Services for Researchers and Evaluators

• Needs assessment with target culturally or linguistically specific groups
• Contextualize approach based on target groups’ cultural habits and behaviours.

• Information gathering on target groups (demographic, psychographic, geographic, etc…)
• Identify target groups, community stakeholders, possible partners, collaborators.

Advising appropriate methodologies based on culturally or linguistically specific considerations such as:

• habits, costumes, behaviors,
• educational, socio economical challenges
• limitations and opportunities
• use of spaces
• use of language

• Instrument translation into a target language, region or for a culturally specific target group
• Co-development of bilingual and multilingual instruments
• Adaptation of current instrument to a target language, region or a culturally specific target group
• Piloting of instruments with target groups
• Advising on best practices in the collection of demographic information for the different minority groups

• Development and adaptation of consent and other research forms
• Translation into a target language, region or for a culturally specific target group

• Community Partnership Development Support
• Development, Translation and Adaptation of recruitment documents (scripts, protocols)
• Advising and assessing recruitment needs and best practices, including support assessing third party recruitment company

• Advising in the Recruitment, selection and hire of culturally or linguistically specific data collectors
• Training of data collectors on protocols and inclusivity and accessibility best practices
• Administration or implementation
• Supervising and coaching of data collectors on site or remotely

• Advising on management of data in different languages
• Data translation and proofing

• Looking for cultural inclusive frameworks
• Defining coding schema considering cultural nuances
• Support identifying relevant cultural discrepancies between data groups

• Report content and graphic translation and localization for diverse audiences or target groups

• Preparation of briefs for community specific presentations
• Presentation or interpretation for public presentations
• Publications translation (articles, book chapters, etc..)

• For administrators
• For researchers and evaluators