Our Projects
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Year 2017
Country Ethiopia
Client
USAID Food For Peace Ethiopia: Baseline Survey
Large-Scale Surveys PROJECTS
For USAID’s Office of Food for Peace (FFP), Kimetrica carried out a baseline survey of 8,460 households in three regions of Ethiopia: Oromia, Amhara, and Tigray. The survey, one of the largest ever implemented by USAID in Ethiopia, had a very short execution period, which required rapid mobilization of hundreds of field staff. Kimetrica’s research team managed all aspects of the field work, including training and managing over 300 enumerators who conducted household interviews and took anthropometric measurements of children aged 5 and under. A comprehensive listing (village census) of over 282 kebeles (wards) was undertaken, including GIS mapping of household locations. The listing data formed the basis for a three-stage cluster sample to ensure survey results represented the target populations. Data was collected using tablet computers and Census and Survey Processing System (CSPro) software. Survey results provided FFP with situational analysis prior to the implementation of food and non-food aid. Follow-up surveys of the same households provided results and impact information critical to the successful management of FFP’s multi-million dollar support efforts.
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Year 2009-2019
Country USA
Client
Population Explorer: Web-Services for Small Area Population Estimates
Information Management PROJECTS
USAID responds to humanitarian needs caused by natural and human-made disasters. When a crisis occurs, estimating the number of people affected is most important. This critical information can drive hundreds of millions of dollars in funding decisions, and yet it is most often derived from national governments' and relief workers' best-guess estimates. Further, while responses to emergency situations need to happen immediately, estimates of impacted populations can take time, even months. To address the need for rapid and reliable small area population estimates, Kimetrica developed Population Explorer (www.populationexplorer.com) for USAID's Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET). The web-based service allows anyone with access to the Internet to estimate human populations anywhere in the world, including age and sex breakdowns. Population Explorer has become a front-line tool in disaster management and response, allowing responders to quickly estimate populations affected by disasters and other crises. Originally funded in 2009 by USAID, Population Explorer has since become a stand-alone product used not only by the humanitarian sector, but by commercial organizations around the globe. Managed by Kimetrica, the tool continues to evolve, based on feedback and needs of its user community.
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Year 2014-2015
Country Kenya
Client
Feed the Future Zone of Influence Monitoring Survey
Large-Scale Surveys PROJECTS
To measure the progress of the United States Agency for International Development's (USAID) Feed the Future initiative in northern Kenya, Kimetrica carried out a 2,970-household survey among pastoral and agro-pastoral households. The population-based survey gathered information focusing on agriculture, food security, food consumption, nutrition, women’s empowerment and the well-being of households. Using tablets, Kimetrica’s field teams were able to upload data in near-real time. This allowed for a data quality assessment of the compiled information before enumeration teams moved to the next survey area, saving significant time and money. USAID used the survey results and report to measure the impact of its initiative on household resilience.
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Year 2011-2015
Country Ethiopia
Client
Large-Scale Surveys PROJECTS
Agriculture Growth Program-Agribusiness and Market Development: Baseline Survey
Research and Evaluation PROJECTS
The Agricultural Growth Program (AGP) was a collaborative initiative of the Government of Ethiopia, the World Bank, and multiple international donors, including the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The AGP promoted economic growth in four high-rainfall regions of Ethiopia with strong agricultural potential -- Oromia; Amhara; Southern Nations, Nationalities and People’s Region (SNNPR); and Tigray. The AGP-Agribusiness and Market Development (AGP-AMDe) project was one of the three pillars of the AGP and focused specifically on making agriculture profitable. Its goal was to sustainably reduce poverty and hunger by improving productivity and competitiveness of value chains that offered job and income opportunities to rural households. Kimetrica developed the project’s monitoring and evaluation framework for the initiative. This included aligning the project’s performance management plan with results indicators and customising Kimetrica’s commercial Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) software, ki-projects™, to manage all aspects of the project’s performance monitoring requirements. In addition, Kimetrica carried out a 2,000-household baseline survey. Its data laid the groundwork for the monitoring of and reporting on the project's results.
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Year 2013-2018
Country Kenya
Client
Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) Field Support
Large-Scale Surveys PROJECTS
Kimetrica provided cutting-edge technical field support to the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS), one of United States Agency for International Development's (USAID) longest running and most successful research activities. Kimetrica’s research team helped DHS move from paper data collection to computer and smartphone based data collection, using a mobile version of the Census and Survey Processing System (CSPro) management tool. This shift improved survey data accuracy, and markedly shortened the time between field data collection and results dissemination. In addition, Kimetrica’s trainers helped to build a cadre of local survey experts to manage DHS’s complex demographics and health surveys; Innovative Development Strategies (IDS) indicator surveys; malaria indicator surveys; and service provision assessment surveys. Kimetrica’s work helped shift the bulk of DHS work from international consultants to local experts and advance the objectives of USAID Forward.
