Our Projects

In 2010, Save the Children UK  (SCUK) implemented an emergency integrated health and nutrition intervention in Wajir East, Wajir South and Mandera Central Districts in Northeastern Kenya. The main objective of the intervention was to reduce morbidity and mortality among children under-five years of age, as well as among pregnant and lactating mothers. The program adopted an emergency approach to treat the acutely malnourished in the context of chronically high levels of malnutrition, food insecurity, and poor health care. In 2011, Kimetrica evaluated the effectiveness of the intervention using a range of methods, including reviews of the available documentation, site visits, expert and focus group interviews, and the analysis of beneficiary data. The evaluation found that the project achieved its overall objectives; it also offered recommendations on strategies for SCUK to strengthen both its program management and local-level advocacy approach. Kimetrica’s findings provided direction to the design of follow-on programs to mitigate chronic malnutrition.

The Academic Model Providing Access to Healthcare (AMPATH) is a consortium of Kenyan and North American academic and health centres led by Indiana University, working in partnership with the Government of Kenya. AMPATH was created in response to providing life-saving care in the face of the HIV pandemic. AMPATH treated over 140,000 HIV-positive persons, with almost 2,000 new patients being enrolled each month at over 60 urban and rural clinic sites throughout western Kenya. In addition, AMPATH had reached over half a million persons through a home-based counseling and testing program that enjoys a 98+ percent rate of acceptance into the homes it visits. The program reduced mother-to-child transmission of HIV/AIDS to below 2 percent.   To measure the impact of AMPATH’s home-based counseling program, Kimetrica conducted 3,000 household and key informant interviews with religious leaders, village chiefs, heads of women’s groups and village elders.  The survey included finalizing and testing tools, training and managing enumerators, developing a data reduction program based on Kimetrica’s survey management software, ki-metricsTM, and providing preliminary data analysis and data reports to the World Bank.  The World Bank used the final survey to measure the overall impact of its investment in AMPATH.

With support from the World Bank, the Government of Tanzania implemented the Scaling Up Sanitation and Handwashing Project to mitigate the impact of poor sanitation and hygiene on human health.  The project focused on behaviour change and the development of local expertise in the supply of sanitation facilities in rural markets. Working at both the individual and community levels, the project’s social marketing messages, based on similar approaches around the world, intended to influence the use of improved sanitation facilities and encourage habits of improved hygiene. To evaluate the effectiveness of the project, Kimetrica designed a randomised, statistically significant impact evaluation.  The evaluation methodology included the development of a sample frame, mapping of enumeration areas, development of the survey implementation plan, and management and implementation of a 4,600 household survey. The World Bank used Kimetrica’s methodology to undertake evaluations on the impact of the intervention.

In May 2009, WFP Kenya’s Protracted Relief and Recovery Operation (PRRO) was approved to support the Government of Kenya’s social protection strategy to help households in both rural and urban areas -- primarily in the country’s arid and semi-arid lands (ASALs) -- cope with and recover from drought. The operation focused on rebuilding livelihoods, and improving community resilience to future droughts. The PRRO’s main components were recovery, social protection, and preparedness.  Kimetrica reviewed the existing PRRO and provided critical input toward the design of the follow-on PRRO. The review included a desk analysis of relevant documents, in-depth interviews with stakeholders both in Nairobi, Kenya and in the field, and focus group interviews with beneficiaries, non-beneficiaries, and relief committees from Turkana and Mwingi Districts. Key areas identified to improve overall program effectiveness included: advocacy and awareness; targeting and registration; food aid management; needs assessment; monitoring and evaluation; and exit strategies. Kimetrica’s recommendations were incorporated in WFP’s follow-on PRRO.

As a response to preventable threats posed by poor sanitation and hygiene, the World Bank’s Water and Sanitation Programme (WSP) implemented a Scaling Up Handwashing Behaviour Change and Sanitation Program in six countries. The major component of the project was to reduce the incidence of disease. Kimetrica implemented the program’s impact evaluation in four countries: India, Peru, Senegal and Vietnam. The evaluation, which was based on formal quantitative surveys, documented the health impacts and relevant project costs of WSP interventions. To measure impact, the evaluation carried out randomised controled trials using household surveys to capture key outcome indicators. Kimetrica's survey and software experts provided data capture software and training in household survey enumeration, data capture, and quality control to local survey firms in the four project countries. The development of data capture software, including web-based reports, provided both quality control and survey coordination. The World Bank used the final impact evaluation data to measure the impact of its investment, as well as to inform follow-on programs.

