International organisations
Secretariats and programmes that need a usable reading of a standard, a procedure or a governance question.
SOGDA CONSULTING
Swiss International Consulting Company
Independent Expertise. Global Perspective.
A Swiss international consulting company providing specialised advisory, research and institutional support in governance, human rights, compliance and international standards.
About
Founder-led advice, from Switzerland, for institutions.
Sogda Consulting is an independent consultancy. The managing director leads the work. Assignments are carried out in Switzerland and internationally, for organisations that need a written product they can use.
AboutServices
What the firm is instructed to do
Six areas of consulting. Each one names the work and the document or session you receive.
Institutional Governance and Reform
When a board, a statute or a mandate has to work in the institution that will live with it.
Human Rights Advisory
When an institution needs a clear view of who is competent, what a file must contain, and where a procedure fails the person it is meant to serve.
Rule of Law and International Standards
When independence, reasons, review or an international standard have to be read for a specific actor.
Compliance and Responsible Business
When duties already apply, and policies, partnerships or reporting do not yet meet them.
Strategic Research and Analysis
When a decision needs a corpus, a method and a conclusion that does not outrun the material.
Training and Institutional Project Support
When people who hold a mandate need a prepared session, or a project needs to move from terms of reference to a usable record.
Who we can assist
Organisations for whom this work is relevant
These are sectors the firm is equipped to advise. They are not a list of clients, and no relationship is implied.
Government institutions
Authorities preparing a reform, a review, or a clearer account of duties already in force.
National human rights institutions
Institutions examining a founding text, a complaint method, or an external review.
Ombudsman offices
Offices that want a common method when a complaint crosses more than one authority.
Independent oversight bodies
Bodies that must show independence, reasons, and a record that will stand outside the institution.
Businesses
Companies that need to see duties, gaps and conflicts before a policy or a partnership is settled.
Foundations
Foundations entering a public partnership, or preparing a board for the duties that partnership creates.
Civil society organisations
Organisations that need research, a training session, or support through a defined piece of institutional work.
Professional consultancy partners
Firms that want a specialist contribution on governance, human rights or international standards, inside their own mandate.
Why Sogda
Why organisations instruct the firm
Founder-led
The managing director is on the assignment. The work is not passed down a hierarchy.
More than 25 years
Sharof Shavkatovich Azizov brings more than twenty-five years of international professional experience to each instruction.
Institutions, from the inside
A working knowledge of international organisations and of how institutional governance actually functions.
Independent analysis
Findings and recommendations are kept apart. The conclusion is not chosen before the material is read.
Standards and oversight
Experience with international human rights standards and with the institutions that oversee public power.
A defined product
Each assignment has a scope, a deliverable and a fee, agreed before the work begins.
Discretion
A first enquiry does not need a sensitive file. The engagement is accountable, and it is not a public matter.
Leadership
Sharof Shavkatovich Azizov
Founder and Managing Director
For more than twenty-five years Sharof Shavkatovich Azizov has worked on human rights, institutional governance and international cooperation. That work has been with the United Nations, the OSCE, UNDP, the ICRC, universities and civil society. He holds a Master of Laws in International Human Rights Law. For more than a decade he served with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, supporting Special Procedures and treaty bodies. He founded Sogda Consulting and is its managing director.
AboutInsights and resources
Subjects the firm works on
Not yet published
International human rights standards
How a standard is read for a specific institution, and what a note must keep uncertain.
Not yet published
Institutional governance
Boards, mandates and the record an institution has to be able to show.
Not yet published
Ombudsman institutions
Methods for complaints that do not sit with a single authority.
Tell us the question.
A short enquiry is enough to begin. We will say whether the firm can take the matter, and on what terms.