Our Methodologies
Evaluation
At Smith & Lehmann Consulting, we assess your needs to create a custom plan that fits your context. We use proven strategies that work to focus on getting the right information and data to achieve actionable results.
Services We Provide:
Program | Formative | Summative | Developmental | Principles-based | Outcome | Outcomes harvesting | Impact | Implementation | Logic Modeling | Theory of Change | Theory of Action | Process | Participatory Action Research | Participatory Monitoring & Evaluation
Facilitation
We coordinate with stakeholders and collaborators at all phases of a project to ensure the process runs smoothly and results are meaningful and useful.
Services We Provide:
Stakeholder Engagement | Learning Collaboratives | Community of Practice models | Adaptive Action | Rapid cycle reporting | Project Management | Theory of change development
Strategic Planning
We are experts at taking data to turn into an executable plan for change. We collaboratively build plans with a focus on the long-term impact to set our clients up for success.
Services We Provide:
Ecosystem Assessment | Evaluation Planning | Situation Analysis | Needs Assessment | Literature review | Visioning | Capacity Building | Equity Planning | Leadership retreats
Data Collection & Analysis
At Smith & Lehmann, we have a variety of tools at our disposal to use to customize every evaluation.
Services We Provide:
Qualitative: Unstructured, semi-structured, and structured interviews, focus groups, participant observation, rapid feedback, inductive and deductive analysis, qualitative coding, content and theme analysis, asset mapping, Multilingual data collection (English, Spanish)
Quantitative: Chi-square analysis, survival analysis, basic and advanced survey analysis, social network analysis, logistic regression analysis, cost-benefit analysis, GIS mapping, instrument development, data dashboard development, secondary data analysis
Collaborative measurement tools, social network analysis