Sectors
Development challenges cross institutional and sector boundaries. CADRE applies research and evaluation expertise across nine areas while preserving the analytical independence of each assignment.
How development finance, private-sector growth, markets, employment, and livelihood systems can expand opportunity and improve household resilience.
Research and evaluation focus Research can examine development finance, financial inclusion, private-sector and enterprise development, market systems, trade, employment, and livelihoods. Evaluation can test whether related policies and programmes generate equitable growth, opportunity, and resilience.
How agricultural systems, value chains, and food security interventions perform across diverse local conditions.
Research and evaluation focus Research can examine food security, agricultural markets, value chains, rural livelihoods, productivity, and climate risk. Evaluation can assess reach, adoption, income and nutrition outcomes, resilience, and sustainability.
What improves access, learning, workforce readiness, and equitable education outcomes.
Research and evaluation focus Research can examine barriers to education, learning conditions, teacher systems, technical and vocational education, and workforce transitions. Evaluation can assess access, quality, equity, learning outcomes, relevance, and cost-effectiveness.
How health and nutrition programmes reach people, strengthen systems, and produce sustainable outcomes.
Research and evaluation focus Research can examine service access, health systems, nutrition drivers, workforce capacity, and health-seeking behaviour. Evaluation can assess coverage, quality, equity, health and nutrition outcomes, system effects, and sustainability.
How institutions, policies, and public systems can become more capable, accountable, and responsive.
Research and evaluation focus Research can examine institutional capacity, political economy, public administration, regulatory systems, and accountability. Evaluation can assess reform implementation, public-service performance, institutional change, responsiveness, and citizen trust.
How programmes can reduce vulnerability and respond to gender, disability, displacement, and exclusion.
Research and evaluation focus Research can examine vulnerability, targeting, gender, disability, displacement, and humanitarian-development linkages. Evaluation can assess coverage, inclusion, adequacy, protection outcomes, resilience, and pathways out of persistent vulnerability.
How communities and institutions understand risk, adapt to shocks, and protect natural resources.
Research and evaluation focus Research can examine climate and environmental risk, natural-resource governance, adaptation, and disaster resilience. Evaluation can assess preparedness, adoption of resilient practices, environmental and livelihood outcomes, and sustainability.
How infrastructure and urban investments create public value, improve access, and remain viable over time.
Research and evaluation focus Research can examine service gaps, urbanization, feasibility, public-investment choices, and equitable access. Evaluation can assess relevance, use, economic and social benefits, affordability, implementation quality, and environmental sustainability.
How digital systems, data, and responsible technology can improve services without deepening exclusion or risk.
Research and evaluation focus Research can examine digital access, readiness, governance, data systems, and responsible artificial intelligence. Evaluation can assess adoption, usability, service quality, inclusion, privacy, institutional value, and sustainability.
Cross-sector perspective
CADRE examines the institutional, economic, social, political, environmental, and digital conditions that connect sector outcomes. This helps avoid narrow findings and supports recommendations that are realistic for the systems in which they must be implemented.
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