Agresearch Lead

Driving inclusive growth through research, insight, and innovation.

We support organizations and institutions to design smarter programs, build capacity, and deliver lasting community impact.

Bridging communities and research through innovative monitoring, evaluation and capacity building.

Empowering communities through data-driven development

Agresearch Lead is a multidisciplinary development organization working to empower communities, strengthen institutions, and promote sustainable development through data-driven insights, inclusive programming, and capacity building. Our work spans a diverse range of thematic areas that intersect development, humanitarian response, and systems strengthening. Our experience spans key thematic areas including;

Agriculture and Agribusiness Advisory Services

Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) mainstreaming

Research and Evaluations

Project management

Organizational development

Market research

Environmental Impact Assessment

Third-Party Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning support

Our Impact

Through digital and participatory research methods, Agresearch Lead continues to generate insights that shape interventions in agriculture, health, WASH, and livelihoods. Our data-driven evaluations help organizations design better programs and measure outcomes effectively.

Some highlights include:

Conducting assignments in rice, soybean, groundnut, maize, sorghum, shea, cocoa, coffee, banana, oil palm, honey and beeswax, baobab, and poultry value chains, directly informing policy and practice.

Supporting over 50 NGOs and donor projects to strengthen their monitoring and evaluation systems.

Delivering training sessions that have enhanced the research and data skills of 1200 (50% females) professionals across various operational countries.

Reached over 2000+ communities across all project areas.

Reached over 100 health facilities and worked with over 800 health workers.

Mainstreamed Gender Equality and Social Inclusion into over 20 company operations and value chain operations.

Conducted Organization capacity assessments and organizational strengthening for over 30 Civil Society Organizations and Farmer Organizations/cooperatives.

Develop training curriculum  and facilitator guides on maize, Rice, Soybean and groundnut and building capacity of over 2500 farmers.

Evidence-based perspectives driving sustainable development.

Strengthening Food Systems from the Ground Up: Lessons from the Maize Value Chain in Ghana

In recent years, the global conversation on food security has shifted beyond just increasing yields to strengthening food systems—making them more resilient, inclusive, sustainable, and responsive to...

Climate Justice and Conflict: Safeguarding Ghana’s Food Systems from Agro-Pastoralist Tensions

Climate change is exacerbating already fragile relationships between pastoralists and farmers across West Africa. In Ghana, prolonged droughts, erratic rainfall, and the depletion of grazing land have...

The Invisible Load: Women, Work, and the Weight of Unpaid Care in Rural Ghana

Across many communities in Ghana and beyond, the story is the same women rise before dawn, care for children, fetch water, clean, cook, tend to small farms, and provide food for their families. They...

Child Labour, a symptom of deeper issues: Cooperatives as engines for Decent Work

Our findings from Child labour studies reveals that child labour remains a critical barrier to achieving sustainable development in Ghana’s cocoa and small-scale gold mining (ASM) sectors despite...

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