RIAHSAH Co. is a network social enterprise working at the intersection of people, systems, and markets to design and implement coordinated action in complex environments.
We partner with a wide range of actors, including businesses, public institutions, community groups, and civil society organisations, who are operating in complex and rapidly changing environments.
For market actors, we provide deep insight into markets, value chains, and industry systems to strengthen strategy and innovation. For social and community organisations, we offer capacity-building, facilitation, and technical support in project design, delivery and learning.
We work across East and Southern Africa.
We turn system insights into decisions and coordinated action through research, experimentation, collaboration, and shared practice.
We envision a future where decisions and action are more coordinated, enabling markets and social systems to function more effectively.
We turn insight into decisions and coordinated action
We focus on underlying systems, not surface-level fixes
We work on real-world challenges, not abstract theory
We learn through doing, testing, and adapting
We align actors, knowledge, and efforts to drive coordinated action
We make complexity clear and usable for decision-making
We deliver with rigour, accountability, and discipline
Research & Analysis
Understand systems and markets to make better decisions and spot opportunities.
Foresight
Anticipate trends and risks to guide strategy with confidence.
Project Design & Implementation
Test ideas through pilots before scaling what works.
Collaboration & Capacity Building
Engage stakeholders and build the skills to act and adapt.
Systems Informed Foresight®
Our Systems Informed Foresight® (SIF®) approach helps organisations understand and act within complex systems.
We do this through three (3) practical interconnected stages: Awareness → Application → Adaptation - AAA
Our Research & Innovation (R&I) Unit explores markets, analyses complex systems, and tests practical project models across markets and social systems. We also produce a growing body of knowledge products.
Our Learning Studio builds the skills and mindset needed to navigate complexity, using systems thinking and foresight.
We provide evidence-based consulting to organisations designing strategies and testing solutions, using our systems-informed methodology and sector expertise.
The Systems Futures Practice Network connects practitioners working in complex systems through collaborative learning, applied projects, and research initiatives grounded in RIAHSAH’s Systems Informed Foresight® approach.
We produce proprietary research through both client-commissioned studies and independent market intelligence, delivering insights that inform decisions and enable action.
We partner with community groups, civic organisations, and social institutions to design, pilot, and evaluate initiatives.
+27 68 370 2689 | +243 827 322 543
11 School Street, Somerset West,
Cape Town, 7130, South Africa
N°01 Avenue Colonel Ebeya, Quartier Golf
Commune de la Gombe
Kinshasa, République Démocratique du Congo