Trainings

Merstat strengthens capability through practical, hands-on training. Every course includes ready-to-use templates, facilitation guides, job aids, and optional coaching. Delivery is available in person, virtual, or blended.

How our trainings work

Needs assessment and co-design

Interactive sessions with real data and scenarios

Action plans and tool handover

Optional follow-up clinics to embed practice

Flagship tracks

DCED systems MEL

Outcome: Teams set up and operate DCED-aligned systems that are ready for audit and useful for management.

Format: Masterclass (3 days) or modular academy (6 weeks)

Audience: Programme teams, MEL staff, TPM leads

Core modules

  • Results chains and systemic boundaries, measurement plans and roles
  • AAER learning routines, data quality
  • Documentation for audit, pre-audit readiness

Deliverables

  • Results chain and indicator templates, measurement plan
  • AAER calendar, audit readiness checklist

MSD and MSR for program teams

Outcome: Teams design and implement market systems interventions that are resilient and measurable at scale.

Format: Masterclass (3 days)

Audience: Programme teams, MSD practitioners

Core modules

  • System mapping, viable business models, facilitation tactics
  • Resilience signals, sentinel indicators, systemic change measurement

Deliverables

  • Intervention guide pack with logic, indicators, and learning plan

Evaluations and evidence design

Outcome: Teams plan and commission credible evaluations that inform real decisions.

Format: Masterclass (3 days)

Audience: Evaluation commissioners, MEL staff, evaluators

Core modules

  • Rolling and retrospective baselines, midline learning reviews, endline assessments
  • Contribution analysis, counterfactual thinking, displacement checks, case studies and most significant change

Deliverables

  • Evaluation ToR pack, sampling and power calculator
  • Analysis plan templates, reporting shells

Jobs measurement frameworks

Outcome: Consistent reporting on direct, indirect, and induced jobs with quality dimensions.

Format: Masterclass (2 days) or modular academy (4 weeks)

Audience: Programme teams, MEL staff, fund managers

Core modules

  • Headcount and FTE, dignified youth work, green jobs markers
  • Outcome and impact multipliers, verification routines

Deliverables

  • Jobs framework toolkit, data collection tools
  • Dashboard schema, guidance on multipliers

Climate MRV

Outcome: Verification-ready measurement systems that can unlock carbon finance.

Format: Masterclass (3 days)

Audience: Climate practitioners, MEL staff, carbon finance leads

Core modules

  • Activity data systems, emissions reduction calculators
  • Monitoring protocols, verification evidence, integration with MEL and dashboards

Deliverables

  • MRV calculator, data flow map
  • Monitoring protocol pack, verification evidence templates

ESG frameworks and reporting

Outcome: Operational ESG embedded in routines rather than shelfware.

Format: Masterclass (2 days) or modular academy (4 weeks)

Audience: ESG leads, sustainability teams, board members

Core modules

  • Materiality, sector indicator sets, data collection tools
  • Reporting cycles, governance and assurance, training of trainers

Deliverables

  • ESG diagnostic, reporting templates
  • Data collection toolkit, training curriculum

Capital mobilization and impact investing tracking

Outcome: A single view of investment flows, outcomes, and impact aligned to IMP logic.

Format: Masterclass (2 days)

Audience: Fund managers, ESG leads, portfolio teams

Core modules

  • Capital mobilization definitions, tagging and traceability
  • Linking capital to outcomes, portfolio dashboards, investor reporting

Deliverables

  • Capital tracker, portfolio dashboard schema
  • Committee reporting pack

Statistics and data for decision makers

Outcome: Managers understand and trust the numbers they use.

Format: Masterclass (2 days)

Audience: Programme teams, managers, analysts

Core modules

  • Sampling and power, data quality and cleaning, analysis plans
  • Visualization that drives action, forecasting and scenarios

Deliverables

  • Sampling toolkit, analysis plan templates
  • Power BI dashboard patterns

TPM excellence

Outcome: Independent monitoring that is fast, credible, and useful.

Format: Masterclass (3 days)

Audience: TPM leads, field monitors, verification managers

Core modules

  • Risk-based sampling, verification protocols, beneficiary voice
  • GPS and photo verification with consent, safeguarding, rapid feedback loops

Deliverables

  • TPM playbook, verification tools
  • Rapid brief templates

Inclusion, gender, and poverty measurement

Outcome: Inclusion is designed in and measured throughout.

Format: Masterclass (3 days)

Audience: Inclusion leads, MEL staff, programme teams

Core modules

  • Women's economic empowerment frameworks, GESI and GALS facilitation
  • Disability inclusion using Washington Group tools, poverty profiling with PPI and MPI
  • Ethical practice and safe data

Deliverables

  • Inclusion measurement plan, household facilitation guides
  • PPI and MPI tools, ethics checklist

Value for money

Outcome: Decisions balance economy, efficiency, effectiveness, equity, and sustainability.

Format: Masterclass (2 days)

Audience: Programme teams, MEL staff, fund managers

Core modules

  • Cost analysis, VfM indicators and narratives
  • Portfolio comparisons, sensitivity and scenario analysis, communication of results

Deliverables

  • VfM framework, costing templates
  • Decision brief formats

Formats, audience, and certification

Formats and duration

  • Intensive masterclasses from one to three days
  • Modular academies across four to eight weeks
  • Executive clinics for senior leaders
  • Train-the-trainer pathways for internal sustainability
  • Embedded coaching during live implementation cycles

Audience and language

Audience: Programme teams, MEL and TPM staff, analysts and data engineers, fund managers and board members, government partners, and delivery teams.

Language: English by default. Local-language options on request.

Certification

Participants receive a certificate of completion. Custom certificates are available when linked to internal competency frameworks or university partners.

How to book

Use the form below or the contact page. Share objectives, audience, preferred format, timelines, and any sector focus. We will propose an agenda and deliverables that fit your context.