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WHY MAST CONSULTING INC?
MAST Consulting Inc. stands at the forefront of innovative research and transformative solutions tailored to meet the unique challenges of NGOs, governments, donors, and other stakeholders across Africa. Our expertise lies in driving impactful initiative
Committed to Positive Transformation
At MAST Consulting, we believe in unlocking the vast potential within communities to create lasting socio-economic change. Our commitment to excellence and innovation ensures that every project we undertake delivers tangible results that drive positive transformation across Liberia and Africa.
Data-Driven Solutions for Complex Challenges
We leverage cutting-edge research and robust data to craft solutions that address the most pressing challenges faced by our clients. By providing actionable insights and evidence-based strategies, we empower organizations to make informed decisions and maximize their impact.
Partners in Progress and Growth
Our collaborative approach ensures that every stakeholder—NGOs, governments, donors, and beyond—plays an integral role in achieving shared goals. By fostering transparency, accountability, and mutual trust, we build enduring partnerships that pave the way for sustained progress and growth.
Bridging Vision with Action
MAST Consulting Inc. transforms ambitious visions into actionable strategies. By combining deep expertise with a practical, hands-on approach, we ensure that bold ideas are not only realized but also deliver measurable, transformative results for our clients and communities.
WORK WITH MAST CONSULTING INC., A NEW EXPERIENCE
Partnering with MAST Consulting Inc. means stepping into a world of innovation, professionalism, and impact-driven solutions. We offer a new and refreshing experience where collaboration, transparency, and meaningful change are at the heart of every project. With our expertise in research, strategy, and development, we ensure that your initiatives are not only successful but also sustainable, empowering your organization and community for years to come.
A Partnership Built on Trust and Integrity
At MAST Consulting Inc., we pride ourselves on building strong, transparent relationships with our clients. Our unwavering commitment to integrity and ethical practices ensures that every collaboration is based on mutual trust, where both parties can thrive and achieve their objectives together.
Empowering Organizations with Tailored Solutions
No two challenges are alike, and neither are our solutions. We understand that every organization has unique needs. That's why we offer customized consulting services that cater specifically to your goals, ensuring that the strategies we develop are relevant, practical, and impactful.
Unlocking Potential for Sustainable Impact
Our mission is to unlock the full potential of the communities and organizations we work with, driving positive socio-economic transformation.
OUR SERVICES
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Capacity Building, Research, and Policy Analysis
Empowering Organizations through Knowledge and Expertise
MAST Consulting offers capacity-building services to strengthen the skills, knowledge, and resources of individuals and organizations. Through tailored training programs and workshops, we build local capacity to address challenges and create opportunities for sustainable development. Additionally, we provide research and policy analysis services that help clients understand the impact of policies and design solutions that address socio-economic issues.
Research, Monitoring, and Evaluation (RM&E)
Ensuring Projects Deliver Results and Drive Impact
At MAST Consulting, we believe that continuous improvement is key to success. We provide comprehensive research, monitoring, and evaluation (RM&E) services to ensure that every project is on track and delivering the intended results. Our services include designing monitoring frameworks, conducting evaluations, and generating actionable recommendations for improvement, all aimed at enhancing project outcomes and organizational effectiveness.
Strategic Planning and Analysis
Guiding Your Organization to Long-Term Success
Our strategic planning and analysis services help clients develop clear, actionable roadmaps for achieving long-term goals. We work closely with clients to assess their current operations, identify challenges, and design strategies that drive growth and sustainability. Through data-driven insights and a deep understanding of the socio-economic landscape, MAST Consulting ensures that your organization’s vision is transformed into actionable steps for success.
Project Management Services
Effective Execution from Start to Finish
MAST Consulting offers comprehensive project management services, guiding initiatives from conception to completion. Our experienced project managers handle every aspect of project planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation. By focusing on effective resource management, timely execution, and risk mitigation, we ensure that our clients’ projects achieve their desired results and are completed on schedule and within budget.
Project Management 95%
Monitoring & Evaluation 85%
Strategic Planning 80%
Research and Data Analysis 75%
Our Approach / Methodology
At Mast Consulting, our approach is centered on delivering strategic solutions that are results-driven and impactful. We leverage proven methodologies, industry best practices, and collaborative partnerships to ensure the success of every project
Consultative Approach
We believe in working closely with instutitions, ensuring that every step of the project aligns with their vision and needs. Our consultative approach fosters open communication, enabling us to deliver customized solutions that are well-aligned with client objectives.
Data-Driven Solutions
Our methodology emphasizes teamwork, both within our firm and with our clients. We view every project as a partnership and work collaboratively to ensure a seamless process and superior results.
Customized Strategies
We understand that every institution or organization is unique, which is why we develop customized strategies to address the specific challenges and opportunities of each project. This tailored approach ensures the solution is optimized for success.
