CaST Network has focused areas of expertise in Climate Adaptation and Resilience, Adaptive Social Protection, Sustainable Agriculture and Food System, and WASH. CaST Network brings in the global and national experts who are shaping the narrative in these areas. We also work closely with both public and private sector that are relevant to each of our focused area. We offer analysis and insight to our partners through coalescing with the actors working on the frontiers of climate change, food system, sustainable agriculture and food system, and WASH.  

CaST Network takes a systems approach in tackling endemic development or market challenges. Every business or development initiative operates in a certain local ecosystem. In a system, where the decisions of household, political, market and regulatory actors are driven by underlying behavioral, cultural, policy and institutional factors. CaST network has set of methodologically rigorous tool to assess the various underlying factors that are key parts of ecosystem. Our approach delves into identifying key entry points for creating enabling environment for any system. We offer superior value to our clients by identifying the systematic patterns, identify the key actors and their incentives to change into desirable behavior and actions to solve development challenge or create market for products or services.

CaST Network strongly believes in evidence-based actions. However, for strong evidence we need access to reliable data, which is scarce in Bangladesh. CaST Network has expertise in automated data collection system to harness publicly available large data sets that can help clients make evidenced based decision based on robust data. CaST Network also has expertise in Randomized Controlled Trials (RCT) to identify interventions that have strong causality towards impact.