CAPACITY STATEMENT

Laterite Ethiopia
Data, research and advisory services
Capacity statement: January 2022
Laterite Ethiopia

About Laterite

Laterite is a data, research and advisory Laterite strives to

firm dedicated to bringing high-quality
research services to the most underserved
carry out impactful
markets. Our approach is structured, data research that helps
intensive, and embedded in the local context. decision-makers find
Over the past ten years, we have completed solutions to complex
more than 100 research projects with clients development
active in social impact and development
problems.
research including large foundations and
international organizations, universities,
and NGOs. Our core sectors of expertise
are education, public health, agriculture,
youth and livelihoods, urbanization and
migration, and gender. We have offices in
Rwanda, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda,
Tanzania and the Netherlands, with a team
of over 60 full-time researchers and data
experts, based primarily in East Africa.

Our offices

Amsterdam

Addis Ababa

Kampala
Nairobi
Kigali

Dar es Salaam

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 What we offer

Our strengths

Expert team with degrees Top quality at every step of

from top universities and the process, from
experience in emerging enumerator training to data
markets monitoring

Strong understanding of Emphasis on ethically

the context via our local sound research, from child
teams, networks and safeguarding to COVID-19
relationships protocols

Full-cycle research project Focus on innovation in the

support capabilities, from way we work, always
design to data collection to seeking new and better
analysis ways to do research

Our services

Data Research Advisory

- Quantitative & - Program / impact - Learning partnerships

qualitative data evaluation - Embedded research
collection - Socio-economic advisors
- Phone & SMS surveys household surveys - Research portfolio
- Audio-assisted surveys - Poverty analysis management
- Behavioral games - Prevalence studies - Monitoring &
- Anthropometric & - Attitude / perception evaluation
biometric measurements studies
- Observational learning - Policy / program
and child development landscape mapping
assessments

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Capacity statement: January 2022
Laterite Ethiopia

Laterite in Ethiopia

Laterite Ethiopia specializes in

large-scale, complex research and Laterite Ethiopia at a glance
data collection projects. Our office in
Addis Ababa has been in operation 16
since 2016 and includes experts in full-time staff
research and both quantitative and
qualitative data collection. We work 800+
with a roster of over 800 trained local enumerators
enumerators who carry out both in-
person and remote data collection. 48,500+
Our enumerators are competitively households surveyed in 2021
recruited, hold Bachelor’s degrees,
and are fluent in local languages as 6,800+
well as English. We have worked in women and children measured
all regions of Ethiopia on topics for anthropometrics
including agriculture, livelihoods,
public health, education, migration, 15,600+
and gender. enumerator days in 2021

We have worked in all regions of Ethiopia

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 Examples of our work

Quantitative data collection Laterite collected quantitative data

partner for Gender &
Adolescence: Global Evidence
Overseas Development Institute
(ODI)
GAGE is a large-scale longitudinal
study that aims to collect data on
adolescent wellbeing with a focus on
gender in a range of countries. In
Ethiopia, Laterite worked with the
GAGE consortium to collect this data,
including through a large-scale impact
evaluation of over 8,000 adolescent
boys and girls in Ethiopia on topics
such as health and wellbeing,
education, voice and agency, and
economic empowerment.

Midline and endline data

collection for impact evaluation
of the Strengthen PSNP4
Institutions and Resilience (SPIR)
Development Food Security
Activity (DFSA)
International Food Policy Research
Institute (IFPRI)
The SPIR DFSA is a five-year project
supporting implementation of the
Productive Safety Nets Project (PSNP)
in Ethiopia. IFPRI is carrying out a
randomized controlled trial (RCT)
impact evaluation of the SPIR DFSA to
compare the impact of different
combinations of livelihood and nutrition
components of the project on measures
of household wellbeing, food security,
child and maternal nutritional status
and related outcomes. For the RCT,
Our enumerators traveling in rural Amhara
to carry out in-person surveys for the IFPRI
SPIR DFSA midline in 2019
across a sample of 4,300 households in
the most remote areas of Oromia and
Amhara at midline and endline,
including anthropometric measurements
of recent mothers and their infants.
Laterite also carryied out an additional
household listing exercise across 180
kebeles. The survey includes detailed
socio-economic modules and sensitive
modules related to IPV, maternal
depression, and GBV.
> Read the case study
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Capacity statement: January 2022
Laterite Ethiopia

High-frequency phone Embedded and independent

monitoring of households, firms research and M&E services for
and refugees to assess the coffee agronomy training
impact of COVID-19 in Ethiopia programs in East Africa
World Bank TechnoServe
Laterite tracked 3,300 rural and urban Laterite works within TechnoServe's
households over one year; 1,600 urban Coffee East Africa program to maximize
refugee households over two months; learning, improve the research function.
and 800 firms over five months using and increase harmony between imp-
high-frequency remote surveying. The lementation and research. Services
aim of the project was to gain insights include helping clients design research
into how the unfolding COVID-19 health strategies that directly feed into their
and economic crisis was affecting operations, while meeting monitoring
families in Ethiopia. Laterite was and reporting requirements; helping
responsible for all data collection, clients design discrete research projects
enumerator training and supervision, in a way that is rigorous, pertinent, and
ensuring data quality, and carrying out feasible within operational and budget
data cleaning and field reporting. constraints; training at all stages of the
> Read findings via the World Bank research cycle, from instrument and
research design to data management
Understanding the Context for and cleaning to analysis; and back-
Teaching and Learning in Ethiopia stopping and access to our network of
Mastercard Foundation expert researchers across East Africa.
Laterite conducted a scoping study > Read the case study
focusing on three educational systems
in Ethiopia: secondary education, TVET
and non-formal education for adults.
We analyzed available statistics on
teaching institutions, students and
teachers/trainers, and conducted key
informant interviews with stakeholders
in Ethiopia’s educational system. The
results were used to create systems
maps focusing on the framework of
policy, governance, and financing. The
first phase of the project focused on
Addis Ababa and the federal level; and
the second was country-wide and
focused on regional variations. It also
included education in emergencies.

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 Key contacts in Ethiopia
Sachin Gathani
Managing Partner
Sachin is one of Laterite's founding
partners. He has over 12 years' ex-
perience leading complex data collection
and research projects, and has led over
65 projects in East Africa. Born and
raised in Kenya, Sachin holds a Master's
degree in International Affairs (Economic
Policy & African Studies) from Columbia
University.
Fitsum Dagmawi
Data Manager
Born and raised in Ethiopia, Fitsum
holds an MBA with concentration in
Project Management. He has over 10
years of experience in field research,
managing data collection teams,
conducting qualitative research, and
leading operations on large-scale and
complex research projects in Ethiopia.
Teferi Tensay
Program Manager
Teferi is an expert in policy, pro-
gramming, strategy and research design,
having worked extensively in the public
and private sectors in Ethiopia. He holds
a PhD in Institutional Economics from
the University of Hohenheim, a Master’s
in Globalization and Economic Develop-
ment from the University of Antwerp,
and an M.Sc. in International Economics
from Addis Ababa University.
Get in touch
Want to learn more about our
work in Ethiopia, or discuss a
potential opportunity? We look
forward to hearing from you!
Email: sgathani@laterite.com
www.laterite.com
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