Company Profile
There is growing pressure on governments and organizations around the world to be more responsive to the demands of internal and external stakeholders for good governance, accountability and transparency, greater development effectiveness, and delivery of tangible results. Thus there has been an evolution in the field of monitoring and evaluation involving a movement away from traditional implementation based approaches toward new results-based approaches.
The Independent Development and Learning Group (IDLG) Ltd is a company registered in Kenya whose focus is consulting on project design, monitoring, evaluation and Results Based Management (RBM) technical capacity building and external evaluation services. We target development and humanitarian programs in Africa as well as developing countries in general.
IDLG is managed by Senior Research Fellows with over 20 years of experience in offering support to organizations to measure results refine their M&E needs. Specifically we specialize in capacity building and offering services in developing organizational and project M&E systems, baselines, evaluations (sector development frameworks and projects), policy research and development, environmental impact assessments, digital data collection and management, documentation,. IDLG has experience in the following sectors: conflict and peace building, education, early childhood development, agriculture and value chains, water, sanitation and health, climate change and environment.
We partner with civil society organizations to provide independent monitoring and evaluation of their programs, right from the start as resource partners. We support designing of the program, ensuring objectives are SMART and targets are realistic. We also support in setting up the M&E Activity Plans or PMP as may be the case, developing tools for data collection and setting up digital data collection systems if required. We also support monitoring during the implementation phase thereby providing an external eye to identify and guide on areas lagging behind, areas that burst targets (over 10% in each), adaptive programming to ensure the monitoring information is used to improve strategy and activities and data quality assessments and audits.
The challenge with assessments by internal M&E staff is the ‘insider bias’ that affecting quality of implementation. IDLG also offers accompaniment and customized trainings to organizations in Results Based management, M&E and supports them to develop M&E systems in terms of personnel, standards and procedures and tools and technologies. We first undertake a participatory organizational capacity Assessment (OCA) to identify strengths and gaps before customizing the M&E support to the organization.
Ethical Statement
IDLG operations that ensures honesty, objectivity, integrity, carefulness, openness and confidentiality. There will be informed consent for participants, which will be included in the tools and where they have to sign before proceeding. There is assurance of confidentiality during data collection and in reporting. To ensure child protection, no interviews are undertaken with children unless with explicit permission from the parents or guardians and collaboration with the child. All photos taken will have consent and signed approval for use.
Measures are taken to ensure all data collected is checked for integrity issues before analysis and reporting to prevent fabricating, falsifying, or misrepresenting research data in order to promote the truth and minimize error.
Capacity Statement
IDLG researchers are PhD and Masters graduates in various sectors (Education, Conflict and Peacebuilding, Food security, Water, Conservation and Climate change, Environmental and Social Impact Assessments, Health, Sanitation and Hygiene, Governance and Human Rights, Gender, Curriculum, Research and Evaluation with experience in baselines, evaluations and assessments from sector, programmatic to project level.