Services
Four services, depending on where your program stands
We work with employment, income and poverty reduction programs, whether they belong to an international agency, a government, a foundation or a company. If you are not sure which of these services you need, write to us: that is exactly the first conversation.
Evaluating whether a program works
How much people’s lives changed because of the program, and why
We compare people who took part in the program with similar people who did not, to separate the program’s effect from what would have happened anyway. And we talk with participants, staff and local leaders to understand what worked, what did not, and why.
Useful if: you need to report to a funder, decide whether to scale up or close a program, or improve it while it is running.
Includes: impact, process, mid-term and final evaluations; surveys, interviews and focus groups, with ethical protocols for work with vulnerable populations; training and supervision of local field teams.
Designing programs that can be measured
Defining from day one what should change and how you will know
Before the program starts, we agree with you on the results you expect, how they will be measured and with what data. That way, when the evaluation comes, nobody has to guess what the program was after.
Useful if: you are launching a new program, or running one that never defined how to measure its results.
Includes: theory of change, indicators, baseline, monitoring plan and rules that keep the data your team collects reliable.
Tracking employment and poverty
Knowing what is happening without waiting for the official figure
Official poverty figures come out once a year, months late. We build indicators updated every month for the population, territory or sector you care about, using public surveys and, if you have them, your own records.
Useful if: you have to decide where to invest, whom to prioritize or how to respond to an economic shift, and cannot wait a year.
Includes: indicators and dashboards built for your question, analysis of household surveys and administrative records, and simulations of what a policy would change. Our own indicator, TAPIL, is a public example.
Training your team
So your staff can keep measuring when we are done
We train government, foundation, NGO and company teams in evaluation, indicators and data analysis, working on their own programs and their own data.
Useful if: you want to stop depending on a consultant to update your figures every year.
Includes: workshops, technical assistance and support so your team can recalculate the results with new data.
How we deliver
Everything we deliver can be recalculated
Along with the report, you receive the code and documentation that produced every figure. If you want to update a result the following year, your team reruns that code with the new data. You do not need to hire us again for that.
Words we use
The trade’s terms, in one line each
- Impact evaluation
- Measuring how much a situation changed because of the program, and not for other reasons.
- Process evaluation
- Checking whether the program is being run as designed and where it gets stuck.
- Theory of change
- The chain that explains how the program’s activities should lead to the expected results.
- Baseline
- A measurement of the situation before the program starts, to compare against later.
- MEL
- Monitoring, evaluation and learning: the system a program uses to track its results and improve with them.
- Reproducible code
- The exact instructions that produced each figure, kept so anyone can repeat the calculation and get the same result.
Sectors and languages
Employment and labor markets; poverty, inequality and social protection; gender and diversity. We work in Spanish and English.