Insight

Research · Evaluation · Capacity strengthening

Evidence for healthier communities.

Insight Consulting is an Egyptian firm that helps UN agencies, donors, NGOs and government understand what works, for whom and why, and turn that evidence into action.

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Founded2014, Cairo
Fieldwork21 of 27 governorates
Long-term agreementsUNICEF · UNFPA
Working languagesArabic · English

About us

Rigorous evidence, grounded in the communities it describes.

Insight Consulting is an Egyptian limited liability company established in 2014. We specialise in social research, monitoring and evaluation, training and capacity strengthening, and programme management.

Our founders are practitioners and academic partners with long careers in international development. For each assignment we build a dedicated team from our network of senior experts, statisticians and trained, gender-balanced field researchers across Egypt.

Vision

Creating healthier communities where everyone can thrive and have a voice.

Mission

We use participatory, evidence-based and action-oriented approaches to promote civic participation and socio-economic development. We design research that shapes programmes, measures impact and advances knowledge across development fields.

2014Founded in Cairo as a registered LLC
21Governorates where we have led fieldwork
3UN agencies served: UNICEF, UNFPA, UNDP
140NGOs trained in a single GIZ / EU programme

What we do

Four connected services across the project cycle.

Research & Assessment

  • Baseline and end-line studies
  • Labour market assessments and market scans
  • Socio-economic and urban development studies
  • Formative research, KAP surveys, stakeholder and NGO mapping
  • Contextual, policy and power-dynamics analysis

Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning

  • Mid-term, final and impact evaluations (OECD-DAC)
  • Results frameworks, logframes and M&E plans
  • Protection-mainstreaming and satisfaction surveys
  • Data-quality assurance and indicator tracking
  • Learning workshops and recommendations

Data & Analytics

  • Digital data collection on KoBoToolbox
  • Statistical sampling and SPSS analysis
  • Contribution analysis and triangulation
  • Impact frameworks built on client datasets
  • Dashboards and evidence-driven reporting

Capacity Strengthening

  • Curriculum design and training of trainers
  • Technical, clinical and vocational training
  • Proposal writing, logframe and M&E training
  • Government institutional strengthening
  • Roundtables, advocacy and SBCC strategies
Step 1

Listen & design

Desk review, theory of change and indicator review, tools co-developed with the client.

Step 2

Collect ethically

Piloted tools, trained enumerators, informed consent and safeguarding.

Step 3

Analyse & verify

Quantitative and thematic analysis, triangulated across sources.

Step 4

Turn into action

Prioritised recommendations, work plans and bilingual knowledge products.

Themes & reach

Where our evidence has shaped programmes.

Health & SRHRLivelihoods & youth employmentMigration & refugeesEducation & child protectionGender & inclusionUrban development & climateGovernanceEnvironment & circular economyFinancial inclusion
AlexandriaKafr El SheikhDamiettaPort SaidBeheiraGharbiaDakahliaMonufiaSharqiaIsmailiaQalyubiaCairoGizaFaiyumBeni SuefMinyaAssiutSohagQenaLuxorAswanNORTHSOUTH

Geographic reach

Fieldwork in 21 of Egypt’s 27 governorates, from the Mediterranean coast to Aswan.

8 governorates

Upper Egypt

Faiyum, Beni Suef, Minya, Assiut, Sohag, Qena, Luxor, Aswan

8 governorates

Delta & Alexandria

Alexandria, Beheira, Kafr El Sheikh, Gharbia, Dakahlia, Monufia, Sharqia, Damietta

3 governorates

Greater Cairo

Cairo, Giza, Qalyubia

2 governorates

Canal cities

Port Said, Ismailia

Selected assignments

Recent work for leading partners.

2026
UNICEF Egypt

Community health work as a career pathway

Behavioural research with a 700-person survey, focus groups and key informant interviews.

Greater Cairo, Alexandria, Aswan, Assiut, Beheira
2025–26
GIZ (BMZ)

CBUID II socio-economic study

Twelve work packages, 882 respondents, five project bundles, a logframe and a two-year work plan.

Alexandria
2025
GIZ

Impact evaluation of CBUID

Effects of education, health, water, waste and mobility measures on residents’ quality of life.

Alexandria, Beheira, Assiut
2025
Plan International Egypt

Irregular migration final evaluation

OECD-DAC evaluation of an EU Trust Fund project reaching 4,500 young people.

Assiut, Sohag
2025
CARE Egypt Foundation

SWoMo mid-term evaluation

Women, Peace & Security project: 218 surveys, 20 in-depth interviews and 12 focus groups.

Cairo, Giza, Qalyubia, Assiut, Sohag
2025
Tasaheel · MNT-Halan

Socio-economic impact study

Impact of micro-loans on clients’ lives, plus an M&E framework for ongoing tracking.

National
2025
UNFPA

NGO mapping for Y-PEER Egypt

Scored capacity assessment to select a host for the national youth network.

National
2024
UNDP (EU-funded)

Ministry of Local Development training

Fifteen programmes on decentralisation, local economic development and citizen service centres.

Upper Egypt focus
2023
OUDA, for UNFPA

Basic Emergency Obstetric Care training

Simulation-based clinical training for about 450 private-sector physicians and nurses.

Six Upper Egypt governorates
2023
GIZ (BMZ, EU)

Proposal and M&E training for 140 NGOs

Eighteen four-day rounds on technical and financial proposals and logical frameworks.

Assiut, Qena, Gharbia, Kafr El Sheikh, Cairo

Who we work with

Trusted by UN agencies, donors, NGOs and government.

United Nations

UNICEF EgyptUNFPA EgyptUNDP Egypt

Donors

GIZBMZ-funded programmesEU-funded programmesUSAID-funded programmes

International NGOs

Plan International EgyptSave the ChildrenAsmae EgyptSocial Promotion Foundation

Egyptian partners

CARE Egypt FoundationSawiris FoundationAUEEDTasaheel · MNT-Halan

Government

OUDA · Ministry of International CooperationMinistry of Environment · EEAAMinistry of Local Development

Pre-qualified supplier

Long-term agreements

UNICEF EgyptLong-term agreement signed November 2023 for data collection, analysis and training services.

UNFPA EgyptMemorandum of agreement signed December 2023, extending the same terms to UNFPA’s country office.

How we hold ourselves

Standards we work to.

Quality & ethics

  • Client safeguarding policies and codes of conduct, with training for all field staff
  • Informed consent, confidentiality and anonymised data
  • Same-sex researchers and child-friendly methods where needed
  • Piloted tools, supervisor spot-checks and data cleaning

Environmental commitment

Our environmental policy commits us to compliance, resource efficiency, a lower carbon footprint and sustainable procurement. In practice that means digital data collection instead of paper, telecommuting, and suppliers who apply environmental measures.

Our values

Commitment, customer value, teamwork, gender equality, professionalism, flexibility and protection of the environment.

Contact

Planning a study, evaluation or training?

Office

167 Ali El Sebaei Street, El Yasmine, First Settlement, New Cairo 11865, Egypt

Phone

+20 2 2693 0127
+20 109 888 0663

Registration

Insight Consulting · Commercial register 75351 · Tax ID 682-326-615

Enquiries, proposals and partnerships

info@insighteg.org