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Independent field research & evaluation · Pakistan

Evidence you can put in front of your board.

FAME is a Pakistan-rooted, internationally connected firm that development partners, governments and leading education organisations engage when results need to be independently verified, measured and translated into actionable evidence. With operations across Pakistan and a presence in Canada, we bring nationwide field reach, strong local expertise and international standards to complex assignments. Our experience includes working under contract with the Governments of Punjab, Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the British Council and Cambridge Education, as well as delivering programmes financed by the World Bank and UNICEF. With 49 published assignments spanning more than a decade, FAME combines rigorous field verification, monitoring and evaluation, research and data-driven insights to support better decisions and stronger outcomes.

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ISO 9001:2015 · ISO 14001:2015 · ISO 45001:2018 · SECP registered 2012 · 16-member International Advisory Panel

FAME in figures

  • 49 Assignments published here
  • 22 Years since founding
  • 4 Provinces with an office
  • 29 Commissioning bodies
  • 13 Offices
  • 16 International advisory panel

Assignment figures are counted from the 49 records in the database and change with it. Years since founding, Provinces with an office, and International advisory panel are corporate figures from FAME's own profile, not yet backed by a record on this site.

What we do

Four practice areas, one unbroken evidence chain.

We design the instrument, recruit and train the enumerators, run the field, clean and validate the data, and defend the finding in front of the people it concerns. Because one firm does all five, there is no seam in the chain where a number can go missing.

Our largest practice

Monitoring & Evaluation

Independent verification that stands up to audit. We are the third party appointed when a claimed result — a facility upgraded, a stipend disbursed, a laptop delivered, a child who can now read — has to be checked against reality and reported without departmental clearance. 25 assignments, including province-wide validation for the School Education Department, the Higher Education Commission, the Punjab Health Facilities Management Company and the Bureau of Statistics, Punjab.

  • Third-Party Validation (TPV)
  • Third-Party Independent Monitoring (TPIM)
  • Impact & outcome evaluation
  • Baseline / midline / endline
  • Independent learning assessment
  • Tracer studies
  • Expenditure & procurement verification
  • Back-checks & data-quality audit
See all 25 Monitoring & Evaluation assignments

Evidence for policy

Research & Development

Diagnostic and formative research commissioned when a department needs to know the shape of a problem before it commits a budget to it. Census-scale enumeration, sector mapping, economic potential studies, training-material development, and technical assistance to the policy units drafting provincial strategy — including the province-wide Private School Census and the current Well-being and Nutrition Strategy for PMIU–ASPIRE. 8 assignments.

  • Census & large-scale enumeration
  • Sector diagnostics & mapping
  • Policy & strategy technical assistance
  • Economic and feasibility analysis
  • ECCE & foundational literacy materials
  • Head teacher & AEO training material
  • Administrative-data review
See all 8 Research & Development assignments

Capacity that stays

Education & Training

Institutional capacity built with the department that will carry it. 2 assignments: the up-gradation of teacher training institutions and the training of teachers and educational managers across 14 districts of Punjab, and — since 2025 — the management contract for 48 public schools under the Punjab Education Foundation's reorganisation programme.

  • Teacher training institution up-gradation
  • Training of teachers & educational managers
  • School management under PPP
See all 2 Education & Training assignments

Reaching households at district scale

Community Outreach

Campaigns that have to move behaviour, not just distribute a leaflet — stipend and bonus awareness, school report cards, enrolment drives — delivered through school councils, community organisers and district field coordinators, and then measured rather than assumed. 14 assignments, most of them under the Punjab Education Sector Programme.

  • Behaviour-change campaigns
  • School council mobilisation
  • Stipend & incentive awareness
  • Report card / scorecard rollout
  • Community & parent engagement
  • Field-based administrative assistance
See all 14 Community Outreach assignments

Fieldwork

On the record

Our Clients and Partners

International donors, agencies and primes

  • British Council
  • Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO)
  • United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
  • Dubai Cares
  • Global Affairs Canada
  • Cambridge Education (Mott MacDonald)
  • Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)

Government and national bodies

  • Government of Pakistan
  • Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • School Education Department, Punjab
  • PMIU–PESRP
  • P&D Board, DG Monitoring & Evaluation
  • Bureau of Statistics, Punjab
  • Higher Education Commission (HEC)
  • Punjab Education Foundation (PEF)
  • Punjab Skills Development Fund (PSDF)
  • Punjab Municipal Development Fund Company (PMDFC)
  • Punjab Health Facilities Management Company (PHFMC)
  • Azad Jammu & Kashmir Textbook Board

Who commissions us

Contracted through open competition.

