Zen Jem Ltd · Nigeria

Field operations for surveys in Nigeria, run end to end.

We recruit, train and pay the field teams, run data collection and QA, and account for every naira — as one accountable contract.

Zen Jem field enumerator interviewing a mother and family in a Kano community, Northern Nigeria
Community entry consultation with elders, youth and field team under a baobab tree in Kano State
Our Approach

One contract. End-to-end accountability.

We manage survey data collection and quality assurance. We recruit, train, supervise and pay dispersed field workforces. We control and account for the funds those operations consume — not as separate contracts stitched together, but as one integrated, accountable service.

Our Story
35 Years directing national household surveys at NPC
6 LGAs in Kano with active community-entry relationships
16 Years of donor grants and compliance management
What We Do

Three integrated services, one accountable team

From questionnaire design through to financial reconciliation, Zen Jem covers every layer of survey field operations so programme officers have one point of contact and one clear audit trail.

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Field Data Collection & QA

Questionnaire design, sample frame construction, CAPI/ODK programming, enumerator deployment and real-time quality assurance across all data collection phases.

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Field Workforce Recruitment, Training and Payroll

End-to-end field workforce management: community recruitment, in-person and digital training, supervision protocols, payroll and accountability reporting.

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Financial Management & Fiduciary Control

Donor-compliant fund management: budget control, disbursement, field-level expenditure verification, reconciliation and full audit-ready reporting.

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Featured Work

Kano State field operations

We coordinated extensive baseline surveys on healthcare access across six Local Government Areas in Kano: Gabasawa, Kumbotso, Bichi, Rimin Gado, Bebeji and Wudil.

Our teams established active community-entry relationships before data collection began, ensuring culturally sensitive fieldwork, strong response rates, and audit-clean financial management throughout.

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Children and community members in a Kano State village where Zen Jem conducts field operations
Our Method

How we work

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Design & Sampling

Methodologically sound questionnaire design and statistically representative sample frames, built to your programme's exact requirements.

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Recruitment & Training

Local teams recruited from target communities, trained in-person on the protocol and CAPI tools, with clear supervision chains from day one.

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Field Execution & QA

Real-time data monitoring, back-checks and validation against pre-set logic rules to catch errors before they reach the clean dataset.

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Reporting & Handover

Clean datasets, open codebooks, expenditure reconciliation and donor-formatted final reports — delivered on schedule.

Fieldwork in Action

Kano communities we work with

Active community networks across six Local Government Areas, built on trust, respectful engagement, and local workforce integration.

Mother and children at a primary healthcare clinic during baseline survey in Kano
  • Healthcare
  • Maternal & Child

Healthcare Access Baselines

Maternal and child health enumeration conducted in rural clinics and community posts across Gabasawa, Kumbotso, and Wudil LGAs.
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Primary school children in Kano community smiling with their lesson slates
  • Education
  • Youth

School & Youth Surveys

Baseline learning outcome assessments and youth livelihood enumeration across Bichi and Rimin Gado communities.
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Local traders, mothers and children at a Kano community market
  • Livelihoods
  • Local Markets

Livelihoods & Market Surveys

Household consumption and informal commerce surveys conducted with local traders and families in Bebeji and peri-urban Kano.
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Our Team

Leadership

  • Operations
  • Surveys

Director of Field Operations

35 years directing national household surveys at the National Population Commission of Nigeria.
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  • Finance
  • Compliance

Executive Director

16 years of donor-funded finance, grants and compliance management across Northern Nigeria for Gates, UNICEF, USAID and FCDO.
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  • HR
  • Training

Head of Workforce

Career-level banking and professional human resource practice certified in both Nigeria and the United Kingdom.
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Get in touch

Planning a survey or evaluation in Northern Nigeria?

We respond within two business days. Phone and WhatsApp available for programme teams working across time zones.