Est. 2019 · Chimoio, MozambiqueRigorous evidence.Practical decisions.
Nyararai Consulting Services (NCS) helps donors, NGOs, UN agencies, government partners, and private sector programmes generate reliable evidence through evaluations, baselines, gender analysis, data collection, and MERL systems.
NCS helps NGOs, UN agencies, bilateral donors, embassies, government partners, and private sector programmes answer practical questions with credible evidence. We design studies, collect and analyse data, validate findings with stakeholders, and turn results into recommendations that programme teams can use.
The values we live by
The principles that shape how we work with every client and community.
Innovation
We adapt methods, tools, and reporting formats to each assignment so evidence is useful for the people making programme decisions.
Human-centricity
We design research around the experiences, safety, and dignity of the people who participate in it.
Teamwork
We work closely with clients, field teams, community stakeholders, and programme staff from inception through validation.
Sustainability
We focus on recommendations, systems, and learning products that remain useful after the final report is submitted.
Thematic areas
Specialised expertise across the areas that matter most to development programmes in Southern Africa.
Market Systems Development
We help programmes understand how farmers, firms, service providers, institutions, and informal actors shape incentives and access. Our work supports practical market-systems decisions in agriculture, livelihoods, and private sector development.
Gender/GBV
We examine gender norms, power relations, protection risks, and institutional responsiveness so programmes can move from general commitments to practical gender and GBV-sensitive action.
Disability
We support disability-inclusive research and programming by looking at barriers, access, participation, and reasonable accommodation across programme design, delivery, and learning.
Climate Change
We help clients understand how climate shocks, livelihoods, local institutions, and resilience strategies interact, then translate that evidence into programme design and adaptation decisions.
Data Quality Assurance
We build data quality checks into tool design, enumerator training, field supervision, cleaning, validation, and reporting so findings can withstand scrutiny.
Evaluation
We design baseline, mid-term, and final evaluations around clear questions, credible methods, and actionable recommendations linked to programme decisions.
Why work with us
A lean, senior-led consultancy built around evidence that programme teams can use.
Mozambique-based
We understand local systems, field realities, language needs, and the operating constraints that shape data collection.
Methods-first
We start with the research question, then build tools, samples, and analysis plans that can stand up to review.
Practical outputs
We focus reports on decisions, trade-offs, and next steps, not only descriptive findings.
Senior-led delivery
Clients work directly with senior consultants from inception through validation and reporting.
Bilingual
We work in English and Portuguese, with field arrangements that can include local-language facilitation.
Broad sector reach
Our assignments span GBV, child protection, education, agriculture, livelihoods, health, governance, and climate resilience.
Selected Experience
Confirmed evaluations, baselines, gender analyses, and assessments delivered for development and humanitarian clients across Mozambique.
Baseline Study
AgroVida Project
Baseline assignment to establish starting values and contextual evidence for an agriculture and food security project in Cabo Delgado.
Methods
Deliverables
Baseline dataset, Baseline report, Validation inputs
Inception
PAZ Project
Inception support to clarify scope, implementation context, workplan, and evidence needs for a peace and social cohesion assignment.
Methods
Deliverables
Inception report, Workplan, Data collection approach
Baseline Study
Feed the Future PREMIER
Baseline study for an agriculture and market systems programme covering multiple northern and central provinces.
Methods
Deliverables
Baseline report, Clean dataset, Indicator benchmarks
Project Assessment
RESILIENCIA
Assessment focused on disability inclusion and resilience programming across Manica and Sofala.
Methods
Deliverables
Assessment report, Practical recommendations
Solidar Switzerland
Gender & Social Inclusion Analysis and Action Plan
Advancing Girls' Education (USAID)
Gender and social inclusion analysis to inform action planning for girls' education programming.
Methods
Deliverables
GESI analysis report, Action plan, Presentation materials
Baseline Study
Sustainable Livelihoods Development Programme
Baseline study supporting a sustainable livelihoods and environment programme in Sofala.
Methods
Deliverables
Baseline report, Indicator values, Recommendations
Sectors we work in
Direct evaluation, research, and MERL experience across the sectors that matter most to our partners.
In the Field
Evidence from the field, wherever the work takes us
We run rigorous data collection across Mozambique’s most remote and hard-to-reach areas, working in Portuguese and local languages.
Evidence from the work
Concrete signals of capability, tied to delivered assignments, methods, and field reach.
Evidence from delivered assignments
The experience section lists concrete baselines, evaluations, gender analyses, and assessments, including clients, project names, locations, and years where available.
Evidence
Selected assignments include AgroVida, Feed the Future PREMIER, Advancing Girls' Education, SABER, and Light for the World analyses.
Methods matched to the question
NCS combines document review, KIIs, FGDs, structured surveys, digital data collection, quality checks, and validation workshops according to the assignment need.
Evidence
Methods are shown against each service instead of presented as a generic capability list.
Field knowledge across Mozambique
The team works across urban, rural, remote, and conflict-affected contexts, with experience in Cabo Delgado, Nampula, Sofala, Manica, Tete, Niassa, Zambezia, and Maputo.
Evidence
Experience cards identify the geography attached to each assignment.
Real people at the heart of the data
participants
People reached through research, evaluation, and data collection assignments.
years
Years delivering NCS assignments in research, evaluation, data, and advisory services.
clients and partners
Organisations represented across selected assignments, partnerships, and logo references.
Clients & partners
Trusted by leading organisations across Southern Africa.
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