Special Study on Barriers and Enablers to Literacy in Nampula Province (Mozambique, 2022): Research focused on informal institutions serving as opportunities and threats in World Vision’s multi-year literacy programming for Grades 1 to 3 so as to adapt programming to best fit community realities in the final two years.

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Porticus Project on MERL Capacity Building and Evaluation for Religious Associations in Zimbabwe and Uganda (2021-2023): Qualitative and quantitative research to provide comprehensive technical support to religious associations consisting of over 70 entities; evaluate formation courses and trainings and the long-term implication for social transformation in local communities. 

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Save the Children’s Consultancy to Structure and Design a Humanitarian Affairs Unit (Kenya, 2021-2022): Conduct market/research analysis, partnership scoping, and facilitating a supporting a design workshop to inform the structuring and strategy for a proposed Humanitarian Affairs Unit (HAU) that would partner with local think tanks to implement localisation research and advocacy work.

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Evaluation of UNICEF’s Emergency Response in Cabo Delgado (with Center for Humanitarian Change, 2021): Conceptualization, implementation and analysis of community attitudes toward emergency programming during a protracted conflict; lead research teams in conducting face-to-face interviews in conflict areas (with host and IDP communities); provide analysis and recommendations for UNICEF and stakeholders to incorporate input for the upcoming Country Strategic Plan.

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CARE Assessments of Humanitarian Needs (Mozambique, 2020-2021): Multiple assessments of community needs in several provinces across Mozambique.

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World Vision’s Inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction and Education in Emergencies Project Evaluation (Mozambique, 2021): Conceptualization, implementation and analysis of qualitative research in communities receiving assistance; analysis of quantitative research; provide comprehensive overview of Consortium Programming in rural communities.

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Community Assessment Scoping Mission in Cabo Delgado (2020): Design, implement and analyze KIIs and FGDs to determine prevalent attitudes toward conflict in Cabo Delgado for ORB.

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USAID Rule of Law Project in Southern Africa 

Location: South Africa, Mozambique, Angola, Botswana  Client: NORC  Funder: USAID  Project Period: October 2018 – January 2020  Scope of Services: Conducted face-to-face and remote KIIs with stakeholders in governments, civil society, and the private sector in Southern Africa to understand challenges regarding governance, civil society, illicit trafficking, human rights, and corruption.   

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Assessment on Developing an Effective Mechanism to Ensure Compliance to SADC Protocols

Location: Mozambique  Client: Imani  Funder: SADC  Project Period: 2019  Scope of Services: In-depth interviews with trade, government, and customs officials on attitudes and adherence to SADC trade and investment protocols.

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Assessment of JOBA Skills Building at Young Africa

Location: Mozambique  Client: Coffey  Funder: DFID  Project Period: 2019  Scope of Services: Quantitative survey project that focused on students at Young Africa to determine prevalent attitudes toward the programming and training. 

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Post-Cyclone Assessment on Localization in Beira and Buzi

Location: Mozambique  Client: Plan International  Project Period: 2019  Scope of Services: Focused on relationships cultivated between INGOs and local partners according to the 2016 Grand Bargain Agreement; employed a mixed methods approach to determine key stakeholder perceptions on best practices regarding DRR and provided recommendation on future disaster relief/recovery/response mechanisms.

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Post-Cyclone Idai Child Protection Assessment in Buzi

Location: Mozambique  Client: World Vision  Project Period: 2019  Scope of Services: Focused on child protection issues in Buzi District, particularly in Child Friendly Schools; employed a mixed methods approach of key informant interviews with adults, and free style drawing and H’s Assessment with children and adolescents to determine prevalent mentalities of youth in cyclone affected communities.

 

Post-Cyclone Idai Rapid Needs Assessment in Sofala Location: Mozambique 

Client: World Vision  Project Period: 2019  Scope of Services: Rapid needs assessment post-cyclone Idai that involved desk review of hundreds of documents, qualitative and quantitative fieldwork in Sofala Province, and analysis of secondary quantitative data.  The report was used to apply for additional post-cyclone funding in Sofala.

 

Assessment of JOBA Skills Building at BIP

Location: Mozambique  Client: Coffey  Funder: DFID  Project Period: 2019  Scope of Services: Focused on interns in Beluluane Industrial Park (BIP) to determine prevalent attitudes toward employers, careers, and training; project used both quantitative (survey) and qualitative (interview) methods.

 

MTN Rollout of MOMO (Mobile Money)

Location: South Africa  Client: Citizen Surveys  Funder: MTN  Project Period: 2019  Scope of Services: Working with Citizen Surveys, focused on MTN’s objective of penetrating the mobile money market; qualitative research included focus groups with numerous socio-economic groups in all South African provinces to guage attitudes and determine how best to market the campaign.

 

Women’s Experiences in Parliamentary Elections

Location: Sierra Leone  Client: NORC  Funder: USAID  Project Period: 2018  Scope of Services: Focused on USAID’s activities around the recent SL elections; combined a mix of qualitative methods; the team focused on women’s experiences running for various activist positions and government offices.

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World Vision Experiences of Integration

Location: Mozambique  Client: World Vision  Project Period: 2018  Scope of Services: Conceptualized and implemented data collection (workshop and fieldwork) and conducted extensive analysis to present evidence and learning on integrated programming between child-sponsorship funded programs and grant/private funded projects (governance and institutions).    

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Evaluation of World Vision ADPs

Location: Mozambique  Client: World Vision  Project Period: 2018  Scope of Services: Led data collection and analysis to assess the sustainability and effectiveness of projects on gender, access to resources, food security, health/nutrition, and education. 

