“We have been associated with ASK T&L for more than a decade now.  We have availed their services to put in place a monitoring system for our community based interventions as well as for financial management of grass root institutions. Their approach and methodology are clear and very logical.  We are very happy and satisfied with their services.”

Dr. R Rukmani
Director, Food Security Programme Area
M S Swaminathan Research Foundation
Tamil Nadu, India

“It’s been 5 years since we have been working together with ASK T&L. ASK T&L has been a great support to The Leprosy Mission Trust India (TLMTI) programs. From conducting trainings for the staff to Evaluation of TLMTI projects, ASK T&L has been involved in all the process. Their professional and experienced team has been providing excellent support and solutions to TLMTI programmes. TLMTI appreciate their efforts and service they have been providing and for what they have committed. TLMTI look forward to a great partnership and wish ASK T&L and the team all the best in all their efforts.”

Ms. Pinky Pegu
Program Manager
The Leprosy Mission Trust India
New Delhi

“We deeply appreciate the service provided by ASK T&L on enhancing organizational capacities on monitoring skills. The facilitation has always been excellent with a professional and human touch.”

Dr. Nafisa Goga D’Souza
Executive Director
LAYA
Andhra Pradesh, India

“ASK T&L is really an excellent resource organization that provides consultancy services to development organizations in various domains in very professional way. The professionals associated with ASK T&L are very ethical, experienced, technically sound and have thorough understanding about the ground realities and development perspective. The ASK T&L team members are very helpful, responsive and accountable in communication and completing the assignments in a timeframe.”

Mr. Jagdish Giri
Member-PANI Core Management Group (CMG)
People’s Action for National Integration-PANI
Uttar Pradesh, India

“terre des hommes Germany had commissioned the organization ASK to conduct a study on “children on the move”,  focusing on issues of children who travel from their native places to different destinations to work in domestic sector and in construction sector. ASK T&L conducted the study by interviewing 25 children both at source and destination points. The study was supported by well researched secondary data, and came up with a list of recommendations which have been very helpful for the campaign Destination Unknown to move forward! Overall we are very happy with the way the study was conducted by ASK T&L and the professional approach of the 2 researchers!”

Ms. Koel Chowdhury
Programme Coordinator
terre des hommes Germany
Kolkata

“ASK T&L team managed the CAPI based survey very well. This was a first time for us. But we delivered the report well on time. This was one of the best baseline reports among the five countries.”

Ms. Itishree Sahoo,
Manager-PQ&MEL,
OXFAM India
New Delhi, India

“ASK T&L Evaluated our project titled ““Empowering Community to Protect Children at Risk (ECPCR)” Supported by International Child Care Trust-UK”.

The experience was very much learning. The process kept in the evaluation was much participative, transparent, and educative.

 The finding of the evaluation was positive and we have changed ourselves according to the recommendations of the evaluation

We have changed a lot in the post evaluation scenario  – such as –  we made changes in Board Members raised alternative funding from corporate sector for the continuation of the projects, switched over our role from doer to facilitator and continuously strengthening the village level children forums and broader level Child federation.   ”

Mr. Annadurai
Managing Trustee
Child Voice
Tamil Nadu, India

“ASK T&L has adequate resourcefulness to carry out evaluation of development projects. ASK Evaluation Domain carried out the evaluation of the People’s Action for Integrated Development-PAID project of PANI, supported by Misereor, for three times in the past.

 Also as part of the Organization Development process supported by Oxfam Novib, ASK T&L facilitated the comprehensive organization assessment & review of the organization policies.

 Based on deliverables of these assignments; PANI recognizes ASK as a professionally managed organization that delivery quality outputs while meeting strict timelines. ASK T&L’s approach is very participatory, inclusive and technically sound. ASK T&L’s human resource always maintains high level professionalism with human values.”

Mr. Bharat Bhushan
Secretary (Chief Functionary)
People’s Action for National Integration-PANI
Uttar Pradesh, India

“We are grateful to ASK T&L for conducting evaluations objectively and delivering the reports in time. The conclusions drawn in the evaluation reports helped us gain many useful insights that helped us improve our subsequent projects. The reports were precise and had many learning points. The ASK T&L evaluators were non-threatening at the same time critical.”

Mr. Bijayananda Singh
Secretary Cum Executive Director
Solidarity For Developing Communities (SFDC)
Odisha, India

“TEAR has been happy with the services provided by ASK T&L. We have had consistently positive feedback from our partners about evaluation process, which has been highly participatory, as well as about the respectful way in which ASK T&L have related with both staff and communities. Evaluation reports have been timely, analytical and with targeted, practical recommendations that partners have used to shape future work. ASK T&L does well in taking a strengths based approach that affirms while also clearly laying out areas that need improvement.”

Ms. K Rae
South Asia Regional Team Leader
TEAR Australia
Australia

“It is always a wonderful experience to work with ASK T&L team. They have a good understanding of the context and the sector as a whole. Time management is the key in conducting evaluations and reviews. I must appreciate the team for delivering quality reports on time.”

Ms. Itishree Sahoo,
Manager-PQ&MEL,
OXFAM India
New Delhi, India

“SCRIA experienced very smooth process since the first day of establishing contact till the submission of the final report, with the evaluation team of ASK T&L under the leadership of Mr. Manas Bhattacharya, for carrying out independent evaluation of the Program funded by MISEREOR – KZE ,Germany.
SCRIA also acknowledged the competency of ASK T&L in carrying out independent evaluation through the participatory processes and especially involving the outreach people.
SCRIA further like to put on record that the evaluation team strictly adhered the time line set for completing the evaluation processes and at the same time maintaining all agreed standards.
SCRIA thanks to the management of the ASK T&L for accepting the assignment of SCRIA for independent evaluation.”

Mr. Sunder Lal
Executive Director
SCRIA – Social Centre for Rural Initiative and Advancement
Haryana – India

“TEAR Australia and our partner WACT in Nepal commissioned ASK T&L to help develop a theory of change for WACT’s self-help group project and to assist in coming up with an improved monitoring system for the project.

 We found Manas from ASK T&L responsive and great to deal with. The result is a good monitoring system that we think WACT will be able to build on and use to both improve their project and show its value.”

Mr. Paul Hansen
International Program Officer
TEAR Australia
Australia

“ASK T&L facilitated a “Theory of Change” workshop for “Transformation through Empowerment & Organization (TEO)” program of WACT. We spent a lot of time in reflection, critically looking at different processes and system and planning for the next 5 years. The workshop was very useful. The facilitation process used by ASK T&L helped us to develop a realistic and relevant project plan of the TEO project for the next five years.

 ASK T&L staff responded promptly to our request for their service. The workshop resource person Mr. Manus also visited our network office in Kathmandu and organized a brief orientation program on Theory of Change upon our request. We received the quality report in time and out feedback was well addressed.”

Ajay Anand Sharma
Director
Welfare Association for Children Tikapur (WACT)
Nepal

“The Team has excellent understanding of right to education. They were able to guide the project with specific findings in the baseline process. The base indicators were very useful for the revisiting the project design. Timely communication from ASK T&L team keeps everyone in the loop about the process and outputs.”

Ms. Itishree Sahoo,
Manager-PQ&MEL,
OXFAM India
New Delhi, India