Data Conscious works with humanitarian organisations to provide monitoring, evaluation and responsible data services that support relevant, targeted and timely humanitarian action. We offer a combination of expertise in humanitarian action, evaluation and monitoring methods, and data science and analytics. Get in touch to learn more.
InterAction
Data Conscious worked with InterAction to design and run a Theory of Change workshop in Mogadishu, Somalia. The workshop brought together local and international NGOs and UN agencies providing humanitarian protection across Somalia. It built off action-based research conducted by InterAction, which identified food-security linked protection risks among community members in Abudwak, Jowhar and Las’anood regions. Data Conscious provided a trainer to co-develop grounded protection risk analyses for each region and develop six independent theories of change for holistic community-based protection activities across all three regions.
The H2H Network
Data Conscious provided case study evaluations of the H2H Network’s activations across four separate crises: the 2022 Horn of Africa drought, the 2022 Pakistan floods, the 2023 Türkiye/Syria earthquake, and the 2023 conflict escalation in Sudan. In each case, Data Conscious conducted a literature review of internal and external documentation relating to the crisis context and the H2H member responses, interviewed key informants involved in delivering H2H’s activities, and spoke with end-users of H2H products and services in the wider humanitarian system. The case studies highlighted the effects of H2H’s work on the international and local response to each crisis, including gaps filled and areas for further work. The case study reports are available for downloads here.
InterAction
Data Conscious worked with InterAction to design and run a Theory of Change workshop in Niger. The workshop brought together local and international NGOs and UN agencies providing humanitarian protection across Niger. It built off action-based research conducted by the Institute for Development Studies at the University of Sussex, which identified food-security linked protection risks among community members in Tillaberi, Maradi and Diffa regions. Data Conscious provided a trainer to co-develop grounded protection risk analyses for each region and develop six independent theories of change for holistic community-based protection activities across all three regions.
International Committee of the red cross
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has contracted Data Conscious to design a bespoke monitoring and evaluation system for a multi-year, multi-country sexual violence prevention enhancement project. The project aims to enhance the planning, outcomes-based approaches and evaluation of ICRC’s existing work to prevent sexual violence in conflict. It will test two models of action across multiple contexts and over a three-year time period. The first model deploys a community-based participatory approach, to increase community capacity to prevent sexual violence from occuring. The second model involves multi-year engagement with arms carriers to prevent sexual violence through changes in knowledge, attitude and practice. Data Conscious will provide a global theory of change, project milestones and roll-out plans for both project models, as well as a package of tools for monitoring and evaluating what works to prevent sexual violence in conflict. The contract will be delivered between December 2021 and April 2022.
Danish Refugee Council
Data Conscious has been contracted by the Danish Refugee Council (DRC) to provide guidance on the use of monitoring data to evidence progress against its global results framework. The project will help Country Office teams to connect data on the numbers of people reached with DRC services, to country-level outcome indicators, in line with the nine outcome areas of DRC’s results framework. Activities will include review and extraction of good practice from other organisations, identification of the most suitable approach for DRC’s country-office contexts, and the drafting of concise and practical guidance for country office to consistently follow this approach in their results planning and the review of annual results. The contract will be delivered between December 2021 and January 2022.
InterAction
Data Conscious has been contracted by InterAction to provide M&E training and coaching services for member organisations in the fields of protection and gender-based violence (GBV) prevention in humanitarian contexts. Services provided include direct coaching to InterAction member organisations on the M&E of protection and GBV outcomes, delivery of training and workshops to field practitioners, input to methods and tools used to measure protection and GBV prevention outcomes. The contract is operated on a call-down basis, and runs from October 2021 to the present.
InterAction
Data Conscious has been contracted by InterAction to design an evaluation framework for gender-based violence prevention activities, funded by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency. The framework is being developed by a team of four consultants using human-centered design principles and complexity-sensitive evaluation tools, with the aim of encouraging the adoption of outcomes-based design in the prevention of gender-based violence in crisis contexts. The contract runs from June 2020 until March 2021, with the final evaluation framework being shared with partners at a workshop in Washington, D.C.