What We Do

Scruples offers Monitoring, Evaluation, Research, and Capacity-Development services for short- to long-term and multi-sectoral projects across Ukraine, Eastern Europe, and the Baltics, including hard-to-reach and complex areas.

01

Monitoring

Scruples offers project monitoring services across various sectors, including aid delivery monitoring and third-party monitoring services. Through our monitoring services, we also help our clients develop and refine project/program level indicators, revisit the theory of change, and feedback and accountability mechanisms to ensure their projects and programs are results-based, needs-driven, and accountable.

02

Evaluation

We conduct project/program evaluations through a range of widely recognized evaluation frameworks and analysis methodologies, including Contribution Analysis, Outcome Harvesting, Most Significant Change, Logframe Analysis, Core Humanitarian Standards, OECD DAC, and ALNAP Criteria.

  • Baseline, mid-line, and end-line evaluations
  • Impact evaluations
  • Performance Evaluations

03

Research

We deliver professional, academic-quality research based on primary sources, using qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-method approaches. Our expertise includes in-depth interviews, surveys, focus group discussions, participatory research approaches, big data analysis, and AI-driven insights—ensuring rigorous, context-sensitive, and actionable findings.

  • Feasibility studies
  • Needs assessments
  • Localization analysis
  • Socio-economic research
  • Gender, diversity and inclusion analysis
  • Ground level research
  • Policy analysis
  • Security and access analysis
  • Environmental impact assessments
  • Market monitoring/market assessments
  • Value Chain Analysis

04

Learning and Transformative System/Skills Building

We support humanitarian, development, and peace actors in building transformative and solid systems that could increase their organizational capacities and the skills of our beloved colleagues at local, regional, national, and international levels.

  • Learning reviews and assessments, including after-action reviews, real-time learning, and literature learning.
  • MEAL systems and mechanisms design, including feedback and complaint response mechanisms (FCRM).
  • Digital information management systems and data visualization.
  • Protection, child protection (CP), gender-based violence (GBV), and mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) case management.
  • Accountability of affected populations (AAP), including prevention of sexual harassment, exploitation, and abuse (PSHEA) and child safeguarding.
  • Child Safeguarding, gender sensitization, inclusion and diversity.
  • Community engagement, community-based mechanisms, and localization.
  • Project/program design and management, including financial management and reporting.
  • Concept note and proposal development for a wide range of donors.
  • Staff and self-care mechanisms, procedures, and skills.

05

Data Collection

We facilitate the access of humanitarian, development, and peace actors to reliable and high-quality data through our trained local researchers and experts, who are experienced in quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-method data collection and are on the ground across our area of implementation, including hard-to-reach areas.
We specialize in:

  • Qualitative and quantitative data collection activities, including but not limited to surveys, interviews, storytelling, focus group discussions and field visits tailored to specific research needs.
  • Remote and digital data collection using innovative tools for real-time insights.
  • Participatory and community-based approaches to ensure inclusivity and ethical engagement.
  • Rigorous data quality control to maintain accuracy, reliability, and compliance with international research standards.