DROPSTONE is a Swiss-registered consulting company providing advisory services to governments, national and local authorities, humanitarian organizations, development agencies, NGOs, foundations and the private sector.The company has developed international activities in 22 countries since 2013:Africa - Burundi, Cameroon, CAR, DRC, Kenya, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, South Sudan, TogoMENA Region: Lebanon, TunisiaAsia - Nepal, PakistanAmericas - Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Haiti, United States of AmericaEurope - Germany, The Netherlands, SwitzerlandThe clients and partners of DROPSTONE are the Swiss Agency for Development Cooperation, the French Agency for Development, the International Committee of the Red-Cross, the Swiss Red Cross, the French Red Cross, the Humanitarian Dialogue Centre, Triangle Génération Humanitaire, the World Health Organization, the World Food Programme, the State and the City of Geneva, the Industrial Services of Geneva, the Centre Social Protestant-VD, the Geneva International Peace Research Institute, AF-Consult, and COREALIS.DROPSTONE provides expertise in the fields of humanitarian affairs (emergency assistance operations, water supply and sanitation, security issues), peace building and mediation, hydrogeology and geology, information management, institutional building and change management.The company is specialised in the overall management of projects, from initial needs assessments to strategy planning, implementation, external evaluations, backstopping and knowledge sharing. DROPSTONE integrates a wide range of professional competences in designing projects. It ensures that the basic needs of the most vulnerable groups such as forcibly displaced people, children, women or the elderly are systematically addressed. It implements projects with a conflict-sensitive approach and cares very much about the social environment, to prevent and manage conflicts well ahead of implementation.