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Evidence for programmes, policies and the public.
Government bodies, foundations, multilateral agencies and non-profits come to us for baselines and endlines, evaluations, opinion and sentiment reads, and the market and value-chain studies behind livelihood programmes. We work to the standards these buyers expect: a documented method, a named senior lead, ethical review, data protection, and a report a programme officer can defend.
What we do
Baseline, midline and endline studies. Programme and policy evaluation, quantitative and qualitative. Opinion polls and sentiment reads at speed, by telephone or online. Market-systems and value-chain studies for livelihood and enterprise programmes. Household and enterprise surveys in rural and hard-to-reach areas, etc.
How we work with you
A senior researcher leads the design and signs off every deliverable. Sampling, instruments and field protocols are documented before fieldwork. Respondent consent, data protection and safeguarding are built into the plan and shared in writing. We work with independent ethics committees where a study needs formal review, and bring in gender and sector specialists by study.
Reach
Vetted field partners across India, including rural and hinterland districts in many states, supervised and quality-checked by our team. Partners in Africa and across Asia. Telephone and online fieldwork anywhere. Eight or more Indian languages in-house.
For tenders and procurement
Both of our legal entities, in Singapore and India, bid for and contract work. Registration details, policies and a capability statement are on one page for evaluators, with documents supplied the same day on request.
A glimpse of the work
There is a great deal more; tell us your question and we will show you what fits.
A baseline across households, masons, retailers, manufacturers and lenders showed masons decide half of roofing choices and cost is the main barrier
An international housing non-profit was about to run a market-systems programme to improve roofing for low-income households and needed a baseline to measure it against.
We interviewed more than thirteen hundred people across the value chain in three districts, urban and rural: households, masons, building-material retailers, roofing-product manufacturers and lenders.
Masons influenced about half of all roofing decisions and bought the products themselves in about half of cases. Awareness of roofing products varied sharply by product, and the barrier to use was consistent: cost first, knowledge second. Finance was largely informal, and loans for roofing were the least-known home-loan product. The client had every indicator it needed, district by district, and a clear picture of where to intervene.
In the first week of India's lockdown, 95 per cent backed it and 82 per cent believed India would beat the pandemic, yet 93 per cent expected the economy to be badly hit
A self-funded national telephone poll in the first week of lockdown, fielded and published within days. Widely circulated across the industry.
An international infrastructure company turned a stakeholder review into an action plan, monitored to completion
A stakeholder review for an international infrastructure company that became an action plan, monitored to completion.
Distributors in two African markets were ready to meet an Indian pump maker, once price, warranty and after-sales were settled
An Indian pump maker, unknown in two African markets. Distributors visited in person, terms recorded, and a ranked list of partners ready to talk.
Preparing a terms of reference, or evaluating a bid?
Talk to the senior researcher who would lead the study. We reply quickly with what is feasible in the time and budget.