Services

What we do for partners

Three integrated service lines, applied across the sectors where we have delivered.

What We Do

Three integrated
service lines

iKappal Advisory

Research, evaluations, MEL system design, market systems analysis, strategy, and programme design. Rigorous evidence for adaptive management and donor reporting across agriculture, nutrition, health, and livelihoods.

Research MEL Evaluations Strategy Market Systems
Digital & Data Innovation

Data analytics, AI applications, real-time dashboards, digital MEL systems, and sector-specific platforms. Technology that solves real programme challenges and earns its place in daily work.

AI Applications Analytics Dashboards Digital MEL Platforms
Learning & Influence

Evidence briefs, technical reports, policy notes, and knowledge products that help partners influence policy, improve practice, and scale what works across East Africa's development landscape.

Evidence Briefs Policy Notes Reports Knowledge Products
Domains

Sectors we serve

Our depth is in food and agriculture systems, with a growing practice in health, resilience and digital. Whatever the sector, our work follows the same four steps.

1EvaluateMeasure what changed, for whom and why
2DesignShape strategy, MEL and programme logic
3BuildDeliver data systems, dashboards and tools
4LearnTurn findings into decisions and influence

Food and agriculture systems

Our deepest practice, built on programme evaluations and market studies in crops, dairy and potato value chains.

Agriculture & Agrifood Systems

Outcome and impact evaluations of crop, potato and dairy programmes, with farmer-level evidence on yields, incomes and adoption.

Livestock & Pastoral Systems

Dairy and fodder market assessments and livestock marketing studies that show where productivity and feed systems can improve.

Food Security & Livelihoods

Household surveys and resilience assessments that show whether programmes reach, and change life for, the people they target.

Market Systems Development

Market diagnostics and sector analyses that show where markets perform, where opportunity sits, and what to strengthen.

People and wellbeing

Evidence and systems for programmes that improve health, skills and daily living conditions.

Nutrition & Public Health

MEL design, evaluations and data systems for nutrition and health programmes, including data quality and service delivery reviews.

Water, Sanitation & Hygiene

Baselines, access and behaviour surveys, and monitoring frameworks for household, school and community WASH programmes.

Education & Youth

Evaluations and learning studies on skills, livelihoods and digital literacy programmes for young people.

Resilience and systems

Tools and analysis that help partners adapt early and run programmes on trusted data.

Climate Resilience & Energy

Context monitoring and assessments of how climate shocks, energy access and changing conditions affect communities and programmes.

Digital Transformation

Digital MEL systems, mobile data collection, dashboards and AI tools, including farmer record migration and protection.

Democracy & Governance

Third-party monitoring, context analysis and learning support for governance and civic programmes, including complex operating environments.

Book a readiness call