Operational research is one of IRESCO’s priorities. It enables the organization to identify, plan and implement evidence-based interventions. With regard to the health, poverty or community development problems to be reduced by the planned interventions, operational research is used to analyze the initial situation, assess the appropriateness of the implementation, determine the directions for readjustment and assess whether the final objectives have been achieved, i.e. the expected transformation of the initial problem situation.

To this end, quantifiable and non-quantifiable parameters, linked to the targeted problem, the intervention (design, development, implementation), the beneficiaries and stakeholders, and the environment, are studied and described in order to formulate practical intervention and readjustment options conducive to the success of the intervention.
Operational research has enabled IRESCO to identify interventions and strategies to combat diseases such as HIV and AIDS, and malaria. Its work has involved carrying out dozens of studies: (i) baseline and situational analyses; (ii) monitoring implementation; (iii) intervention acceptability; (iv) pre-testing of BCC materials, promotion, training, monitoring-evaluation; (v) exploring innovative/corrective intervention strategies; (vi)