Poverty in Kenya is distributed based on the viability of the livelihood systems that households depend on, and how susceptible they are to economic, environmental and security shocks. To mitigate the impacts of poverty, the Government of Kenya (GOK) and its development partners implemented a number of safety net interventions. These included food relief, cash transfers, and public works programs. In support of the development of the national Social Safety Net Policy, Kimetrica conducted a sector review to deepen the analysis of safety nets by providing a broader perspective, as well as more in-depth analysis in specific areas, including adequacy of transfers, and equity of coverage and spatial distribution of programs. The review was conducted in two parts. The first provided an assessment of expenditure and measures of efficiency and effectiveness within the sector. The second part presented a synthesis of results and provided a set of recommendations for reform in the sector. Kimetrica’s final report and recommendations provided the basis for the GOK’s Social Safety Net Policy.

In 2009 and 2010, as part of the Government of Kenya’s (GOK) expansion of social protection activities, the GOK and its partners piloted a cash transfer program in urban informal settlements. The pilot had three main objectives: to provide immediate relief to targeted households affected by the on‐going food crisis; to support households in meeting their basic food consumption needs; and to develop structures for the delivery of national social protection program interventions targeting the poor and vulnerable. The purpose of Kimetrica’s review was to analyse the experience of implementing the cash transfer pilot program in the informal settlements in order to build an evidence base to help in decision making, as well as to guide future program strategies. The review helped to form the basis of follow-on national policies related to social protection interventions.

The Somaliland Government’s National Environmental Research and Disaster Management Authority (NERAD), was formed to mitigate the impact of droughts and other natural hazards on vulnerable communities in Somaliland. With support from OXFAM GB and the European Commission, NERAD focused its efforts on disaster prevention, mitigation, response and recovery. Kimetrica’s web-based early warning and contingency planning software, Crisis Toolkit™ was fundamental to NERAD’s analysis of hazards and their impacts. The system contributed to the disaster preparedness capacity of Somalilanders by providing information and early warning to the government, and its humanitarian partners and donors so that steps could be taken to reduce the impact of food insecurity on people's assets, the environment and human capital. The early warning system provided necessary information to trigger response analysis, and was part of an expanded food security information and analysis system that contributed to short-term emergency responses as well as long-term development planning.

The Government of Rwanda’s (GOR) Economic Development and Poverty Reduction Strategy identifies land registration as a critical element, improving land productivity and functioning of land markets, reducing conflicts, empowering women, and improving overall governance. In 2009, with support from international donors, the GOR began implementing a national program to register all of the estimated 7.9 million land parcels in Rwanda. Kimetrica was contracted to provide an impact evaluation of the land registration process on key outcome variables, including household perceptions of land tenure security, asset protection, female empowerment, access to land, access to credit, livelihood diversification, and overall human welfare. Kimetrica’s survey team finalised and reviewed survey instruments, trained and managed enumeration teams, conducted 2+ hour household interviews with 4,000 households, and captured the data in Kimetrica's survey management software, ki-metrics^TM. The final data analysis and baseline report was used by the GOR to measure the rollout and impact of its National Land Tenure Program.

The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development’s (OECD) Accelerated Data Programme (ADP) was launched to help countries improve their survey programs and increase the use and value of survey data. The ADP provides technical and financial support to survey data documentation and dissemination, and to the improvement of survey methods. As part of this effort, Kimetrica provided training to the Government of Tanzania’s National Statistics Bureau by developing the capacity of its staff to produce statistical data relevant for policy design and monitoring and evaluation. The training included hands-on experience in data documentation and dissemination. Software tools designed for the capture and dissemination of national statistics were integrated within existing systems to facilitate data documentation and distribution. Capacity development in long-term survey program development and data collection, as well as training in micro-data preservation, analysis, anonymization, and dissemination was also provided.