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Paradise Consultancy · A Bureau Paradis house

Good ideas still need to survive the paperwork.

From a first concept note to the annual report a donor actually reads, we turn what your organisation already knows into documents, strategy, and communications that hold up under scrutiny.

What we do

Five different practices, one point of contact.

  1. Strategy & Advisory

    Organizational communication strategy, brand strategy, stakeholder engagement, fundraising support, partnership development, capacity building, communications training

  2. Project Development & Documentation

    Concept notes, proposals, grant writing, project documents, implementation plans, logical frameworks, theories of change, work plans, monitoring frameworks

  3. Research, Reporting & Knowledge Management

    Annual reports, donor reports, impact reports, M&E reporting, documentation of events, case studies, success stories, learning briefs, policy briefs, research synthesis, data visualization

  4. Communications & Digital Strategy

    Communications strategy, social media management, content creation, copywriting, public relations, digital campaigns

  5. Translation

    Translation and interpretation across English, French, and Kinyarwanda

How we work

Four stages, from context to a document you can defend.

  1. Understand

    We start with your programs, your funders, and the outcomes you're accountable for — not a generic intake form.

  2. Draft

    Concept notes, proposals, logical frameworks, or a communications strategy, structured the way your reviewer or donor expects to read it.

  3. Review

    A structured pass against your own evidence and requirements — checking that the argument holds, not just the grammar.

  4. Deliver & support

    Final documents and reporting templates your team can keep using on the next cycle, without needing us to redo it.

Recent work

Documents that did their job.

Proposal cover
Regional development programme2025

Multi-year programme proposal

Concept note through to submitted proposal, including the logical framework and theory of change, structured to the funder's own assessment criteria.

  • Project development
  • Grant writing
  • Logical frameworks
Report cover
International NGO · Kigali2025

Annual report and impact narrative

A full annual reporting cycle — turning programme data and field documentation into a report a board and its funders could both read, with the evidence traceable back to source.

  • Research & reporting
  • Data visualization
  • Copywriting
Strategy cover
Public institution · Rwanda2024

Communications strategy and rollout

An organisation-wide communications strategy with message architecture, channel plan, and templates the internal team kept using after handover.

  • Communications strategy
  • Stakeholder engagement
  • Capacity building
Who this is for

Organisations that need their work to hold up in front of someone else.

NGOs & nonprofits

Concept notes, donor reports, and M&E frameworks that meet funder requirements without consuming your program team's time.

Businesses & entrepreneurs

Communications and brand strategy for organisations ready to formalise how they talk about their work.

Public institutions

Structured documentation and reporting for government offices and agencies coordinating with partners.

Donors & development partners

Research synthesis, case studies, and learning briefs for partners tracking impact across several grantees.

Why one house

Strategy, documentation, and communications from the same team.

A proposal, its logical framework, and the donor report that follows a year later are usually written by different people. Here they aren't.

Fragmented handoffs
One continuous system

Work split across suppliers

  • Different hands at each stage

    The proposal, the framework, and the report a year later are written by people who never compare notes.

  • Reported against a different plan

    Whoever writes the report wasn't in the room for the strategy, so what gets measured drifts from what was agreed.

  • Language that shifts

    Terms are redefined at each handover, and the concept note and the learning brief end up describing the same work differently.

Under one roof

  • One team across the cycle

    The people who write the proposal are the people who write the report.

  • Measured against what you agreed

    The strategy you signed off is the one reported against, because nothing changed hands in between.

  • One vocabulary throughout

    The same language from the first concept note to the last learning brief.

Start here

Tell us what you want to achieve and who has to be convinced.

We’ll review your enquiry and respond with the appropriate next step.