Notes from the field and the desk.
Methodological notes, sector briefs and reflections from active engagements — written for practitioners who care about technical defensibility. Forthcoming editions of the Broadline brief.
Designing household surveys for low-density rural sampling.Coming soon
Notes on PPS multi-stage sampling when enumeration areas are sparsely populated and accessibility tiers vary by district — and what changes when security mapping is part of the sampling plan, not an afterthought.
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What OECD-DAC's coherence criterion actually asks of evaluators.Coming soon
Coherence is the criterion most commonly underspecified in evaluation matrices. A practitioner's framework for translating it into observable evidence — internal coherence, external coherence and the questions to ask of each.
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Risk-based site selection in TPM: a working framework.Coming soon
How to build a TPM verification protocol that selects sites by risk rather than by access — and why the difference matters for the donor secretariat reading your monthly briefing.
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From data to decision: dashboards that get used.Coming soon
Most programme dashboards are read once and abandoned. The patterns we have found that lead a dashboard to become canonical evidence input for a quarterly allocations committee — and the patterns that don't.
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SARA and HHFA in practice: what the readiness instrument doesn't measure.Coming soon
The WHO SARA / HHFA instruments are the standard for facility readiness — but they assume a stable supply chain and routine HMIS data. Notes on what to add to the protocol when those assumptions don't hold.
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Climate-resilience indicators that survive an external technical review.Coming soon
Indicator selection, baseline construction and measurement cadence for resilience programmes with credible reporting requirements — five disciplined defaults that have held up in audit.
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