What we do

The members of research community are professionally curious investigators whose purpose is to design research, collect information and provide insights to support society’s, governments’ and business needs to make decisions based on evidence collected from real humans.

Basic Paradigm gets involved in and extends all compassing support for the following actions.

• Undertaking baseline studies/survey
• Formative research Needs assessment Concurrent monitoring
• Evaluation studies (Midterm, Concurrent and End line),
• Rapid appraisal
• Development of need based communication strategy
• Tracking studies
• Qualitative studies and evaluations
• Mapping
• Policy research
• Impact Assessment

Making the leap from individual learning to workplace performance outcomes and, subsequently, to development capacity to impact requires both good training design and an appropriate organizational and institutional context in which to apply the learning from training.

Basic Paradigm extends the following support so as to build capacities of varied organizations:

• Training needs assessment
• Designing of curricula and training pedagogy
• Developing training modules
• Designing training of trainers
• Provide implementation support for a training activity
• Developing trainers’ guide and training manuals for training of trainers
• Developing onsite monitoring plan for trainings
• Designing self-assessment modules for individual professionals and organizations
• Designing mentoring mechanism for a longer-term training activity
• Extending skills on planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation as a package
• Customized/ need-based trainings on: Leadership & Organizational development
• Undertaking team building exercises

Knowledge management is essentially about getting the right knowledge to the right person at the right time. This in itself may not seem so complex, but it implies a strong tie to organizational strategy,und erstanding of where and in what forms knowledge exists, creating processes that span organizational functions, and ensuring that initiatives are accepted and supported by organizational members. Knowledge management may also include new knowledge creation, or it may solely focus on knowledge sharing, storage, and refinement.

Basic Paradigm supports in undertaking the following actions:

• Creation of roadmap for knowledge management and build capacities in the same
• Creation of repositories
• Assessing and organizing knowledge banks
• Conversion of data into information, stories and reports
• Storytelling and mentoring on the same
• Policy briefs
• Technical briefs
• Organizing webinars
• Help build a response mechanism on queries onexisting knowledge resources
• Helping in coordination with policy makers for policy strengthening purposes
• Creating, customizing and tailoring materials of all kinds
• Carving out strategies and materials for the purposes of communication and dissemination
• Documentation of all kinds, inclusive of processes, success stories, case studies and events