Niemeijer Consult Activities

Poverty assessments of Benin, Togo, and Eritrea. Assessment of national nutrition surveys and other food security data.

Environmental issues and household food security strategies, impact of devaluation in Benin and Togo on households.

Incidence analysis of several Public Expenditure Reviews in Benin. These include an analysis of the effects on poverty of public spending in the health, education, agriculture and transport sectors.

Rapid Appraisal of food security and general poverty issues in Eritrea. National Assessment Survey of poverty in urban and rural households using rapid assessment methods. Estimation of household income and consumption distribution.

A national rapid assessment survey of small-scale coffee farmer households in Tanzania to evaluate the impact of Stabex Transfers to Tanzania on the coffee sector.

Social assessment of urban target populations of the Tuberculosis Control Program India.

Pilot survey to estimate contribution of non-timber forest products to the national and regional economy for two provinces of Cameroon.

A rapid assessment survey of the effect of changes in the road network on the markets and prices of food in Benin.

Development of survey techniques aiming to integrate rapid appraisal methods and national survey techniques: a protocol to achieve quantitative results using qualitative data collection methods at a national scale.

Development of methodology to estimate the contribution of non-timber forest products to the national economy through rapid assessment methods and field surveys (together with AIDEnvironment).

Correction methods of national census and nutrition survey data for Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Egypt, and Brazil. Using demographic data to correct for measurement errors in survey data, calculation of best estimates of child growth parameters.

Design of software for integrated development of questionnaire forms and data-entry in complex surveys. Soon to be available on this web site.

SPSS macro’s for age correction and rounding bias calculations in National Survey Data.

Pedological software for: 1) plotting of (soil) profile graphs; 2) plotting of soil texture triangles; 3) estimation of the (robust) semivariance, including impact assessment of individual data points.

Software for the digital analysis and interpretation of black and white aerial photography. Including the development of new image processing algorithms.

KeyStrokes, an on-screen keyboard for Macintosh users with a disability. Now also available for Mac OS X.

SwichXS, a single or multiple switch-based computer access solution providing full emulation of mouse and keyboard for use with any standard Mac OS X application.

TouchStrokes, an on-screen keyboard targetted at use with touch screens, drawing tablets and as a keyboard replacement for network servers.

As advisor on research methods and data-analysis, Niemeijer Consult has been involved in numerous evaluation and monitoring efforts, as well as academic research projects. Subjects of advice included basic evaluation design, formulation and design of monitoring programs, survey analysis or interpretation concerning neighborhood studies, national surveys and public health issues. Countries concerned (amongst others): Philippines, India, Pakistan, Kenya, Ivory Coast, Netherlands, Italy, Peru, Sri Lanka, Ghana, Cameroon, Senegal, Malawi, Bolivia, Benin, Egypt, Ethiopia, Sudan.


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