What We Do
CADRE concentrates on two disciplines. Development research helps institutions understand a problem and its context; evaluation helps them judge performance, outcomes, impact, and what should happen next.
Practice area
Systematic inquiry into development problems, institutions, policies, markets, and lived experience. The aim is not simply to describe conditions, but to produce defensible explanations and decision-relevant knowledge.
We frame research around a consequential decision or knowledge gap. Questions are refined with stakeholders, evidence is interpreted within its institutional setting, and findings distinguish clearly between observation, inference, and recommendation.
Mixed-methods research, household and institutional surveys, qualitative inquiry, evidence synthesis, political economy and institutional analysis, economic analysis, and participatory approaches.
Diagnostic and baseline studies, policy and programme research, feasibility and needs assessments, sector studies, implementation research, cost-benefit analysis, regulatory impact assessment, and evidence reviews.
Research reports, analytical briefs, datasets and codebooks, evidence maps, policy options, decision memos, presentations, and accessible knowledge products with documented methods and limitations.
Practice area
Independent and systematic assessment of an intervention's relevance, coherence, effectiveness, efficiency, impact, and sustainability. Evaluation supports accountability while creating practical learning for future decisions.
We reconstruct the intervention logic, clarify evaluation questions and criteria, examine intended and unintended change, test alternative explanations, and interpret results against context and implementation quality.
Theory-based evaluation, contribution analysis, process and outcome evaluation, experimental and quasi-experimental designs where appropriate, case comparison, outcome harvesting, and participatory evaluation.
Baseline, midline, endline, performance, process, outcome, impact, portfolio, strategy, and institutional evaluations, as well as evaluability assessments and monitoring, evaluation, and learning system reviews.
Inception and evaluation design reports, theory of change, evaluation matrices, findings and recommendations, management-ready briefs, learning workshops, validated datasets, and transparent evidence annexes.
Across both disciplines
CADRE selects designs according to the decision, available evidence, feasibility, ethics, risk, and required level of confidence. Every assignment makes its methods, assumptions, limitations, and quality controls explicit.
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We will help clarify the question before recommending a research or evaluation approach.
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