Case studyInternational institution · Abu Dhabi

Research that has to be found to be useful

A full website rebuild for an international institution based in Abu Dhabi, whose audience is governments, practitioners and researchers across several regions.

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Institutional building in Abu Dhabi
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Client
International institution, Abu Dhabi — named on request
Our role
Full website rebuild — build, launch and support
Audience
Government partners, practitioners, researchers, media
Languages
Arabic and English
Findable
A single library for publications, programmes and events, filterable by theme and region.
Bilingual
Arabic and English treated as equals, from templates to typography.
Citable
Stable URLs and structured records, so a report stays referenceable for years.
01 — The brief

Years of output, no way through it

The institution publishes research, runs training programmes and convenes partners internationally. All of it lived on a site built for an older, smaller organisation — publications in one place, programmes in another, events nowhere in particular. The rebuild had to make the body of work legible to a first-time visitor and to a returning researcher.

01 One record type for every publication, however it was produced
02 Arabic and English side by side, not a translated afterthought
03 Programmes and events managed by the teams that run them
04 Accessible and fast for readers on modest connections abroad
02 — The work

A library, a calendar and a clear front door

Three structures carry almost the whole site. Everything else is a page built from the same blocks.

03 — Bilingual by construction

Two languages, one editorial system

Templates mirror cleanly to RTL and Arabic typography is tuned per script rather than scaled down from Latin. Editors publish both versions from one record, so a report never exists in one language and not the other.

Bilingual CMS RTL templates WCAG AA
EN · LTR
One record. Two readers. No second website to maintain.
AR · RTL
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Policy convening
04 — In use

Programme teams now publish their own events and reports the week they happen, not the month after.

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05 — How it ran

Define to Operate, with the same team throughout

01 Define Content audit across publications, programmes and events; one record model agreed before design.
02 Design Every template reviewed in both scripts, with accessibility checked as it was drawn.
03 Build Bilingual CMS and front end, with redirects planned for every legacy URL.
04 Launch Migration of the archive, training for programme teams, handover documentation.
05 Operate Hosting, maintenance and new sections as programmes are added.

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