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What We Do

At lmpact447, we harness the power of design thinking, communication for development, and evidence to tackle deep-rooted challenges. We believe that meaningful change starts with people understanding their needs, aspirations, and the systems around them.

Your programs are well-designed. But are they reaching the right people, in the right way, with lasting results? That’s where we come in!

Real impact comes when solutions are designed with empathy, grounded in evidence, and built to last.

The hardest problems don’t need more ideas. They need the right process.

We help organizations in the humanitarian and development sectors move from complex challenges to practical, people-centered solutions. Whether you’re designing a new program, building your team’s capacity, or trying to understand why your current approach isn’t landing, we bring the tools, facilitation, and evidence to help you find what works, and build the confidence to scale it.

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Design Thinking & Innovation

We work with your team to reframe complex problems, generate ideas that are grounded in real user needs, and test solutions before you scale them. Decisions will be made with confidence and programs designed to work from day one rather than after costly course corrections.

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Capacity Strengthening

We design and deliver learning experiences tailored to where your team actually is, not where a generic training assumes they should be. Leaders leave with sharper strategic thinking, stronger facilitation skills, and the confidence to drive innovation from within their own organizations.

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Business Development Support

We help you develop proposals and growth strategies that are clear, compelling, and grounded in evidence. Whether you’re responding to a donor call or building a long-term partnership, we help you put your best case forward and win the funding to do the work that matters.

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Humanitarian Program Design

We translate community needs into programs that are context-specific, inclusive, and built for real-world conditions. Whether you’re designing for resilience, protection, or social inclusion, we help you move from good intentions to strategies that deliver measurable outcomes.

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Digital Strategy & Solutions

We help you identify where technology can genuinely improve how you work and then design it to fit the people who will actually use it. From data collection tools to digital learning platforms, the solutions we build are intuitive, appropriate to context, and built to be adopted, not abandoned.

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Monitoring Evaluation & Learning

We design MEL systems that your team will actually use. By making data collection simpler and analysis more accessible, we help organizations spend less time compiling numbers and more time acting on what they learn, so evidence genuinely shapes decisions, not just reports.

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Communication & Behaviour Impact

We design communication strategies rooted in how people actually think, make decisions, and change behavior. From social norm shift to community-level campaigns, we help you move beyond awareness and create the conditions for behavior change that lasts well after the project ends.

Our Team

Based in Nepal, our core team brings together over 40 years of combined experience across the UN, INGOs, bilateral donors, and the private sector with hands-on work spanning South Asia and Southeast Asia.

We have designed programs for the World Bank, USAID, and FCDO; supported humanitarian responses in some of the world’s most complex crises; and built solutions alongside communities in Nepal, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, The Philippines, Honduras, Colombia, and beyond. We are a female-owned company, and local ownership of ideas, processes, and outcomes, is at the heart of how we work.

What sets us apart is not just what we’ve done, but how we do it. We bring design thinking, evidence, place based knowledge and genuine partnership to every engagement because we believe the best solutions are never handed down, they are built together.

Aradhana Gurung
CEO

Aradhana brings over 20 years of experience working across the UN, NGOs, and the private sector and a deep conviction that the best solutions are built with people, not for them.

She co-founded Impact447 to put design thinking at the center of development work, combining human-centered approaches with rigorous evidence to create change that actually sticks. Her work spans humanitarian innovation, systems change, and community-led design across South Asia and beyond.

Her career reflects both breadth and depth. She helped establish one of Asia’s first UN Youth Advisory Panels and Youth Responsive Budget Frameworks in Nepal, bringing youth voices into policy where they had rarely been heard. She has integrated blockchain-based solutions for Cash and Voucher transactions in Honduras and Colombia as part of a World Bank-funded EdTech program, and co-designed award-winning mobile-for-development tools, built under a USAID-funded emergency response, to reach and collect data from communities in remote areas with limited connectivity.

Aradhana is the first Nepali on Elrha’s Global Advisory Board, and a recognized voice on participatory design, innovation, and forward thinking strategy. She is known for asking the questions that are overlooked and for turning the answers into action.

aradhana@impact447.com

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Aradhana Gurung

CEO

Suyog Chalise
Chief Programs and Innovation Officer

Suyog has spent over a decade working at the intersection of technology, humanitarian response, and systems change with a track record of turning complex ideas into programs that work on the ground.

At Impact447, he leads program design, bringing a rare combination of technical depth and people-centered thinking to every engagement. He has been at the forefront of digitalizing Cash and Voucher Assistance programs in Nepal, including leading the Digitalization Sub Working Group in 2020-2023, and has provided technical support to partners across South and Southeast Asia.

Before Impact447, Suyog was Program Manager at a Mobile for Development company, where his team received the USAID Digital Development Award in 2022, a recognition for building digital solutions that genuinely reach and serve marginalsied communities. His four years at World Vision as an Innovation Program Specialist also sharpened his ability to design adaptive programs in complex, resource-constrained environments.

Suyog is the kind of collaborator who makes difficult projects feel manageable, methodical, creative, and deeply committed to solutions that last.

suyog@impact447.com

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Suyog Chalise

Chief Programs and Innovation Officer

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