Our expertise is in monitoring and evaluation, research and capacity development to respond to the immense and rapidly increasing need for Impact assessment, Evaluations, data analytics capacity, and promoting innovative solutions in creating long-lasting impact at communities, national and global levels. Our goal is to support organizations working to meet the challenges of food security, climate change, peaceful co-existence, inclusive governance, and sustainable socio-economic development through data-based solutions and decisions.
We provide highly specialized research, training, and technical support services to governmental, and non-governmental entities and communities in monitoring and evaluation, data analytics, innovation & technology, and institutional and socio-economic capacity development. We believe that the collection, reporting and dissemination of quality information openly and transparently manner, is necessary to strengthen technical and financial operations, resulting in the attainment of program and national development goals and objectives.
Fieldwork Quality Control
The enumerators are normally trained on the survey methodology, data collection techniques and other skills needed to conduct high quality household interviews including detailed review of all questions, and instructions prior to the commencement of fieldwork.
Our lead supervisors carry out visual inspection, or reading through in full of completed questionnaires on the smartphones, to ensure to all questions have been recorded correctly, verify the number of interviews per enumerator per day, the interview start and end times, the interview length, and the level of “don’t know” and “refused” rates.
We also hold debriefing sessions with team of Enumerators after 2-3 days of fieldwork to communicate on any problems experienced during the surveys.
Operational Risk Management
We are committed to providing services in post-conflict environments while maintaining the integrity of our clients and stakeholders as well as our own. As a result, we determine accessibility in the enumeration areas to ensure that we reach as many remote locations as possible without out endangering our staff or compromising the quality of the data collected.
Before starting fieldwork, we engage with local administrative authorities to conduct a risk analysis of project sites and identify key threats to health and security.
Ethical Assurance Controls
Informed consent is obtained from all respondents in their local language prior to their participation in a survey. The informed consent highlights the purpose of the survey, risks and benefits of participating in the study and detail observance of confidentiality of data collected.
Each adult participating in survey signs (or thumbprint on) informed consent form while each minor (younger than 18 years) is given consent to participate by a parent or legal guardian and he/she also signs assent form. In addition, we obey and adhere to Do No Harm policy and other operational policies as well as religious practices in the project areas during the entire survey.
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Quality assurance is taken to be an integral component of our processes and we undertake appropriate preparation and orientation of research teams to ensure that they are sufficiently trained and familiar with conducting research; the different survey approaches and methodologies; provision of adequate support and supervision with an emphasis on quality data, regular and prompt feedback and reporting.
We have strong expertise and experience in both quantitative and qualitative approaches in conducting third party monitoring and evaluations, surveys and assessing the impact of humanitarian and development interventions including project and activity monitoring, management, social-economic shocks and impact assessment, resilience and adaptive programmes, vulnerability (food security and livelihood) and risk, social inequality assessment and safety net program, risk management mechanisms and coping strategies.
We have conducted monitoring and evaluations and surveys across Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia, Tanzania and Somalia (such as food and nutrition analysis and livelihood, cash transfer, health projects, climate change, construction), project designs, implementations, technical and institutional assessments.
