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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
We run baseline, midline and endline studies, and programme and policy evaluations, quantitative and qualitative. We run opinion polls and sentiment reads at speed, by telephone or online. We also run market-systems and value-chain studies for livelihood and enterprise programmes. Our household and enterprise surveys reach 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
Our vetted field partners cover India, including rural and hinterland districts in many states, and our team supervises and checks their work. We work in any market, through our own offices and vetted partners elsewhere. Telephone and online fieldwork runs anywhere, and interviews run in the respondent's own language.
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 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 that masons decided half of roofing choices and that cost was 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
We ran a national telephone poll in the first week of India's lockdown. It was published within days.
An international infrastructure company turned a stakeholder review into an action plan, monitored to completion
An international infrastructure company commissioned a stakeholder review. The review became an action plan, which we 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 wanted to enter two African markets. We met distributors there and gave a ranked list of partners.
Preparing a terms of reference, or evaluating a bid?
Talk to the senior researcher who would lead the study. We will reply quickly with what is feasible in the time and budget.