M&E, PROJECT MANAGEMENT AND REPORTING

The international development community as well as corporations have been challenged recently, with limited resources, to achieve high organizational performance and programme results in a dynamic and challenging environment. There are constant and growing pressures on governments, firms and organizations globally, to be more responsive to the demands for good governance, accountability, transparency, greater development effectiveness, high impact and delivery of tangible results. Technical and allocative efficiency, programme effectiveness, value for money and impact, risk management have become the key components in national, corporative and organizational policies and strategies. Governments, parliaments, the private sector, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), civil society, international organizations and donors are all among stakeholders interested in better performance. As demands for greater accountability and results have grown, there is an accompanying need for effective results-based monitoring and evaluation systems. It is clear that M&E techniques, backed up with up-to-date qualitative and quantitative methods and technologies, have become an instrumental tool to ensure that right decisions are taken and specific targets are met in a timely manner.

Stratega Optima through demand-driven, robust monitoring and rigorous evaluations supports adaptive management and learning, enabling the use of evaluation evidence in decision making to improve the execution and successful delivery of results. We help development organizations, firms, governments, NGOs and their beneficiaries to design, monitor and evaluate complex multi-sectoral programs. We ensure that strategic programs objectives are addressed using Outcome Mapping and Theory of Change, outcomes are linked with outputs, and activates are properly defined to materialize outputs. We define the M&E framework to back up strategy, programme design with set of assumptions, SMART indicators and risks. Our approach addresses accountability, measures impact, and uses best practices and tools to improve program effectiveness and shared knowledge, sustainability, and local ownership, driving our focus towards achieving lasting and meaningful change. We provide solutions to guide effective result based management decision making on what is working and not working, we provide solutions to guide development partner decision making, solutions focusing on impact, cost effectiveness, VfM and sustainability. We help our clients increase the value, impact and sustainability of their programming through measuring performance and progress. We employ robust, holistic and methodologically sound approach using the most up to dated analytical methods, tools and technology.

We bring to monitoring, evaluation, and learning engagements strong design and analytical capabilities, tools to gather quality data an experience managing large-scale, complex projects, and insightful visualization of data.

We design, implement, and evaluate impact evaluations based on mixed methods, integrating quantitative and qualitative approaches. Our strengths lie in survey design, implementation, and analysis.

Evaluations provide an essential evidence base for informed understanding of progress. Well-designed and focused evaluation tell us what works and what does not, what can be done to improve current and future implementation or redirect financial flows for better results. Our evaluation services add value to end users and are practical, contextually tailored and methodologically rigorous. We specialize in impact (experimental and quasi-experimental designs), environmental impact, performance, implementation and process, and meta- and rapid-cycle evaluations. We also provide technical assistance to other evaluators to ensure the quality of their work.

We offer a wide range of Monitoring and evaluation consultancy services. We design cost-effective M&E systems and frameworks, build organization’s M&E capacity, design project and programme performance tracking systems, conduct needs assessments and mid-term, process, output, outcome, economic and impact evaluations.

Our consultancy services include:

·         Development and support of Theory of Change (ToC) and Outcome mapping

·         Moderate and lead Qualitative data collection (e.g., Informant Interviews or Focus Group Discussions, etc.)

·         Design and develop Qualitative and Quantitative Surveys

·         Development of M&E framework and key performance indicators (KPI)

·         Quantitative data collection and analysis

·         Third party monitoring

·         Conduct robust various impact, process and portfolio evaluations

·         Organize Experimental and quasi-experimental techniques to support evaluations

·         Results Framework analysis

·         Conduct Contribution/Attribution analysis

·         Design and conduct Case studies focusing on needs, barriers, process and impact

·         Provide Learning solutions