Akijul means change. We are the practice behind the word.
Akijul comes from akijulakin, the Ateso word for change. It is a research, strategy and change practice rooted in more than twenty years of real work across Africa.
Change is not a service we sell. It is a practice we live, and a discipline we help organisations build for themselves.
Akijul Consulting generates the learning, strategy and capacity that makes lasting change possible. We work with organisations, networks and social enterprises across the continent, facilitating rather than prescribing, so that strategy is tested in the room, on the ground, with the people it is meant to serve.
The work spans research, strategy, change and facilitation, but it holds together as one arc: practice generates learning, and learning carries implications for policy and systems. We are not interested in insight for its own sake. We are interested in the kind that changes how things are done.
Ashanut (Ash) Okille
Researcher · Strategist · Enterprise Builder · Creative Practitioner · Facilitator
Ash has spent more than twenty years working across fifteen African countries with UN agencies, bilateral donors, NGOs and social enterprises. Her work brings creative intelligence into strategy and organisational change, treating enterprise as a living practice rather than a fixed plan.
She founded Akijul to hold the whole arc of that work, from the working session to the systemic implication, in one coherent body of practice.
How we work
Facilitate, don’t prescribe
We arrive with better questions, not finished answers. The strategy people co-author is the strategy people carry.
Grounded in practice
Strategy is tested in the room and on the ground, with the people it is meant to serve, before it is ever written down.
Learning that travels
What works in one organisation becomes a reliable lesson, and a reliable lesson becomes an argument that can move a system.
Akijul is part of a wider ecosystem, connecting strategy, applied practice and research into one coherent body of work.
In Her Element
Our research and community strand on women, transition and enterprise.
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