We report what we found, not what you hoped
A verification service that tells clients what they want to hear is worth nothing the first time it matters. If the plot is occupied, the report says the plot is occupied.
About us
Distance is the problem. Presence is the product.
Decisions about Uganda are made every day by people who are not in Uganda, or who are in Kampala and cannot spend two days on a road to Kitgum. Those decisions currently rest on a photograph someone sent on WhatsApp, a phone call with an interested party, or nothing at all. We replace that with a person who goes, sees, records and signs their name to it.
You can't be everywhere. We can.
How we work
Four principles we do not trade away.
They cost us work occasionally. They are the reason the reports are worth commissioning.
Unconfirmed is a finding
Every report has a section for what we could not establish and why. That section is as important as the rest and it is never quietly dropped.
The researcher is named
Anonymous fieldwork is unaccountable fieldwork. The person who went is on the record, which changes how carefully the work is done.
Consent is not a formality
Anyone we interview is told who we are working for in general terms, what the information is for, and can decline. Data we license is data we hold a signed consent for.
The team on the ground
Five regions, each with researchers who live in them.
Every assignment goes to someone based in the zone it covers, who knows the roads and interviews in the language people answer in.
Central Region
Kampala, Wakiso and the corridor around them.
Hub: Kampala
Western Region
Mbarara to Fort Portal, the Rwenzori belt and the Albertine.
Hub: Mbarara
East Central Region
Jinja, the sugar belt and the Nile corridor.
Hub: Jinja
Eastern Region
Mbale, Elgon and the Kenyan border trade.
Hub: Mbale
Northern Region
Gulu, Lira, West Nile and Karamoja.
Hub: Gulu
Every researcher is vetted before a single assignment
Identity confirmed against a valid National ID, two contactable references taken up, a signed confidentiality undertaking, and a supervised test assignment before any client work. Nobody reaches your brief without passing all four.
Tell us where to go and what to confirm.
Send the location and the questions. We will come back with a fixed price, a named researcher and a date.