CASA NEXUS / Capabilities / Research & Evaluation
Most evaluations describe what happened and stop. Ours tell you what worked, how sure anyone can be, and what to do next.
Every SSII evaluation reports a Strategic Integrity Score for how well the system performed and, separately, an Evidence Confidence Index for how strongly that finding can be proven. Neither is published without the other. Try three cases a real evaluation runs into.
Pick a case and watch both scores move.
Strong delivery, well evidenced. This finding will hold in front of a board, and the roadmap can build on it.
You always know how much weight a finding can bear.
You see why something is failing, not just that it is.
You commission evidence and receive a plan.
A safeguarding failure cannot hide behind a good headline number.
If a programme is harming the people it serves, no volume of output overrides that. Our method caps a programme’s rating when protection fails, and the cap is visible in the report rather than buried in an annex.
Pick a stage to see what happens there.
A design matched to your decision, not a template: evaluation questions, criteria, sampling, and the standards the work will be held to.
Mixed-methods data gathered by teams who work across languages and difficult terrain, including places most providers will not go, and who know how to gather it safely.
Both dimensions, scored transparently against OECD-DAC, UNEG, and AfrEA standards, with the protection cap applied where it is warranted.
Reform options, priorities, and a roadmap, written so a board or a donor can act on them line by line.
Any of these can be scoped to your own questions instead. Filter by the service line you need.
Narrow it to what you need.
Independent evidence of what you achieved.
For Donors, INGOs, UN agencies needing mid-term or endline evidence.
A funder or implementer needs a credible, independent verdict on a programme’s results, with the methodological rigour donors expect.
A full independent evaluation against recognised criteria: a design matched to your questions, mixed-methods fieldwork across difficult settings, and a defensible report with actionable recommendations.
Know the starting point before you spend.
For Programme designers; donors requiring baseline evidence.
A programme is about to launch, or a proposal is being written, with no solid baseline to design against or measure from.
Survey and qualitative tools built for the context, field data collection including in hard-to-reach settings, and a baseline dataset and report ready to anchor the results framework.
Credible field data when you need it now.
For Humanitarian responders; anyone facing a short deadline.
A decision-maker needs quick, reliable field data, a market assessment, or a rapid needs check, on a short timeline.
Fast-turnaround collection and analysis using structured digital tools, with enumerators who work across languages and difficult terrain, delivering clean data and a concise findings brief.
Your embedded evidence function.
For Multi-year programmes and consortia; funders of learning agendas.
A long programme needs continuous research and adaptive evidence, not a single study, but does not want to build a research unit.
A retained partnership: a rolling research agenda tied to your learning questions, periodic studies and learning briefs through the cycle, and evidence timed to shape decisions.
Turn findings into influence.
For Advocacy organisations; programmes that need to influence, not just report.
An organisation holds research or programme data but cannot turn it into the crisp products that move decision-makers.
Evidence synthesis and policy-ready briefs, summaries, and strategy notes that turn data into arguments funders and policymakers act on, in a direct register free of fabricated citation.
Original research that makes you the reference.
For Foundations and research funders investing in sector knowledge.
The sector lacks credible East African evidence on themes we know deeply: GBV, humanitarian systems, civic accountability, and resilience.
Commissioned or co-funded thematic studies that build the evidence base and establish authority, published and disseminated through our own channels.
Nothing in that service line yet. Try another, or tell us what you need.
Open access, no paywall
We work through a trusted network of senior evaluators, sector experts, field researchers, and safety professionals, assembled around the questions you need answered. Aligned to OECD-DAC, UNEG, and AfrEA standards, led by a CASA team that holds the standard from inception to final report.
Tell us the problem in a line or two. We reply within one business day with a clear next step.