Integrated household & health-facility readiness survey
National Ministry of Health · Tanzania · 2024 — 25. National multi-stage cluster sample, ~7,200 hh + 480 facilities. KoBoToolbox, IRB-cleared, WHO SARA / HHFA aligned.
Selected project experience.
A representative cross-section of recent engagements drawn from the firm's documented record. Specific clients are referenced through anonymised typologies in line with confidentiality. Filter the portfolio below by service line, sector, country or year.
Service
Sector
Country
Year
OECD-DAC endline evaluation, multi-year MNCH programme
Bilateral donor (European) · Kenya · 2024. Mixed methods, contribution analysis, 72 KIIs / 24 FGDs / 56 facility audits / HMIS secondary analysis.
24-month TPM of multi-partner humanitarian programme
UN agency · pooled fund · Somalia · 2023 — 25. Monthly site visits across 9 districts, beneficiary verification, CFM, GPS-stamped evidence.
Multi-Sector Needs Assessment (MSNA), drought-affected regions
INGO consortium lead · Somalia · 2024. Random-walk sampling, 4,800 hh / 86 KIIs / 18 FGDs, IPC / HNO severity scoring.
National learning assessment, primary grades 2 — 4
Multilateral programme · Kenya · 2023. PPS multi-stage, 280 schools / 6,400 pupils, EGRA & EGMA modules with IRR.
Mid-term & endline evaluation of a national WASH programme
Bilateral donor · Tanzania · 2022 — 24. Mixed-method panel, 2,400 hh at baseline / endline, institutional WASH audits, SPHERE aligned.
SMART nutrition survey & IPC AMN inputs
UN agency · Somalia · 2024. Two-stage cluster sample, 1,440 children 6 — 59m, ENA for SMART, feeding into IPC AMN classification.
Quarterly post-distribution monitoring (PDM), cash & voucher
Humanitarian pooled fund · Ethiopia · 2023 — 25. Quarterly waves, ~1,800 hh per wave, CFM, Power BI dashboard.
Institutional & PFM diagnostic, sub-national authorities
National ministry · PFM reform · Rwanda · 2022. PEFA-aligned framework, 16 districts, 120 KIIs, citizen-perception module n=1,200.
Market-systems study & MSME financial-inclusion baseline
DFI · development finance · Kenya · 2024. Stratified MSME sample n=2,100, financial-intermediary KIIs, value-chain mapping.
Longitudinal panel — climate-shock impact on pastoralist livelihoods
Regional climate initiative · Horn of Africa · 2023 — 25. Quarterly panel waves, 1,650 hh across 4 markets, QGIS exposure layers, R Shiny dashboard.
GBV-sensitive needs assessment & service-uptake study
International NGO · Somalia · 2021 — 22. Mixed-method, ethics-board approved protocol, GBV IMS-aligned, KIIs n=58 / FGDs n=22 / survey n=1,100.
Note. Entries above are anonymised typologies in line with the firm's confidentiality commitments. Specific named references are available for client review on request, subject to NDA and prior-client clearance.
National-scale household & health-facility readiness survey.
Engagement. Multi-stage cluster-sample household survey paired with a national health-facility readiness module, commissioned by a national ministry of health and a multilateral co-financing partner. The survey is informing the next planning cycle for primary health care, MNCH and HMIS investment.
Sampling. PPS multi-stage frame drawn from the national census enumeration areas. Two-stage cluster — 360 PSUs in stage one, 20 households per PSU in stage two — yielding ~7,200 completed household interviews. The facility module covers a separate sample of 480 facilities, stratified by level and ownership.
Instruments. Household questionnaire adapted from DHS / MICS modules; facility instrument adapted from WHO SARA and HHFA, plus a clinical-records audit module. Cognitive testing in three regions; back-translation across Swahili and English.
Quality assurance. Ten-day enumerator training with a competency cut-off. SurveyCTO instruments with skip-logic, geo-tagging, audio audit and server-side relational checks. Daily high-frequency checks. ≥10% back-check sample. National ethics-review board (IRB) clearance secured ahead of fielding.
Outcome. Findings feeding into the ministry's medium-term health strategy and the next round of donor-co-financed MNCH planning.
7,200
Households · stage two
480
Facilities surveyed
97.4%
Adjusted response
0
Audit exceptions
- Client typology
- National Ministry of Health
(co-financed multilateral) - Country / Year
- Tanzania · 2024 — 25
- Service / Sector
- Surveys · Health
- Engagement value
- USD 0.55M
- Sampling design
- PPS multi-stage cluster
- Instruments
- SurveyCTO · CAPI · audio audit
- Team
- Engagement principal · sampling lead · data manager · 6 supervisors · 84 enumerators
Standards alignment
WHO SARAHHFADHS-alignedIRB-cleared
Deliverables
- Inception report & sampling plan
- Translated, cognitively tested instruments
- Cleaned, labelled dataset (Stata / R-ready)
- Tabulation report & topline tables
- Technical and policy reports
- Documented analytical-code repository
OECD-DAC endline evaluation, multi-year MNCH programme.
Engagement. Independent endline evaluation of a multi-year maternal, newborn and child health programme implemented in eight counties of Kenya, financed by a European bilateral donor with co-financing from a multilateral partner.
Approach. Mixed-method design structured against the six OECD-DAC evaluation criteria (relevance, coherence, effectiveness, efficiency, impact, sustainability) and the donor's own evaluation policy. Theory-of-change reconstruction at inception. Contribution analysis as the primary causal frame; difference-in-differences supplementary analysis where county-level comparison data permitted.
