Research

Ark and Mark Trust has qualified researchers and evaluation experts with PhDs and Masters Degree. We believe in programs that are based on facts and that are evaluated throughout to assess impact and effectiveness. Our programs build in formative, process as well as outcome evaluation. We do evaluation of different levels including research-based evaluation for international publications in journals and program-focused evaluation (for donors, supporting government departments, partners and program implementers). We collaborate with different universities around the world and work with world renowned scholars and therapy experts. Any organization can access our research evaluation services.

Research is a key component of our operation. We have expanded the research unit to assist various international researchers who are interested in any type of social science research that can benefit the country. Our staff can be your research assistants to link you to the right departments, right sources, help follow-up your research permits, prepare the research ground for you and collect data. We have extensive experience working with international researchers, collecting data and imputing quantitative and qualitative data and publishing with them. Contact us

We have worked in Dalhausie University in Canada through The resilience research center and university on Bergen in Norway as well as western Norway university of applied sciences, and in partnership with Botswana’s Department of Social protection

Our list of publications:

• The use of rites of passage in strengthening the psychosocial wellbeing of orphaned children in Botswana
• Exploring Responses to Transformative Group Therapy for Orphaned Children in the Context of Mass Orphaning in Botswana
• Fostering Resilience in Children Who have been Orphaned: Preliminary Results from the Botswana Balekane EARTH Program



What can you research on to benefit the Trust?



Ark and Mark Trust receives international researchers who are interested to do research in: All types of vulnerable groups of children and families and other vulnerable groups in Botswana to inform it on the needs around the country. Contact the trust to carryout research within its different units and or to link you to the field in Botswana…