Consultancy is being reshaped by AI. But is the future about replacing experts or empowering them? Ryan Short offers a pragmatic view from the ground.

The next global superpower isn't a country. It's a generation. And its capital is Nairobi

The Genesis-led consortium is playing a critical role in the task of community and worker transition. Charged with delivering Component C of the Eskom Just Energy Transition Project, our role is the human counterpart to the technical overhaul.

This new framework, developed by the Technical Panel of the Numeracy Research & Development Fund, led by Genesis Analytics and supported by the Gates Foundation, Hempel Foundation and Founders Pledge, addresses a persistent challenge in global education: ensuring every child attains essential numeracy skills within their first three years of school.

As global leaders prepare to convene in Cape Town for the Global Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) Summit, a pressing question dominates the agenda: how do we finance the foundational digital public infrastructures that are increasingly critical to modernising economies? Gavin Krugel, Partner at Genesis-Analytics, provides a timely synthesis and rigorous framework to answer this complex challenge in Financing Digital Public Infrastructure: Models and Planning Considerations.

National TB programme manager at Genesis Kavish Maharaj details one of his career highlights. "What began as a technical challenge - chronically high sputum sample rejections undermining advanced diagnostics - became one of the most instructive experiences of my professional life."

Nicola Burger, an associate in the health practice at Genesis, details a critical flaw in South Africa's HIV/TB response: the system fails its mobile population. Genesis research shows nearly a quarter of people living with HIV and TB in South Africa move around, disrupting treatment continuity. This evidence challenges the static healthcare model, providing the foundation for practical solutions that can close this dangerous gap in care and strengthen national epidemic control efforts.

For national climate strategies to transcend ambition and become tangible action, they must be co-created by the stakeholders they are designed to serve. This is not a theoretical ideal, it is a practical necessity, born from our extensive on-the-ground experience supporting 25 countries, most in Africa.

The progamme’s PrEP ring initiative employs an ‘inside-out’ approach through HCD, placing end-users' lived experiences at the heart of solution development. By engaging women at different stages of life (ages 18-45) and healthcare providers as co-creators in the Botswana workshops, the programme collaboratively designed service delivery models and communication tools that are both practical and reflective of community needs.

Trump’s anti-ESG agenda doesn’t spell the end of ESG, it’s forcing a maturation.