Every programme has an information network: plans and indicators, reports and dashboards, field visits, and knowledge held by frontline workers and communities. But these sources rarely connect. Monitoring may show that bednet use is low or a water point is failing, while the behavioural and delivery reasons sit with frontline workers and service users.
Because those fragments come together only intermittently, programme adaptation becomes an occasional response rather than a routine part of delivery. Colectiv helps teams connect the evidence more consistently, understand what is driving performance and make practical improvements as programmes evolve.
Colectiv connects these different forms of information with the processes through which programme decisions are made. We strengthen three connected capabilities so that evidence flows consistently from performance, to explanation, to action and review.
A small set of behaviours or outcomes that shows where performance is weak, how it varies and whether it improves following a change. We build on existing monitoring wherever possible, helping teams focus on the measures most useful for programme decisions.
Colectiv Mosaic collects and analyses voice and text responses from dispersed, multilingual groups, making frontline and community knowledge available at a cadence and scale conventional research rarely supports.
Learn more about Colectiv MosaicA lean process for deciding what to change, assigning ownership and reviewing the results. This ensures that evidence leads to action, and that teams return to assess whether the change made a difference.
Put the information network to work, from priority problem to tested change.
What should receive attention now?
Identify the priority outcome, behaviour or delivery problem.
What is driving current performance?
Combine programme data with frontline and community insight to understand barriers and identify opportunities for change.
What should the programme change?
Agree on a feasible adaptation, assign ownership and put it into practice.
Did it improve delivery?
Use proportionate testing — from prototypes and pilots to impact evaluations — to decide whether to scale, refine or stop the change.
The logic of focusing on a problem, understanding what drives it, adapting delivery and testing the results is familiar. The quantitative spine, frontline and community insight, and adaptation process make that logic repeatable: turning FEAT into a routine part of programme management rather than an occasional research or improvement exercise.
Colectiv combines behavioural science, qualitative research, impact evaluation and technology. Our team has worked with governments, international organisations and delivery partners across public health, humanitarian response, education, water security and public services. That experience shapes how we work: rigorous, practical and focused on changes that programmes can actually implement.
We work with implementers, technical partners and funders that want clearer visibility into how programmes are working in practice, and a stronger system for improving them.
Read more about our approach in practice.
Connect programme data, frontline knowledge and programme decisions into learning loops that help teams identify problems sooner, adapt more intelligently and improve outcomes.
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