Evidence Partnership
Evidence partnership built around your questions.
Evidence partnership
Evidence partnership built around your questions.
Organisations often need evidence at different points in their work. A programme may need to understand its participants, assess progress, measure outcomes or investigate why results are changing. A business may need to understand its market, customers or operating environment. A research institution may need reliable field support and data management.
DC&A Hub works with organisations to define the evidence they need and determine the most appropriate way to generate it.
Our role can range from research design and fieldwork to data management, analysis, evaluation, reporting and learning. We can support a complete assignment or contribute to a specific part of the evidence process.
We work closely with clients throughout the assignment so that the research remains connected to the questions it is intended to answer.
Where organisations come to us
Programmes
A programme may need to understand its participants, assess progress, measure outcomes or investigate why results are changing.
Businesses
A business may need to understand its market, customers or operating environment.
Research institutions
A research institution may need reliable field support and data management.
From Question to Decision
We begin by understanding the question the organisation needs to answer and the decision the evidence will support. We then design the research approach, generate and assess the evidence, analyse the findings and present them in a form that clients can use.
01
Frame the Question
Define the question, challenge or decision the evidence needs to address.
02
Design the Approach
Select the appropriate methodology, sampling strategy, tools and quality assurance processes.
03
Generate the Evidence
Collect primary and secondary evidence using methods suited to the research question and context.
04
Validate & Analyse
Review data quality, clean and analyse the evidence, and use appropriate checks to assess the findings.
05
Interpret the Findings
Identify the main findings, implications and issues that require attention.
06
Support Action & Learning
Present the evidence in forms that support programme improvement, organisational learning and decision-making.