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Year 2012-2014
Country Zambia
Client
Large-Scale Surveys PROJECTS
Research and Evaluation PROJECTS
Production, Finance and Improved Technology Plus (PROFIT+): M&E Services, Baseline Survey, and Impact Evaluation
Information Management PROJECTS
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Production, Finance and Improved Technology Plus (PROFIT+) program was aimed to advance economic growth by helping smallholder farmers produce and sell more of their commodities. Building on previous USAID support activities, PROFIT+ worked to enhance input supply and foster output markets. The project’s goal was to increase productivity and incomes of 200,000 targeted smallholder farmers by as much as 30 percent. Kimetrica bolstered the program by providing monitoring and evaluation (M&E) tools, management, training, and support. Using Kimetrica’s commercial M&E software, ki-projectsTM, performance data was collected remotely, using handheld computer devices, as well as traditional survey approaches. Kimetrica’s survey team also managed a baseline survey, which provided the foundation for the project’s performance measures, and an impact evaluation of various program inputs.
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Year 2012-2013
Country Ethiopia
Client
Livelihoods Integration Unit-Enhancing Livelihoods Application (LIU-ELA) Project
Research and Evaluation PROJECTS
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Ethiopia Mission has supported the Government of Ethiopia’s (GOE) efforts and capacity to better anticipate and respond to disasters for more than a decade. The Ethiopia Livelihoods Integration Unit-Enhancing Livelihood Application (LIU-ELA) project extended early work undertaken by USAID and the GOE in livelihood zone profiling by expanding the utility and use of livelihoods data and tools. The project promoted practical applications of livelihoods information by building the capacity of GOE and partner organisations and by helping to expand the use of livelihoods information for emergency and development planning through integrated tools and decision-support methods. Kimetrica’s team of food security and livelihood specialists, early warning experts, trainers, and software developers built easy-to-use tools that integrated livelihood zone baseline data with other data sources to allow users to both explore links between layers of information and, at the same time, inform emergency and development decision-making.
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Year 2012
Country Bangladesh
Client
Feed the Future Monitoring and Evaluation System Design and Initiation
Research and Evaluation PROJECTS
As part of the Feed the Future (FTF) initiative, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Bangladesh commissioned a review of its performance metrics and monitoring and evaluation systems (M&E). Kimetrica was contracted to conduct an analysis of the existing state of performance monitoring, both at the USAID Mission and among implementing partners. The analysis and recommendations provided USAID with a web-based performance management and reporting system framework that could be implemented across USAID Bangladesh. It included web-based reporting software to allow implementing partners to feed results data into USAID’s reporting mechanism; process enhancement to ensure that implementing partners improved data collection for FTF results indicators; and training and capacity development of Mission staff and partners in the M&E systems.
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Year 2011-2014
Country Tanzania
Client
Tanzania Staples Value Chain (NAFAKA)
Information Management PROJECTS
Tanzania Staples Value Chain (NAFAKA) was a United States Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded program to improve smallholder farmers’ productivity and profitability in maize and rice value chains in targeted districts of Tanzania. Working with rural communities and the Tanzanian Ministry of Agriculture, the program focused on improving productivity, increasing incomes, improving competitiveness and trade, and fostering an increase in investment and innovation. As the principal partner on results assessment, Kimetrica conducted a 2,000-household baseline survey and designed the project monitoring and evaluation (M&E) system, based on Kimetrica’s commercial M&E software, ki-projects™. Kimetrica’s M&E team worked to build the capacity of project and partner staff in results based management and principles of M&E, including the design of results frameworks, monitoring questionnaires, data analysis and M&E reporting. The results framework and M&E tools provided critical input to program management decisions that were focused on achieving the greatest results with the resources at hand.
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Year 2011-2015
Country Malawi
Client
Supply Chain Management System: Long Lasting Insecticide Treated Nets
Information Management PROJECTS
Malaria affects approximately half of the world’s population, but the highest number of deaths is among children under five in Sub-Saharan Africa. Under a United States Agency for International Development (USAID) project, Populations Services International, Inc. (PSI) distributed long-lasting insecticide-treated mosquito nets (LLINs), for free or at highly subsidised prices, through mass campaigns, routine health facility-based distributions, community health workers, and the private sector. Kimetrica was contracted to provide a customised version of its commercial supply chain management software, ki-suppliesTM, to manage the distribution of LLINs. The software was accessible to all stakeholders and capable of accurately tracking and verifying LLIN delivery. The software database integrated the pre-existing paper-based tracking systems by creating an electronic record of each LLIN. Each stakeholder, including USAID, the Malawi Ministry of Health, and other partners, could access the system and view the location of each LLIN, from initial arrival at the port to final delivery at a clinic.