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The FIFE team brings value to our clients through our interdisciplinary expertise, professionalism, empathy and passion. The team ensures that our individual contributions and strengths are harnessed for the benefit of all our clients.
FIFE is a fast-growing research and consulting institute with a highly motivated team of international interdisciplinary professionals. We offer strategic and hands-on expertise in research, evaluation and training to our clients in the public, private and international development and humanitarian sectors.
We strive for interdisciplinary and scientific-based methods in all our work. FIFE’s evaluations and research benefit from the methodological, regional, and local context and thematic expertise of our network of professionals and academics. We support our clients and partners with objective and impartial tailor-made configurations through a participatory approach.
Our work at FIFE is guided by principles which we live by and continuously improve in our daily activities.
We strive to improve our services and activities. So we learn from our mistakes and share what we learn. We learn from others and take responsibility for our actions as we follow due diligence, objectivity and transparency.
in developing our activities and carrying out evaluations. We create, choose, and base our evaluation designs on your questions and strategic needs to ensure they are relevant, useful, and enable learning.
The hallmark of our work is long lasting partnerships. We promote, develop, and build a trust-based collaboration in the spirit of friendship and respect, which is mutually beneficial.
Our activities mean robust compliance with our internal, national, and internationally recognized evaluation and research standards. We hold on to our ethics and will never compromise on them.
The Friedensau Institute for Evaluation was established in 2010 by Prof. Horst Rolly. Since then, numerous evaluation studies in development cooperation, social work and humanitarian aid have been conducted in various countries.
The institute originated due to the necessity for a science-based effectiveness analysis and efficiency control of the practice of development cooperation, humanitarian aid, and philanthropically-based projects arising from diverse theoretical models, paradigms, and working approaches.
Past evaluations and contracted research include earthquake reconstruction and rehabilitation projects (Haiti, India); child-care centres (Moldovia); centres for the rehabilitation of endangered youth (Thailand); foster homes for vulnerable children (Haiti); school qualification projects for the rehabilitation of child labourers (India); food security (Mongolia); humanitarian aid to refugees (Greece); integration projects for refugees (Germany).
In 2020, Dr. Kwaku Arhin-Sam was appointed as the institute’s first director. Subsequently, the institute’s name was changed to Friedensau Institute for Evaluation (FIFE) as part of a restructuring process. The restructuring was necessitated by the goal of strengthening the institute’s scientific research and professional engagements.
Prof. Dr. phil. Horst F. Rolly
Dr. Kwaku Arhin-Sam is a researcher and lecturer with over ten years of experience in monitoring and evaluating development and humanitarian aid interventions. He has twelve years of experience in qualitative and quantitative research and teaching including upstream methods like Outcome Mapping and Outcome Harvesting.
He acquired his PhD in sociology from the Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences at Jacobs University Bremen, and the University of Bremen, Germany. Kwaku obtained his MA in international social Sciences and bachelor’s in Education (Social Sciences) from the Friedensau Adventist University in Germany and the University of Cape Coast in Ghana respectively. His research areas include Migration and Development, International Migration Policies and Partnerships, Identity and Belonging Politics, Return Migration, Integration and Reintegration Politics, Human Rights and Conflict Resolution. Read more>>
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Our affiliates are trusted evaluators, researchers, and advisors to MEAL executives, project teams, managers, donors, and diverse stakeholders. We help to build strategic plans, execute theory of change, and improve impacts through scientific-based evaluations, MEAL system support and capacity building.
If yes, then you might be the right candidate we are looking for. As an affiliate consultant/researcher, you are responsible for the acquisition of projects, taking part in evaluations/research that fit your area of expertise, assure quality of your projects, and undergo the FIFE toolbox kit training.
FIFE affiliate consultants/researchers are specialised in respective fields with qualifications spanning across climate change, food security, poverty, WASH, human rights & gender, migration, project management, capacity training, auditing etcetera.
We do not offer paid contractual positions but we provide contracts as and when projects demand specific expertise for a duration of time. Successful applicants will be shortlisted and invited for discussion before they are accepted into the professional network.
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The Friedensau Institute for Evaluation (FIFE) is an interdisciplinary, self-governing evaluation and research consulting institute located at Friedensau Adventist University (FAU), in Germany. We conduct programme /project evaluations, feasibility studies, strategic planning facilitation, and project planning strategies for development and humanitarian aid organizations. Since 2010, we have worked with religious and non-religious-based non-profit organizations, industry associations, international organizations, private institutions. We research and develop evaluation methods and models, carry out evaluations and contribute to networking and knowledge transfer for NGOs, philanthropic groups and foundations, social support businesses, corporate bodies, governments and UN agencies.
At FIFE, we understand that good strategic planning and decision making comes from good information and learning. Our clients look to us to provide analysis and recommendations that will inspire and inform action. In all of our projects, we endeavour to provide our clients with the strong scientific-based evidence they need to drive the future of their organization.
