Development Support (established in 1994 as The Pertinax Group), is a network of senior development consultants/human resources experts working in the field of institutional and community development.

We have expertise and broad experience both from developing countries, transitional economies as well as organisations and companies in Norway and other advanced countries.

We offer services in; Human resources development; Democracy- and institution building and Community/organisational development in areas like:

leadership development
teambuilding
communication and cooperation training
coaching
negotiations
conflict resolution
participatory processes
local level planning
rural development
community mobilisation

We support all phases of the project cycle:
identification (pre-project studies), formulation and appraisal of projects
implementation, operation and management of projects
ongoing "dialogue research", reviewing and evaluation of projects

We are ready to undertake assignments in a broad range of project areas through partnerships or sub-contracting of expertise in various technical fields of operations. We take responsibility for project management and give added value to the project by providing a component in human resources and institutional development - key objectives of most kind of development projects.