Rapid RFQ support • defined scopes often quoted within 24 hours
Sector understanding

Research expertise grounded in development context.

Gesem combines research methods with sector understanding so that indicators, questions, stakeholder engagement and recommendations reflect the programme environment—not only the dataset.

Multidisciplinary by design

Many assignments cut across sectors. Our team model allows technical, thematic and field expertise to be combined around the questions that matter.

Development priorities

Eight interconnected areas of work.

Sector experience is applied through fit-for-purpose teams and methods. Gesem does not treat sector labels as substitutes for understanding the intervention, population and context.

Education & Child Development

Research and evaluation involving learning environments, early childhood development, teachers, caregivers, schools and education systems.

Typical evidence needsBaseline and endline studies, child and caregiver research, school observation, training and programme learning.

Food Security, Livelihoods & Resilience

Evidence on household food security, livelihoods, income, resilience, shocks, recovery and programme contribution.

Typical evidence needsHousehold surveys, food-security indicators, livelihood analysis, resilience evaluation and mixed-method learning.

WASH, Health & Nutrition

Research and evaluation around access, behaviour, service quality, inclusion, environmental safeguards and community-level outcomes.

Typical evidence needsNeeds assessment, WASH access analysis, service-user research, qualitative inquiry and programme evaluation.

Climate, Environment & Natural Resources

Studies that connect climate and disaster risks, natural-resource management, agriculture, resilience, vulnerability and community adaptation.

Typical evidence needsClimate and disaster-risk screening, vulnerability and resilience assessment, rural surveys, environmental safeguards, preparedness and mitigation planning, restoration and natural-resource analysis.
Feasibility & technical advisory

Protection, Gender & Social Inclusion

Context-sensitive work examining participation, safety, leadership, inclusion, unequal access and programme effects across different groups.

Typical evidence needsGender and inclusion analysis, women’s leadership baselines, qualitative research, protection-sensitive evaluation and disaggregation.

Migration, Displacement & Human Mobility

Research on forced displacement, migration, mobility, integration, livelihoods and the institutions responding to mobile populations.

Typical evidence needsQualitative research, policy-oriented evidence, institutional studies, field research and research support.

Employment, Markets & Enterprise

Applied research on employment, skills, labour markets, organisations, enterprise and economic participation.

Typical evidence needsMarket and labour studies, capacity assessment, training needs, organisational analysis and stakeholder consultation.

Governance, Policy & Institutional Development

Evidence and consultancy support for policy, governance, justice and accountability questions as well as stronger institutional systems and implementation capacity.

Typical evidence needsPolicy research and advisory, access-to-justice and service-user research, governance and accountability studies, strategic planning, organisational assessment, policies, manuals and SOPs, institutional reform and capacity building.
Policy research & advisory
Cross-sector assignments

Real programmes rarely fit inside one box.

Food security can depend on climate, gender, markets and conflict. Education outcomes can depend on livelihoods, disability, protection and institutional capacity. Gesem designs mixed-method assignments to examine these connections rather than forcing complex programmes into narrow categories.

Sector-specific assignment?

Tell us the programme, population and decision you need the evidence to support.

We will assemble the methodological and thematic expertise around the assignment requirements.

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