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The benchmark your endline will be judged against.

A baseline evaluation establishes the pre-implementation status of your results-framework indicators — the reference point every later evaluation, donor report and impact claim depends on. Get it wrong, and no amount of good implementation can be proven later.

Our approach

How we deliver a credible baseline evaluation.

Indicator-aligned instruments

Tools built directly from your logframe and indicator reference sheets, so every data point maps to something you must report.

Defensible sampling

Sampling frames and power calculations documented for donor review — including comparison groups where impact measurement is planned.

Digital-first data collection

KoboToolbox/ODK deployment with real-time quality monitoring, enumerator training and field supervision.

Endline comparability by design

Methods, definitions and instruments documented so your mid-term and endline measure the same things the same way.

Deliverables

What you receive.

Baseline report with indicator reference values
Cleaned datasets and codebooks
Data collection instruments for reuse at mid-term/endline
Sampling and methodology annexes
Dissemination-ready summary for your donor and partners

Why Insight Bridge

Evaluators who have sat on your side of the table.

Our evaluations are led by postgraduate-qualified professionals with more than eight years coordinating monitoring, evaluation, research and learning inside SIDA- and PEPFAR/USAID-funded programmes — we know what donor technical reviewers look for because we have prepared for those reviews ourselves. Analysis is delivered with Microsoft PL-300 certified capability across Stata, R, SPSS and Power BI.

Have a TOR for a baseline evaluation?

Send it over — free scoping discussion, and a costed technical response within 24–48 hours.

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