Projects driving innovation and positive change.
Transforming Visions Into Impactful Results.
At RADS, we strive to bridge global expertise with local impact through transformative projects. From healthcare to education and sustainable development, our initiatives address pressing challenges and deliver meaningful solutions. Explore our work that shapes brighter futures.
3rd Party Monitoring of FP in Pakistan (FCDO-DFID)
RADS is the lead partner of Integrity (UK) on DFID – FCDO’s 90 million GBP Family Planning support to Pakistan, implemented through partners MSS, Greenstar, and DKT. RADS conducts monthly, quarterly, and annual surveys for FCDO, delivering detailed reports that track how implementing partners (IPs) meet KPIs, address challenges, and achieve results in compliance with FCDO-approved formats. These reports play a crucial role in informing strategic decisions and ensuring accountability. Additionally, RADS supports capacity-building initiatives, helping partners improve their operational efficiency and impact.
Polio persistence among Pashtun communities: Ethnography for Change
Working with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to make Pakistan a polio-free country, this nationwide study is combining available knowledge (through NEOCs/PEOCs) and GPEI (Global Polio Eradication Initiative) with targeted ethnographic and behavioral research to explore reasons why polio persists in Pashtun communities/pockets across the country. The study also identifies actionable strategies to address community-specific challenges.
GLOBAL BURDEN OF DISEASE
GBD team is coordinating with two partners as a communication and coordination secretariat to strengthen the skills, techniques and understanding of analysis and uptake of knowledge translation for decision-makers in Pakistan. Aim is to provide decision makers synthesis of data that reflects prioritized health concerns and assist in policy-making that is contextualized to local needs. Currently, focusing on family planning, health insurance program and key national infectious diseases such as Hepatitis B, C and TB etc. Additionally, putting in mechanisms to ensure sustainability of this work by capacity building of teams and external stakeholders.
Measurement Partner in a Rural Family Planning (Marvi-HANDS)
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation supported HANDS to conduct a large-scale FP implementation program in 3 districts of rural Sindh. RADS is the M&E and Research partner to review progress and help build knowledge generation, train Marvis, address bottlenecks, data management etc. Throughout this 40 month project, RADS is responsible for monthly monitoring, developing content for the knowledge products, research on FP barriers, and Endline Impact Assessment.
Longitudinal assessment of EPI Cold Chain Equipment (Gavi, JSI)
RADS was the recipient of JSI-GAVI funding to assess nationwide gaps in the cold storage and vaccination supply-chain mechanisms. RADS teams conduct baseline, midline and endline assessments plus capacity building dialogue with national and district level facilities to help overcome existing challenges serving as a bridge between EPI and JSI-GAVI. This is a multi-country GAVI support grant to assess effectiveness of its CCEOP mechanisms and outcomes of GAVI aid.
Assessment of the MARVI Female Entrepreneurship & Outreach Model (David and Lucile Packard Foundation)
This was a combined qualitative-quantitative, multi-stage evaluation of the MARVI FP and RH outreach model, analyzing the results of the intervention, along with women’s empowerment, social mobilization of the communities, and the entrepreneurship model to identify how it might be sustained and scaled up across the country and region. The findings also highlight key challenges and opportunities for broader implementation.
Evidence to Advocacy (USAID)
Substantial data is available on Maternal and Child Health issues in Pakistan in the form of research studies, routine surveys, and service delivery data from programs and projects. However, these sources of data are mostly dispersed and decision-makers have rarely the interest, skills, or time to take them into consideration when making critical programming and policy decisions. We collated and analyzed available data on MNCH in Pakistan, into easily actionable information and made these results available to decision-makers and influencers.
Local grant management partner for (Susan T. Buffett Foundation)
The foundation funded FP and abortion/ post abortion care through ten national and international NGOs. As their local partner, RADS liaised with the NGOs to understand programming, learnt new lessons including creating demand for FP and safe access to abortions. We conducted annual rounds of mixed qualitative-quantitative assessments of providers and management of the NGOs to identify lessons from the field for the NGOs and the Foundation.
Understanding Decision Making in the Public Sector (USAID/DFID/ Packard Foundation)
This was a combined qualitative-quantitative, multi-stage evaluation of the MARVI FP and RH outreach model, analyzing the results of the intervention, along with women’s empowerment, social mobilization of the communities, and the entrepreneurship model to identify how it might be sustained and scaled up across the country and region. The findings also highlight key challenges and opportunities for broader implementation.
Evaluation of Zinc and ORS treatment on diarrhoea among children in Punjab (Nutrition International)
The project was an end line evaluation of a community intervention where government outreach workers were training in the use of Zinc and ORS for treatment of childhood diarrhea. Due to limitations of design (RADS was asked to come in at the end line only and no control location was selected), innovative techniques were used to measure the impact of the intervention in two districts with surveys of over 3000 households.
