Evidence from the field

Radar Consultancy conducted a Data Protection Impact Assessment for the Caafimaad+ Consortium, led by Action Against Hunger and operating across 23 districts in eight regions of Somalia.

The assessment examined how personal and sensitive information moved through health, nutrition, WASH and protection programmes, covering both paper-based and digital systems. Radar mapped data flows, assessed privacy and security risks, developed a risk matrix and produced practical GDPR-aligned remediation measures.

The assignment helped translate data-protection requirements into operational actions that could be applied across a complex nine-member consortium.

Radar Consultancy carried out conflict mapping and context analysis across Hiran and Middle Shabelle for the FCDO Somalia Office.

The work mapped relevant actors and institutions and examined local political and conflict dynamics across Hirshabelle State. The purpose was to provide decision-makers with structured contextual evidence for understanding an operating environment where formal institutions, community structures and conflict dynamics intersect.

The assignment demonstrates Radar’s ability to combine field knowledge with political economy and conflict analysis for government and donor decision-making.

Radar Consultancy undertook socio-economic data collection involving 2,321 drought-affected farmers in Beledweyne, Hiran.

The assignment combined household-level data collection with analysis of drought impacts and livelihood conditions, creating an evidence base for understanding how environmental shocks were affecting farming households.

The work reflects Radar’s capacity to organise field research at scale while operating in locations where access, logistics and community engagement require strong local delivery systems.

Radar Consultancy designed the methodology and conducted socio-economic data collection for a climate-smart agriculture greenhouse project in Jowhar, Middle Shabelle.

The study covered 250 households and examined conditions relevant to a climate-adaptation intervention in a flood-prone riverine district. Radar was responsible for the methodology, field collection and analysis.

The assignment shows how locally delivered research can connect household realities with programme design in communities facing overlapping climate and livelihood pressures.

Radar Consultancy provided third-party and post-distribution monitoring services for Humanitarian Initiative Just Relief Aid across multiple assignments in Somalia.

The work included independent verification of programme delivery, field data collection, analysis and reporting, alongside support to strengthen the organisation’s monitoring, evaluation and learning frameworks.

The approach reflects Radar’s wider operating model: locally recruited field personnel, defined evidence standards and alternative collection methods when physical access becomes constrained.

Radar Consultancy provided organisational recovery and programme management support to the Anti-Tribalism Movement through a six-month programme funded by the Julia and Hans Rausing Trust.

The assignment combined programme management and institutional strengthening with budget and variance monitoring and donor reporting.

Rather than treating organisational recovery as a standalone planning exercise, the work focused on the systems required to manage programmes, resources and accountability after the immediate recovery period.

Radar Consultancy delivered the design, deployment and handover of a Network Monitoring Portal supporting the Migration Information Data Analysis System across 18 border control posts for the International Organization for Migration in Nigeria.

The system incorporated monitoring, dashboards, alerting and disaster-recovery arrangements. The assignment also included staff training and formal handover, ensuring that the system could continue operating after implementation.

It demonstrates Radar’s approach to technology assignments: build the infrastructure, establish operational controls and leave the client with the knowledge and documentation required to run it.

Under an FAO Somalia purchase order, Radar Consultancy is providing a two-year Cloud Server System for Somalia’s Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation.

The assignment covers the design and provisioning of a secure cloud environment, access management for the Ministry ICT team and formal handover arrangements. It forms part of Radar’s growing technology and managed-services practice.

The underlying principle is institutional ownership: systems are designed so that government counterparts can administer and sustain them rather than remaining permanently dependent on an external provider.

Radar Consultancy holds a framework agreement with Somalia’s Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs covering labour-market and institutional support.

The scope brings together labour-market research, vocational training development, institutional capacity building, monitoring and evaluation, and the digital transformation of labour services.

The framework illustrates Radar’s integrated approach: research is not treated as an endpoint, but as an input into institutional development, service improvement and implementation.

Radar Consultancy’s wider research portfolio includes livestock value-chain analysis, business-incubator assessments, dairy-sector research, cross-border trade studies, assessments of pastoral livelihood strategies and work on simplified trade arrangements at the Kenya–Somalia border.

Across these assignments, the focus is on generating evidence that can inform economic-development programming rather than simply describing market conditions.

The work spans clients including the World Food Programme, UNIDO, DAI, RTI International, Adam Smith International and government institutions.