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• Client stories and case studies
• Climate Center
• Climate risk modeling
• Digital modernization report
• Diversity, equity, and inclusion

Research and evaluation

Survey research

Health research

Economic and financial analysis

For decades, clients from United States federal agencies to international organizations have relied on ICF to efficiently design, execute, and disseminate results from research and evaluation to enable them to address their toughest challenges.

ICF offers a full suite of innovative and flexible methodologies and has particular expertise in applying these methods creatively to match the specific need and audience. We help clients develop measurable indicators, rigorous information collection, insightful performance analysis, and program effectiveness to drive informed decisions on issues that matter profoundly to their success.

Experimental and quasi-experimental research

ICF develops and implements flexible, mixed-method approaches that blend qualitative and quantitative methods to conduct program assessments—determining not just whether a program works, but how it works, why it works, and where it can work best—and create a study with long-term value for our clients. Applying our broad technology expertise, ICF’s experimental studies proceed faster and easier using tools such as integrated standalone and web-based data management systems that are unique and adaptable.

• Methodology and study design
• Training and technical assistance for study implementation
• Quantitative and qualitative data analysis
• Database and systems development
• Secondary data analysis
• Multilevel analysis
• Reports and publication of results
• Programming for sustainable quality improvement

Our team includes Ph.D.-level statisticians and subject matter experts in areas such as economics, health, and education, giving us a rich understanding of the contextual environment in which a study is performed, and informing results and analysis with our proven expertise.

Program evaluation

Whether performing an insightful, early-stage evaluation or a data-rich, long-term evaluation, ICF applies highly rigorous methodologies to help clients determine how a program measures up and find methods by which clients can improve programs.

• Evaluability assessments
• Implementation evaluation
• Logic models
• Program content reviews
• Randomized control trials
• Propensity score matching
• Research framework advice
• Single-case designs
• Quantitative analysis of designs
• Synthesis of mixed-method research
• Case studies
• Ethnographic studies
• Social network analysis
• Secondary data research

In addition, our robust and targeted focus group research capabilities can help identify efficiencies and gaps and obtain results in a matter of weeks. ICF’s experience with implementation or process evaluation allows clients to develop a program iteratively and make midcourse corrections.

Our program evaluation services also include monthly evaluation briefings, continuous data quality reports, reports to the U.S. Congress, and utilization products geared to multiple audiences, including the people directly implementing programs, to empower change.

Monitoring and evaluation capacitybBuilding

• Manage change and communicate developments to grantees or awardees
• Adjust data collection systems or indicators to reflect program changes
• Produce report snapshots to show continued progress
• Leverage existing resources to expand capacity in monitoring and evaluation
• Successfully implement school improvement and reform initiatives

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