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Baselines as M&E Anchors, Not Standalone Reports
Why CCI designs climate vulnerability baselines to serve performance tracking across multi-year project cycles.
Too many baselines are ornate doorstops. CCI treats them as technical anchors for M&E across 2026–2028-style project cycles — indicator-aligned, QA-disciplined, and reusable at midline and endline.
That requires upfront investment in sampling strategy, digital tools (KoBoToolbox, SurveyCTO), and analysis workflows in Stata that partners can trust.
It also requires honesty about GEDSI: if the baseline cannot detect differential outcomes, the programme cannot claim inclusive results later
Our mixed-methods QA research formalised the checklists we now use on every assignment, from coastal VCAs to training evaluations.
When commissioning a baseline, ask your research partner how the dataset will be used in year three — not only how the inception report will look in month two
Programme highlights
- Design for midline and endline reuse
- Invest in digital QA and analysis
- Detect differentials from day one
- Commission for year-three use cases
CCI embeds gender-responsive methodologies, disability-inclusive data collection, and intersectional analysis across all fieldwork and reporting — not as an add-on, but as a core design principle.