What We Do

Driving Change through Action

Dexis partners with government and community leaders to achieve critical social outcomes in a rapidly changing world.​

Advisory and Assistance Services

We help the Department of State, Department of Defense, Development Finance Corporation, CDC, and other federal agencies embed experts into their offices, assess and track projects, and enhance security partnerships.

International Development

Active in more than 75 countries in the last three years, we manage USAID projects related to governance, stabilization, and conflict and violence prevention, and monitoring, evaluation, and learning.

Advisory and Assistance Services

International Development

We help the Department of State, Department of Defense, Development Finance Corporation, CDC, and other USG agencies embed experts into their offices, assess and track projects, and enhance security partnerships.

Active in more than 75 countries across the world, we manage USAID projects related to governance, stabilization, and conflict and violence prevention, and monitoring, evaluation, and learning.

Institutional Support Services

We quickly and cost-effectively deploy, embed, and manage highly skilled, security-cleared staff, handling all aspects of their support globally.

Justice Sector Reform

We work overseas to reduce corruption, increase government accountability and transparency to citizens, and strengthen justice systems.

Rapidly and cost-effectively deploy technical resources to embedded staff worldwide

Dexis provides the right people, processes, technology, and infrastructure to rapidly and cost-effectively deploy technical resources through state-of-the-art systems and 24-hour support to embedded staff worldwide.

Dexis is accustomed to delivering the full range of employer services and directly handles all aspects of hiring, terminations, replacements, and day-to-day responsibilities of staff.

Areas of Expertise

  • Assessment, monitoring & evaluation
  • Communications and outreach
  • Data analytics
  • Financial management and procurement
  • Logistics
  • Program and project management
  • Research and analysis
  • Senior technical expertise
  • Support staffing
  • Train, advise, assist

Strengthening governance and justice systems

Dexis advances integrity and accountability by developing evidence-based advocacy, enhancing oversight mechanisms, and supporting anti-corruption agencies and civil society. Our work includes promoting ethical behavior, improving asset declaration systems, reducing rent-seeking, and strengthening procurement regulations to foster transparent governance. In parallel, we improve judicial systems by introducing operational efficiencies, enhancing court administration, and streamlining legal frameworks. From strengthening justice institutions to providing access to dispute resolution in conflict-affected and remote areas, our efforts focus on delivering justice outcomes, reducing case backlogs, and supporting victims of domestic and gender-based violence through specialized courts.

Areas of Expertise

  • Anti-corruption strategies and oversight institutions
  • Public participation and accountability frameworks
  • Judicial training and justice sector strengthening
  • Access to justice and alternative dispute resolution
  • Legislative, regulatory, and policy reform
  • Collaboration with security and non-state justice systems

Security Cooperation

We enhance the security sector by providing technical support, training, and strategic communications to help partner nations tackle security threats.

Stabilization and Conflict & Violence Prevention

We identify quick impact and conflict-sensitive solutions tailored to international context, political dynamics, and target objectives.

Build capacity in security sector governance at the institutional and strategic levels

Dexis provides technical and program management services in security cooperation including data analytics; assessment, monitoring, and evaluation (AM&E); training; advisory services; and strategic communications support. To help partner nations respond to threats within and outside their borders, we build capacity in security sector governance at the institutional and strategic levels and support forces in conducting counterterrorism, counterinsurgency, and peacekeeping operations. Our cleared, expert staff specialize in serving high-threat posts, evaluating complex programs, and delivering results in dynamic operating environments. Dexis is distinguished among our peers in that our clients include the U.S. Department of State, the U.S. Department of Defense, and USAID Office of Transition Initiatives (OTI)—we understand the perspectives and complementarities of each. Through our experience in 20 conflict-affected countries, we have a highly nuanced understanding of security cooperation and AM&E to respond to the congressional oversight requirements necessary to help U.S. government clients thrive in the new paradigm of security sector programming.

