— Research & Advisory Services

Research designed around the questions you are already asking

Governance & Accountability

Research on public financial management, decentralisation, anti-corruption systems, and institutional accountability across Sierra Leone and the sub-region.

Health Systems
+ Thematic Depth

Health policy analysis, service delivery assessments, and health system strengthening studies designed with and for Ministry and district health teams.

Four areas, each grounded in completed West Africa work

Education

Learning outcomes research, school system evaluations, and teacher policy studies anchored in Sierra Leone's current reform agenda and district-level realities.

Economic Development

Livelihoods research, private sector assessments, and economic policy analysis that reflect the actual conditions of West African markets and institutions.

/ Our Portfolio

Implementation-ready research services

Applied Research
Monitoring & Evaluation
Advisory

Policy & Institutional Research

Programme Evaluation & M&E Systems

Institutional Advisory & Governance Support

Rigorous quantitative and qualitative studies designed around your institution's policy questions, with findings structured for direct operational use.

Independent evaluations and embedded M&E frameworks that generate locally-anchored evidence and feed directly into programme adaptation cycles.

Context-specific advisory for public institutions navigating governance reform, organisational design, and accountability system strengthening.

Data & Methods
Knowledge Translation
Systems Embedding

Field Data Collection & Management

Policy Translation & Communication

Organisational Learning & Systems Design

End-to-end field data collection across Sierra Leone and West Africa, combining primary surveys, focus groups, and administrative data with rigorous quality assurance.

Translating research findings into policy briefs, decision frameworks, and workshop-ready materials that reach the people who act on them.

Partner-led design of internal learning systems so that evidence use becomes routine — not dependent on a single project or external consultant.

Wide shot of a research workshop in a government office in West Africa, participants reviewing printed maps and data tables spread across a long table, natural daylight through tall windows, medium environmental framing showing the full room and participants at work
Wide shot of a research workshop in a government office in West Africa, participants reviewing printed maps and data tables spread across a long table, natural daylight through tall windows, medium environmental framing showing the full room and participants at work
▸ How We Engage

Implementation support is integral, not an add-on

We open every engagement by mapping the decisions your institution needs to make in the next twelve months. The research design follows from that.

Field data collection, analysis, and policy translation run as a single workflow — not sequential handoffs. Your team participates at each stage so findings are already embedded by the time we deliver.

Ready to scope a research engagement?

Bring us your policy question. We will tell you whether we are the right partner and what a context-specific research design would look like.