Services
Monitoring, evaluation and quality assurance
Programme data is only useful if it's right. Our ME&QA work makes sure what's reported from the field matches what's happening in it: who the farmers are, what they grow, what they use, and what changed.
What we do
- Field data validationChecking farm registrations, plot sizes, input records and yields against what our teams see on the ground
- Compliance verificationInternal inspections against the standard or your programme rules, by trained Internal Control Inspectors
- Impact assessmentMeasuring change in the four areas we track: farmer income and resilience, soil health and biodiversity, water efficiency and carbon, and traceability
- Quality assuranceQA officers review data and documents before anything leaves the field
We collect data digitally where we can, with mobile forms in the field and mapped farms and plots, so it can be checked and shared quickly.
Who uses it
- Mills and brands who need to stand behind programme numbers in their own reporting
- Donors and NGOs who need results frameworks filled with data they can verify
- Corporate CSR teams reporting to their boards
Questions
What is an Internal Control System?
It's a farmer group's own documented system for registering members, training them and inspecting their farms. It lets a group of smallholders be certified as one unit: the certification body checks the system and a sample of farms, instead of every farm separately. Our ICIs run the internal inspections.
Can you assess a programme that's already running?
Talk to us about the scope. Field data validation, compliance checks and impact assessment are the core of this service, and we can apply them to an existing programme as well as our own.
Looking for a field partner?
Field teams, internal inspection and reporting that fits your results framework.