Strategic Management and Organizational Strengthening
- Consider at the enterprise level how to align your management decisions with your portfolio, program and project initiatives using dashboards, theories of change, logic models and performance measurement and management methods.
- Utilize board leadership development and coaching and sustainability planning to innovate.
- Identify areas in which you can make strategic changes to grow, innovate, and improve engagement within your organization through the alignment of strategy, structure, and metrics using data-informed decision-making.
- Build effective ways to manage and align headquarters policies downstream with upstream feedback loops to ensure that partners and subcontractors and field-based staff are able to seamlessly integrate requirements with on-the-ground contexts, document changes and pivot when a strategic change or regrouping is needed to ensure impact.
Evidence-based and Data-Driven Program Evaluation and Research Methods Consulting
- New approaches for data-driven results – if you’re seeking to develop a new approach to a policy issue, will you obtain it if you ask the same questions everyone else is asking? You can demonstrate your unique policy niche only by developing new ways to view society and policy problems in surveys, focus groups and in interviews. Demonstrate that your programs work using your own staff – a cost-effective approach.
- Mixed methods and quantitative analysis and database creation – Single purpose (e.g., surveys, focus groups) methods versus mixed methods is the difference between fast food and gourmet dining. Transforming qualitative data into quantitative data at an organization level and doing in-depth research requires the ability to complement, transform, embed, convert and triangulate data to draw evidence-based meta-inferences across methods.
- Program and Proposal Design for Impact and Outcome Evaluation – Program development and management rests on facilitated co-development to ensure alignment with mission and localization as well as management and feedback loops throughout the project cycle.
- Delivering Data-Driven Solutions – In today’s dynamic environment, organizations face growing pressure to demonstrate progress through on-demand reporting and data-driven insights. At SRC, we specialize in providing tailored solutions that empower organizations to meet these demands with confidence, offering comprehensive frameworks to manage, analyze, and present data effectively—ensuring you can showcase impact and adapt to evolving challenges with ease.
Mission-Driven Public Affairs Strategies
- New approaches for data-driven results – if you’re seeking to develop a new approach to a policy issue, will you obtain it if you ask the same questions everyone else is asking? You can demonstrate your unique policy niche only by developing new ways to view society and policy problems in surveys, focus groups and in interviews. Demonstrate that your programs work using your own staff – a cost-effective approach.
- Mixed methods and quantitative analysis and database creation – Single purpose (e.g., surveys, focus groups) methods versus mixed methods is the difference between fast food and gourmet dining. Transforming qualitative data into quantitative data at an organization level and doing in-depth research requires the ability to complement, transform, embed, convert and triangulate data to draw evidence-based meta-inferences across methods.
- Program and Proposal Design for Impact and Outcome Evaluation – Program development and management rests on facilitated co-development to ensure alignment with mission and localization as well as management and feedback loops throughout the project cycle.
- Delivering Data-Driven Solutions – In today’s dynamic environment, organizations face growing pressure to demonstrate progress through on-demand reporting and data-driven insights. At SRC, we specialize in providing tailored solutions that empower organizations to meet these demands with confidence, offering comprehensive frameworks to manage, analyze, and present data effectively—ensuring you can showcase impact and adapt to evolving challenges with ease.
Specialized Practice Areas
- Democracy support mechanisms ranging from parliamentary strengthening, political party capacity building, NGO and civil society and business association support are specialized and SRC is expert in aligning these types of interventions to impactful programs.
- Localization and integration of expertise with local and indigenous knowledge is based on partnerships. SRC knows how to establish and build effective partnerships.
- Scholarly-practitioner collaborations and advisory groups can inform specific practice areas and enable cost-free and/or inexpensive research partnerships.
- Private sector engagement can enable public-private dialogues and partnerships and more fully engage the business sector in social value creation around their own investments.
- Rule of law foundations are an essential core structural component for small ‘d” democracy and building trust in circumstances where justice administration and corruption increase impunity and do not allow equitable access to justice and economic markets.
- Gender integration across the program cycle requires specialized expertise that includes gender analysis, gender audits, specialized participatory methods and program cycle management and staff and partner training to go beyond outputs to achieve equitable outcomes, avoid risks, unintended consequences, and to ensure do no harm monitoring.
- Training and tool and resource development. SRC can develop training curricula using principles of adult professional learning and training outcomes. SRC can also develop frameworks and tools tailored to enable project teams to better integrate approaches within their project management of activities and enable management to better screen activities at the enterprise level.
- Third party research and evaluation advisories. SRC can provide a second opinion that can save money when selecting and hiring specialized research or public affairs firms or provide third party independent reviews of complex reports for management use.. Many of the larger firms actually specialize in only one type of study. SRC can ensure that the study that you commission actually produces the type of credible data you need. Too often, grantee reports can be incomprehensible and bury critical gaps or findings in hundred-page documents and dense appendices and tables. SRC can distil these reports into manageable briefs and flag management issues for discussion. And larger firms – used to working in the corporate community with unlimited budgets – when asked to tailor research can sacrifice the integrity of a study by cutting corners (e.g., sample size) which undermine the purposes of the study when they seek to meet the limited budget requirements of smaller organizations.