Our Approach
Use of Mobile Data Application Platform
Regarding our data management approach, we will offer simple, user-friendly tools to make analyses of complex datasets accessible to stakeholders and decision-makers. Researchcare has over 300 tablets and smartphones for online and remote data collection and is able to collect data for reaching more than 10,000 respondents within a week. We will handle data in a comprehensive and consolidated manner to allow various types of analyses. Data is entered into Researchcare Africa web-based data management system to ease standardization and to prepare the various layers of analysis.
We aim at providing the database analysis in a format that will allow our clients to verify our work and conduct their own analysis if desired. Therefore, R will produce a simplified data analysis dashboard for our clients for their internal analyses. These dashboards are critical elements in the process of passing the data to managers in a manner that enables them to run complex analyses which filter through a few clicks.
Project managers can easily check the situation on the ground for different groups or locations. Researchcare Africa has an established mobile data collection system that has over time been used by our previous clients. The system provides real-time monitoring through a mobile data collection approach. These dashboards will be linked to provide automatic updates of the indicators as set in the project logical framework. The monitoring system designed by Researchcare Africa has been tested and targets at removing the burden of data management from the project manager in order to emphasize his/her managing role. The monitoring system enables managers to gain timely access to field information in a structured and systematic manner, which allows for a comprehensive understanding of the situation and an appreciation of its complexity. Researchcare will use mobile-based data collection system (ONA) for the household survey and registration when required.
Researchcare Management Team
Researchcare has multiple levels of management that closely collaborate and deliver effective results. Researchcare teams are comprised of partners and associates and project teams. Researchcare has over 190 staff on its database who are frequently engaged to deliver assignments. Our teams possess requisite credentials and are well experienced, and skilled in evaluation, research, data management (online /paper), project management, and providing advisories. In addition, our consultants are well versed in current and past socio-economic-political, security and cultural dynamics of communities we work with and have more than 12 years of humanitarian and development experience in Horn and east Africa. The organization’s organogram is shown in figure 1 below.
Recent Sectors
WASH
Nutrition
Re-integration of IDPs
Resilience / Protection
Education
Food Security
Governance & Stabilization
Researchcare Africa Achievements
Researchcare has successfully delivered numerous assignments for its clients in Horn and East Africa since 2010. Below is snapshot of Researchcare Africa’s strengths and achievements.
| RESEARCHCARE AFRICA STRENGTHS AND ACHIEVEMENTS |
- Fully operational offices in Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia since 2010
- A strong, experienced team comprising local and international expertise
- 190+ trained and qualified field researchers and research experts across Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia
- Full access to all counties of Kenya
- Conducted 113,000+ HHs surveys
- Conducted 16,000+ key informants and FGDs
- Managed 200+ data enumerators on a single project
- Supported Governments and development agencies in Institutional development and strengthening
- Researchcare uses online data management platform to relay objective and real-time data to clients
- Researchcare will produce a simplified data analysis dashboard for our clients for their internal analyses
- 300+ smartphones & tablets for data collection
- Worked with 30+ international organizations UN agencies and governments institutions
Our consulting teams operate within a framework of tested management and quality control systems and institutional support, offering quality assurance, risk management, administrative and financial oversight and rigorous project management systems.