Our Vision

To enable humanitarian and development organisations to maximise their impact, accountability and learning through monitoring and evaluation (M&E).

Why it matters

 

In the humanitarian and development sectors, organisations often face significant challenges in effectively monitoring, evaluating, and learning from their initiatives. Limited resources, complex contexts, and diverse stakeholder needs make it difficult to gather and analyse relevant data, assess impact, and adapt strategies accordingly. Traditional approaches to monitoring and evaluation often focus on communicating impact, but fail to provide feasible and actionable solutions to improve programming.

These challenges hinder organisations from maximising their impact, understanding what works and what doesn't, and continuously improving their practices. At Outsight International, we provide comprehensive monitoring, evaluation solutions that, together with our experience in strategy, innovation and sectoral knowledge, enable our clients to overcome these obstacles.

 

Our Approach

Blending Research, Strategy and Practicality

We recognise the importance of identifying, positioning and placing the right people, in the right place, at the right time.

 

Outsight International builds teams based around the specific needs of a project. Much like a Hollywood movie builds its production teams to match the right talent with a particular production, Outsight compiles the right expertise to tackle the unique and complex challenge. Outsight has a proven track record of delivering projects, working with clients to complete our project deliverables through a blend of Associates, Advisors and Strategic Partners who are global leaders in M&E and sectoral expertise. We also look to utilise our network of strategic partnerships with leading Monitoring and Evaluation actors to create the best value possible for our clients.

 
 

Ultimately, we look to facilitate a sector wide transition from euro-centric organisations being drivers of change, to supporters of change driven by the voices of the displaced and marginalised.

 

We provide monitoring and evaluation support for clients in various sectors, including humanitarian innovation, digital health, energy or UAS. Our team of experts possess extensive experience in monitoring and evaluation (M&E). We work closely with our clients to understand their unique needs, apply the most suitable M&E approach, and provide tailored solutions to meet their specific requirements.

Unlike most evaluation firms, Outsight can also incorporate sectoral expertise, as well as experience in strategy and innovation. This allows us to go beyond just drafting a report, and also supporting our clients to put meaningful and actionable recommendations into practice.

Please contact us if you wish to discuss our current or future service offerings.

  • We develop robust monitoring systems that enable organisations to track and measure the progress of their humanitarian and development initiatives. Our team works closely with our clients to design and implement customised monitoring frameworks, including log frames, theories of change, and indicators aligned with sectoral best practices and your specific goals. We can also support putting a monitoring framework into practice by developing data collection tools, processes, and training. By establishing reliable and accurate monitoring systems, our clients can use information for project management, identify areas for improvement, and make data-driven decisions.

  • We conduct studies following international standards for impact evaluations, case studies, summative evaluations, formative evaluations or developmental evaluations, among other approaches. Outsight work closely with our clients to understand their unique needs, scoping and designing the evaluation accordingly. Our team applies the most suitable qualitative, quantitative or mixed-methods methods to meet the client goals. We always conduct evaluations with an ethical and culturally responsible commitment and incorporate participatory and empowering methods whenever possible.

  • Unlike most M&E firms, Outsight can offer ad hoc support to implement recommendations, as our Hollywood models allow us to build a team which combines M&E expertise with experience in innovation, strategy and our sectoral knowledge. Depending on the findings and recommendations of an evaluation, implementation support may comprise strategic planning, workshop facilitation, training, financial modelling, service design, community engagement, etc.

  • For global or digital health projects, we help clients to design and implement effective monitoring and evaluation frameworks. We can assist in setting up data collection systems, developing performance indicators, and analysing data to measure project outcomes and impact. Our expertise also includes project evaluation, impact assessments, and results reporting. Learn more here.

  • In the area of humanitarian innovation, we work with clients to design and implement monitoring and evaluation frameworks that are innovative and effective. We can assist in identifying the most appropriate indicators for measuring the impact of humanitarian innovations and designing data collection and analysis systems. Our expertise also includes evaluation of humanitarian programs, impact assessments, and reporting.

The Team

Possessing 65+ years of experience in the humanitarian and development space, Outsight works with NGOs, businesses and universities across the globe to identify Associates and Advisors to provide pathways into the monitoring and evaluation (M&E) sector for our team members as well as providing a number of personal and professional skills development opportunities.

Our subject matter experts cover all aspects of the monitoring and evaluation (M&E) ecosystem. Out network also includes experts in most humanitarian and development sectors, with substantial experience in strategy and innovation

Our Teams Previous Projects & Publications

  • Leading the evaluation of behavioural change elements included in Practical Action Nepal’s Results Based Financing for Improved Cookstove Market Development Project.

  • Global Development Network. Evaluation of the Japanese Award for Most Innovative Development Project evaluating applications for community-driven climate-related disaster risk reduction in rural areas. 2021.

  • Intelligent systems and UAS. USAID Mid-term evaluation of health services UAS pilot activity in Madagascar.

  • Evaluation of AGORA, Strengthening humanitarian action in urban areas by promoting settlement approaches and effective engagement with local stakeholders.

  • Worked on a qualitative case study of youth and business digitalization programs in rural context in Uganda and Rwanda for Root Capital.

  • Led research and worked in a case study to identify Most Significant Change (MSC) of a psychosocial program for the Middle East Children’s Institute.

  • Worked with ICRC Innovation to evaluate their product development projects and innovation methodologies to date, and develop scaling tools for their future projects.

  • Lead the Innovation Partnerships Project with MSF to conduct a meta-review of 70+ innovation projects (including digital health) and provide new tools, based on an understanding of technical adeptness and suitability for different contexts.

  • Wrote and edited 16 case studies evaluating the use of UAS applications in a wide range of humanitarian settings including recovery, DRR, protracted crises.

  • Wrote a case study on waste crime in Switzerland as part of UNEP Rapid Assessment Report.

  • Worked on a quasi-experimental evaluation of rural development programs in Mexico for the International Food Policy Research Institute.