Rapid Assessment, Planning and

If you are involved in international development and/or building resilience and sustainability, RAPID can help you get results more quickly and at a lower cost. RAPID’s comparative advantages include:

These advantages have been recognized by the prestigious clients that have hired RAPID, including international financial institutions (EBRD and World Bank), international organizations (UN agencies) and academia (University of California).

We tailor techniques to your needs to speed up each phase of the project/program cycle without compromising quality. For example, evaluation and identification are done through approaches to rapidly assess damages, losses and needs from crises. Planning is accelerated by drawing on international good practices and lessons from global experience. Implementation is accelerated through rapid procurement and simplified financial management. Impacts are evaluated using state-of-the-art approaches to monitoring, evaluation and learning mechanisms.

No. Experience shows that quality of the preparation, implementation and impact of development efforts can be maintained or even improved with RAPID approaches. For example, following an emergency or crisis, it takes only months to prepare and implement interventions that might require years under “normal” circumstances. RAPID treats challenges like poverty alleviation and climate resilience as emergencies that require accelerated treatment. The earlier that projects and programs are in place, the sooner benefits can be delivered, and results can be achieved.