Results-Oriented
Every action we take is focused on achieving measurable results. We set clear, achievable goals and ensure that our solutions deliver impactful, sustainable outcomes that align with client objectives.
Institutional Best Practices
At Mast Consulting, we are committed to upholding the highest standards of excellence by following institutional best practices in all aspects of our work. We integrate proven methodologies, ethical guidelines, and industry standards to ensure our projects are both effective and sustainable. Our commitment to best practices fosters transparency, accountability, and results that consistently meet or exceed client expectations.
Risk Management
Our methodology includes a strong focus on risk management. We identify potential risks early in the process and implement strategies to mitigate them, ensuring the success and stability of our projects.
OUR TEAM
MAST Consulting Inc. is a dynamic social research firm based in Gbarnga, Bong County, specializing in data-driven insights for sustainable development and policy impact.
An experienced Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) with more than nine years of expertise in managing projects, leading agricultural initiatives, specialize in research and evaluation, strategic planning, and policy and advocacy. Proven track record of successfully leading and implementing projects that aspires to reduce poverty and support vulnerable smallholder farmers. Work involves social microfinance, grant management, and comprehensive program evaluation. Highly skilled in project management and exhibit a steadfast commitment to promoting inclusivity, diversity, and equity.
Mr. Samuel MDP, PMP
Chief Executive Offivcer
Proven leader and trusted USAID implementer of project management and monitoring, evaluation, and learning programming, bringing invaluable contextual knowledge, professional relationships, and technical expertise from my experience as Chief of Party (COP), Deputy Chief of Party (DCOP), Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Team Leader and technical expert on multiple highly successful USAID funded MEL, economic, governance, accountability and social development programs in Liberia, Niger, Somalia, Iraq, Tunisia and Sierra Leone. I have over 20 years of experience in project management, monitoring, evaluation and learning, research, policy analysis and reporting, and capacity building on USAID and other donor-funded programs
James Whawhen
Managing Partner – Technical Services
Strong team player who goes above and beyond to perform duties on the job with the ability to work effectively when under pressure. Skilled at teaching and redirecting situations that may arise when working with those suffering from disabilities and mental illness. Seeking to provide effective program support while simultaneously continuing both personal and professional development.
Loura Gboeah
Managing Partner - Operations
Accomplished senior management professional with a proven track record in private sector development, investment advisory, and international development. Expertise spans small and medium enterprise (SME) development, inclusive finance, value chain analysis, capacity building, and managing complex multi-stakeholder projects. Renowned for delivering impactful results for governmental, institutional, and corporate clients, particularly in North America and Sub-Saharan Africa.
Mwenda Kazadi
Managing Partner - Research
Chelleh B. Mitchell has vast experience works in the Agriculture, Cooperative Development and Fisheries Sector of Liberia reform. In 2009, Mr. Mitchell supported the team experts headed by Dr. Moses M. Zinnah that developed the first Extension Policy draft at the Department of Regional Development, Research and Extension (DRDRE), Ministry of Agriculture. Supported several human resource capacity strengthening of extension staff at the field levels, and supported the development of Liberia’s Comprehensive Agriculture Development Program (CAADP) that supported Poverty Reduction Strategies (PRS).
Chelleh B. Mitchell BSC., CAFM, CMFM
Managing Partner - Marine and Aquaculture Fisheries and Accountant
Team Leader (Consultant) – Research and Innovations Hub January 2021-Present 1oth Street & Coleman Avenue, Sinkor, Monrovia, Liberia Projects • Breakthrough Action Liberia Baseline Study “A Quasi-experimental design to examine the multi-level factors associated with Social Behavior Change (SBC) of various health outcomes in Liberia” (Bong, Bomi and Gbarpolu County) – John Hopkins University Center for Communications Program (JHUCCP) • Knowledge and use of contractive use Pilot (Nimba County) – DKT International • Malaria Behaviour Survey (MBS) in Liberia (Bong, Nimba, Lofa, Grand Bassa, Margibi, and Montserrado counties) – John Hopkins University Center for Communications Program (JHUCCP) • Improving Access to Finance and Digital Skills for SMEs in Liberia Baseline and Endline Surveys – A Randomized Control Trial (Montserrado County) – World Bank Group • Social Registry Phase-2 Data Collection, Grand Kru County (Census-based data collection, including biometric data collection). – Ministry of Gender, Republic of Liberia • REALISE SCT Pilot (An urban Social Cash Transfer targeting recruitment) – Ministry of Gender, Republic of Liberia • A Mixed Method Green Competitiveness Firm Survey – World Bank Group/IFC • Social Cash Transfer (SCT) Registration, Enrollment and Data Collection, Grand Kru County - Ministry of Gender, Republic of Liberia • Evaluating the Impact of Road Safety Initiatives in Liberia – Development Impact Evaluation (DIME) World Bank Group • Lab-in-Field Intervention (A Road Safety Lab-in-Field Intervention with drivers in Monrovia, Liberia) – Science Po University, Paris, France. • Long-Term Effects of Conflict in Liberia - Korean Development Institute (KDI), South Korea • REALISE Beneficiaries Data Collection in Montserrado and Margibi Counties – Ministry of Youth and Sports Part-time Lecturer – Applied Social Statistics September2020-2022 African Methodist Episcopal University Monrovia, Liberia World Bank Short Term Consultant - Impact Evaluation May2019-Dec2020 Projects: Liberia Social Safety Net (LSSN) and Youth Opportunity Project (YOP), Liberia Key Responsibilities • Provided technical support to the Government of Liberia through the Ministry of Youth and Sports and the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection (MGCSP) • Supported the development of data collection instruments (questionnaires) and the coding of these instruments. • Supported developing and contextualizing the Proxy Means Test (PMT) for underprivileged youths, targeting the Youths Opportunity Project (YOP) in all 15 Counties, and the Social Cash Transfer, targeting vulnerable women in Grand Kru and Maryland counties. • Supervised Data Collection Firms by overseeing data collection and supporting overall data collection and quality assurance processes. • Provided descriptive statistics of the participants’ recruitment level data, ran the PMT targeting tool, and generated a result to be shared with the partners (Ministry of Gender Project and Ministry of Youth and Sports Project teams). • Guided data collection firms and the project teams on data management, security, and confidentiality. • Supported the Liberia Social Safety Nets (LSSN) social registry household data collection through the development of data collection tools, supported data collectors' training, and monitored data collection. Innovations for Poverty Action Liberia, West Africa Research Associate (RA) April 2017-August 2017 • Oversee the design, implementation, and evaluation of an innovative intervention that has a meaningful and sustained reduction in Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) globally with an initial focus on Liberia. • Manage data collection and ensure delivery of a clean final dataset. • Work closely with partner organizations throughout the design and implementation of the study. • Manage project budget and field expenses by tracking expenses to ensure all costs are within budget. • Ensured surveys are coded and adequately bench-tested in SurveyCto and other digital data collection platforms. • Clean and analyze survey data in Stata Research Field Manager March 2015-March 2017 Projects • Promoting Sustainable Partnership for Economic Transformation (PROSPECTS) Endline phone survey geared toward addressing youth unemployment within nine slump communities across Monrovia. Supervised over 30 enumerators. • Girl Empower program is geared toward evaluating a sexual violence program among 13 and 14-year-old girls within 100 villages within Nimba County and supervised over 40 enumerators. • Leveraging Social Connections, the Project is geared toward investigating and developing a decentralized targeting mechanism through an integrated altruism experiment of how indigent households can target the neediest and most affected households after an economic-wide shock like the Ebola outbreak to benefit from a potential social program. Supervised over 40 enumerators • The sisters of Success (SOS) project is geared toward measuring a mentorship program's long-run impact and assessing whether mentoring is an efficient way of helping girls become productive, active, and confident young women. Supervised over 70 enumerators. • Partnership Schools for Liberia (PSL) baseline assessment is geared toward evaluating a pilot of 193 Public schools within 13 of the 15 Counties of Liberia. The pilot aims to improve student learning outcomes and explore innovative ways to fundamentally and permanently improve the quality of education of its youngest citizens. Supervised over 80 field enumerators.
Joseph Kamara
Data Manager
AWESOME NUMBER FACTS
Numbers tell the story of our impact. At MAST Consulting, we measure success through the tangible results we deliver.
27
Projects Delivered
31
Communities Reached
14
Partnerships Built
10
Years of Excellence
TESTIMONIALS
"Partnering with the CEO of Mast Consulting Inc., PERT Consultancy effectively collaborated with John Hopkins University and Save the Children to implement the mixed methods research on Rural Sanitation and Urban Water Supply (WASH) which was
"Partnering with the CEO of Mast Consulting Inc. as our implementation partner for developing the Midline Report for the CLA project
"Partnering with the CEO of Mast Consulting Inc., as ZOA implementing partner for conducting the baseline study for the Civic Engagenent Study in Liberia
"Partnering with the CEO of Mast Consulting Inc. as our implementation partner for the Urban Assessment from a Gender Perspective intended to transforming
In Gbarnga, Liberia, Susan received a grant and small business training from Mercy Corps to open her small dry goods shop in 2020 using the Business Tool Kit developed by MAST Consulting CEO.
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Using Data-Driven Research to Reimagine Social Transformation in Liberia
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OUR CLIENTS
At the heart of everything we do are our valued clients. We take pride in serving a diverse range of businesses, organizations, and individuals across various industries.
