Overview.

  • Founded 15 years ago. 

  • We are an international development firm offering technical assistance to governments, foundations, multilateral and bilateral agencies, development finance institutions, the private sector, and NGOs. Only in the area of Monitoring and Evaluation.

  • Incorporated in Nigeria, and the USA as a Limited Liability Company, and recently in Sweden

  • We have a diverse and multilingual team to better serve our clients across the globe. This multilingual capability allows us to seamlessly collaborate with clients, partners, and stakeholders from diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds.

  • We are a member of the Nigerian Association of Evaluators, African Evaluation Association (AfrEA), International Development Evaluation Association (IDEAS), and the Canadian Evaluation Society (CES).

  • Headquartered in the Central Business District of Abuja, Nigeria, and offices in Malmo, Sweden and Chicago, USA. Our core team comprises 42 professionally trained international development specialists from Abuja, Accra, Berlin, Chicago, Cologne, Johannesburg, London, Malmo, Newcastle, New York, Portharcourt, and Vienna.

  • As part of our shared values, we encourage individuals to participate in online volunteering with the United Nations, encourages open data, and sustainable development within organizations.

  • We are intentionally a for-profit firm. Nevertheless, our income is directed to advancing monitoring and evaluation theory and practice through the Cloneshouse Foundation for African Development. We promote leadership, knowledge, advocacy, and professional development through our Internship Programme in Africa and Europe, YouthPrep, and CSOPrep

Where You Can Find Our Staff

 

A list of our partners includes Mastercard Foundation, British Council, Transparency and Accountability Initiative – Open Society Foundation, McArthur Foundation, United State Agency for International Development (USAID), Department for International Development (Now FCDO), Omidyar Network, Hewlett Packard Foundation, German Development Cooperation, British Council, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), the Nigeria Incentive-Based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending (NIRSAL Plc.), Enhancing Financial Innovation and Access (EFINA), Federal Ministry of Finance and Budget, Federal Ministry of Budget and National Planning, Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management, Federal Ministry of Youth, and Sports Development, Lagos State Water Agency, Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE), and a list of other institutions that have remained our client in the past 14 years.

We provide insights needed to make development work smarter.

Our core team is composed of 43 core professionally trained international development experts from Abuja, Accra, Berlin, Johannesburg, London, Newcastle, New York, Portharcourt, and Vienna. Over the last five years, we have built a network of 1,374 monitoring and evaluation officers, spread across the 36 states, and the Federal Capital Territory of Nigeria, and in 6 countries in West Africa.

We are focused on:

Cloneshouse is a specialist evaluation firm with over 14 years of experience providing technical assistance to government, bilateral and multilateral agencies, foundations, private entities, and NGOs in monitoring and evaluation. We were incorporated in Nigeria in 2012 as Cloneshouse Nigeria, USA in 2021, and Sweden in 2024. We have project operations in 17 other African countries, including Cameroun, Cote’d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, the Republic of Benin, Sierra Leone, Somalia, and South Sudan. With the likes of UNHRC, UNESCO and WFP, Cloneshouse was recently awarded an emerging super champion in engaging young people in evaluation. 

Performance monitoring

Performance monitoring of program implementers.

Strengthening capacity

Strengthening MEL capacity of program implementers.

MEL Technology

Design and develop technologies for data collection, analysis, and visualization.

Conducting evaluation

Conducting evaluation on projects and programs.

We deliver multi-thematic, cross-cutting MEL services across Africa

Third-Party Monitoring

We create robust monitoring technology systems that support near-real-time decision-making, adaptation and learning for your development programmes

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Capacity Strengthening

We deliver context-specific capacity-strengthening approaches in MEL that build our partners’ competence, confidence, and engagement.

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Evaluations

We deploy evaluation approaches at a range of different levels, from relatively small project/programme-level evaluations to portfolio evaluations and meta-evaluations

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Training and service where you need them.

Tailor-made training

We will help you to design and deliver trainings on project management, monitoring and evaluation to your team or client.

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MEL Bootcamp

We deliver an in-person annual MEL Bootcamp in selected African cities

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Online training

We get it, you may be short on time and need a quick refresh training. We make it easy to relearn and up to date.

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Trusted by leading organizations and professionals.

A very fast-paced organization with staff from different cultures. Even at that, they were able to contextualize the learning study we planned for our grantees. We like the fact that they delivered the learning study on time for the development of our strategy. Additionally, their team played a great role in orchestrating our new strategy.

Toyin Akinniyi

Vice President, Africa at Luminate.

This was the most intense technical assistance we have ever received in our Ministry. At every point, support was provided to the Ministry staff. We are grateful to Cloneshouse for the value we got from the technical support—from planning data collection to reporting findings. I also like the fact that all our organization’s queries were responded to in a timely manner, even after the contract ended.

Mbaye Bai

Senior Planner; Ministry of Trade, Industry, Regional Integration and Employment, Gambia.

I got more value for my money than the expensive training I had gone for in other African countries. For example, the way you simplified creating logical frameworks was outstanding. In this other African country, they made it complicated.

Dr. Adebambo Oduwole

Olabisi Onabanjo University, Osun State, Nigeria.

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