Mike and I have spent the last few hours with the data, and we are very pleased with all of the hard work that you and ORCA have dedicated to this effort. You and your team have really excelled to make this a good survey-we are totally impressed and very thankful. In fact, Mike and I have both spent a lot of time working with researchers in Latin America, Africa, and South Asia, and rarely are we this pleased.

The Gallup World Poll recognizes Opinion Research Center of Afghanistan (ORCA) for outstanding communication and responsiveness in Asia and certifies that ORCA has met the highest standards in partnership through outstanding communication and responsiveness across all countries surveyed in the Asia Region of the World Poll.

We were very impressed with ORCA's ability to carry out such high level work in difficult circumstances, especially with our need to have multiple survey versions. We were able to generate a wide range of interesting findings that have now been presented at multiple universities in the United States and Europe. Jason Lyall, Director of Undergraduate Studies, Jackson Institute for Global Affairs and Faculty Associate,

I am very satisfied with ORCA’s work. Their level of communication with us throughout the entire project is impeccable and so too is their documentation of the fieldwork process and methodology. We require 17 deliverables on top of the dataset and theirs are always very thorough, clear, and detailed.

Over the entire timeline of this project, the ORCA team showed themselves to be excellent researchers, project managers, and analysts. All assigned work was completed within the agreed upon deadline and easily met or exceeded our expectations in terms of its quality, that too in extremely challenging data collection locations. During their contract with us, ORCA staff displayed an outstanding sense of professionalism, adaptability, and team spirit that was crucial in fulfilling the complex assignments and managing many challenges.

The Opinion Research Center of Afghanistan (ORCA) has run four surveys in the past three years for the Department of State’s Office of Opinion Research. During each project, Rafiq Ullah Kakar has been a conscientious and reliable manager, working under my supervision to oversee every aspect of our surveys, from translations to face-to-face interviews in the field, guaranteeing the policymakers in Washington and Kabul have access to reliable data on public opinion in Afghanistan. Working from Kabul, Rafiq has been an attentive and candid contractor, providing valuable feedback on the best ways to approach asking questions of Afghans and faithfully reporting setbacks in the field. In short, Rafiq has been invaluable over the course of our survey work with ORCA, helping our office perform its functions efficiently and reliably.

If you are looking for research and evaluation services in Afghanistan, look no further than ORCA. They offer exceptional service every step of the way, from project set up and design, to data collection, to delivery and analysis. Their attention to detail, honesty and integrity, and constant communication throughout the duration of the project ensures that you will receive the best quality product possible. What I love most about the ORCA team is their honesty; they won't sell you something they can't deliver. Instead, they are up front about what is possible, meaning that you can be confident in both quantitative and qualitative data collected. In a country in which quality control is questionable, this team never disappoints.