DIRP helps organizations answer important questions, improve programs, strengthen institutions, and make better use of evidence. Each engagement is designed around the client's context, goals, and decisions.
01 — Practice area
We design and conduct research that supports policy, program, and institutional decisions. Our approach combines suitable quantitative and qualitative methods, careful data collection, and clear analysis.
DIRP designs and implements surveys for defined populations and research questions. We support questionnaire development, sampling, data collection, quality checks, analysis, and reporting, with close attention to reliability and validity.
Interviews, focus groups, document review, and case studies help explain the experience and context behind the numbers. These methods can be used alone or alongside surveys to develop a more complete understanding of an issue.
We design evaluations that assess whether an intervention achieved its intended outcomes and why results varied. The evaluation design is selected according to the program, available data, timeline, and decision needs.
DIRP reviews policies, programs, implementation processes, and available evidence to identify gaps, options, and practical recommendations.
02 — Practice area
DIRP develops and strengthens monitoring, evaluation, and learning systems that help organizations track progress, understand results, and adapt their work.
We help clients define clear outputs, outcomes, and indicators that align with program goals and can be measured in practice.
We support the design of data flows, responsibilities, tools, and reporting routines so that teams can monitor performance consistently.
We help teams establish regular processes for reviewing monitoring and evaluation findings, discussing what they mean, and deciding what should change.
DIRP provides practical training in data collection, research methods, analysis, monitoring, evaluation, and the use of findings in decision-making.
03 — Practice area
Our education work supports institutions as they strengthen academic programs, systems, and standards. DIRP has worked in higher education since 2014, and that experience shapes how we approach institutional change: with the staff who will carry it out, and against the institution's own governance processes.
04 — Practice area
DIRP helps clients manage and interpret data for research, monitoring, and planning. Support may include data structures, analysis workflows, visualization, and reporting tools suited to the assignment and the client's existing systems.
Structures, cleaning routines and documentation that make a dataset usable more than once.
Analysis workflows and reporting outputs that present findings without overstating them.
05 — Practice area
Our technical assistance is collaborative and practical. DIRP works alongside client teams rather than delivering from a distance.
Areas of work
DIRP's methods are consistent across sectors; the questions and the context are not.
School and higher education systems, curriculum, assessment, and institutional quality.
Service delivery, access, and the social determinants that shape health outcomes.
How communities, institutions, and services adapt to environmental and climate pressure.
Skills, training pathways, and the transition between education and employment.
Questions that cut across sectors and require more than one method to answer well.
Work with us
Share the question you need to answer or the system you want to strengthen. We will help clarify the scope and identify an appropriate research or technical assistance approach.