Verification of Results: Cervical Cancer Screening and Preventive Therapy (CCS&PT) (Bill & Melinda GatesFoundation)
Objective The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and its partners – Marie Stopes International (MSI),Population Services International (PSI) and the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF)–introduced and integrated Cervical Cancer Screening and Preventive Therapy (CCS&PT) intoreproductive health services in four countries...
Bakery Merger and Acquisition for Enhanced Growth & Turnaround Initiative
ObjectiveKhulisa Management Services identified an opportunity to revitalize the frozen bakery sector insouthern Africa by facilitating the acquisition and turnaround of a struggling bakery operation fromBridor (an international bakery manufacturing and retail giant), amidst a challenging market insouthern Africa where...
Tailoring Evaluation Strategies for Africa, South America, and Beyond
Khulisa evaluators Margie Roper and Tamar Boddé-Kekana, both based in South Africa, recently traveled to Brazil for 12 days as part of two evaluations: Schools2030 and Anglo American Ambassadors for Good, an employee volunteer program. These are international projects, involving...
Khulisa Launches Redesigned Website
The Khulisa team has unveiled a freshly redesigned website at www.khulisa.com. We’re very excited about our new site, which provides a much-improved user experience and several new features highlighting Khulisa’s work in the field of monitoring, evaluation, research, and learning...
Developing Evaluation Strategies for – and with – Survivors of Trafficking
Trafficking in persons (TIP) – the recruitment, transportation, harboring, and/or control of the movement of persons for the purpose of exploitation – is a problem throughout the world. But defining the exact size and scope of the issue, and how...
Evaluating Resilience in South Africa During COVID-19
In 2022, the German Development Cooperation (GIZ) contracted Khulisa to provide monitoring and evaluation (M&E) services for Employment and Skills for Development (E4D) – a program that supports public- and private-sector cooperation to bring people into jobs and improve employment...
The Importance of Prioritizing Capacity-Strengthening in Public Sector Work
Everyone working in development has heard the terms “capacity-building” or “capacity-strengthening” tossed around in meetings. But what do these terms mean and why are they important? Khulisa’s evaluators provide some answers. The United Nations defines capacity-strengthening as “the process of developing...
Schools2030: The Complexity of Conducting the Baseline Study of a Ten-Year, Multi-Country Impact Evaluation
Implemented by the Aga Khan Foundation, Schools2030 is a globally informed, locally rooted, 10-year learning improvement program, working with 1,000 schools in 10 countries: Afghanistan, Brazil, India, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Portugal, Tajikistan, Tanzania, and Uganda. Schools2030’s overarching objective is to...
Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) vs Regression Analysis
Written by Mary Pat Selvaggio, Mathews Onyango, and Patricia Sakala Khulisa’s Scaling Up Nutrition Learning and Evaluation (SUN LE) project recently completed a large, population-based survey of Zambia’s nutrition program that used both Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) and Regression Analysis methods...