We help our clients explore the origins of complex issues, design contextually appropriate interventions, bring these ideas to reality, and evaluate the results along the way.
We ground each project in immersive research to paint nuanced portraits of complex environments.
Embedding with our clients, government, civil society, and other actors provides insights into the capacities and constraints of all stakeholders to an issue. Drawing on a wide range of research methods, including qualitative, quantitative, and participatory methods, we gain a holistic understanding of complex issues.
Our research services include: Political Economy Analysis, User Experience Research, Institutional Ethnography, Surveying, Quantitative Analysis, Service Trials, Systems Mapping.
We design collaboratively to create policies, programs, and services that are tailored to both institutions and individuals alike.
Designing hand-in-hand with institutions, communities, and other stakeholders creates shared ownership and contextually appropriate interventions. During this process of co-creation, each design concept is assessed through user testing, rapid prototyping, and iteration to ensure that it is well suited to the needs of where it will be deployed.
We use adaptive implementation informed by local knowledge to manage the shifting conditions of complex environments.
Building flexibility and learning into our model, we are able to navigate challenging institutional structures, cultural norms, and political dynamics. Drawing on the expertise of on-the-ground teams and working closely with our partners further enables us to realize interventions that are responsive to context.
We evaluate holistically to understand the human experiences that explain what interventions are working and why.
Exploring outcomes through regular feedback loops, rather than simply measuring outputs, enables responsive learning and iteration to complex causal chains. Working with mixed methods evaluation frameworks that draw on applied ethnography, quantitative data analysis, and systems thinking surfaces insights the bias of statistical certainty might otherwise overlook.
Our evaluation services include: Process Evaluation, Impact Evaluation, Real Time Evaluation, Participatory Evaluation, Mixed methods.
