Pnyx is a consultancy firm dedicated to promoting democracy and human rights. It was founded by Pär Sköld in 1996 and is based in Göteborg, Sweden. Pnyx undertakes assignments in the field of democracy and human rights.
As can be seen in the Curriculum Vitae, many assignments are awarded by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida). Assignments are often carried out in cooperation with other consultancy firms, such as SIPU International and SPM Consultants.
Pär Sköld has vast experience in working with the following processes:
- Program and Project Cycle Management and Design
- Drafting of development cooperation strategies
- Policy dialogues
- Project formulation and design
- Project appraisal, monitoring and evaluation
- Human Rights, Democracy and Governance
- Human rights based approaches to development
- Assessment of public sector reform needs
- Institution building and capacity development
- Legal sector reform
- Civil society strengthening
- Elections
- Member of EU Exploratory Missions to Bolivia (2006 and 2008),
to Nicaragua (2006) and to Guatemala (2007). - Participation in some 25 Election Observation/Supervision
Missions 1989-2009. Member of Core Team (political expert)
in EU EOM Bolivia 2009. - Pnyx is responsible for the training of all Swedish election observers.
All observers are given a two-day training course before deployment.
This framework contract was won by Pnyx in a tender process in 2011.
The Sida contract is valid until 2013. Pnyx has provided a number of
training courses on an ad-hoc basis since 2005.
