On this page we highlight a few of our projects as examples of our work and experience. If you’d like to know more about our current and past work, please get in touch using the form on the Contact Us page.
Monitoring, Reporting, and Capacity Strengthening Contract
Location: Throughout the Sahel region, with offices in Niger and Burkina Faso
The Monitoring, Reporting, and Capacity Strengthening Contract (MRCS) provides a range of services in response to the management needs of the US State Department across the Sahel region.
MRCS conducts independent monitoring, evaluations, studies, and assessments, primarily in Niger and Burkina Faso but also in other Sahelian countries, such as The Gambia. MRCS helps US government staff, partners, and stakeholders enhance the monitoring and visibility of programs in the Sahel and apply knowledge gained from evidence and analysis. MRCS uses innovative and cost-effective practices to increase the rigor of program oversight and understanding of results and works to reinforce local M&E systems and skills.
Mission Strategic Support Program
Location: Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), plus support provision throughout Central Africa
SoCha provided technical and advisory services to USAID through the Mission Strategic Support Program (MSSP). The goal of MSSP was to empower USAID staff and stakeholders to better utilize evidence, manage performance, collaborate, learn, and adapt to enable greater self-reliance and development outcomes across the DRC and Central Africa.
MSSP provided planning, designing, conducting, disseminating, learning, and training services. These services helped develop monitoring and evaluation knowledge and skills within USAID’s staff and partners.
Our services helped USAID teams and implementing partners with:
- performance monitoring and evaluation
- data gathering and verification
- data visualization, including GIS
- data quality assessments
- impact evaluations
- assessments
- organizational learning
- enhancing collaboration.
Learning Study of the Four Cities Initiative
Location: Sierra Leone, Uganda, Zambia, and South Africa
The Four Cities Initiative was a Comic Relief and DfID urban slum development initiative that invested £20 million through 17 grants in Freetown, Cape Town, Kampala and Lusaka over 2012-19. It was an opportunity for Comic Relief to test a new, proactive city focused approach to grant-making, with an assumption that by encouraging stronger collaboration, the impact will be greater than the sum of its parts.
SoCha’s study focused on answering the four questions below and provided recommendations for future collaboration design:
- How did Comic Relief’s approach affect collaboration?
- What types of collaboration emerged?
- Did collaboration contribute to improving slum dwellers’ lives?
- Will collaboration be sustainable?
Localization and Sustainability Activity
Location: Kenya
SoCha implemented the Localization and Sustainability Activity for the USAID Kenya and East Africa Mission. The activity’s purpose was to support USAID’s staff, stakeholders, and implementing partners to be more efficient, effective, transparent, inclusive, and skilled in achieving development outcomes.
SoCha provided the following institutional support services:
- Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning: To strengthen monitoring, evaluation, verification, and data utilization.
- Organizational Development: To improve Mission systems, coordination, and collaboration and enhance institutional learning and program effectiveness.
- Capacity Building: To empower and enfranchise local actors.
- Strategy: To support strategy development, implementation, and process management and enable the planning, delivering, assessing, and adapting of development programs.
- Logistics: To help ensure productive and efficient operations.
Monitoring, Reporting and Evaluation Tools for the Global Green Growth Institute
Location: Indonesia
SoCha developed monitoring, reporting and evaluation (MRE) tools to track the Green Climate Fund (GCF) funding in Indonesia. The tools captured GCF-funded projects’ and facilities’ performance related to their activities, output, outcome and impact in Indonesia, with a focus on the extent to which greenhouse gas emissions are reduced and/or how livelihood resilience is improved. Alongside the tools, SoCha created a guideline document to support stakeholders in using the MRE tools independently.
The MRE tools incorporated national development and Nationally Determined Contribution targets of Indonesia, detailed in the following section and aligned with GCF’s mandate to provide support to countries in reducing GHG emissions and adapting to the impacts of climate change.