Methods. 72 KIIs across donor, ministry, county-health and implementing-partner staff; 24 FGDs with women of reproductive age, community health volunteers and adolescents; 56 facility audits using a SARA-aligned instrument; secondary analysis of HMIS / DHIS2 data and county-budget data. Qualitative coding in NVivo with documented inter-rater reliability checks.
Quality assurance. Inception sign-off by the evaluation steering committee. National ethics-review approval. Internal red-team review of the draft report. Written response matrix to client comments. Replicable analytical code shared with the donor's evaluation desk.
Outcome. Six findings, four conclusions and seven prioritised recommendations adopted into the successor programme's results framework.
72
Key informants
24
FGDs
56
Facility audits
8
Counties covered
- Client typology
- European bilateral donor
(co-financed multilateral) - Country / Year
- Kenya · 2024
- Service / Sector
- M&E · Health
- Engagement value
- USD 0.62M
- Methods
- Mixed methods · ToC reconstruction · contribution analysis · DiD
- Tools
- NVivo · Stata · R · KoBoToolbox
- Team
- Evaluation principal · 2 senior evaluators · statistician · qual lead · 4 field researchers
Standards alignment
OECD-DACUNEGDonor evaluation policy
Deliverables
- Inception report & evaluation matrix
- Stakeholder workshop
- Technical report
- Policy brief
- Replicable analytical code repository
24-month third-party monitoring of a multi-partner humanitarian programme.
Engagement. Twenty-four-month third-party monitoring contract on behalf of a UN agency managing a multi-donor pooled fund. The fund finances an integrated protection, food security and nutrition response across nine districts of south-central Somalia, delivered by twelve implementing partners.
Scope. Monthly site visits across all nine districts, beneficiary verification, output verification, complaints & feedback mechanism (CFM) operations, and structured monthly briefings to the donor secretariat. Quarterly thematic deep-dives on protection mainstreaming, AAP, and cash-transfer integrity.
Verification protocol. Risk-based site selection from implementing partners' beneficiary registries with sampling stratified by district, partner and modality. GPS-stamped photographic evidence on every site visit. Beneficiary call-back on a 10% sub-sample by an independent CATI team. Anonymised CFM intake feeding into a monthly anomaly log.
Independence. Conflict-of-interest declarations signed by all team members. Firewalled from any implementation activity in the same theatre. Findings flow direct to the donor secretariat.
Outcome. The monthly briefing is the canonical evidence input to the fund's quarterly allocations committee. Three documented anomalies escalated through the CFM led to formal partner remediation actions during the contract.
9
Districts covered
12
Implementing partners
24
Months of monitoring
10%
Call-back sub-sample
- Client typology
- UN agency · pooled-fund secretariat
- Country / Year
- Somalia · 2023 — 25
- Service / Sector
- TPM · Protection (multi-sector)
- Engagement value
- USD 0.84M
- Cadence
- Monthly site visits · monthly briefings · quarterly deep-dives
- Tools
- KoBoToolbox · CommCare · Power BI · CFM workflow
- Team
- TPM principal · field-ops lead · data manager · 9 district monitors · CATI / CFM team
Standards alignment
IASC AAPCHS AllianceCHS-PSEA
Deliverables
- Inception report & verification protocol
- Monthly briefings to donor secretariat
- Quarterly thematic deep-dives
- CFM operations & anomaly log
- Power BI dashboard with row-level access
Multi-Sector Needs Assessment, drought-affected south-central regions.
Engagement. Inter-agency Multi-Sector Needs Assessment commissioned by a consortium of international NGOs operating in drought-affected south-central regions of Somalia. The assessment was structured to feed directly into the country's Humanitarian Needs Overview (HNO) and the consortium's pooled-funding bid.
Sampling. Random-walk household sampling stratified by district and accessibility tier, with safety mapping integrated into the sampling plan. 4,800 completed household interviews across nine districts; 86 KIIs; 18 FGDs.
Instrument. Sectoral indicator framework adapted from IASC MSNA modules with national HNO sectoral lead inputs across food security, WASH, nutrition, protection, education, shelter / NFI and health. Severity scoring at household level, aggregated to a settlement-level severity index, mapped against IPC food-security classifications and HNO standard severity scales.
Quality assurance. Eight-day enumerator training with competency cut-off. KoBoToolbox CAPI with skip-logic, geo-tagging and back-end DQ checks. Daily back-checks (≥10%). Weekly DQ briefings to the consortium technical working group. Ethical clearance ahead of fielding.
Outcome. Findings adopted into the country HNO and informed the consortium's pooled-funding submission.
4,800
Households surveyed
86
Key informants
18
FGDs
9
Districts covered
- Client typology
- INGO consortium lead
(consortium of 7 INGOs) - Country / Year
- Somalia · 2024
- Service / Sector
- Assessments · Multi-sector
- Engagement value
- USD 0.31M
- Sampling
- Random-walk · stratified by accessibility
- Tools
- KoBoToolbox · Stata · QGIS
- Team
- MSNA principal · methodology lead · 9 district teams · GIS analyst · sector advisors
Standards alignment
IASC MSNAIPCHNO severity
Deliverables
- Sectoral & severity datasets
- Technical report
- HNO submission pack
- Settlement-level severity maps (QGIS)