Connecting Minds, Delivering Results Beyond Expectation
ADVISAL is a team of local and international experts in research, monitoring and evaluation in humanitarian and development fields. We are an authorized firm providing a wide range of consultancy and research services with a deep understanding of Yemen’s local and national contexts of Yemen. Well known for our strengths-based approaches and whole-systems perspective, we serve national and international organizations, non-profits, and for-profit businesses through customized services that support learning and enhance performance excellence.
Our Vision is to be a valued partner to our clients and an asset to our communities by leading consulting and research services in Yemen by our quality outputs recognized for professional implementation, data quality and timely delivery to inform decisions to improve interventions effectiveness.
Our Mission is to add tangible value for our clients by providing high-quality services. Our work should be rewarding to our clients, to the communities we work with, to our employees and consultants, and to our partners.
Our aim is to promote positive change and community development in Yemen by providing professional consultancy services to our clients and conducting problem-oriented research addressing the humanitarian crisis’s alleviation and the country’s sustainable development
We apply a highly collaborative approach with our clients encouraging the use of our outputs and data into program design, learning, and knowledge management. We support our clients to enhance policy and program design and improve project performance.
We ensure access to female to respondents and households by maintaining a 50% percentage of male to female enumerators in our surveys treating the traditions and gender norms of each location separately. ADVISAL has a gender policy that ensures mainstreaming gender aspects in all the stages of our researches and consultancies.
At ADVISAL, we ensure cost-effectiveness by identifying the economically most efficient ways to fulfill the required objectives of our clients. We use our team’s experience and ADVISAL’s history of consultancies to offer competitive costs compared to high-quality results and outputs. We utilize the available resources, capacity, and tools with ADVISAL from previous researches and consultancies to ensure const-effectiveness.
Timeliness and proactivity are among our core priorities in dealing with our clients and delivering our results. We provide our clients with regular updates about the implementation progress and anticipate any potential delays to adopt the suitable corrective measure in order to deliver the results on time.
Our network of field researchers and enumerators is extended to remote and hard to reach areas around Yemen. Reaching participants in research and surveys from all targeted locations by our clients is one of the objectives that we ensure through our extended network.
ADVISAL applies strict and Technical and Organizational Measures (TOMs) in implementing consultancy services. All information and data collected during field research or obtained from clients are treated in a confidential manner with limited access to the concerned personnel maintaining data-protection management measures. The TOMs cover Document Management and Media Handling, Data Collection and Processing, and Physical Security and Electronic Access Control.
ADVISAL is an umbrella of experienced and skilled international evaluators and professionals in multiple fields who have worked with aid agencies, donors, and NGOs in different countries. We ensure that our outputs are cross-checked by a number of team members as required to each research or study.
ADVISAL applies advanced approaches in training potential field researchers and enumerators. Capacity building of our field teams is conducted through extensive courses focusing on key data collection skills, techniques, and tools. All researchers and field surveyors are tested before conducting field research.
At ADVASAL, we use innovative digital data collection technologies to ensure monitoring and control of the real-time data flow and ensure data quality is maintained through specific procedures and verification processes. We use a number of online/offline data collection tools and platforms that are both easy to use by our team, and accurate in delivering high-quality datasets.
In conducting research or surveys, ADVISAL team respects participants' rights, interests, and dignity regardless of religious beliefs, gender, ability, age, orientation, language, or political affiliation. Consent from participants is a must prior to engaging in research or surveys. One crucial step in our SOPs is training field surveyors and researchers to protect participants from any harm which might occur as a consequence of the research, physical, psychological, or otherwise. Ensuring and preserving anonymity is paramount.
We have a presence of highly qualified national and international researchers and consultants across Yemen with years of experience in humanitarian and development disciplines.