Areas of Expertise

  • Advisors and mentors
  • Assessment, monitoring, and evaluation
  • Implementation and program management
  • Information campaigns
  • Real time atmospherics
  • Strategic communications support
  • Training and exercise support
  • Innovative data collection and analysis (remote collection methods)
  • Knowledge of cultural and linguistic contexts

Creating the conditions necessary for long-term peace, prosperity, and self-reliance

Dexis uses quick-impact activities and advanced analytics tailored to country contexts and political dynamics to support the U.S. Government in consolidating security gains in conflict-affected areas. With a high level of organizational agility, Dexis assists local stakeholders to promote community resilience; advance dialogue between fractured communities, state, and non-state actors; improve livelihoods; and restore confidence in service delivery. By building local capacity and strong systems, Dexis helps create the conditions necessary for long-term peace, prosperity, and self-reliance. Our staff understands and thrives in complex operating environments and are fast, flexible, and responsive to local dynamics—focused on achieving quick wins while maintaining sight of medium-term stabilization goals. We have experience in over 20 conflicted-affected countries—from Syria to Somalia to Pakistan—implementing projects, providing technical assistance, monitoring and evaluating team performance, and grantmaking.

Areas of Expertise

  • Conflict management
  • Countering violent extremism
  • Disaster recovery assistance
  • Livelihood development
  • Local governance
  • Media and civil society strengthening
  • Peacebuilding and reconciliation
  • Security cooperation
  • Stabilization operations

Performance Management

We deliver actionable recommendations through high-quality evaluations, data analysis, and organizational learning to improve USG performance.

Management Services

We provide specialized MEL services, focusing on CLA and adaptive learning to enhance project effectiveness and sustainable outcomes.

Actionable recommendations for enhanced performance and organizational learning

Dexis’ data collection and analysis methodologies focus on producing immediately actionable recommendations that contribute to enhanced performance and organizational learning. Our services include the design and implementation of high-quality evaluations; performance monitoring; primary data collection and analysis in complex environments; knowledge management, organizational learning, and collaborating, learning, and adapting (CLA); and staff augmentation for specialized monitoring and evaluation (M&E) positions to support U.S. government agencies. Our in-house staff have subject matter expertise in quantitative and qualitative assessment and research methods; learning and adaptive management; and capacity building. Dexis’ diverse portfolio provides a range of mixed-methods M&E services across a variety of sectors—from agriculture to counterterrorism. Our M&E experience ranges from discrete activities and stand-alone projects to projects at the agency strategic level. We have conducted over 150 evaluations and have over five years of experience creating resources to capture, share, and apply knowledge, putting Dexis at the forefront of effectively using evidence for learning and decision-making.

Areas of Expertise

  • Assessments
  • Capacity building
  • Complexity-aware monitoring
  • Database/portal development
  • Impact and performance evaluation
  • Knowledge management
  • Organizational development and learning
  • Performance monitoring

Technical and managerial assistance to support effective service delivery and drive meaningful change

Dexis provides technical and managerial assistance to strengthen government and civil society to support effective service delivery and drive meaningful change at local, national, and international levels. We embrace intentional learning to deliver customized organizational development initiatives that build effective and sustainable organizations. Dexis works with our partners to assess their needs and establish effective systems, practices, and processes to address their challenges. We collaboratively define objectives and a plan for achieving them, develop and implement tailored in-house trainings and on-the-job mentoring programs, establish key indicators to measure performance, and incorporate collaborating, learning, and adapting (CLA) methodologies for continuous improvement. Our staff includes organizational development and training specialists as well as experts across a broad range of technical areas including organizational governance and management, project design, civil society advocacy and outreach, strategic communications, monitoring and evaluation, and agribusiness and enterprise growth. Dexis has helped strengthen the institutional capacity of U.S. government agencies, host country governments, and a range of civil society providers across 80 countries.

Areas of Expertise

  • Administrative and logistical support
  • Communications and outreach
  • Knowledge and information management
  • Organizational capacity assessments
  • Organizational learning and training
  • Partnership management
  • Stakeholder engagement
  • Strategic planning and execution
  • Training and implementation plans

Over the past 23 years, Dexis has driven projects forward for U.S. Government agencies.