I4DI & Livelihoods Venture: A New Era in Impact Assessment & Operational Excellence
Livelihoods Venture (LV), committed to amplifying its impact through its Funds, projects, and investments, recognizes the transformative potential of strategic alignment. They have thus teamed up with I4DI to enhance LV’s impact pathways and revamp their MEL system. I4DI has already commenced with an in-depth analysis of LV’s existing MEL systems. Through a series of […]
USAID Monitoring and Evaluation Training Services (METS)
The Institute for Development Impact (I4DI), a woman-owned small business, has been awarded a five-year, $2 million Monitoring and Evaluation Training Services (METS) contract to provide expertise and capacity-building services to USAID’s Bureau for Resilience, Environment, and Food Security (REFS). This contract will support REFS staff to routinely apply rigorous monitoring, evaluation, and learning to track progress, facilitate performance-based and adaptive management, remain accountable on its commitments, and learn more about effective and evidence-based approaches to development objectives and outcomes in resilience, food and water security, sanitation and hygiene.
Program and Organizational Effectiveness Plan – Mars Inc.
I4DI provided performance management services to Mars. Inc covering business process review, knowledge asset mapping, technology systems review, and redesign of a comprehensive performance management system for activities supporting sustainable sourcing of cocoa in South Sulawesi, Indonesia. Services included 1) a performance monitoring and impact evaluation plan to increase the sustainable impact of Mars Indonesia’s […]
Norwegian Programme for Capacity Development in Higher Education & Research for Development- NORHED
I4DI provided application evaluation services to the Norwegian Programme for Capacity Development in Higher Education and Research for Development (NORHED). As part of the engagement, our team evaluated proposals by providing scores, qualitative comments based on standard criteria, and specific recommendations for funding. I4DI also provided a summary of key observations and lessons learned from […]
Country Programme Evaluation (2016-2020) – UNICEF Serbia
In 2019, I4DI completed an evaluation of the UNICEF Serbia Country Programme 2016–2020 (CP), which was commissioned by the UNICEF Country Office in Serbia and managed from UNICEF’s Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia. The main objective of this formative evaluation was to critically assess the strategies applied in the current Country Programme (CP) […]
NextGen Baseline Study for Sustainable Cocoa Production Program- Mars Inc., Indonesia
I4DI supported a blended investment partnership between Mars Inc. Indonesia, Swisscontact, and MCA in the design of the NextGen program- a youth engagement initiative designed to strengthen STEM education in technical/vocational schools and increase interest among youth in professional cocoa farming. I4DI conducted an extensive qualitative study of youth developmental assets in three cocoa farming communities, […]
Learning Framework Technical Support- Mars Inc., Income Lab
I4DI iteratively researched and developed learning frameworks and research assessment materials to study small-holder farmer income across Mars’ 23 major raw materials supply chains including cocoa, sugar, and rice. The learning component of the Income Lab worked to understand how success was defined across all MARS segments and what commitments of improvements to income/socio-economic well-being […]
Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and Learning- Mars Inc., Symbioscience
I4DI worked with a division of Mars Inc. to provide integrated design, monitoring, evaluation, information systems, and capacity building services focused on the sustainable sourcing of cocoa. Services included 1) a qualitative study of small-holder cocoa farmers and issues impacting sustainable sourcing of cocoa, 2) capacity building of local Indonesian research firm on study methodology, […]