About KYDA
About KYDA
Our name is our method. KYDA stands for Know Your Data & Act: find out what is really happening, then do something useful with it.
Our story
KYDA Research & Consulting PLC was founded in Addis Ababa by three researchers who had spent their careers processing data from various contexts. The founders had rich experience of conducting in-depth analysis of large-scale dataset, worked as senior statisticians in various development projects, designed complex studies, survey instruments, and offered statistical software training.
KYDA is registered in Ethiopia as a private limited company, with trade registration number AACATB/2/0292063/2019 and located at the Leadership Institute Building, 5th floor, Office No. 529, Sidist Kilo, Addis Ababa.
Vision
To become Ethiopia’s most trusted partner in transforming complex data into actionable knowledge.
Mission
To conduct in-depth data analysis, context-driven research, monitoring, evaluation, data management and visualization services to empower client’s evidence-based decision making.
Our experience
The experience behind our work belongs to our founding members and collaborators. It was built over many years before KYDA, on studies for other institutions. Our Team page sets out who did what.
Why KYDA
Senior people do the work
The founders who scope your study also design it, supervise it and write the report.
We check against standards
Our methods follow recognised standards, our results are compared with published figures, and we search for gaps before anyone else finds them.
Quality is built in, not inspected at the end
Checks run inside the data-collection forms, daily during fieldwork, and again before analysis.
We know the context
Our team and collaborators have worked in various contexts: large-scale surveys and administrative data analytics, data visualization, and report write-up.
Your data stay protected
We follow a written data management plan to keep clients’ data confidential on every project.
We stay small on purpose
You get direct access to the people responsible for your results.