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    • What we Do.
    • Experience
    • Documentation
    • Data Management
    • Training
    • Clients and Donors
  • Services
  • Gallery
  • About Us
    • Akili Background
    • Akili Team
      • Associate Team
    • Contact Us
    • Blog

OUR SERVICES 

Our services are tailored to the needs and requirements of our clients. We provide the following services:
a) Monitoring and Evaluation
b) Research
c) Documentation
d) Data management
e) Capacity development

Monitoring and Evaluations

We have built expertise in M&E overtime and our services cover the following:

  • Developing M&E plans and strategies 
  • Baseline/ feasibility studies 
  • Evaluations: Midterm reviews, End term evaluations and Impact evaluations

Formative Research

We understand that research especially formative research is an integral part of development programs or adapting programs to help refine and improve program activities. We work closely with programmers and academia to provide quality services in the following areas:

  • Surveys; including knowledge, attitudes and perception.
  • Mapping; services and resources 
  • Feasibility Assessments 
  • Needs Assessments

Documentation

  • Report writing / preparation: We utilize our writing and programming backgrounds to meet the report writing needs as they arise. We develop good and well analyzed program/project reports that suit the needs of programs at all levels of programming
  • Project proposal development: We have outstanding expertise in developing fundable program and project proposals covering our thematic areas.
  • Documenting practices and Case studies: Under WAF Communications, we accumulated vast experience in undertaking to document best and good practices for interventions. Our staff are equipped to provide unique documentation services to our clients.
  • Developing of IEC Materials: We develop and pre-test IEC materials including brochures, manuals and posters for development programs in our thematic areas.

Data Management 

We offer services in quantitative and qualitative data management for our clients.
Quantitative data management:
We manage primary, secondary and multiple data sets for small for small, medium and large scale research studies using scientifically robust approaches. Our data service range involves the following;

  • Designing data Entry screens: We work with Epi Info, Epi Data, Excel and Access in data base designing.
  • Data entry and cleaning:  Our data entry services are timely and of quality. We ensure that data entrants are adequately trained before embarking on entry. Our services further extend to cleaning to authenticate correctness of data values and ensuring that they conform to some a set of rules.
  • Data mining, Data manipulation and Analysis:
  • Akili foundation does provide services in data mining, data manipulation and analysis for various sets of data. This we do using most recent software versions mainly SPSS and STATA.
  • Develop standard operating procedures for data management: We help institutions and organisations to organise their monitoring and Evaluation systems through data management.

Qualitative data Management:
AKF team builds on our experience to collect, transcribe and analyse qualitative data to meet the growing need for qualitative research. Our approach is up to date using qualitative data software to ensure authenticity.

Capacity Development

Training to tailored thematic areas: Akili offers training services tailored covering our thematic areas of health, agriculture, youth empowerment. The need presented at the time, presents a Centre focus for the training which is normally provided by highly talented extensive resources.

  • Institutional capacity development: We aim at ensuring a steady flow of information to our clients and enhancing their capacities. With skilled expertise, we offer institutional capacity development in M&E, Data management, strategic planning, public administration, manual development among others.
  • Training in data management: Akili provides training services depending on need of the client involving the whole data processing aspect. A practical approach is employed during data management trainings for both individuals and institutions for components such as data collection tools and instruments, data entry, data cleaning and analysis.

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