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Research and analytics

Recommend action.

Using insights for future actions.

What this covers

We recommend interventions based on systematic review of existing research and data to help achieve their social impact objectives.

We will conduct research through existing papers to recommend solutions or interventions that can help NGOs achieve their desired objectives. For example, if an NGO wants to increase sanitation access for women in rural India, we will research and recommend them with initiatives that have proven to create impact in the past across similar geographies.

How a review works

Turning the existing evidence base into something you can act on.

  1. 01

    Scope

    What problem, which population, which geography. Search protocol agreed up-front so the review is replicable.

  2. 02

    Search & screen

    Peer-reviewed literature, NGO reports, and grey literature — filtered by relevance, quality, and context similarity to your programme setting.

  3. 03

    Synthesise

    An evidence map of what has worked, where, and under what conditions — with honest flags on where the evidence thins out or contradicts itself.

  4. 04

    Recommend

    A shortlist of interventions ranked by fit to your objectives, along with the assumptions each one relies on.

Designing a new programme? We'll find the evidence base and point you at what has worked elsewhere.

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