ARCED International
Journey & approach
Research that moves with the real world.
From a Dhaka research foundation to a global research and technology consultancy, our work is built around a simple discipline: make the evidence visible while it is still possible to act.
A working principle
Good research is a chain of decisions made visible.
Listen first. Build carefully. Keep the loop open.
2013 / Dhaka
12+
years of associated research delivery and field systems experience
A journey that started close to the work.
ARCED Foundation began work in Dhaka in 2013. Over the years, its teams delivered more than 80 major research assignments for the World Bank, ADB, USAID, and universities from Stanford to NUS.
ARCED International is a distinct US-based research and technology consultancy that takes that journey global, carrying forward the field discipline and building new systems around it.
Associated experience from ARCED Foundation
The ARCED system
Quality is a system, not a final check.
The protocol, the people, the data, and the decision stay connected from the first conversation to the final handover.
Frame
Clarify the decision, the people it affects, and the evidence the work needs to produce.
Design
Co-design instruments, protocols, sampling, and technology around the realities of the field.
Field
Prepare teams, launch digital collection, and keep supervision close to the work as it happens.
Assure
Run high-frequency checks, review flags, verify independently, and correct issues while collection is live.
Analyse
Turn clean, traceable data into analysis that can withstand scrutiny and support a real decision.
Handover
Leave behind reproducible data, transparent documentation, and a handover your team can use.
Live quality loop
The work gets better while it is happening.
Daily high-frequency checks turn field signals into action, keeping quality close to the people and places generating the data.
Start close to the people and places generating the evidence.
Built from the workflow
Technology should remove friction from good research.
We build and operate the tools our teams need: dedicated survey infrastructure, live monitoring, reproducible pipelines, and analytics shaped by real fieldwork.
See the solutions we build
01 / SurveyLoopr
Survey infrastructure for evidence-led programs.
02 / Open tools
30+ public code repositories built from field problems.
03 / Data systems
Reproducible data pipelines and analytics teams can inspect.
Where the system travels
Across sectors.
- Education
- Public health
- Livelihoods
- Environment & climate
- Markets & labour
- Humanitarian
Across methods.
- RCTs & field experiments
- Large-scale assessments
- CATI
- Longitudinal studies
- Mixed methods
Next step