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Whether it is a research or a development intervention, a well designed project / program is the key to achieve goals and objectives, and ensure success of interventions and organizations.
Development Strategies team has extensive professional expertise in designing research and development projects / programs of medium to large scale according to the needs and available resources.
Documentation of exact prevailing situation is the most important base to design and develop interventions. This assessment and analysis certainly involves application of both the qualitative and quantitative methods using carefully developed tools through adequate professional staff.
Development Strategies team has extensive professional expertise in conducting qualitative and quantitative researches, designing relevant tools, training field teams, monitoring the process, analyzing data and documentation of the needs.
A grant application (project proposal or PC-1 in public sector) which concomitantly meets the requirements of donor agency as well as the implementing organization guarantees a win-win situation for both the parties.
We have professional expertise in writing project proposals for private and public sector organizations. The successful proposals written by our team members include: Proposal for Integrated PHC program for Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; PC-1 for Punjab government in Pakistan (Integrated IRMNCH program), etc.
A well-planned and thought out intervention and a well-developed implementation plan and management structure is considered central to the success in achieving goals and objectives of any intervention. A comprehensive plan of implementation is three-dimensional and has set of activities (with time, place for each and responsibility) for each objective leading to its efficient and efficacious achievement. The success of the management depends upon well-defined roles and responsibilities at each level of implementation.
Development Strategies has expertise in developing detailed implementation plans and setting up corresponding management structures. Our team members have successfully developed, planned, implemented and managed provincial to national level projects and program
Success in implementation largely depends upon timely identification of issues and adequately addressing them. Only a well-designed and well placed monitoring system is capable of detecting day to day issues arising during the implementation process and taking timely corrective actions.
Our experts are well conversant with importance of Monitoring and supervision as they have developed monitoring and supervisory structures for provincial to national level programs. We have extensive relevant experience and skills-set to put in place monitoring and supervisory systems.
A well-designed, relevant and functional management information system enables the management to take appropriate decisions. While the adequate monitoring and supervision ensures the correctness of information, the MIS manages its flow and helps managers at different levels to interpret the information.
Databases which act as robust business tools for informing implementation and decision making processes are a modern day essential component for programs and organizations. These serve as conduits for regulating monitoring and refining of strategies and activities.
Development Strategy professionals are well conversant with its importance and have extensive relevant experience and skills-set to put in place MIS for any project / program. Our associates have developed MIS and District and Provincial MIS Dashboards
Any system, which is established, is bound to have deliverables to achieve its objectives. When the system's outcomes are compromised, it needs a thorough analysis of its functioning to figure out operational status and to determine the factors responsible for compromised outcomes. This analytic approach determines the factors and creates demand for either system's strengthening or restructuring or a mix of both.
This requires skill set which the Development Strategy team has acquired over the years.
The evaluation of any intervention / project / program is primarily intended to extract values which the interventions have generated and added to its target beneficiaries.
It is the role and responsibility of the evaluator to determine the extent of value added by the interventions and advising the management on further improvements.
Be it a midterm evaluation or an end of the project, Development Strategies team of experts is capable of meeting all the requirements for the conduct of a successful evaluation from its designing through conducting to concluding stages.
Besides development of survey tools to collect relevant information, the survey planning demands application of pertinent sampling technique, calculation of an accurate and representative sample size, and to correctly infer the findings to the population, while ensuring adequate power of the survey study. The data collection involves ensuring trained numerators supported by an adequate quality assurance system.
Development Strategies meets all the requirements for conducting a successful survey from designing survey, development of data collection tool, training surveyors, validation of collected information, computerization of data, its cleaning, analysis, interpretation and reporting.
The purpose of an organization's existence is generally to achieve certain goals and objectives. The organizations plan to optimally utilize their resources i.e., human, material and financial, to reach to the intended outcomes. However, there may occur a mismatch between inputs (resources) and outcomes (planned objectives). There could be multiple reasons for this and the situation demands a thorough investigation through conducting an organizational audit.
Development Strategies team has extensive experience of conducting organizational audit.
The purpose of a project / program is generally to intervene and achieve certain goals and objectives. The project management plans to optimally utilize resources i.e., human, material and financial, to reach to the intended outcomes. However, there may occur a mismatch between inputs (resources) and outcomes (planned objectives). There could be multiple reasons and the situation demands a thorough investigation through conducting an project / program audit. A timely exercise certainly identifies reasons and hence mitigates the further damages.
Development Strategies team has extensive experience of conducting project / program audit.
We, at Development Strategies, believe that any set of training modules should facilitate the trainer and trainees to conduct the training and to internalize the contents, respectively. For this, Development Strategies expert develop a training module with three part: Trainer's Module with detailed session-wise training instructions; Trainee's Module with all the relavent material; and a Presentation to facilitate the process. These three components of a training module must speack to each other.
Development Strategies have so far developed training modules on Community based Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM); Entrepreurs, Entrepreneurship, and Business Development Plan; Job Searching, Resume Writing and Networking; Leadership, Motivation and Team-building; and Marketing, Healthcare Marketing and Market Behavior.
Professionals at Development Strategies have extensive experience of conducting training for community based workers, mid and senior level managers, government functionaries, school teachers, etc.