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SEBAS

About SEBAS

Independent expertise. International perspective.

SEBAS AB is a Sweden-based international consulting company specializing in strategic development, results-based management, facilitation, and organizational development.

A specialized consultancy for development work

Founded in Stockholm in 2007, SEBAS supports organizations, institutions, and development partners in planning, implementing, following up, and improving development initiatives.

Our work sits where strategy meets practice: helping teams agree on what they want to achieve, structure how they will get there, and learn from what happens along the way. We work with structured methodologies such as the Logical Framework Approach and Results-Based Management, and always adapt them to the people and context involved.

SEBAS is deliberately small and independent. Clients work directly with an experienced consultant, not with a layered project organization.

Colleagues in a focused conversation around a wooden table in a bright meeting room

Our perspective

What makes development work hold up over time

  • 01

    Clear and realistic objectives

    Goals that are specific enough to guide decisions, and honest about what is achievable within the resources and time available.

  • 02

    Participation and ownership

    Plans developed together with those who will carry them out are more likely to be used, adapted, and sustained.

  • 03

    Context-sensitive approaches

    Methods are tools, not templates. Each process is shaped by the institutional, cultural, and political setting.

  • 04

    Organizational learning

    Monitoring and evaluation are most valuable when they help people reflect and adjust, not only report.

  • 05

    Sustainable processes

    We aim to leave organizations with stronger capacity of their own, rather than dependence on external support.

  • 06

    Practical, results-oriented methods

    Frameworks should make work clearer and easier to manage, never add bureaucracy for its own sake.

How we work

Close collaboration, structured process

Assignments typically begin with a conversation about the situation, the people involved, and what a good result would look like. From there we propose a process — a workshop series, a planning or evaluation framework, advisory support over time, or a combination.

We work in English, Swedish, and Spanish, on site or remotely, and adapt the format to the organization rather than the other way around.

Our expertise

Six connected areas of expertise

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International experience

Grounded in work across many contexts

Through its principal consultant, SEBAS draws on assignments in Latin America, Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia — with public institutions, international NGOs, development agencies, and private sector organizations. Maria Holmqvist's native Spanish has been central to long-standing work in Latin America.

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BelizeGuatemalaHondurasEl SalvadorNicaraguaCosta RicaColombiaEcuadorPeruBoliviaBrazilBurkina FasoLiberiaTanzaniaEgyptIsrael/PalestineJordanIraqSwedenBosnia and HerzegovinaUkraineIndiaThailandVietnamLatin America & CaribbeanSub-Saharan AfricaMiddle East & North AfricaEuropeAsia
Maria Holmqvist, Principal Consultant at SEBAS AB

The people behind SEBAS

Maria Holmqvist, Principal Consultant

Maria leads SEBAS's assignments. She is an international facilitator and Results-Based Management specialist with more than 20 years of consulting experience in international development cooperation. Where an assignment calls for additional expertise, SEBAS can collaborate with trusted independent colleagues.

Meet Maria

Tell us about the challenge you are working on.

A first conversation is an opportunity to explore whether and how SEBAS can help — without obligation.

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