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Monitoring & Evaluation

Baseline, midline, endline and impact evaluations measured against a programme’s own indicators.

Monitoring and evaluation establishes what a programme set out to do, what changed, and what can reasonably be attributed to the intervention. CGS designs and conducts evaluations at each stage of the programme cycle, working to the criteria and reporting standards the commissioning organisation uses.

Evaluations are built around the programme's own theory of change and indicator framework rather than a fixed template. Quantitative measurement and qualitative enquiry are combined where the evaluation question calls for both.

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Third-Party Monitoring

MEL-as-a-Service: the independent MEL unit on five GIZ programmes and Endeavor Egypt’s XceleRise, from proposal to final report.

Third-Party Monitoring

What it includes

  • Evaluation design and inception report
  • Instrument development and sampling strategy
  • Field data collection with quality assurance
  • Analysis against baseline values and indicators
  • Findings, conclusions and recommendations
  • Presentation and discussion with programme teams

Our approach

Terms of reference are translated into a defined set of evaluation questions before any instrument is drafted, so that what is collected can be traced back to what was asked. Where a commissioner requires OECD/DAC criteria, findings are structured against them.

Baseline, midline and endline studies are designed so results remain comparable across rounds. Limitations of method and sample are stated in the report rather than left implicit.

Clients served

Save the Children International (SCI)Italian Agency for Development Cooperation (AICS), CairoGIZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit)ASMAE - Soeur Emmanuelle AssociationOm Habiba Foundation AswanHandicap InternationalSawiris Foundation for Social DevelopmentInternational Organization for Migration (IOM)Plan International Family & Community Organization - Plan International EgyptInternational Labour Organization (ILO)Endeavor EgyptCARE EgyptSeas For Environment and Training

Selected assignments

Current

Endline Evaluation for Sponsorship for Refugees

August 2026 - November 2026

An endline evaluation of Save the Children's Sponsorship for Refugees programme in Greater Cairo, focused on unaccompanied and separated children. CGS is applying a theory-based, mixed-methods design structured around the OECD DAC criteria across the programme's education, health, child protection and livelihood components.

Endline Evaluation Ard El-Lewa, Dokki, Faisal. Maadi
Current

Monitoring and Evaluation of Decent Employment and Mobility Opportunities for Egyptians (DEMO)

August 2026 - September 2028

CGS provides the monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning service for DEMO, which works to increase employability and labour mobility for Egyptians in Egypt and Italy through an Italian Egyptian centre for decent employment and mobility. The service covers a MEAL framework built with the PMU and the implementing partners, an open source management information system, partner training and six monthly reporting to September 2028.

Training & Coaching Cairo, Giza, Qalyubia
Current

Agriculture Innovation Project (AIP)

September 2025 - February 2027

Data collection and analysis support across multiple rounds among project beneficiaries, delivering high-quality datasets and reports for results-based monitoring.

Large-scale Data Collection Beni Suef, Assiut, Minya and Sohag
Current

Private Sector Innovation Programme (PSI II)

November 2024 - October 2027

Designing mixed-method data collection tools and delivering baseline, end-line and periodic surveys for PSI II's results-based monitoring framework, under EU and Egyptian data protection compliance.

Large-scale Data Collection Egypt
Current

Partnerships and Small and Medium Enterprise Promotion (JP-SME)

October 2024 - February 2027

Monitoring, data collection and results measurement for 36 public-private partnerships, tracking upgrades in Industry 4.0 skills, organisational competencies, HR systems and gender diversity.

Tracer StudyLarge-scale Data Collection Egypt
Current

Equal Opportunities for Social Development Project (EOSD)

May 2024 - April 2026

Steering the entire monitoring and evaluation portfolio for a nationwide programme channelling grants to almost 80 NGOs and CSOs, and advising the Civil Society Support Fund on its strategy and M&E system.

Training & Coaching Nationwide, Egypt

Baseline Study - Safer Environment for Children, Phase II

March 2026 - August 2026

Baseline study on child protection practices in three Cairo neighbourhoods, informing refinement of project interventions with a focus on gender, protection and inclusion.

Baseline Study Mansheyet Nasser, Marg and Ain Shams, Cairo

Dar We Salama Endline Evaluation

November 2025 - February 2026

Evaluation of a community development project in Sohag, assessing improvements in household efficiency, access to urgent healthcare and community participation.

Endline Evaluation Awlad Yehia village, Sohag Governorate

Revitalizing Handicrafts in Aswan - Endline Evaluation

December 2024 - February 2025

Mixed-methods endline assessing outcome attainment, community relevance, efficiency and sustainability, extracting lessons for future cultural-economy initiatives.

Endline Evaluation Aswan

Tracer Study Data Collection for the PROSPECTS Programme

April 2025 - September 2025

Data collection for a tracer survey and focus group discussions with around 750 PROSPECTS beneficiaries, supporting assessment of outcome-level indicators.

Tracer StudyLarge-scale Data Collection Cairo, Alexandria and Damietta

Forsa and Sponsorship Impact Evaluation

April 2025 - June 2025

Impact evaluation determining whether the projects achieved their intended objectives and documenting how and why the interventions made a difference in targeted communities.

Impact Evaluation Assiut and Minya

M&E Support for XceleRise

Phase I: October 2024 - November 2025 | Phase II: November 2025 - July 2026

Co-developing a theory of change and results framework for the XceleRise Program, building an actionable M&E plan and training staff to run it.

Baseline StudyEndline Evaluation Egypt

Baseline Study - Protection for Syrian and Non-Syrian Refugees

April 2024 - August 2024

Combining market research with financial modelling to design four income-generating projects for women's centres, alongside a baseline analysing risks and setting indicator starting values.

Baseline StudyFeasibility Study Alexandria and Cairo

Nawara Project Baseline and GBV Capacity Building

November 2023 - February 2024

A baseline study on violence against women paired with a training toolkit, TOT sessions and continuous coaching strengthening survivor-support mechanisms and community advocacy.

Baseline StudyTraining & Coaching Al-Qusair and Ras Ghareb, Red Sea

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