Insights
Notes from the field and the desk.
Methodological notes, sector briefs and reflections from active engagements, written for practitioners who care about technical defensibility.
Written for the people who commission the work.
Short, technical and specific: what changed in the sampling plan, why the coherence criterion is underspecified, how a dashboard becomes the canonical input for an allocations committee. The Broadline brief launches with the firm's next reporting cycle.
Six pieces in preparation.
Each piece is drawn from an engagement in the documented record and reviewed by the principal who led it.
Survey methodsBrief · 8 min
Designing household surveys for low-density rural sampling
Notes on PPS multi-stage sampling when enumeration areas are sparse and accessibility tiers vary by district, and what changes when security mapping is part of the sampling plan rather than an afterthought.
01 / Coming soon
EvaluationWorking paper · 14 min
What OECD-DAC's coherence criterion actually asks of evaluators
Coherence is the criterion most often underspecified in evaluation matrices. A practitioner's framework for translating it into observable evidence.
02 / Coming soon
Third party monitoringField note · 6 min
Risk-based site selection in TPM: a working framework
How to build a verification protocol that selects sites by risk rather than by access, and why the difference matters to the donor secretariat reading your monthly brief.
03 / Coming soon
Data and dashboardsPerspective · 10 min
From data to decision: dashboards that get used
Most programme dashboards are read once and abandoned. The patterns that lead a dashboard to become the canonical evidence input for a quarterly allocations committee.
04 / Coming soon
Health systemsSector brief · 9 min
SARA and HHFA in practice: what the readiness instrument misses
The WHO instruments assume a stable supply chain and routine HMIS data. Notes on what to add to the protocol when those assumptions do not hold.
05 / Coming soon
Climate and resilienceSector brief · 9 min
Climate resilience indicators that survive external review
Indicator selection, baseline construction and measurement cadence for resilience programmes with credible reporting requirements.
06 / Coming soon
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