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Getting Ready to Lead 

Location: Liberia  Client: NORC  Funder: USAID  Project Period: 2017 and 2018  Scope of Services: Working with NORC (at the University of Chicago), this project focuses on USAID’s Getting Ready to Lead (GRTL) activities pertaining to the 2017 Liberian elections (aimed to increase women’s political participation in the elections).  The initial evaluation was focused on understanding the aspirations and characteristics of women who chose to pursue positions of political leadership.  The project has involved two rounds of data collection (during a participatory workshop in 2017; and in 2018, surveying participant views, identifying opportunities and challenges beneficiaries face in the public sphere, and the formulation of recommendations for future activities) via a series of in-depth interviews. 

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Evaluation of Strengthening Civil Society to Enhance Livelihoods Through Supporting Economic Skills Diversification, Markets and Gender Equity

Location: Mozambique  Client: Concern and Welt Hunger Hilfe  Funder: EU and Irish Aid  Project Period: 2017 Scope of Services: Concern Worldwide (CWW), with Welt Hunger Hilfe (WHH) and the Rural Association of Mutual Support (ORAM), implemented the three year Strengthening Civil Society to Enhance Livelihoods Through Supporting Economic Skills Diversification, Markets and Gender Equity in Zambezia (XCSEL, 2015-2018), with support from the European Union and Irish Aid.  This project was implemented in Mozambique in the districts of Chinde (including Micaune), Inhassunge, Nicoadala and Quelimane. 

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This final evaluation assessed the outcomes and impact of the XCSEL project based on its initial objectives, offered conclusions based on the OECD/DAC Criteria for evaluating development assistance, recommended 18 improvements for future interventions of this nature, and contributed to learning for appropriate stakeholders.  The report triangulated qualitative data (Focus Group Discussions and Key Informant Interviews) gathered in several of the field sites with additional quantitative and qualitative information collected by the implementing partners.    

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Oxfam and Concern: Evaluation of ECHO in Sofala and Zambezia Provinces

Location: Mozambique  Client: Oxfam and Concern  Funder: ECHO  Project Period: 2017 and 2017  Scope of Services: Through a partnership with IHSI, this project evaluated the European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (ECHO) funded programming implemented by Oxfam and Concern as part of the COSACA II consortium in Mozambique.  The fieldwork covered two research sites—Chemba (Sofala Province, Oxfam) and Mopeia (Quelimane Province, Concern).  It evaluated the programming for drought affected households that received humanitarian food assistance via the provision of monthly vouchers to purchase essential food items and the provision of vouchers for seeds and tools in order for communities to restart agricultural production.

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The final evaluation generated evidence to measure the effectiveness of the ECHO portion of the project interventions, documented project success, provided insight into aspects to be improved, and provided knowledge to inform future consortium-based programming. Qualitative research included 11 focus group discussions and 28 key informant interviews to assess project appropriateness, effectiveness, efficiency, coverage, coordination, and value for money. The evaluation also reviewed quantitative data and previous assessments provided by the individual NGOs to triangulate the information collected during qualitative fieldwork.

 

Evaluation Reports for Chivongoene, Mucotho, and Saua Saua

Location: Mozambique  Client: World Vision  Project Period: 2017  Scope of Services: In 2015, World Vision Mozambique launched LEAP 3 (Learning through Evaluation with Accountability and Planning) to introduce the programming to key stakeholders and develop technical approaches ahead of the program transition to the next phase.  Three evaluations were conducted to highlight evidence of change, capture any important unintended consequences, and generate learning that will be useful in the contextualization process.  These evaluations reflect on the impact of WV work so that community partners and sponsors from different support offices have a smooth transition to LEAP 3. 

 

The reports highlighted key background factors of each of the programs involved (Food Security; Education; Health, Water and Sanitation; Sponsorship; and Community Based Organizations, the latter of which are Savings and Water groups which generally can be categorized under Food Security and WASH).  They also incorporated prevalent opinions of community members involved in the programming, and analysis of perceptions (from fieldwork conducted by WV), and offered conclusions and recommendations.

 

HIV and TB Integrated Biological and Behavioral Study (IBBS) for Migrant Mineworker Communities

Location: Swaziland  Client: Citizen Surveys  Funder: IOM Project Period: 2017  Scope of Services: Working with Citizen Surveys, this project entailed the creation of a series of documents for the International Organization for Migration on the current HIV/TB context for migrant mineworking communities in Swaziland, as well as key informant interviews with government and non-governmental stakeholders, local researchers, and civil society groups.

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Title: Final Evaluation of Cosaca II 

Location: Mozambique  Client: COSACA (Save the Children, Concern, Oxfam, Care)  Funder: DFID  Project Period: 2017 Scope of Services: Working with IHSI, this research project focused on evaluating COSACA II, a consortium comprising Concern, Oxfam, Save the Children, and CARE in Mozambique responsible for implementing a DFID, Sida, OFDA, and ECHO funded drought recovery in 2016-2017 in seven provinces with the primary aim of ensuring that drought affected households had adequate access to food and water to meet their daily essential needs, as well as access to market integrated livelihood activities which support their children’s well-being. COSACA was created in order to leverage the unique technical skills and geographical reach of each agency to more effectively coordinate humanitarian preparedness and response, and to improve members’ capacity to respond within 72 hours of a disaster.

 

This evaluation generated evidence to measure effectiveness of project interventions and consortium coordination; documented project level successes and challenges; and provided insight into aspects to be improved, including those relevant to future consortium-based programming.  Qualitative research included focus group discussions and key informant interviews to assess project appropriateness, effectiveness, efficiency, coverage, internal and external coordination, and value for money. Research occurred in four locations: Gaza: Mabalane (Save the Children), Inhambane: Funhalouro (Oxfam and Care), and Zambezia: Mopeia (Concern).