Five service lines, one accountable team.
Sample design and fieldwork. Programme evaluation. Independent verification. Diagnostic assessment. Modern data engineering. Held under one roof so clients reach validated decisions without managing fragmented timelines.
Surveys.
National-scale household, facility, population and enterprise surveys delivered in fragile, post-conflict and politically sensitive contexts — sample to tabulation, under one accountable team.
We are commissioned for surveys when the question is large, the geography is hard, the timeline is tight, or the deliverable will be evaluated against external scrutiny — national household surveys for ministries, KAP studies for UN agencies, facility-level health surveys for public-health clients, and enterprise / market surveys for finance and livelihoods programmes.
Every survey starts at the sample frame and ends at a clean, labelled, reproducible dataset with full documentation — including the security mapping, refusal log, and any sampling deviations approved during fieldwork.
Methodology toolkit
- —Probability sampling — SRS, stratified, cluster
- —PPS multi-stage with PSU mapping
- —CAPI · CATI · self-administered
- —Geo-tagging & PSU-level GIS overlays
- —Weighting & non-response correction
- —Back-checks & spot supervision (≥10%)
Standard deliverables
- D1Sampling plan & technical inception report
- D2Translated, cognitively tested instruments
- D3Enumerator training pack & field manual
- D4Cleaned, labelled dataset (Stata / SPSS / R)
- D5Tabulation, analytical report & presentation
Standards alignment
Monitoring & Evaluation.
Independent baseline, mid-line, endline and impact evaluations aligned to OECD-DAC, UNEG and major-donor evaluation policies, delivered against a written quality-assurance protocol.
Every M&E engagement is delivered against the standards of the contracting client, with explicit reference in the inception report. We routinely work to OECD-DAC evaluation criteria (relevance, coherence, effectiveness, efficiency, impact, sustainability), UNEG norms and standards, USAID ADS 201, FCDO Smart Rules, UNICEF MoRES, and IFC Performance Standards.
Methods are selected to fit the question. Mixed-method designs are the default. Analytical decisions are documented; analytical code is shared with clients on request; reports are structured so an external auditor can trace any finding back to the underlying data.
Methods we run
- —Theory of Change reconstruction
- —Contribution analysis
- —Outcome harvesting
- —Quasi-experimental — DiD, RDD, PSM
- —Randomised Controlled Trials
- —Most Significant Change · realist eval
- —Cost-effectiveness & VfM analysis
Engagement types
- 01Baseline · indicator architecture
- 02Mid-term reviews · adaptive correction
- 03Endline evaluations · closing assessment
- 04Impact evaluations · counterfactual
- 05Process evaluations · implementation fidelity
- 06Real-time evaluation · humanitarian
- 07Strategic / portfolio evaluation
Standards alignment
Third-Party Monitoring & verification.
Independent verification, where access is constrained, implementation is contested, or results will be reported to a board, parliament, donor capital or auditor.
TPM contracts are firewalled from any implementation work in the same theatre. Conflict-of-interest declarations are signed by every team member at engagement start. Findings flow directly to the contracting client, not the implementer under monitoring.
TPM is most often commissioned by donors and multilateral agencies in fragile or remote-managed contexts, by ministries running results-based finance schemes, and by implementing partners who choose to bring independent verification to a board or accountability committee.
Scope of offer
- 01Output verification
- 02Beneficiary verification & call-back
- 03Geo-spatial verification (GPS evidence)
- 04Results-based finance verification
- 05Compliance monitoring (PSEA, cash standards)
- 06Real-time field reporting & dashboards
- 07Spot checks & back-check audits
Workflow we operate
- 01Verification protocol design
- 02Risk-based site selection
- 03Beneficiary / output sampling
- 04Field visits with documented checklists
- 05GPS-stamped photographic evidence
- 06Beneficiary call-back & cross-validation
- 07Anomaly flagging & client escalation
Standards alignment
Assessments.
Needs, baseline, market, feasibility and rapid analyses that scope, justify and adjust programmes and investments — concept to investment-grade evidence.
Assessments fail when they arrive too late to inform the decision they were commissioned for. We scope every assessment backwards from its intended decision moment — programme design review, funding committee, board paper, investment committee, national emergency operations briefing — and we work to that deadline with a design that fits the time available.
Assessment types
- 01Needs assessments — sector or population
- 02Rapid assessments — first 14-day evidence
- 03Multi-Sector Needs Assessment (MSNA)
- 04Market & value-chain
- 05Post-Distribution Monitoring (PDM)
- 06Capacity & institutional
- 07Feasibility & pre-investment
Field-realism in practice
- —Conflict-sensitive sampling
- —Remote-managed enumerator hubs
- —Anonymised respondent recruitment
- —KII / FGD with vulnerable populations
- —Cash & voucher distribution audits
- —Multilingual pipeline (SW · SO · AR · EN)
Standards alignment
From instrument to insight, under one roof.
Modern data engineering and applied analytics for the development sector. The full pipeline — collection, cleaning, harmonisation, modern analytics, registries and durable governance.
We treat the data pipeline as part of the research design, not a downstream chore. Open-source where it matters, proprietary only where the ecosystem demands it. The whole stack is designed so a client can take a hand-over pack and continue operating it after we leave.
What we build
- 01Beneficiary registries — de-duplication, hand-off ready
- 02Custom MIS — sector-specific (HMIS, EMIS)
- 03Offline-first mobile data instruments
- 04Geospatial layers — PSU, facility, catchment
- 05Dashboards — donor, programme, public
- 06Data warehouses & harmonisation
- 07Data governance — protection, retention, access
Applied analytics
- —Survey weighting & complex-sample analysis
- —Regression & propensity score matching
- —Geospatial regression & exposure analysis
- —Natural-language analysis of qual material
- —Replicable analytical code · code reviews
- —Reporting sized for the meeting it serves