Our Focus

For more than three decades, the Global Institute for Development Evidence (GIDE) has worked with governments, development finance institutions, United Nations agencies, civil society organizations, and international partners to strengthen the effectiveness of development investments through evidence-based decision-making.

Originally established as a consulting and research institute, GIDE supported countries across Africa and Asia in designing, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating programs aimed at reducing poverty, improving agricultural productivity, advancing gender equality, strengthening climate resilience, protecting biodiversity, promoting sustainable livelihoods, and accelerating inclusive green growth.

Through hundreds of advisory assignments, evaluations, and technical assistance initiatives, GIDE developed practical methodologies that helped development institutions answer some of the most important questions in development:

- Are investments producing measurable results?

- Which interventions work, for whom, why, and under what conditions?

- How can development outcomes be measured more accurately and transparently?

- How can governments make faster, evidence-informed decisions?

- How can accountability and value for money be strengthened?

As development challenges grew more complex, it became clear that traditional consultancy alone could not meet the growing demand for real-time, scalable, technology-enabled evidence systems. This realization led GIDE beyond consulting.

Drawing on decades of field experience and methodological innovation, GIDE began designing practical frameworks for Results-Based Management (RBM), Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL), gender-transformative assessment, project appraisal, and development evidence generation. These methodologies were introduced and refined through advisory work with major development institutions — including the African Development Bank's African Climate Change Fund (ACCF) — where they were applied across more than 25 African countries before evolving into digital solutions.

To accelerate their global adoption, GIDE established ScaleX Labs as its technology offspring. GIDE continues to advance research, evaluation methodologies, policy innovation, and capacity development, while ScaleX Labs transforms these proven methodologies into Responsible AI-powered digital platforms that enable governments and development partners to generate, verify, analyze, and use evidence more efficiently, and at scale.

Today, the two institutions work as complementary partners.

**GIDE focuses on:**

- Development research and policy analysis

- Independent evaluations and impact assessment

- Results-Based Management methodologies

- Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) frameworks

- Systematic reviews and evidence synthesis

- Capacity development and institutional strengthening

- Innovation in development measurement and evaluation

**ScaleX Labs focuses on:**

- Responsible AI-powered development platforms

- AI-Powered MEL systems

- GenTraQ™ for gender-transformative assessment

- GrantIQ™ for proposal evaluation and development

- ScaleX Labs Academy for professional capacity development

- Digital transformation of development evidence

- Global deployment of innovative development technologies

Together, GIDE and ScaleX Labs form an integrated ecosystem that bridges development science and digital innovation — transforming decades of consulting experience into next-generation methodologies, artificial intelligence, and practical tools that enable better evidence, better decisions, and better development outcomes for people and the planet.