Sectors

Sector knowledge strengthens the evidence.

Development challenges cross institutional and sector boundaries. CADRE applies research and evaluation expertise across nine areas while preserving the analytical independence of each assignment.

Economic Development & Livelihoods

How policies, markets, finance, and livelihood systems can expand opportunity and improve household resilience.

Evidence lens Research clarifies systems, needs, incentives, and policy choices. Evaluation examines implementation, outcomes, equity, value, and sustainability.

Agriculture & Food Systems

How agricultural systems, value chains, and food security interventions perform across diverse local conditions.

Evidence lens Research clarifies systems, needs, incentives, and policy choices. Evaluation examines implementation, outcomes, equity, value, and sustainability.

Education & Skills

What improves access, learning, workforce readiness, and equitable education outcomes.

Evidence lens Research clarifies systems, needs, incentives, and policy choices. Evaluation examines implementation, outcomes, equity, value, and sustainability.

Health & Nutrition

How health and nutrition programmes reach people, strengthen systems, and produce sustainable outcomes.

Evidence lens Research clarifies systems, needs, incentives, and policy choices. Evaluation examines implementation, outcomes, equity, value, and sustainability.

Governance & Public Institutions

How institutions, policies, and public systems can become more capable, accountable, and responsive.

Evidence lens Research clarifies systems, needs, incentives, and policy choices. Evaluation examines implementation, outcomes, equity, value, and sustainability.

Social Protection & Inclusion

How programmes can reduce vulnerability and respond to gender, disability, displacement, and exclusion.

Evidence lens Research clarifies systems, needs, incentives, and policy choices. Evaluation examines implementation, outcomes, equity, value, and sustainability.

Climate, Environment & Resilience

How communities and institutions understand risk, adapt to shocks, and protect natural resources.

Evidence lens Research clarifies systems, needs, incentives, and policy choices. Evaluation examines implementation, outcomes, equity, value, and sustainability.

Infrastructure & Urban Development

How infrastructure and urban investments create public value, improve access, and remain viable over time.

Evidence lens Research clarifies systems, needs, incentives, and policy choices. Evaluation examines implementation, outcomes, equity, value, and sustainability.

Digital Development

How digital systems, data, and responsible technology can improve services without deepening exclusion or risk.

Evidence lens Research clarifies systems, needs, incentives, and policy choices. Evaluation examines implementation, outcomes, equity, value, and sustainability.

Cross-sector perspective

Complex development questions rarely stay inside one sector.

CADRE examines the institutional, economic, social, political, environmental, and digital conditions that connect sector outcomes. This helps avoid narrow findings and supports recommendations that are realistic for the systems in which they must be implemented.

See how the CADRE Model handles context