Socio-Economic Research

PDS undertakes research that examinesareas including but not limited to health, education, poverty, agriculture, food security, sanitation & Water, personnel, trade, industry, business management, banking, distribution, marketing, selling etc.

Our research services including study design, instrument development, pretests and pilot studies, mail surveys, telephone surveys, face-to-face field surveys, web surveys, records abstraction, mixed-mode surveys and focus groups.

We have qualified experienced and dedicated team that gives us an edge in undertaking surveys of any size and of any group while controlling cost and maintaining data quality in the East African region and beyond. Our multidisciplinary research teams provide policy makers with independent, objective insights regarding a variety of public policies and private sector concerns.

Our researchers contribute to knowledge generation through authoring or co-authoring in journal articles, reports, conference proceedings and other publications.

Evaluations

PDS designs and implements baseline studies, mid-term, end-line and/or impact evaluations that nurtures organizations to learn from their past achievements, understand the effects of their interventions in order to enhance the impact of their ongoing and future development programmes.

We provide a comprehensive evaluation package encompassing baseline, mid-term and end evaluation. We deploy the most appropriate evaluation designs suitable for your development programme context in order to ascertain the significance of your programs’ contribution. We rigorously conduct in-depth analysis of all aspects of social change and draw evidence based recommendations on areas of improvement for current or future programming.

Management Consultancy Services

PDS is dedicated to helping organisations stay competitive in the dynamic environment through facilitating strategy, structure, management and operations of an organisation. Consultancy Services in this areas include but not limited to Management issues, crisis management, risk management, managing change and strategic management.

We build capacity of your people to be able to manage a programme or project, to secure funding, to increase your visibility, and to increase your influence in order to achieve your overall goal, mission and vision.

Trainings and Coaching

PDS organizes and facilitates training, exhibitions, conferences and seminars tailored to satisfy the client needs.

We offer executive trainings to improve the skills of your people. We design trainings that help fulfill the learning needs of the individual and the organization in entirety. Our trainings harmonize the individual experiences, technical and people skills to enhance your people’s professional growth in making better choices, effectively & efficiently executing their duties which coherently improves your organizational performance.We provide trainings to organizations in data management, evaluations, research methodologies, leadership, managing change, stress management, emotional intelligence, communication skills, negotiation and influencing, conflict resolution, other diverse technical and soft skills. 

We also provide trainings to beneficiaries of development programmes in diverse thematic areas such as health, education, poverty, agriculture, food security, sanitation & Water, personnel, trade, industry, business management, banking, distribution, marketing, selling etc. We design and train beneficiaries in adopting proven and tested best practices to improve their socio-economic welfare.