Evaluation and Audit
Independent evaluation, audit, and data integrity: building the institutional conditions for evidence that can be trusted.
We go beyond compliance-driven monitoring to design and deliver evaluation and audit systems that genuinely improve how programmes perform. Data quality and research integrity are embedded in everything we do, not bolted on at the end.
As donors intensify demands for evidence and value-for-money, the Evaluation and Audit sub-unit is one of Astellic's fastest-growing and most strategically significant offerings. We combine independent evaluation and audit with rigorous data quality assurance and research ethics compliance, because we believe that measurement without integrity is an expensive exercise in accountability theatre. Evidence has to be trusted to be used.
Independent Programme Evaluation and Audit
Mid-term and end-of-programme evaluations, independent audit, impact assessments, and formative reviews, designed to be honest, learning-oriented, and decision-informing, not compliance exercises.
Real-Time Learning System Design
Development and implementation of adaptive learning systems that enable programmes to course-correct based on what the evidence shows on the ground, not what the original log frame assumed.
Adaptive MERL System Strengthening
Strengthening the monitoring, evaluation, research, and learning systems within implementing organisations and government programmes, building institutional MERL capability, not MERL dependency.
Data Quality Assurance
Internal and client-facing data verification protocols that ensure the evidence programmes generate and present to donors and governments meets the highest standards of methodological integrity and statistical robustness.
Research Ethics and Integrity
Ethics compliance management, informed consent framework design, data protection compliance, and structured peer review of all research and evaluation outputs, ensuring that evidence is both rigorous and responsibly produced.
Peer Review and Research Integrity Advisory
Structured internal peer review processes, research integrity training, and institutional capacity building for organisations that commission, produce, or report on research and evaluation evidence.
Commission an evaluation, audit, or MERL system?
We work with implementers, donors, and governments.