Almost everything we do is won through PPRA and Punjab e-Procurement tendering — expression of interest, technical proposal, evaluation, award. All 49 assignments are accounted for below. This is the record, not a list of names we would like to be associated with.

Donors, multilaterals and foundations

Where an assignment sits under a programme financed by an international financial institution, the financier carries the reputational risk of the number — and in several cases holds a no-objection over the award. We have delivered the survey and validation work underneath World Bank-financed programmes in Punjab since 2012, including the province-wide Private School Census.

Donor

  • World Bank 8
  • Dubai Cares International 2
  • Government of Punjab 1
  • UNICEF 1

Commissioned by

  • School Education Department, Govt. of Punjab 5
  • Cambridge Education 3
  • Dubai Cares International 2
  • Punjab Education Foundation 1
  • School Education Department 1

Working as the Pakistan partner

14 assignments have been delivered as the local partner to an international prime or a bilateral agency — most extensively with Cambridge Education across the Punjab Education Sector Programme, and with the British Council on the Punjab Education and English Language Initiative. To a consortium forming a bid in Pakistan we bring 12 offices, a standing field cadre, ISO-certified process and two decades of record with the same departments the programme will report to.

Donor

  • World Bank 7
  • FCDO 4
  • Solidar, Switzerland 1
  • Global Affairs Canada 1
  • USAID 1

Commissioned by

  • Cambridge Education 8
  • PESP III, Cambridge Education 1
  • British Council 1
  • British Council & QAED 1
  • Solidar, Switzerland 1
  • Canada Debt Swap Project 1
  • USAID 1

Provincial and federal government

Almost half of our assignments are commissioned directly by government — programme monitoring and implementation units, planning and development boards, bureaux of statistics and line departments. We work from inside the delivery chain rather than alongside it, which is why findings tend to land in the next decision rather than in a file. A development partner cannot buy that access; it can only appoint a firm that already has it.

Donor

  • Government of Punjab 7
  • World Bank 4
  • UNICEF 3
  • FCDO 3
  • Government of Pakistan 2
  • Government of AJK 1
  • Government of KP 1
  • Government of Sindh 1
  • USAID 1

Commissioned by

  • PMIU–PHCIP, Govt. of Punjab 2
  • DG Monitoring & Evaluation, P&D Board, Govt. of the Punjab 2
  • PMIU–PESRP, School Education Department 2
  • District Government, Lodhran 2
  • PMIU–TALEEM, School Education Department, Govt. of Punjab 1
  • Higher Education Department 1
  • PMIU—GRADES-P, School Education Department, Govt. of Punjab 1
  • PMIU– ASPIRE, School Education Department, Govt. of Punjab 1
  • HEC — Higher Education Commission 1
  • Bureau of Statistics, Punjab 1
  • Punjab Health Facilities Management Company (PHFMC), P&SHD, Govt. of Punjab 1
  • Punjab Municipal Development Fund Company (PMDFC), Local Government 1
  • Punjab Skills Development Fund 1
  • Azad Jammu Kashmir Textbook Board, Gov of AJK 1
  • Elementary & Secondary Education Department, Govt. of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 1
  • Education & Literacy Department, Govt. of Sindh 1
  • School Education Department, Govt. of Punjab 1
  • Population Welfare Department, Govt. of Punjab 1
  • Pakistan Railways 1

Where we work from

A field network, not a head office with a travel budget.

12 offices across 4 provinces and territories of Pakistan, and 1 in Canada. Enumeration teams are recruited, trained and supervised locally, which is what makes a district-level sample affordable and a return visit possible.

WinnipegCanadaLahorePunjab

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Head office

Punjab 1 office

Network role

Head office

Coverage

All Pakistan

The full network

Why the number holds

Assurance

Our independence is structural, not asserted. We are appointed by the commissioning body, we publish our instruments and protocols, and every enumerator submission carries GPS, timestamp and audio audit.

The standard FAME applies on every validation assignment

A sixteen-member International Advisory Panel — from the University of Montreal, Universiti Sains Malaysia, the Aga Khan University Institute for Educational Development, LUMS, Allama Iqbal Open University and the University of the Philippines — reviews our evaluation design.

Assurance at a glance

ISO 9001:2015
Quality management
ISO 14001:2015
Environmental management
ISO 45001:2018
Occupational health & safety
SECP registered
Private limited, since 2012
Registered in Canada
Federally incorporated, Winnipeg, 2026