At the Forefront of
women's leadership
and change.
ATF Consulting partners with international development organizations, foundations, and governments to strengthen strategy, leadership, and gender equality across Africa and the diaspora.
At the Forefront of leadership, equality, and change.
At the Forefront (ATF) exists to advance the leadership of women and girls across Africa and the diaspora. We work across five connected pillars, joining rigorous research with convening, advocacy, and long term community building.
- 01
Research & Evidence
We generate and translate evidence on gender equality, social norms, and leadership so decisions rest on what is actually true in people's lives, not on assumption.
- 02
Convenings & Dialogue
We create spaces where women leaders, funders, policymakers, and communities think together. Honest conversation is the precondition for durable change.
- 03
The BRIGHT Initiative
Our flagship programme backing adolescent girls and young women with the confidence, networks, and opportunity to lead in their own communities.
- 04
Advocacy & Influence
We put African and diaspora women's priorities in front of the institutions that shape policy and funding, and hold those commitments to account.
- 05
Community & Practice
We build a lasting community of practice so leaders are not carrying the work alone, and so insight moves between contexts rather than staying local.
Nothing about women and girls without women and girls. Every engagement is shaped with the people it is meant to serve, and led personally by our founder and CEO, Evelyn L Sallah.
Speak with our teamFour areas of practice.
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ATF Consulting works across four connected areas, on their own or in concert. Select any tile for the full brief.
Four women,
one shared commitment.
A small, senior team spanning strategy, delivery, research, and advocacy. Select any portrait to read more.
Evelyn L Sallah, Founder and CEO.
"I started ATF because the answers we need already exist inside African and diaspora women's leadership. Our work is to make room for them and to back them properly."
"Evelyn leads engagements with international development organizations, foundations, and governments, translating ambition into strategy teams can deliver."
"BRIGHT is Evelyn's flagship programme, built so that girls have the confidence, networks, and opportunity to lead where they live."
"Her practice sits where norms are actually formed: families, faith spaces, schools, and clinics, rather than only in policy documents."
"Evelyn convenes women leaders, funders, and policymakers for the honest conversations that make collective action possible."
"She carries the priorities of African and diaspora women into the rooms where funding and policy decisions are made, and follows up on the commitments."
Straight answers,
no runaround.
How ATF Consulting engages, what we work on, and where the BRIGHT Initiative fits.
Write to the team directly. Evelyn reviews every enquiry personally, usually within one business day.
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Write to us directly. Every enquiry is read personally by our founder and managing director.
- Partnershipspartnerships@attheforefront.org
- Where We WorkAfrica & the Diaspora
Remote-first, globally engaged
Every enquiry receives a personal response within one business day. Larger scopes get a discovery call scheduled the same week, no gatekeeping, no auto responders.