Context Discipline
CADRE starts with Afghanistan's institutional realities, incentives, constraints, and delivery capacity before recommending action.
Who We Are
CADRE
CADRE is an Afghanistan-based development practice institution built around one discipline: understand context before designing solutions, use evidence responsibly, and help institutions move from analysis to practical implementation.
Policies and programs often fail when evidence is imported without reading local institutions, incentives, markets, conflict dynamics, and delivery capacity. For CADRE, evidence-informed practice means translating credible evidence into solutions that fit Afghanistan's context and implementation realities.
Mission
Context-First and Evidence-Informed
CADRE exists to help institutions and practitioners understand problems in context, use evidence responsibly, design workable solutions, and adapt through implementation.
Evidence Responsibility
CADRE treats evidence as guidance for judgment, not as a universal recipe copied from one setting to another.
Implementation Focus
CADRE values solutions that can be governed, financed, delivered, measured, and adapted by the institutions that use them.
Institutional Logic
What Makes CADRE Different
CADRE is organized to connect thinking, delivery, learning, and publication. The institution is not only a consulting unit; it is a platform for improving how development practice is understood and implemented in Afghanistan.
CADRE Model
The common methodology for context-first diagnosis, evidence use, design, implementation, and adaptation.
View modelWhat We Do
Advisory, applied research, evaluation, digitalization, and institutional support organized by practice area.
View servicesAcademy
Training products that convert field-tested methods into practical courses, bootcamps, and institutional learning.
Open AcademyInsights
Policy notes, reports, tools, commentary, and methods that turn practice into shareable knowledge.
Open InsightsInstitutional Method
How CADRE Works With Institutions
CADRE approaches institutional support as a practical cycle: understand the context, build usable systems, strengthen people and routines, and keep learning from evidence.
Diagnose
Map existing data flows, research capacity, evaluation routines, decision points, and institutional constraints.
Design
Co-create fit-for-context systems, frameworks, indicators, tools, and workflows with the people who will use them.
Build
Support implementation through templates, dashboards, learning sessions, documentation, and practical quality controls.
Learn
Use feedback, monitoring, research, and evaluation findings to improve decisions and adapt interventions over time.
Working Across Evidence Systems
CADRE connects advisory work, research, digitalization, professional learning, and knowledge products through one practical institutional system.