Empowering Your Organisation

Candour Risk is an independent consultancy providing internal audit, risk management and safeguarding advice to NGOs, charities and international development organisations. Led by a Certified Internal Auditor with over 20 years’ experience across Africa, Asia and Latin America, we give candid, evidence-based advice grounded in how programmes actually operate.

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100+

Successful Projects

50+

Clients Served

20

Years of Experience

Risk Management Solutions

We help organisations identify, assess and manage the risks that matter most to their mission. Our work includes risk framework design, risk registers and leadership workshops, built around the realities of operating in complex and high-risk environments.

Internal Audit

We provide independent, objective assurance on governance, risk management and internal control. Our services include risk-based and thematic audits of country offices, programmes and partners, internal audit effectiveness reviews, and co-sourced or interim support for in-house audit teams. We work in line with the IIA’s Global Internal Audit Standards.

Governance Review

We review how your organisation is directed and held to account: board and committee arrangements, delegated authorities, policies and reporting lines. Our recommendations are practical and proportionate to your size and context.

Programme Assurance

We test whether programmes are delivering what is reported. This includes field verification, partner monitoring, and reviews of monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) arrangements, so that leadership and donors can rely on the results.

Donor Compliance

We help organisations meet donor requirements with confidence. Our support covers preparing for donor audits and spot checks, grant compliance reviews, and due diligence and oversight of implementing and downstream partners, to reduce the risk of disallowed costs and reputational harm.

Consulting

NGOs and charities face distinctive challenges: limited resources, complex partnerships and high-risk operating environments. We provide tailored advice on counter-fraud controls, sanctions compliance, conflict of interest and wider organisational resilience, focusing on actions you can realistically implement.

Safeguarding

Protecting the people you work with is fundamental. We review safeguarding (PSEAH) policies and practice, test whether reporting and grievance mechanisms are trusted and accessible to communities, and support safeguarding investigations using trauma-informed and survivor-centred approaches. Our aim is safeguarding that works in practice, not only on paper, across your staff, partners and programmes.