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Business development and Due diligence

Is your business development process well-defined or is your firm being overshadowed by the competition? Our Business Development ProcessImprovement services are designed to help your firm grow. We take a hard look at your numbers – prospects, proposals, and close ratios, to identify business development gaps and opportunities. Smart Vision also conducts Due Diligence for all types of due diligence such as legal, tax, …

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Capacity Building and Organizational Capacity Assessment (OCA)

Smart Vision offers specialized training and short professional courses, through seminars and workshops at clients’ preferred venues. We train effectively in diverse areas that include project management, research, and evaluation methods, data analysis, and report writing. We conduct training needs assessments using Organizational Capacity Assessment Tools (OCAT) or other tools to assess the capacity of …

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Grant-Seeking Proposals and Report Writing

Many organizations in Somalia have challenge of funding, partly because they do not have capacity to write sound fund seeking proposals. To this end, the Smart Vision team offers grant proposal writing services tailored to meet the guidelines of diverse donors on behalf of the clients.

Research

At Smart Vision, we believe that critical decisions in organizations should always be based on a wide knowledge base. Inspired by this belief, Smart Vision conducts a wide range of applied research that provides the much-needed valid and reliable data that is of value to programming, funding, and advocacy work. In addition, we conduct general …

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Midterm Reviews and End of Project Evaluations

Inherent in well-designed projects are mid-term and final project evaluations that should be conducted as standard practice for strengthening accountability to donors, and key stakeholders including beneficiaries, and for purposes of learning. At Smart Vision, we conduct mid-term and final evaluations based on any criteria specified by the client including principles of the surveillance and …

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Impact Evaluation

All projects have set goals and outcomes which the responses are expected to achieve through a set of activities. Such goals need to be objectively assessed at the end of the project to establish if the response has achieved what it aimed. This can only be done through quantification of the positive changes that have …

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Baseline-Line Surveys

We conduct high-quality baseline surveys to provide reliable data that reflects accurate pre-project conditions in line with project verifiable indicators to enable our clients to understand the starting point, and set benchmarks upon which projects’ progress and impact are later measured.The organization is capable of using a range of methods involving both qualitative and quantitative …

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Third-Party Monitoring

Extreme security conditions pose a considerable challenge to most international organizations operating in areas with unstable governance. While many organizations have the capacity and capability to visit many areas in Somalia, there are substantial limitations that prevent free movement and observation of implementing partner activities on the ground. At Smart Vision, we support our clients’ …

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