Boutique consulting for complex dialogue

From difficult conversations to practical solutions.

We help those who see things differently find common ground, build trust, and turn consensus into action.

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What we do

Conflict costs time, money, and energy.

Arane helps people move from tension to agreement, and from agreement to action. We provide strategic advice, analytical support, and process design and facilitation for situations where trust, legitimacy, and implementation matter.

We help you understand the situation

Complex problems rarely have a single cause. We help clients see who needs to be involved, what is at stake, and how power, interests, and incentives are distributed across actors.

What this can include

We create the conditions for dialogue

Participation is not just about bringing people into a room. We design and facilitate processes that help actors work through friction, translate across perspectives, and identify a clear path forward.

What this can include

We work with you to turn agreement into action

Consensus only matters if it can hold. We help actors convert agreements into practical commitments, implementation structures, and learning systems that make progress last.

What this can include

Who we work with

Multilateral & development organizations

Government & public sector

Private sector & investors

Civil society

Our clients come to us when a project, policy, investment, or reform needs more than a technical solution. They need to understand the actors involved, build trust across different interests, and turn participation into decisions and commitments that can actually be implemented.

Who we are

We are Gustavo and Irene. We come from the world of conflict resolution and peace studies, and have spent our careers applying that craft across the public, private, and development sectors, in Latin America and the Caribbean, and in Asia and Africa.

Gustavo Pérez
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Gustavo Pérez Ara

Governance, public participation & civil society

Languages · Spanish, English, French

Works with governments, civil society organizations, and international institutions on participatory governance and inclusive policy making. His work centers on designing the spaces that bring these actors together to co-create, build shared commitments, and turn political intentions into something that can be implemented sustainably.

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Irene Irazábal Briceño

Private sector, development finance & social impact

Languages · Spanish, English, French, Portuguese

Works at the intersection of the private sector, development, and social impact, in extractive industries, infrastructure, and international finance. She partners with development finance institutions and the companies they back, translating community needs into concrete solutions and making social performance commitments real.

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Together, our experience spans the public, private, and community worlds, which lets us help clients understand the full picture, design the way forward, and build genuine ownership over the policies, projects, and investments at stake.

Let’s talk

If you are facing a situation that sounds like what we do, we would like to help. Tell us who the actors are, what is at stake, and where things stand.

info@arane.org