Vikāra Institute

Specialised in strengthening market and financial systems, addressing climate-affected and food insecure contexts, and building resilience in fragile & challenging environments.

Vikāra Institute offers comprehensive technical assistance and support to navigate complex development challenges across various sectors, such as climate change adaptation, market systems, agriculture, financial services, employment, and housing. With over 20 years of experience catalyzing systems change in more than 50+ countries around the world, Vikāra’s services range from supporting programs in developing contexts to developing analytic frameworks and conducting assessments, and from facilitating collaboration and learning processes to empowering organizations to manage adaptively and effectively address opportunities and challenges in dynamic market systems.

Vikara Institute Regional office is based in Cape Town South Africa.

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