Recent GK Consulting Clients and Projects
Plan UK / Plan International for AstraZeneca: YHP Baseline (2020), Midline (2023), Endline (2025) Evaluations. Study design, analysis and reporting (qualitative and quantitative) on impact of 5-year AstraZeneca-funded Young Health Programme intervention, aimed at reducing non-communicable diseases in six countries (Thailand, Kenya, Egypt, Colombia, Brazil, Vietnam) (2020-2025)
FBA for the United Nations: Evaluation of the FBA support to the UN regarding the Youth, Peace and Security Agenda, and analysis of the implementation of the UN Agenda for Youth, Peace and Security project”, for FBA and Exterion LLC. GK Consulting provided the methodology expert and qualitative analyst for the evaluation; conducted multiple interviews with Senior-level UN staff on usage of YPS advocacy and programming tools and guidance (2021 – 2022)
USAID: COVID 19 Resilience in Education Systems Research. Designing and implementing qualitative longitudinal research on resilience of education systems during first fourteen months of COVID-19 pandemic in Colombia, Georgia, Lebanon, Nigeria, Zambia (2020 – 2021).
Dexis for USAID: Rapid Education and Risk Analysis Colombia. Advising Rapid Education and Risk Analysis (RERA) International and Local team on conducting qualitative and quantitative field research remotely; designing research logistics and protocols; advising on data collection tools and technology, and preparing asynchronous training materials (2020).
AIR for US Department of Agriculture and Save the Children US: Food for Education LEARN Baseline, midline, Endline; LEARN II Baseline and midline: GK Consulting provided the qualitative expert on development, analysis and reporting of LEARN I qualitative baseline (2018), midline (2020), endline (2022); LEARN II qualitative baseline (2022), midline (2024) evaluation of food for education (FFE)) LEARN program; assisting in mobilization of field teams for quantitative and qualitative portions of both evaluations; on hold due to Covid-19 related school closures (2018 – 2024)
DT Global for International Rescue Committee and FCDO: Every Adolescent Girl Empowered and Resilient (EAGER) Baseline (2019), Midline (2021), Endline (2023), Post-Endline (2023) GK Consulting provided the technical advisor leading development of qualitative tools and analysis for baseline evaluation of Girls’ Education Challenge project working with out of school girls gaining access to safe spaces and learning basic, financial and life skills; providing key inputs on synthesis of quantitative and qualitative findings in final report (2019 – 2023)
Care UK / Care Syria: Syria Resilience Research Project conducting qualitative Participatory Ethnographic Evaluation and Research (PEER) research on resilience – roots of resilience and mechanisms to enhance resilience – among Syrians affected by ongoing conflict, managing international team of 3 and virtually hiring and managing 16-person field team inside Syria conducting 5-month study (9 waves of research) across four hubs to inform CARE’s resilience conceptual framework and subsequent programming. Extension of research into refugee communities in Turkey, Jordan, and Lebanon, focusing on life stories and journaling over two months (5 waves) with marginalized women. Leading learning events along the way to solicit feedback from CARE staff and other stakeholders to further refine methodology (2018 – 2020)
TGCI for Making All Voices Count: Baseline (2016) and Endline (2018) Evaluations for The Global Citizen’s Initiative Liberia for Making All Voices Count (MAVC). Designing, planning, overseeing (all virtually), analysis and reporting on mixed-methods baseline and endline impact study for intervention to increase citizen engagement along with reporting/ response to child rape cases using SMS technology in Liberia; incorporating innovative feedback loop processes to encourage community buy-in to project; to inform project adaptations based on community participation in evaluations. Following work (2019), leading “Mapping Access to Support Services Among Young Sexual Violence Survivors in Liberia”. Designing and leading assessment of availability and quality of child abuse service providers across six counties to refer to student beneficiaries of USAID-funded accelerated education project subjected to school-related gender-based violence (2016 – 2019)
Millennium Challenge Corporation Liberia: Constraints and Root Cause Analysis related to Social-Gender Integration for Liberia Compact Development (2013 – 2014) and implementation of electrification strategy (2018). Conducting mixed methods field research to determine willingness to pay for electricity, and barriers to accessing / paying for electricity along energy corridors and based on findings, contributing to early design of evidence-based program to maximize productive use of electricity among marginalized micro-and small-businesses (e.g., access to finance subsidies for appliances; training on productive uses of electricity); inputs to social and gender integration plan (SGIP) (2017).
DevTech Systems for USAID: Rapid Education and Risk Analysis. Providing inputs to tool development and analysis of USAID’s qualitative Rapid Education and Risks Analysis (RERA) among host communities impacted by Rohingya influx and other contextual risks in Bangladesh.
