LOCAN is East Africa’s most comprehensive geo-spatial database. LOCAN is a powerful tool for any project with a spatial component, not limited to:

• Focused expansion of retail / B2C penetration, as well as distribution planning and sales performance benchmarking
• Target market selection and optimization, regional market analysis and localized segmentation
• Identification of underserved areas, intervention and control groups

LOCAN is in its own class of research value. LOCAN already contains millions of data points from more than 100 sources that can be used to answer your questions and meet your objectives. Coverage differs by country and subject matter.

Baselines, Midlines and Endline surveys are our bread and butter. We design evaluations, develop questionnaires, implement complex data collections, analyze and report. Where we hit our limits, we work with a strong network of partners. We have a continuous stream of monitoring and evaluatioon projects covering agriculture, financial inclusion, education and health in addition to incidental projects on WASH, gender, value chain interventions and more. 

We execute solid qualitative research, including focus group discussions, key-informant interviews, observations/ethnographies and basic human centered design (for state of the art HCD, see Dalberg Design). We have a track record of executing qualitative projects in more than 20 languages in major cities, rural and remote areas. We continuously work on our interview skills and set of methods. Our aim is to understand our respondents and their decisions better than they do themselves.

Dalberg Research is an efficient partner for complex quantitative surveys. Our sample sizes range from 50 to 25,000 respondents. For the best quality, we prefer Computer-Assisted Personal Interviews (CAPI). We have our own scripting team, field forces and devices. Our proprietary quality control and reporting system is further refined after every major project. Where our quality standards can be met by cheaper survey channels, we are happy to revert to phone, IVR, SMS and online surveys