Our IMPACT Team in Yemen
In pursuit of impact in Yemen, we are a group of professional Yemeni consultants and researchers. We have worked with local and international organizations during the Yemen crisis. The gained experience is worth sharing for two reasons. First, it opens opportunities for us to conduct more research studies for engaged organizations that are our clients. Second, it helps our clients perform better. Every one of us can learn about effective implementations and how to make an impact.
IMPACT consulting center is interested in impact. The way to make an impact goes everywhere. Whether you are a business or an organization. Local organizations or international ones are all seeking to make an impact within their line of business. Our centre is interested to investigate, assess, validate, and come back with lessons learned. These lessons go to the next big impact.
Unless there is an impact of what you do, then probably you would not last long. Your organization is there for a purpose. In order to achieve your purpose you have to have a vision for it, and this needs to translate into effective results.
… therefore, we can help in many different areas from planning and design to monitoring and evaluations:
working with many international organizations operating in Yemen in many areas of research and assessments. We have conducted monitoring and evaluation activities to capacity buildings and final reportings. In fact, millions of dollars were evaluated during the past few years by UNDP, WFP, UNICEF, Oxfam, ILO, FAO, and others.
Yemen Crisis, special note and impact:
The Yemen crisis has opened new opportunities for the Yemeni people as much as it has closed many. The catastrophe has pushed all of us to see the light in the dark, and to identify the opportunities between the ashes!
In conclusion, lessons learned help understanding how to make an impact in Yemen. Thus, we have learned that impact in Yemen is not as intuitive as one thinks. The complication of the situation makes small efforts full of impact. While much money can create very negative unintended consequences.
Vision
Impact Research Center works to become a top consulting firm in Yemen. Pioneering in the field of providing a complete and comprehensive consultancy and research services. This is done by promoting social and economic development to impact the lives of people. In brief, we envision ourselves solving Yemen’s challenges. One challenge at a time.
Mission
We are in the business of making an impact. We are learning from implementations, sharing good practices and reflecting on lessons learned. This is done via a dedicated research team of what is happening in Yemen and disseminating knowledge. Our greatest asset is our dedicated people who have extensive experience in knowledge investigation and sharing.
Objectives
- Consulting; providing advice and suggesting solutions.
- Research and Assessments; data collection and analysis.
- Monitoring and Evaluation; change theory, KPIs, and assessments.
- Capacity Building; training, and workshops.
- Project Management; design, planning, implementations, and closure.
- Publishing; authentic, and worth sharing.
Values
- Transparency; working with integrity and ethics
- Responsibility; delivering the requirements
- Reliability; sound and accurate
- Neutrality; no sides, only the truth
- Creativity; out of the box approaches
- Flexibility; let’s focus on impact
Learn more about our services, what our clients say, and some of our work. Please fill in the contact form for more information.
The conflict in Yemen is now in its seventh year despite the concerted efforts of the UN and the international community towards a peace agreement. Analysis of the current situation indicates that the parties to the conflict show no signs of backing down from their demands, nor towards effecting any form of a peace agreement that may allow an easing in the severity of the humanitarian crisis that is unfolding in the country. The more protracted the conflict, the greater the deterioration in the humanitarian conditions in Yemen, and the greater the deterioration of the state and its capacities to function in the service of its people, or to recover if and when
a peace agreement is reached.
Yemen is now in a precarious situation. As the current outbreak of a global pandemic and cholera would suggest, state institutions have reached a high level of dysfunction and incapacity that the national response to this crisis has had to be overwhelmingly supported, organized, financed and at times implemented by external organizations including the UN. This, however, is just one example of a crisis exposing the vulnerability of the state to respond to emerging crises. The situation is as critical in other sectors including education, agricultural extension, and security. The next viral epidemic in livestock, the next crop failure due to disease, the absence of teachers in schools due to an inability to pay salaries, all could exponentially increase the hardships that the population currently faces and continue to expand the magnitude of what is already one of the world’s worst humanitarian emergencies. The international community needs to maintain the highest level of essential humanitarian support to Yemen as is possible in the current context, however, we cannot overlook the looming and longer-lasting crisis that would emerge if we allow the Yemeni state to crumble completely. The erosion of state capacity is much like the erosion of a mountainside; there will be a tipping point from which the return is almost impossible and extremely costly.
We are positioned as a top provider of consulting services in Yemen. Our consultants provide services to international organizations, local NGOs, and businesses in Yemen and others. Our services assist in planning, execution, and control. In addition, we provide organizational support, process development, problem identification, and outcome evaluations. Our expertise excels in monitoring and evaluation, project management, impact analysis, qualitative and thematic studies, quantitative analysis, market research, and capacity building.