A governance advisory firm built from inside the work.
We are practitioners, not commentators — working across governance, research, business development, and technology with clients who are serious about performance.
Practitioners,
not commentators
Switch Advisory is an advisory, research, and technology consulting firm headquartered in Abuja, Nigeria. We work across government, civil society, and the private sector — helping state governments institutionalise reform, supporting nonprofits with fundraising and organisational growth, assisting SMEs with business strategy, and advising organisations on technology.
Our practice is built on a conviction: that the most important problems facing Nigerian and West African institutions are not solved by reports, templates, or software alone. They are solved by the combination of deep institutional knowledge, honest diagnosis, and rigorous execution.
Switch Advisory is part of the Greenswitch Innovations Consult ecosystem — alongside GX Media House and Switch Technologies — with CISD as our independent research arm.
We do not build reform programmes.
We build the capacity to run them.
Every engagement is designed to leave the organisation more capable than when we arrived. The measure of success is not the report we hand over — it is whether the work continues after we leave.
The Switch
Delivery Framework
Six movements, run in sequence on every engagement.
Understand
Assess the context, define the challenge, and identify opportunities.
Analyse
Generate evidence through research, diagnostics, stakeholder engagement, and data analysis.
Design
Develop practical, innovative, and context-specific solutions.
Implement
Provide technical assistance and implementation support to translate strategy into action.
Measure
Monitor performance, evaluate outcomes, and generate learning for continuous improvement.
Strengthen Capacity
Build institutional capability to ensure sustainability beyond project completion.
The people doing the work
Folahan leads Switch Advisory's practice across governance reform, reform financing, and PPP advisory. He serves as Technical Assistant on World Bank-supported business enabling reform programmes across nine Nigerian states and writes on governance and political economy for Premium Times and The Cable. He has trained at LSE, Harvard Business School, and ETH Zürich.
Chinonso oversees Switch Advisory's operational delivery and has led high-level capacity building engagements including the PPP Appreciation Workshop for the Katsina State Executive Council. She brings expertise in PPP governance and reform programme management.
Leads the technology practice — GovTech strategy, digital product design, and the platforms the firm builds for clients: grievance redress systems, e-permitting workflows and investment intelligence.
Runs the firm's financial operations — engagement budgeting, donor and client reporting lines, and the controls behind multi-partner programme funds.
Opens and qualifies new engagements — partner and client outreach, proposal coordination, and the pipeline behind the firm's advisory work.
Delivery across reform financing and capacity-building engagements — client coordination, workshop delivery and programme reporting.
Delivery across reform financing and capacity-building engagements — client coordination, workshop delivery and programme reporting.
Delivery across reform financing and capacity-building engagements — client coordination, workshop delivery and programme reporting.
Delivery across reform financing and capacity-building engagements — client coordination, workshop delivery and programme reporting.
Keeps the evidence base in order — indicator frameworks, subnational budget data, and the datasets behind the firm's research products.
Inside the work
Trainings, deliberations, field assessments, and executive engagements. Select any frame to open it.
Executive engagement
One-Day PPP Appreciation Workshop
Katsina
Deliberations & workshops
Working through the detail
Katsina
Executive engagement
The conversations that decide things
Katsina
Training & capacity building
At the table
Katsina
Field & site visits
The team on the ground
Katsina
Training & capacity building
Comparing notes
Katsina
Training & capacity building
Facilitation
Katsina
Training & capacity building
Working the material
Katsina
Deliberations & workshops
Between sessions
Katsina