Research, Monitoring & Evaluation

Abt Global’s monitoring expertise is a pivotal element in our robust approach, enabling superior outcomes and providing time-sensitive data for informed decision-making in contexts around the world. Abt generates high-quality data that help craft theories of change, assess program performance, and design surveys and monitoring, evaluation, and learning systems for complex data management. Our monitoring approach uses qualitative and quantitative methods to facilitate reflective learning and adaptive management. From public health and environment to housing and agriculture, Abt’s experts use fit-for-purpose approaches to generate usable insights for equitable, resilient, sustainable, and secure societies.

Abt Global's qualitative and mixed methods research methods are at the core of our mission to deliver rigorous, equity-focused research and data. We tailor our methodological and data collection approach to answer our clients’ questions, reflect communities' real-life complexities, and ensure our data includes diverse voices and lived experience. From systematic data sampling to interviews and focus groups, we develop insights that inform policy and program decisions for human-focused systems that are sustainable, resilient, and fair.

Abt specializes in cutting-edge quantitative methods research, including diverse methodologies for program evaluation, randomized control trials, quasi-experiments, and systematic evidence reviews. Our experts produce insightful analyses that support evidence-based decision making across sectors. From policy analysis to program assessment, our rigorous quantitative techniques uncover insights that help our partners build resilient, sustainable, and fair policies and programs.