Since their inception in 2010, they have grown from a consortium of globally recognized experts who evaluate the effectiveness of development assistance, to a comprehensive analytical service provider that specializes in advancing innovative methodologies to enhance the way donors find solutions and adapt to social problems. Their work informs social change across a myriad of sectors including governance, stabilization, economy, trade, technology, anti-trafficking, health, education, agriculture, sustainable fishing and climate resilience.

Values 

They envision global equality where everyone can participate fully to realize their potential. To realize this Vision, their Mission is to empower social change through well-informed analytical and adaptive management services. They espouse these Core Values:

• Inclusive Dialogue: Include all perspectives in the ongoing dialogue of improvement to foster innovation. 
• Informed Confidence: Venture on pathways with the highest chances of equitable success, but don’t disregard alternatives. 
• Complexity Management: Embrace as much complexity as needed to achieve simple solutions, but no more. 
• Discovery: Seek equitable innovations that empower individual, organizational and societal growth.

Services 

• Process & Impact Evaluations: Data, inquiry and ideation are at the core of their process and impact evaluations. Their evaluations always provide the right balance of evidence, use value and inclusive to judge an intervention's merit and give voice to those who need it most. Since their inception, they have strengthened evaluation assignments with innovative analytical and data collection methodologies to drive cost effective decision making.
• Independent Monitoring: They provide clients with on-site performance monitoring, through quantitative quality assessment audits. Their Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning solutions include monitoring organizational strategies and practices using data analysis and advanced algorithms, in a way that continues to yield distinguished results in the decision-making of international donor agencies across Africa, Asia and the Middle East.
• Uncertainty & Complexity Management: They answer difficult questions so that implementers can make critical programmatic decisions. SoCha uses state-of-the-art methods such as Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA), Social Network Analysis, Process Tracing through Bayesian Updating, Outcome Harvesting, Appreciative Inquiry, and Quasi-Experimental Design. The SoCha team has pioneered methods, feedback loops and staff trainings to incorporate field measurement into real time decisions.