Always Ready LLC has extensive experience assessing complex humanitarian disasters and designing, monitoring and evaluating projects that mount rapid, effective responses while setting the stage for sustainable recovery and reducing the risk of future disasters. More specifically, we:

• Undertake assessments and baseline studies to prepare background information and data for the design of programs/projects.
• Lead the project design process and the development of concept papers and proposals.
• Develop program‐wide monitoring and evaluation systems linked to strategies, plans, indicators, data collection and information management tools, which support program management, accountability and learning.
• Conduct and support project evaluations, including data collection design, tools, and implementation, data analysis and qualitative assessments. 
• Work with community-based groups, neighborhoods, and individual families to design emergency plans that allow them to reduce the risk of disaster, prepare for disasters most likely to impact them, and build key capacities to respond in the event of a disaster.

During the past decade we have designed, managed and evaluated dozens of large-scale disaster preparedness, response and recovery projects. For example, we have:

• Designed two multi-year U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) projects, totaling nearly $4 million, with the aim of locally purchasing food commodities from smallholder cooperatives to distribute to drought affected families in Guatemala's and Nicaragua’s Dry Corridors. Both projects use food-for-work methodology to meet beneficiaries’ immediate nutritional needs while increasing their resilience to drought and other disasters.
• Designed a one-year, $8 million U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) project that provided immediate food aid to thousands of families in northwestern Guatemala while simultaneously helping to build their resilience to future droughts.
• Prepared a baseline study for a USAID project aimed at reducing risk in marginalized neighborhoods of Kingston, Jamaica through youth emergency action committees.
• Designed two six-month earthquake (January 12, 2010 earthquake) relief projects that worked with nine Haitian peasant organizations, representing over 200,000 people, to provide short-term humanitarian support to save lives and set the stage for longer-term recovery assistance.
• Designed two three-month emergency response projects and a three-year rehabilitation project that helped 70 rural Haitian villages recover from the 2008 hurricane season (hurricanes/tropical storms Fay, Gustav, Hanna and Ike) while building capacities to reduce the risk from future hurricanes and other hazards. Together the three projects won over $300,000 in funding.
• Designed three emergency preparedness projects in Ecuador and Venezuela, each of which won over $500,000 in funding from the European Commission's Humanitarian Aid department’s (ECHO) Disaster Preparedness Programme (DIPECHO).
• Managed an ECHO-funded emergency response and rehabilitation project that benefitted 1,275 families affected by floods along the Ecuadorian coast.
• Prepared a baseline study and final evaluation of a 15-month DIPECHO emergency preparedness project with 32,000 direct beneficiaries in Ecuador.