Resources

Our Resources hub brings together knowledge and insights from CoLab’s work across women’s empowerment, livelihoods, environmental sustainability, and community development. This curated collection includes sample reports, research papers, case studies, blogs, and partner feedback—each reflecting our commitment to evidence-driven design, practical learning, and meaningful impact. Whether you’re looking to explore new ideas, understand our approach, or apply structured and insight-led practices to your own programs, these resources offer guidance, inspiration, and a transparent view into how we collaborate to create lasting change.

Sample reports

We maintain a curated collection of sample research and evaluation reports that reflect our approach to inquiry, analysis, and storytelling. These reports demonstrate how evidence can be transformed into practical, actionable insights.

If you’d like to explore these samples or understand how our research can support your organisation, reach out to us and we’ll be happy to share them.

Research Papers

Research produced by the CoLab team, exploring themes across education, gender, climate resilience, community engagement, and program design. Each paper blends rigorous methodology with field insights, offering fresh perspectives and new knowledge for the development sector. These papers reflect our commitment to contributing to the ecosystem’s understanding of what works and why.

Evidence in Education

This literature review aims to bring awareness on the importance of evidence in education among various organization in the education ecosystem. This paper covers topics like what is evidence, why is evidence important and how can you implement evidence informed programs.

Enriching Learning Experiences

This research article aims to present the elements of a child’s environment, based on the volume of research done by educationists, teachers, and organisations, that make school and learning lessons pleasurable for every child. These elements are studied at the school, classroom, and community levels.

Impact of School Leadership and District Leadership on Student Outcomes

A comprehensive overview of the best practices–substantiated and validated by evidence-based research across the world –that school and district leaders can employ to improve student learning outcomes.

School Reintegration

This literature review gives insights about areas of concern after lengthy school closure and ways to address these challenges, so that we can effectively bring students back to school. It is important to keep in mind that most of this research is from North American and European contexts.

Monitoring and Evaluation

The world we live in today is fraught with challenges across the sectors of health, education, livelihoods, gender, human rights, among others. In the past two years, many of them have been amplified as the pandemic swept across the globe, leaving in its wake a trail of disruption, forever altering lives for many.

Case studies

In-depth stories that trace how CoLab supported organisations to tackle complex problems and strengthen their programs. These case studies offer a behind-the-scenes view into our process, from understanding a challenge, to designing solutions, testing prototypes, gathering evidence, and achieving outcomes at scale. They are meant to inspire practitioners who are looking to deepen impact through structured, evidence-informed approaches.

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Blogs

Short, reflective pieces from our team on learnings from the field, emerging questions, design experiments, and stories that often don’t make it into formal reports. The blog is a space where we share ideas in progress and spark conversations around evidence, design, implementation, and innovation.