Mission

PoliSync Centre for International Policy Engagement is an independent, not-for-profit association based in Geneva, Switzerland, founded in 2022.

We exist to ensure that the people most affected by today's global challenges, including refugees, forcibly displaced persons, communities living through conflict, disaster and poverty, and future generations, are genuinely served by the decisions, innovations and resources that shape their lives.

Geneva sits at the heart of international affairs, home to United Nations bodies, international organisations, NGOs, peace processes and global summits. Yet too often, the expertise and resources concentrated here fail to reach the people who need them most. PoliSync was created to help close that gap.

We bring together practitioners who have worked inside international organisations, led programmes across more than twenty countries, and built solutions in some of the world's most challenging environments. We turn that experience, combined with rigorous research, data, and the latest technology, into practical solutions that directly serve communities on the ground. We do this through policy analysis, data visualisation, capacity building and stakeholder engagement, working alongside international organisations, governments and civil society partners, always with communities, not just for them.

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PoliSync expanded significantly in size, scope and impact in 2025, despite a challenging funding environment across the international and nonprofit sectors. Amid global instability, growing demand for interdisciplinary, innovative and action-oriented policy solutions enabled us to move from predominantly shorter assignments towards larger, full- and multi-year collaborations with partners including GIZ, Microsoft Philanthropies and the Norwegian Refugee Council.

These developments marked an important stage in PoliSync’s evolution: from the groundwork of our first years to a stronger and more established organisation with the team, partnerships, expertise and operational foundations needed to take innovative ideas from research and dialogue through to practical implementation and measurable impact.

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