Evaluation, Research & Documentation
Generating Evidence for Institutional Learning and Adaptive Improvement
Jidi supports partners to conduct outcome- and impact-oriented evaluations and operational research that inform accountability, strategic refinement, and adaptive programme delivery. We facilitate participatory evaluation processes that engage internal teams and stakeholders in defining evaluation questions, interpreting findings, and identifying performance improvements.
Our approach combines methodological rigour with structured reflection, ensuring that evidence is not treated as a reporting requirement alone, but as a tool for institutional learning and decision-making.
We also accompany partners in synthesising findings into technical reports, policy briefs, and knowledge products designed to strengthen transparency, support donor dialogue, and document practice-based learning. By embedding evaluation within organisational routines, we help partners internalise evidence use and sustain adaptive management beyond individual assignments.
What we have done
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Jidi generated decision-ready evidence for Room to Read’s literacy and gender equality programme strengthening and expansion across seven regions and 55 councils. The feasibility study applied a structured readiness framework to assess policy alignment, programme conditions, social and gender feasibility, operational capacity, institutional readiness and RM&E systems, informing regional prioritisation, operating model choices and scale-up sequencing.
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Jidi conducted a baseline assessment for an innovative WASH project in Tanzania, examining household, school and health facility access to water, sanitation and hygiene services. The study generated baseline values for core indicators, documented district-level differences and provided evidence-based recommendations to strengthen WASH service delivery and behaviour change programming.
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Jidi conducted operational research on participation in group counselling sessions and the feasibility of promoting animal-source food consumption among children under two in Mbeya. The study combined situation analysis, message development and user-testing to reposition nutrition counselling and strengthen household-level dietary diversification strategies.
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Jidi documented promising Early Childhood Development interventions and delivery platforms under the THRIVE project in Mwanza, Geita and Tanga. The assignment assessed effectiveness, efficiency, sustainability and scalability of ECD service delivery through health facilities, community platforms and local structures, generating practical recommendations for future ECD programming.
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Jidi documented the integration of Care for Child Development interventions into health facilities and pre-primary satellite schools in Mbeya and Mbarali. The assignment assessed relevance, effectiveness, sustainability, equity and gender considerations, while identifying opportunities to strengthen national scale-up, CCD indicators, frontline capacity and multisectoral institutional ownership.
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Jidi conducted a baseline study for the Enhanced Youth and Private Sector Engagement in Sustainable Food Security and Livelihood Improvement project in Mbeya. The study assessed maize and beans production, youth access to finance, post-harvest handling practices, willingness to adopt hermetic storage and youth engagement in agricultural value chain businesses.
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Jidi conducted baseline studies for CARE’s sunflower and soya value chain programming in Iringa Rural and Wanging’ombe. The studies examined production practices, access to inputs and extension, value chain participation, gender dynamics, credit access, gross margins and accountability conditions to inform inclusive and climate-resilient agricultural programming.
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Jidi evaluated Policy Forum’s Budget Working Group and Local Governance Working Group, assessing effectiveness, relevance, outcomes and learning for policy influence and public accountability work. The evaluation documented contributions to policy briefs, budget analysis, parliamentary engagement, gender budgeting, member capacity and strategic government relationships.
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Jidi evaluated Policy Forum’s social accountability training for councillors in Kilwa, Mafia, Mafinga and Kiteto. The assignment assessed how training strengthened councillors’ understanding of public resource oversight, legal mandates, fiduciary accountability, SDGs and planning processes, while generating recommendations for institutionalising councillor capacity development.
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Jidi documented best practices and lessons from the Accountability in Tanzania Phase 2 programme. The assignment captured practice-based learning on older people’s rights, policy influence, community-wide accountability approaches, health service responsiveness and sustainability through mainstreaming ageing in council plans and budgets.
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Jidi conducted formative research on barriers and enablers to adolescents’ access and utilisation of SRH and nutrition services in Tabora. The study engaged in-school and out-of-school adolescents, pregnant and lactating adolescents, parents, providers, elders and officials to generate behaviourally informed evidence for a gender-transformative BCI strategy.
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Jidi conducted stakeholder mapping in the Southern Zone to identify actors, platforms and issues affecting local economic development and public-private dialogue. The assignment mapped private sector organisations, assessed dialogue platforms and generated recommendations for strengthening multi-actor engagement in Lindi, Mtwara and Ruvuma.