ABOUT US
The first female-owned climate research firm in the Maldives.
We're a climate research and advisory firm based in the Maldives and islanders ourselves. Working across adaptation, policy, finance, and community, we help governments, agencies, and island communities turn climate goals into practical action, grounded in the lived realities of the places we call home.
Mission
To deliver evidence-based, locally grounded research and advisory services that strengthen climate resilience, environmental sustainability, and inclusive development across island contexts.
Vision
To help build resilient, sustainable, and equitable futures for small island developing states and the coastal communities most exposed to climate change.
OUR VALUES
The values that guide our work
Our values aren't a wall decoration. They're the standpoint we work from, shaped by lived experience on small islands, and by a belief that resilience has to be built with the people it's meant to serve.
Shaped by Islands
We don't study island life from a distance. We live it, and that lived reality shapes every question we ask.
Evidence, not assumptions
Every recommendation rests on rigorous research and local context.
Inclusive by design
Resilience that leaves people behind isn't resilience. We centre gender, equity, and groups that are most exposed and vulnerable to climate change
The long horizon
We plan for futures, not funding cycles - resilience meant to hold across generations.
THE DIRECTORS
The faces behind Small Island Futures
MANAGING DIRECTOR
Dr. Ashath Azfa
Azfa has spent more than twenty years on a deceptively simple question: how do island communities adapt to a changing climate without losing what makes them home? Her work runs across climate adaptation, governance, gender and social inclusion, and policy advisory — from national strategy rooms to grassroots councils across the Maldives.
She's provided technical support to the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank, advised the Resilient Island in the Netherlands, and worked with universities in Australia, the UK, and Canada. Her PhD, from the University of Melbourne, examined the political economy of engineered islands in the Maldives — what happens to resilience, dignity, and rights when communities are relocated onto artificial land.
That question still drives her work today: when we build new islands, who gets to thrive on them?
DIRECTOR
Dr. Anaa Hassan
Anaa has spent more than a decade working on climate policy, adaptation and resilience.
She served as Assistant Director in the Climate Change Department at the Maldives Ministry of Environment, where she coordinated the country's reporting to the UNFCCC and sat on the national climate negotiating team. She now consults for the International Institute for Environment and Development on locally led adaptation and on getting adaptation finance to the small island and least developed countries that need it.
Her PhD, jointly awarded by the University of Melbourne and the University of Manchester, examined food system resilience in the Maldives — what kept islands fed when global supply chains failed during the pandemic, and why the answer turned out to be already there, long before anyone arrived to help.
That finding still shapes her work today.
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