Evidence in Action.
Impact That Lasts.

BCL has technical expertise in designing and managing baseline, midline, endline, and impact evaluation studies for large- and small-scale programmes, translating complex data into decisions clients can act on. We build MEL systems that are used long after our contract ends — not filed away — because we design them around the reporting cycles, staff capacity, and donor requirements each client actually has, rather than importing a generic template. Our researchers combine quantitative rigor with qualitative depth, pairing structured surveys with key informant interviews, focus group discussions, and participatory methods so that the numbers are always read alongside the stories that explain them.

• Baseline, midline, and endline studies
• Impact evaluations and performance assessments
• MEL framework and Theory of Change design
• Quantitative and qualitative research (mixed methods)
• Data quality assessments (DQAs)
• Real-time dashboards and reporting systems

BCL supports clients from concept to funded programme — designing interventions, mapping donors, and building the proposals and systems needed to win and manage grants. We have sat on both sides of the funding relationship: helping clients respond to competitive tenders under tight deadlines, and helping them build the internal systems, budgets, and partnership structures that make a proposal credible to a donor review panel in the first place. That dual perspective means our proposals are written to be funded, not just to be complete.

• Programme and project design
• Proposal and concept note development
• Donor landscape mapping and resource mobilization strategies
• Grant writing and partnership development
• Fundraising strategy and project cycle management
• Results-based management systems

BCL has hands-on experience developing organizational and sectoral strategic plans, running capacity assessments, and building the management systems that let organizations grow with confidence. We know that a strategic plan is only as good as the honesty of the diagnosis behind it, so our organizational reviews are built to surface uncomfortable findings as clearly as flattering ones — governance gaps, financial management weaknesses, unclear reporting lines — because those are exactly the issues a board or executive team needs named before it can act on them.

• Strategic plan development
• Organizational capacity assessments (OCA)
• SWOT analysis and institutional reviews
• Governance strengthening and operational planning
• Theory of Change facilitation and risk analysis
• Change management support and policy/procedure development

BCL applies rights-based approaches and political economy analysis to reveal the institutional and power dynamics shaping reforms — helping clients target advocacy and programming where it will count. Formal mandates and org charts rarely tell the whole story of how a decision actually gets made; our political economy work maps the informal rules of the game — who holds real influence, what incentives shape behaviour, where resistance to reform is likely to come from — so that clients invest their advocacy and programming effort where it will move the needle, not where the org chart suggests it should.

• Governance assessments and policy reviews
• Political economy analysis and civic engagement studies
• Access to justice and legal sector assessments
• Advocacy strategy development
• Stakeholder mapping and multi-stakeholder dialogue facilitation
• Human rights-based approaches applied to all governance assignments, strengthening accountability of duty-bearers and participation of rights-holders

BCL brings a feminist research lens and a disability- and youth-inclusive approach to gender and inclusion work, ensuring programming reaches — and reflects — the people it is meant to serve. We treat gender and inclusion as questions to be answered with evidence, not assumptions: our assessments disaggregate data by sex, age, disability, and other relevant markers as standard practice, and our recommendations are built to change how an organization designs and delivers programmes, not simply to satisfy a donor's gender-marker requirement.

• Gender analysis, gender audits, and mainstreaming strategies
• Feminist research-informed approaches that centre the voices and lived experiences of women and girls
• Women's economic empowerment programmes
• Gender-based violence (GBV) prevention and response programme evaluations
• Disability and social inclusion assessments
• Youth empowerment and local economic development

BCL helps clients translate climate vulnerability data into adaptation plans and climate-finance-ready proposals that funders can act on. Our climate work is grounded in the same evidence discipline we apply across the firm: vulnerability and risk are assessed with data before adaptation options are recommended, so that programming responds to a community's actual exposure rather than a generic climate-risk template.

• Climate vulnerability assessments and adaptation planning
• Climate finance readiness and climate-smart development programming
• Natural resource management and environmental sustainability assessments
• Disaster-risk and resilience planning
• Climate-informed MEL indicator design and monitoring
• Water resource, grazing, and land-use sustainability studies

BCL runs a dedicated geospatial analytics capability that pairs field-based data collection with mapping, remote sensing, and spatial modelling, turning location data into evidence clients can act on for programme targeting, service-gap analysis, and natural-resource and climate decision-making. Our GIS specialists work alongside our MEL, climate, and governance teams from the design stage, so that spatial analysis answers the client's actual programming question rather than sitting apart as a stand-alone map annexed to a report.

• Geo-referenced household, facility, and asset mapping
• Service-gap, accessibility, and catchment-area analysis
• Land-use planning, boundary mapping, and natural resource/grazing and water-point mapping
• Climate, environmental, and disaster-risk vulnerability mapping
• Satellite imagery analysis and remote sensing for land cover, water and vegetation change
• Drone/UAV-based aerial data capture and orthomosaic mapping
• Custom interactive web maps and geospatial dashboards for real-time decision-making

BCL helps public and private-sector clients modernize how they collect, manage, and use data — from digitizing paper-based inspection and reporting workflows to building predictive analytics models that anticipate operational risk. We design digital systems around what a client's own team can maintain and scale, so that the transformation survives the handover rather than depending indefinitely on an external vendor.

• Digital transformation strategy and workflow digitization (e.g. inspection, compliance, and reporting systems)
• Real-time monitoring dashboards and predictive/forecasting analytics
• Responsible and applied AI use-cases for development and public-sector programming
• Digital data collection system design, configuration, and rollout
• Data governance, quality assurance, and management systems
• ICT-enabled service delivery and process automation advisory

BCL delivers sector-specific research, monitoring, and evaluation across public health, WASH, education, protection, and livelihoods — often in fragile, access-constrained, or humanitarian settings. Our sector specialists work alongside our core MEL and gender teams, so that a WASH baseline or an education strategy is grounded in the same rigorous, mixed-methods discipline that runs across every BCL assignment.

• Public health and WASH programme evaluations and baselines
• Peacebuilding, protection, and emergency response assessments
• Education sector research, strategy, and Theory of Change development
• Livelihoods, market systems, and value-chain assessments
• Refugee, IDP, and displacement-context programme design and evaluation
• Social protection and GBV response programme evaluations

BCL builds the internal capacity of partner organizations and networks so that MEL, governance, and management systems keep functioning long after our engagement ends. We favour hands-on, learning-by-doing training over one-off workshops, pairing every capacity-building assignment with practical tools, templates, and mentorship that partner staff can use immediately.

• MEL and MEAL training for partner organizations and networks
• Human resource policy and institutional systems development
• Training-of-trainers (ToT) and mentorship programmes
• Standard operating procedures (SOPs) and systems audits
• Governance and board development training
• Peer learning, knowledge management, and institutional handover support