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...
Khulisa Leads the Peace Through Evaluation Learning and Adaptation (PELA II) Activity in West Africa
In October 2022, Khulisa received a five-year contract from the U.S. Agency for International Development in West Africa (USAID/WA) to implement the second phase of the Peace Through Evaluation, Learning and Adaptation Activity, thus the acronym PELA II. PELA II’s main...
Early Grade Reading and Literacy: Stories From Khulisa Staff
Khulisa, in partnership with the South African Department of Basic Education and the U.S. government, recently released a report establishing early grade reading (EGR) benchmarks in Tshivenḓa, one of South Africa’s 11 official languages. Tshivenḓa is the third South African...