MERSTAT is a development partner that designs and delivers programs, provides independent monitoring, and builds advanced evidence systems. We integrate market systems thinking, DCED standards, climate MRV, ESG, jobs measurement, inclusion frameworks, and impact investing tools so partners can move from ideas to implementation and from data to decision.
We co-create and execute programs in agriculture, youth employment, WASH, climate resilience, and inclusive finance. Our designs are grounded in MSD and MSD4E and incorporate MSR to ensure durability under stress. Every engagement embeds adaptive management, live dashboards, and learning rhythms so teams can steer in real time and scale what works.
We provide independent, trusted TPM for donors, governments, and private foundations. This includes verification of delivery, value for money checks, beneficiary voice capture, spot checks and remote monitoring, geo-tagging, risk and safeguarding monitoring, and rapid feedback loops that strengthen accountability and decision making.
We build DCED-compliant MEL systems and train teams to run them confidently. This includes results chains, clear systemic boundaries, credible indicators, data quality protocols, and utilization-focused reporting. We conduct DCED audits and pre-audit readiness checks, and we facilitate AAER thinking so you can track how markets and institutions adopt, adapt, expand, and respond.
We design frameworks that capture outcomes beyond project outputs. This includes sentinel indicators, market actor network mapping, crowding-in and copying, business model viability, policy and rule shifts, and resilience signals. We establish practical routines to detect displacement and unintended effects so scale does not compromise equity or market health.
We run rigorous qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods studies that are built for use:
We clarify what changed, how it changed, and why it changed. This includes explicit contribution narratives linked to evidence, counterfactual estimation where feasible, triangulated causal stories, and displacement scanning so benefits are not simply shifting between groups or geographies.
We convert raw data into foresight. Services include sampling and power calculations, advanced statistical modeling, forecasting and scenario analysis, data pipelines and cleaning, interactive dashboards, and decision dashboards in Power BI or web. We operationalize impact and outcome multipliers and sound extrapolation methods so totals are credible and transparent.
We design MRV systems that quantify climate outcomes and enable access to carbon markets. This includes activity data systems, emissions reduction calculators, verification-ready documentation, monitoring protocols, and integration with your MEL so climate and development outcomes are tracked together.
We help organizations and investors implement ESG in practice. Services include ESG diagnostics, materiality mapping, indicator sets tailored to your sector, reporting templates, data collection tools, and training so teams can manage ESG continuously rather than as a once-a-year exercise.
We build jobs frameworks that capture direct, indirect, and induced employment as well as quality dimensions. This includes FTE estimation, dignified youth work, women's economic empowerment in jobs, and green jobs markers. We provide practical tools and training so partners can report jobs metrics with confidence and consistency.
We create frameworks and tools that track capital mobilized and investment flows in alignment with leading standards such as the Impact Management Project. We link financial inputs to outcomes and impact, ensuring that investors and development partners can see both returns and results in one integrated view.
Inclusion is designed in from the start and measured throughout. We implement women's economic empowerment frameworks, GESI approaches, and GALS facilitation for household and enterprise change. We measure poverty using the Progress out of Poverty Index and the Multidimensional Poverty Index and we design disability inclusion metrics that go beyond counting to capture access, voice, and outcomes.
We build learning cultures. This includes learning agendas, after-action reviews, pause-and-reflect sessions, synthesis briefs, and decision memos. We set up light but reliable feedback loops so evidence is translated into timely management choices and course corrections.
We deliver practical, hands-on training that teams can use immediately. Topics include DCED-compliant MEL systems, systemic change measurement, value for money, evaluations and sampling, data analysis and visualization, climate MRV, ESG implementation, jobs measurement, and inclusion frameworks such as GESI and GALS. Every training includes templates and job aids so practice sticks.
A partner who designs programs you can deliver, builds systems your teams can run, and provides independent oversight you can trust. Evidence becomes a management asset, investments become accountable, and impact becomes sustainable.