Our services
workshop hosting
You want to organise an online workshop but don’t have the technical resources? No problem, we can host your workshop in Banyaneer’s brand new studio. Features include:
Green screen (for virtual backgrounds)
Professional lighting, audio and video equipment
Digital whiteboard displayed on large screen
Zoom features for team work and informal chats (meet for a coffee)
Fast, reliable internet connection
You can either facilitate the workshop from your end, or leave it all to us. Focus on the content - and we’ll deal with the technical set-up. On request, we will give you a live video tour and show you the functions and possibilities.
training & coaching
In addition to our scheduled online training courses, we also offer customised courses and support. Let us know what you require - and we’ll tailor the right solution.
With travel restrictions eased, we now offer on-site training in your project country. We provide targeted online training to your team on surveying and the use of Kobo, exit strategies, behaviour change, and much else.
Furthermore, we are committed to capacity development of local staff, and offer targeted coaching to individual or multiple team members. This will help your team members develop skills on-the-job while solving current problems.
Consider investing in tailored coaching packages for your team, which may include regular skype calls and emails, or the review of documents. Coaching will be charged on an hourly basis.
Project design
You want to develop a new project - great! At Banyaneer, we would be happy to support this process. Our consultants are experienced in developing proposals for various donors, including the European Commission (ECHO, DEVCO) as well as the governments of Germany (BMZ, AA), France (AFD) and Australia (DFAT).
Our support options range from minor reviews and edits of draft proposals to the full development of project proposals. Especially when time is limited, it is useful to bring in external capacity.
Our work can include initial scoping studies and assessments, the development of theories of change with logframes and suitable indicators, as well as appropropriate budgets, work plans, and implementation manuals.
The experience of our team in evaluations as well as practical programming means that we have a good idea on what works (and what doesn’t).
Our strong skills in design and visualisation will give your proposal the edge - a great chart showing the theory of change can go a long way!
Contact us to discuss the most suitable option for your context. We’d love helping you succeed with your next proposal - and look forward to working with you.
on demand support
Let’s face it: few projects run exactly as planned, even if they are planned well. Imagine you are overseeing a project that appears to run off track. Of course, you will do your best to improve matters and overcome challenges. But at times, it may be wise bringing in external expertise early – don’t wait for scheduled mid-term reviews or evaluations.
Banyaneer offers on-demand support at any stage of the project cycle, either through remote or in-country support. Your team may simply lack the time or capability to analyse data that you collected: send us the data, we will do the rest (analysis and data visualisation if needed). Or you may need somebody to review your logframe or M&E plan: our team is there with surge capacity and external perspective. If you encounter serious challenges, we may send in our experts in areas such as livelihood, disaster risk management, climate change adaptation, public health, water and sanitation, gender, and organisational development.
Early course corrections and practicable solutions can save a lot of time, money, and frustration. Aside from the tangible benefits, such real-time support is usually less costly than, say, full-fledged evaluations. Don’t let the challenges overcome you and the project – instead, let us help you bring your project back on track (or change the track).
Make us your extended team, your surge capacity, your back-up support. Let us banyaneer your work.
evaluations
You seek an evaluation or a mid-term review? We’re here to deliver. At Banyaneer, we have a broad set of methodological tools and pride ourselves in being thorough. Firmly believing in the value of triangulation, we also favour mixed-method approaches that deploy both quantitative tools (such as household surveys) and qualitative methods (such as semi-structured interviews, story-telling, appreciative inquiry, as well as workshops with communities and project staff).
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In our evaluation reports, we take great care to always substantiate or qualify our findings. Our recommendations never stand alone and are always accompanied by the underlying reasoning (we realise that recommendations must be understood and accepted before they can be followed). Whenever possible, we present and discuss preliminary findings and recommendations with project teams.
We also aim to deliver reports that are reader-friendly. With concise writing, clear structures, frequent use of charts, maps and illustrations, and effective executive summaries, we produce reports that can be easily understood and shared. All reports are delivered in professional publication-ready layouts.
Surveys
There’s an inconvenient truth about surveys: many project teams do them, few do them well. Most common problems relate to sampling, data analysis, and questionnaire design.
That is a pity because surveys can shed a lot of light into the situation on the ground. Crucially, baseline surveys that are poorly designed have three limitations: they may be of little use in terms of informing programming, they may be unusable as a point of comparison with an eventual endline, and they may be a waste of team resources.
If you plan a survey, avoid these pitfalls. At Banyaneer, we offer customised solutions for surveys: we can deliver complete packages (including questionnaire design and sampling, data gathering, data analysis and reporting), provide support only where it is needed (survey design, analysis, or both), or simply run a quality check of your draft version. You may also consider our online course on resilience measurements, or enquire about coaching options.
Our expertise includes electronic data collection through Kobo and other platforms. Our question bank features now more than 300 validated questions, allowing us to propose the most suitable questiuons for your indicators.
Research
Investing in studies of cross-cutting issues or particular topics that are beyond the scope of an individual project can be insightful and rewarding. As their lessons usually apply to a broad range of projects and programmes, such studies can have a much greater audience and effect.
At Banyaneer, we are passionate about research. With our combined practical expertise and academic backgrounds, we are well suited to find the answers to the questions you may have. Filling knowledge gaps and thereby helping to improve chances to sustainably reinforce resilience is part of our mission.
We have conducted several such studies – for instance, about the role of social capital in reinforcing resilience. We have also carried out several cost-benefit analyses (CBA) of disaster risk management – in Vietnam, Bangladesh, Tajikistan, Georgia, Indonesia, and Nepal.
Of course, funding for such studies is often harder to come by than for baseline or regular evaluations – at times, it makes sense for different players to combine resources, as was done by several actors in Laos. Are you aware of a knowledge gap or see a particular aspect of resilience that should be investigated further?