Advice and research
We deliver strategic advice and guidance through participatory processes that build buy-in, including facilitating workshops and stakeholder engagement.
We help strengthen existing programmes and inform the design of new initiatives by understanding the needs of beneficiary groups, including their specific economic, social and cultural contexts.
Project
Provision of MERL Services for CSSF South Asia (2020 – 2022)
The UK’s Conflict Stability and Security Fund (CSSF) is designed to provide strategic UK investments that combine a...
Project
Data collection and analysis partner in India and Bangladesh
Target 8.7 of the Sustainable Development Goals calls for effective measures to end forced labour, modern slavery and human...
Project
Evaluation and Learning Partner: Karo Kura ‘SAGE’
Adolescent girls can face multiple and interrelated disadvantages in Sierra Leone. Purposeful’ s new safe spaces programme...
Project
Stamping out slavery in Nigeria – MEL Unit
Historically, Nigeria has been seen as a country of origin, transit and destination for human trafficking. Edo State has been...
Publications
Report
Leveraging high-performing agents to deliver customer value
Throughout Sub-Saharan Africa, innovation is transforming how people conduct financial transactions and live their lives.
Report
Adaptive Programming in Fragile, Conflict and Violence-Affected Settings. What Works and Under What Conditions? The Case of Institutions for Inclusive Development, Tanzania
Adaptive Management involves a dynamic interaction between three elements: delivery, programming and governance. This case...
Report
A4EA: The Case for an Adaptive Approach to Empowerment and Accountability Programming in Fragile Settings
This A4EA paper brings together three case studies of large Department for International Development (DFID) governance...
Report
A brief introduction: Contribution Analysis and Bayesian Confidence Updating
This paper provides an introduction to contribution analysis and outlines how it establishes whether or not an intervention or...