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PHCF’s Impact & Baseline Assessment vertical turns field programmes into evidence — the kind funders act on, governments scale, and boards ask for before renewing a grant. We measure what your programme is actually achieving, and put a number on what it’s worth.
Why this matters
Most health and development programmes can tell you how many people they reached. Very few can tell you what that reach was worth, whether it reached the right people, or whether it will still be working in five years. That gap is where funding decisions, renewals, and scale-up plans get stuck.
01 / Evidence
An independent assessment against a recognised framework is often the difference between a programme that gets renewed and one that gets quietly discontinued.
02 / Direction
Without a baseline, “impact” is a guess. A proper baseline fixes the starting line, so every later claim of improvement can actually be checked against it.
03 / Value
A Social Return on Investment figure translates screenings, surgeries, and training sessions into a number a finance committee can put in a budget paper.
Two assessments, one continuum
We run these as two ends of the same measurement exercise — one at the start of a programme, one after it has had time to work.
Our framework
Our impact assessments are guided by internationally recognised evaluation frameworks that are thoughtfully customised to suit the unique objectives, context, and outcomes of each programme. While the specific indicators and methodologies vary from one programme to another, they collectively assess a comprehensive range of impact dimensions, a few of which are highlighted below.
Does the programme target the population that actually carries the burden?
Does it fit into existing school, health, and government systems, or work around them?
Did it deliver what it set out to — screenings, treatments, training, coverage?
What did each outcome cost, and what is the return on that cost (SROI)?
What changed for the people it reached — health, education, productivity?
Can it keep running, scale up, and survive a change in funding or leadership?
How we work
The same process, whether we’re assessing a single-district pilot or a state-wide rollout across 24 districts.
We agree the questions that matter to your funders and your team, and map them to indicators at the input, output, outcome, and impact level of a logic model.
We work with your existing programme datasets and reports, cleaning and validating them, and add structured field data collection where gaps exist.
Descriptive statistics, demographic breakdowns, and inferential tests (chi-square, logistic regression) to surface patterns — including equity gaps — hiding in the numbers.
We cost the intervention against conservative, literature-backed productivity and health benefit estimates to produce a defensible SROI figure, tested under sensitivity scenarios.
A full report scored across all six lenses, plus a short policy brief translating findings into action for government, implementers, and donors.
What you receive
Every assessment we deliver includes the same core components, adapted to your programme and audience.
Why PHCF
We look at how a project is functioning and the practical ways to improve it — with field experience behind every recommendation.
Years of running mobile clinics and PHC upgrades mean we know how field data is actually collected — and where it usually breaks.
Our frameworks are built to stand up to the same OECD-DAC-aligned scrutiny used in state and national programme reviews.
Every SROI figure ships with its assumptions, its sensitivity range, and its limitations — not just the headline ratio.
Reports end in recommendations and policy briefs, written for the people who actually decide what happens next.
Next conversation
Whether you need a baseline before you start, or an impact assessment to prove what you’ve already built — we’ll scope it around what your funders and your team actually need to see.