Sectors
Where we have active depth.
Health is our lead sector, concentrated in Tanzania and Kenya. Each sector is anchored in the indicator frameworks, sampling traditions and standards in use across donor and government programming.
Eight sectors, one field standard.
SARA and HHFA in a clinic. EGRA in a classroom. SMART in a nutrition cluster. IASC severity scoring in a displacement site. Different instruments, the same supervision, the same back-checks, the same audit trail.
Eight sectors of active engagement.
Select a sector to read the engagement types, instruments and frameworks we work to in each.
01
Health systems and service delivery
Our largest sector by engagement count and senior staff allocation, concentrated in Tanzania and Kenya where we hold registered offices, enumerator networks and clearance protocols with national health authorities and ethics review boards.
- Health facility readiness surveys, SARA and HHFA aligned, coupled with clinical records audits
- MNCH endline evaluations with HMIS secondary data and county level analysis
- HMIS data quality audits: routine versus survey triangulation and capacity transfer
- Independent RBF and PBF verification of indicator achievement
02
Education and learning systems
Learning assessments, EMIS readiness audits, school survey modules, teacher effectiveness studies and retention monitoring across primary, secondary and accelerated learning levels.
- National learning assessments: PPS multi-stage, classroom administered EGRA and EGMA
- EMIS data quality audits comparing administrative data with school level verification
- Out of school children studies with household anchored sampling
- Education in emergencies rapid assessments in displacement contexts
03
Water, sanitation and hygiene
Service delivery surveys, geo-referenced asset registries, hygiene KAP studies, post-distribution monitoring of WASH NFIs and institutional WASH in schools, facilities and displacement sites.
- National WASH programme evaluations: mixed-method panel designs, SPHERE aligned
- Asset registries for boreholes, latrines and handpumps, handed to government
- WASH KAP studies measuring hygiene practice and behaviour change
- AWD and cholera rapid assessments in outbreak contexts
04
Nutrition and food security
SMART nutrition surveys, IYCF studies and household food security assessments feeding into IPC AMN and IPC FS classification processes.
- SMART surveys: two-stage cluster anthropometry with ENA analysis
- Survey inputs to national IPC classification processes
- Household food security analysis: FCS, rCSI and LCSI with shock analysis
- Pastoralist food security with mobile population sampling adaptations
05
Livelihoods and market systems
Market systems studies, value chain assessments, MSME and financial inclusion surveys and labour market analytics, with particular depth in pastoralist livelihoods and cross-border trade in the Horn.
- M4P and DCED aligned market systems and value chain studies
- MSME baselines with gender disaggregated analysis
- Quarterly cash and voucher PDM with market price monitoring
- Cross-border pastoralist livelihood and resilience studies
06
Protection and humanitarian
Multi-sector needs assessments, protection monitoring, ethics-board approved GBV sensitive assessments, IDP and refugee profiling and post-distribution monitoring of protection assistance.
- IASC aligned MSNAs with severity scoring and HNO submission
- GBV sensitive needs assessments with GBV IMS aligned data handling
- UNHCR aligned IDP and refugee profiling with settlement mapping
- Cash for protection PDM with vulnerability re-assessment
07
Governance and public financial management
PFM diagnostics, institutional assessments of ministries and sub-national authorities, citizen perception surveys and reform monitoring for public sector reform programmes.
- PEFA aligned PFM diagnostics at sub-national level
- Citizen perception surveys and service delivery scorecards
- Institutional capacity assessments with reform roadmaps
- Reform monitoring studies for multi-year programmes
08
Climate and resilience
Resilience measurement, climate shock panels and anticipatory action evidence for programmes whose reporting must survive external technical review.
- Longitudinal climate shock panels across pastoralist markets
- Resilience indicator design with credible baselines and cadence
- Anticipatory action trigger monitoring and verification
- Geospatial exposure analysis with QGIS layers
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