Discovery Brief
April 2026 — Communications Partnership
This brief helps us understand your current communications landscape, team structure, and priorities. 15 minutes — and it means our first conversation is about solutions, not setup.
Communications Priorities
What are the top 3 communications challenges you're facing right now?
Regional consistency, donor engagement, crisis response speed, social media, brand cohesion — whatever matters most.
Which audiences are you most struggling to reach or retain?
Government donors, private sector, individual donors, media, youth advocates — rank by urgency.
Are there specific regions or country offices where communications quality is a concern?
Team & Process
How is the communications team structured?
Central team size, regional comms staff, reporting lines, external agencies or consultants currently engaged.
What does the approval process look like for public-facing content?
How many steps from draft to publish? Who signs off?
What's your current content production cycle?
Brand & Guidelines
Where do the current brand guidelines live?
Link, shared drive, PDF — and roughly how current are they?
How well are the guidelines followed across regional offices?
What languages does your communications team actively produce content in?
Infrastructure & Constraints
Are there data governance or security requirements we should know about?
On-premise requirements, UN data governance rules, information security protocols.
What's the procurement process for engaging an external partner?
Vendor registration, competitive bidding, sole-source thresholds — anything that affects timeline.
What are you explicitly NOT looking for right now?
Helps us focus on what matters and avoid overstepping.
Anything Else
What would a successful external partnership look like for your team?
Is there anything we should read or review before our first conversation?
Recent reports, strategy documents, campaign post-mortems — anything that gives context.
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Consultant deck, brand guidelines, case studies, segment material — anything that helps us understand where you are. PDF, PPTX, DOCX, images, zip — up to 50 MB each.
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Brief received.
The CE team will review your responses and be in touch.