Vault consulting
Our services
Aid Effectiveness
Vault Consulting provides a complete range of services to help aid agencies become more effective agents of development and social change.
We help increase aid allocations, provide a sharper focus on country priorities, and donor harmonization to create unprecedented opportunities for more effective aid.
our offers
- Results-Based Programme Design-ensures projects and country programme have clear, realistic, and measurable development outcomes.
- Performance Monitoring Systems-design and implementation of programme monitoring and evaluation systems for improved performance, learning, and accountability.
- Participatory Development-programme planning and management with diverse groups to build ownership and programme sustainability.
- Donor Coordination-strengthening donor collaboration in evaluations, strategy development, and country programme design.
- Organizational Development-aligning people, organizational structures, and procedures to deliver development outcomes.
Training
Vault Consulting is a leading innovator in training for development and social change. We take time to deeply understand our clients and to develop tailored solutions based on client and "global best practices". Our approach is learner-centered, highly relevant and participatory, with a focus on achieving measurable results for training investments.
Our training strategy helps organizations renew and improve performance we couple our training programs with incentives, processes and procedures that encourage the use of new skills in the workplace. we offer this training for both international development agencies as well as for the local organizations whose capacity and performance they seek to strengthen.
our offers
- Customized Training — a broad range of customized training programmes in all sectors to strengthen the operational and technical capacity of organizations.
- Organizational Development Consulting - customized consulting services to help organizations plan and introduce systemic changes to take full advantage of innovations and new techniques introduced through training.
- Training Evaluation - designing and conducting evaluations of global training and organizational development programmes to improve organizational learning, accountability and results.
Group Facilitation
Vault Consulting provides creative group facilitation services to help development and social change organizations accomplish their group tasks more efficiently and effectively. We design customized processes that focus on mutual learning and consensus-based decision-making leading to group action and results. Our basic facilitation services help you to accomplish the group task at hand. Our developmental facilitation services help you develop your capacity to manage more effective groups on your own.
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- Group Facilitation—-a full range of customized facilitation services, for large and small groups, so that you can accomplish group tasks efficiently and effectively to achieve results.
- Facilitation Training-building knowledge and skills of development and social change managers to facilitate groups effectively.
Strategic Planning
Vault Consulting is at the cutting edge of strategy development in this new environment. We help our clients and partners to navigate and anticipate change. Our innovative strategic planning and management approaches create a shared vision and strategy that mobilizes groups to achieve lasting results.
Managing with a clear vision, mission and strategy produces lasting outcomes.
We help aid agencies to sharpen their missions, mandates and strategies and engage in constant learning and innovation.
our offers
- Designing Results-Oriented Sector Strategies and Country Programmes - working with donors, governments and local stakeholders to develop results-oriented sector strategies and programmes in health, education, environment, governance and economic growth.
- Strategic Planning for Organizations and Teams - creating a shared vision, mission and strategy with measurable results for an organization, team or operating unit; creating a culture for strategic management.
Gender and Social Analysis
Vault Consulting provides gender and social analysis consulting and capacity building services to organizations working in all sectors so that women and marginalized groups have a stronger voice and become a central focus of positive change. We use a holistic approach to create more favorable incentives and structures for equitable development within organizations and we assist groups to design and implement gender-balanced and socially sensitive programmes with lasting value.
our offers
- Gender and Social Analysis Consulting and Training-support to agencies and project teams to design, implement, monitor and evaluate more gender-and-socially equitable programmes, strategies and policies with lasting social value.
- Organizational Development Consulting—assessing and strengthening internal organizational culture, structures, procedures and incentives to promote gender and social equity.
Impact Evaluation
Vault Consulting emphasizes methodological rigor, while realizing that each evaluation occurs in a unique operating environment.
Vault Consulting's IEs are characterized by a practical focus on the production of usable policy- and programme-relevant information. We provide clients and implementing partners with the ability to make strategic decisions in order to maximize programme impact. Pairing IE with cost effectiveness analysis, we are able to provide clients with robust information on the relative strengths of competing policy choices.
We place a premium on customizing every Impact Evaluation (IE) to meet client informational needs and to align with programmatic realities. Vault Consulting employs mixed-methods approaches, building on the strength of both quantitative and qualitative findings, and a wide range of innovative IE designs, rather than relying on a narrow set of design options. Utilizing the range of IE methodologies, including Randomized Control Trials (RCTs) and a suite of Quasi-Experimental Designs (QEDs), we draw from deep expertise with up-to-date, effective, and innovative methodologies.
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- Flexibility and Customization: Vault Consulting makes a point to effectively customize IEs in order to formulate an in-depth understanding of clients' and implementers' priorities, identify programmatic needs, and appreciate the contextual background of each project.
- Management: Vault Consulting has an established set of effective HQ-based procedures that guarantee clear lines of communication, high-quality and timely deliverables, and effective management with local partner organizations.
- Mixed-Methods Expertise: The use of mixed-methods provides Vault Consulting with the capability to supplement quantitative analyses with nuanced accounts of mechanisms that drive programme effectiveness, identify potential spillover effects, and provide further contextual depth.
- Innovation: Vault Consulting is knowledgeable of emerging evaluation trends and has experience using up-to-date methodologies, including integrated experimental and quasi-experimental methods, electronic and mobile phone-based data collection, randomized response strategies, and unobtrusive direct observation.
- Vault Consulting's Institutional Review Board: Vault Consulting has instituted an in-house Institutional Review Board (IRB) with the ability to review and certify any data collection plans and instruments to ensure adequate protection and ethical treatment of human research subjects. All Board members are required to complete human subjects training to ensure a thorough and informed review.
Project Monitoring and Evaluation
Vault Consulting provides a full range of monitoring and evaluation services. Our approach is built on international standards of excellence requiring monitoring and evaluation to be useful, practical, ethical and accurate. We also build the capacity of organizations to monitor and evaluate their own programmes in order to better achieve their missions.
our offers
- Impact Evaluation-systematic assessment of effects on individual households, institutions, and the environment caused by a given development project, programme or policy.
- Evaluations for Programme Improvement-evaluations focused on improving projects and programmes during the project life.
- Participatory and Empowerment Monitoring-evaluations with central objectives to foster participation, learning and empowerment among local stakeholder groups.
- Monitoring and Evaluation Capacity Development-building organizational skills, incentives and systems to use evaluation in order to achieve results.
Project and Programme Design
Vault Consulting provides state-of-the-art services to improve the quality of project and programme designs. Our approach puts local people at the center of planning, blending local knowledge with multi-disciplinary team perspectives to achieve high quality programmes.
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- Results-based Programme Design - working with project design teams and local stakeholders to design projects and country programmes with clear, realistic and measurable development outcomes to improve programme quality and effectiveness.
- Project Quality and Portfolio Reviews - reviewing project designs and country portfolios to improve programme quality.
- Strengthening Procedures to Improve Programme Quality - aligning organizational incentives, operational procedures and systems to improve programme quality.