, to digital annual reports and interactive infographics, our team can guide you, produce all site content, and rapidly create professional and effective sites which can be easily updated as your programme progresses.

Communications services examples

Invest Salone

Highlighting Sierra Leone’s investment potential  

Invest Salone is a £27 million UK international development-funded programme that works to encourage investment, generate exports, create jobs and diversify key sectors in Sierra Leone. As a trusted communications partner, we helped shape and deliver the programme’s communications strategy to support sustainable behaviour change in inclusive business practices.

Timeframe: 2019–Present  

Services provided: Animation | Communications strategy | Editing | Graphic design | Social media | Storytelling | Video | Webinar | Website | Writing

CGIAR Initiative on NEXUS Gains

Influencing policy in global resource management 

NEXUS Gains aimed to improve the integrated management of resources across the water–energy–food–environment (WEFE) nexus to achieve inclusive, sustainable development. It operated across five transboundary river basins with a value of US$20 million. Building on our work with the CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems, Scriptoria led communications for NEXUS Gains to drive engagement, amplify research and enhance policy influence.

Timeframe: 2022–2024  

Services provided: Communications strategy | Editing | Graphic design | Social media | Storytelling | Video | Webinar | Website | Writing

Cooperation in International Waters in Africa (CIWA)

Aligning stakeholders for cooperative water management  

CIWA assists riparian governments in sub-Saharan Africa in unlocking the potential for sustainable, climate-resilient growth by addressing constraints to cooperative water resources management and development. Scriptoria has been a trusted communications partner for this US$130 million World Bank-managed programme for the past decade.

Timeframe: 2015–Present  

Services provided: Branding | Graphic design | Storytelling | Website

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Example clients

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
ADB
European Commission (DEVCO C1)
World Health Organization
UNFPA
International Union for Conservation of Nature
Global Water Partnership
Stockholm Environment Institute
DFID
GIZ
OECD
SNV Netherlands
Water.org
Rockefeller Foundation
Islamic Development Bank
Public Health Wales
Rothamsted Research
WIPO
Land O'Lakes Venture37
World Food Programme
International Science Council
Crop Trust
Commonwealth Secretariat
Cambridge Assessment International Education
Just Rural Transition
WWF Luc Hoffman Institute
UNICEF
CRIDF
Invest Salone
Royal Society
Natural Capital Solutions
WBCSD
ILRI
WLE
IWMI
CIP
GALVmed
WorldPop
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
IFAD
King's College London
Wetlands International
Pacific Community
UN Women
Land Institute
WorldFish Centre
IFPRI
Bioversity
IDS
Tropical Legumes
Cornell University
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