What you gain
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.
Our professional services
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.
Program Design and Implementation
Markets, services, and livelihoods that last beyond our engagement
We co-create and run programs in agriculture, youth employment, WASH, climate resilience, and inclusive finance — designed to outlast the project.
Third-Party Monitoring (TPM)
Independent verification your stakeholders trust
Independent, trusted TPM for donors, governments, and private foundations — verification, value-for-money checks, and beneficiary voice.
Systems MEL aligned to DCED Standards
DCED-compliant MEL your teams can run with confidence
DCED-compliant MEL systems with results chains, systemic boundaries, indicators, data quality protocols, and utilization-focused reporting.
Systemic Change Measurement
Outcomes beyond project outputs
Frameworks that capture outcomes beyond project outputs — sentinel indicators, actor networks, crowding-in, business viability, policy shifts, resilience.
Evaluations and Research
Rigorous studies that are built for use
Qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods studies designed for decisions — baselines, midlines, endlines, impact, case studies, VfM.
Attribution, Contribution, Counterfactual, and Displacement
What changed, how, why, and at whose expense
Explicit contribution narratives, counterfactual estimation, triangulated causal stories, and displacement scanning.
Statistics, Data, and Analytics
From raw data to foresight
Sampling, modelling, dashboards, decision-ready insights. From sampling and power calculations to Power BI and web dashboards.
Climate Measurement, Reporting, and Verification (MRV)
Verification-ready climate data your financiers will underwrite
MRV systems that quantify climate outcomes and unlock carbon markets. Activity data, emissions calculators, verification documentation.
ESG Frameworks and Tools
ESG you actually use — not shelfware
ESG diagnostics, materiality, indicators, reporting templates, and training so teams manage ESG continuously.
Jobs Measurement Frameworks
Direct, indirect, and induced jobs — credible and consistent
Jobs frameworks covering direct, indirect, and induced employment with FTE and quality markers (youth, women, green).
Capital Mobilization and Impact Investing Tracking
Capital mobilized, outcomes achieved, impact created — one integrated view
Frameworks and tools for tracking capital mobilization and investment flows aligned with the Impact Management Project and IMP standards.
Inclusion, Gender, and Poverty Measurement
Inclusion designed in, measured throughout
WEE, GESI, GALS, Washington Group, PPI, MPI. Inclusion metrics that go beyond counting to capture access, voice, and outcomes.
Knowledge, Learning, and Adaptive Management
Evidence becomes a management asset
Learning agendas, after-action reviews, pause-and-reflect sessions, synthesis briefs, and decision memos.
Training and Capacity Strengthening
Practical training your teams use on Monday morning
Hands-on training in DCED MEL, systemic change, VfM, evaluations, analytics, climate MRV, ESG, jobs measurement, and inclusion.
