Portfolio

• Facilitating dialogue with the health sector to improve care for pregnant and childbearing women in Bulgaria. Between now and the end of 2026, Orion Grid is supporting the WOMANUP Foundation with the development of a theory of change for the project aimed at improving care for pregnant and postpartum women in Bulgaria. Our commitment also includes developing and piloting a training design for pregnant and birthing women and training the WOMANUP Foundation team to deliver follow-up trainings independently; developing a pre- and post-training evaluation survey for pregnant and birthing women; development of surveys to collect feedback from health care providers; support in the review and development of the final plan for improving hospital conditions; support in the dissemination and implementation process of the final plan for improving care.

• A sociological study on the needs and experiences of parents of hospitalized children in Bulgaria commissioned by the Danaya Foundation, funded by the project "Strength and Support for the Mother" within the "Values" program of the Bulgarian Fund for Women. For the research report, please contact the Danaya Foundation.

• Organisational Development and Change Process Consultation for CAАI (Campaigns and Activism for Animals in Industry). Over the course of half a year, we supported the organisation to explore its blockages and strengths and map out strategic development pathways.

• "Family Care: a guide for health workers working with refugees and migrants" and an accompanying booklet commissioned by the Council of Refugee Women in Bulgaria. Based on empirical research and health needs analysis by the UNICEF-funded Health and Rights project, this manual and accompanying materials aim to support health workers' efforts with asylum seekers in Bulgaria. In Bulgarian and English. You can request the materials through the NWLB. 

• "Methodology for Monitoring and Evaluation of Policies and Practices in Bulgaria on Domestic Violence and Gender-Based Violence", commissioned by Pulse Foundation. This is the first comprehensive systematic attempt to measure the framework and performance of the crystallizing system against domestic violence and gender-based violence in Bulgaria. Our aim, as with the pilot study report, is to convince stakeholders of the benefits so that a system of ongoing monitoring and periodic evaluation of this field can be introduced at the policy level and put into practice. You can request the publication at theoriongrid@gmail.com.

*The presentation of the methodology and the results of the piloting can be viewed here. The publications are made within the project "Program for prevention, rehabilitation and integration of people, victims and perpetrators of domestic violence, and sensitization of the family and society on the problem" which is implemented with a grant agreement with reg. no. 93-00-274/17.08.2021, contracted with the Ministry of Justice.

• Evaluation of the project "SUPPORTS: Supporting children in the delicate phase between adolescence and adulthood while leaving alternative care facilities", commissioned by the P.U.L.S. Foundation, CESIS - Centro de Estudos para a Intervenção Social (Centre for Social Intervention Research, Portugal) and Defence for Children International, Italy. "Evaluation" does not mean praising or judging in any other way the work of a collective. Evaluation is distilling the value of the initiative, distilling the inner truth that has been guiding the teams involved in the endeavor, whether it has been implicit and implicit or an explicit theory stated from the beginning. A report in English as a tester of this kind of work can be requested at theoriongrid@gmail.com. 2021.

• Translation of “Envy and Gratitude, and Other Works”, commissioned by Colibri Publishing. Melanie Klein's foundational work for the British school of psychoanalysis and the Tavistock tradition, the so-called object relations theory, is published in Bulgarian for the first time with the full set of articles. It contains articles from 1946 until Klein's death in 1960, as well as two articles published posthumously. 2023 г.