A movement measured.
Children transformed.
An ongoing, multi-country impact survey program — grounded in internationally recognised wellbeing and child-rights frameworks, with an independent academic study to be published in 2026.
About the Research
The most rigorous evaluation
Alongsiders has ever done.
Alongsiders conducts impact surveys on a rolling basis across its global network. To date, 1,838 participants — 698 Alongsider mentors and 1,140 vulnerable children — have been surveyed across 11 sites in 8 countries: India, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Zambia, Uganda, Pakistan, and Madagascar.
Surveys use a structured instrument developed against three internationally recognised frameworks: the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, the WHO-5 Wellbeing Index, and Biblical measures of faith and flourishing. All participant identities are protected with pseudonyms in accordance with research ethics protocols.
An initial five-country subset of this data (802 participants, 6 sites) was independently evaluated by Dr. Glenn Miles and will be published as a peer-reviewed academic paper in 2026 — the first formal academic study of the Alongsiders movement. Contact us for a copy of this paper.
"This multi-country evaluation represents a significant step towards evidence-based accountability for faith-based child development programmes in Sub-Saharan Africa."— Faith-Based Cross-Age Peer Mentoring in Sub-Saharan Africa, Miles (2026)
The Survey Network
See the results
country by country.
Click any pin to open an "Impact Highlights Card" for that site — including wellbeing scores, key metrics, and direct quotes from Alongsiders and children. For a more comprehensive report for each study, contact us.
Why You Can Trust This
Built for accountability,
not just storytelling.
Independent Evaluator
Dr. Glenn Miles served as the external academic consultant — independent of Alongsiders International with no stake in the outcome.
WHO-5 Wellbeing Index
A validated 3-item wellbeing scale used by the World Health Organization, adapted for child participants and scored on a 0–15 standard scale.
UNCRC Alignment
All indicators mapped to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child — Articles 6, 19, 27 and 28: survival, protection, living standards, and education.
Ethics & Duty of Care
Surveys used confidentiality rather than anonymity — participant identities were known to researchers so anyone identified in crisis could be followed up. This prioritises child safeguarding over strict anonymisation, in line with ethical standards for research with vulnerable children. Data is reported in aggregate with no identifying information disclosed publicly.
Headline Findings
Across every movement,
the numbers tell an encouraging story.
Headline findings drawn from the independently evaluated 5-country academic cohort (Miles, 2026)