Plan UK / Plan International for Credit Suisse: Baseline (2014), Midline (2016), and Endline (2019) Evaluations, Phase I Baseline (2019) and Endline (2023) for Phase II; Thought Leadership Research on Financial and Life Skills Education for Adolescent Girls. Designing M&E strategy, evaluation tools, evaluation training materials, managing local evaluation field teams, and conducting all analysis and reporting for five mixed-methods evaluations for first and second iterations of program in India, Rwanda, China and Brazil (2014 – 2023)
Norwegian Church Aid: Baseline (2014), Midline (2015), and Endline (2019) Evaluation Gender Based Violence Reduction Programme. Three waves of mixed methods evaluation for NCA’s Gender Based Violence reduction program in North and South Kivu regions. Designing overall research plan, quantitative tools; providing inputs on qualitative toolkit development; oversight of QA and reporting processes; supervising Team Leader, field coordinator (virtually); working with NCA local staff to build capacity / engage them in participatory data collection processes (2014 – 2019).
UN Women: Baseline for UN Women Port Moresby Safe City Programme. GK Consulting provided the Team Leader and Qualitative Lead for a mixed methods baseline evaluation of UN Women initiative: “Safe Cities Free of Violence against Women and Girls”. Programs are designed with local, regional and global partners in response to the growing concerns about every day experiences of women and girls all over the world who experience sexual harassment and other forms of sexual violence in public spaces; working with community stakeholders who have engaged in developing community-owned solutions to address problems (2014).
Plan UK / Plan Sierra Leone for DFID: Girls’ Education Challenge Sierra Leone Baseline Evaluation for Plan, UK. GK Consulting planned and managed all facets of a mixed methods evaluation covering 144 communities, and conducting over 2800 household interviews and over 6000 learning assessments in five districts of the country. Recruited, trained and managed a staff of 21 local full-time enumerators over two months of data collection, along with an additional 40 short-term data collectors throughout the country. Provided comprehensive and statistically rigorous baseline report for project outcome and output milestones (2013).
Plan UK / Plan International for DFID: Year Three (Mid-term) Evaluation on Plan UKs Global ‘Building Skills 4 Life’ Programme. GK Consulting provides the lead global consultant who managed (remotely) local field teams in the nine-country mixed-methods evaluation, providing data collection tools, training on research methodology, technical oversight to local consultants in each country, managing the data collection and preparing a meta-analysis of the global project’s effect on adolescent livelihoods, particularly girls (2013 – 2014).
Save the Children US / Liberia: Evaluation (mixed methods) of Ebola Community Care Centers in Liberia. Field research with patients, community members, staff and volunteers. Activities Performed: Managing project (logistics, identification and hiring of staff (two international consultants and field team of 6), reviewing methodology and toolkits, contract management, senior review of evaluation report. Recommendations on improvement of project delivery given findings from study (2015).
The Khana Group for Coca-Cola and Mercy Corps: Northern Nigeria: Senior Technical Advisor – M&E. Coordinating the overall technical aspect of quantitative randomized control trial (RCT) evaluation of DFID-funded Girls’ Education Challenge (GEC) programme in Northern Nigeria. Virtually training local staff on data management and quantitative analysis using available software (Excel); ensuring ethical protocols are in place to protect girls (2014 – 2015)
UN Women: Baseline study for “Women’s Economic Empowerment: Building Peace, Promoting Prosperity” and “Community-based Conflict Management – Women as Peacemakers and Nation Builders” Baseline for UN Women Liberia’s Peacebuilding Fund Programme. This programme consisted of two projects; one focusing on women’s economic empowerment and the other on women’s role in advocating for peace. The project had three key deliverables – to design, test and finalize quantitative and qualitative data collection tools that will be used for monitoring framework during the project, train a 12-person data collection team in collecting data in gender sensitive thematic areas and collect and analyse data. A team consisting of both international experts and local data collectors used mixed method sampling strategies to gather and finalize data. As the team undertook the assignment directly after the effects of the Ebola outbreak became apparent, the baseline reflects the effect of EVD on women’s economic empowerment in the regions (2014 – 2015).
UNICEF: Liberia Baseline evaluation on Peacebuilding Education and Advocacy Programme (PBEA) Designing quantitative instruments and monitoring and evaluation tools and methodology; training and managing a local field team who conducted mixed methods research within 400+ respondents across Liberia; leading on analysis of quantitative data; preparation of baseline and M&E training materials (2013).