We specialize in program evaluation techniques, with a focus on ensuring practical and actionable insights for our clients, ideally during and not only after the end of an intervention. Our approaches may include rigorous experiments, quasi-experiments, tracer studies or process evaluations. We always prefer mixed-method approaches.

Laterite has conducted or contributed to the design and analysis of impact evaluations across East and West Africa, covering gender, education, teacher training, gender-based violence, cash transfers, poverty reduction and agriculture support programs.

We build long-term learning and research advisory partnerships with development organizations, NGOs, social enterprises, and government agencies. As a learning partner, Laterite supports organizations to design learning strategies that directly feed into their operations. Laterite can support the design of research and evaluation projects; train research teams in all stages of the monitoring, evaluation and learning cycle; and provide additional research capabilities where needed.

Our local, interdisciplinary teams have led implementation science projects in education, early childhood development and public health. Our work draws on a wide range of methods and disciplines, from focus group discussions to large-scale RCTs, in order to provide program implementers with policy makers with actionable, contextually relevant insights to support impact at scale. This includes providing technical support to program implementers seeking to develop or refine their Theory of Change, improve monitoring and evaluation, explore adaptive design, or disseminate key findings to stakeholders.