Research & innovation · Mekong region

MESRI

Mekong Environmental and Social Research and Innovation

We study how environmental and social change lands on people in the Mekong region — and we build the software that carries that evidence from the field to the people who act on it.

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01 — What we do

Three connected practices, one evidence chain

Most organisations hand the study to one team, the advice to another and the tooling to a vendor. We do all three, which is why the evidence survives the handover.

01

Research

Environmental and social studies designed to stand up to scrutiny: clear questions, defensible sampling, instruments that field teams can actually administer.

  • Baseline and endline studies
  • Household and community surveys
  • Environmental and social impact assessment
  • Qualitative fieldwork and case studies

02

Advisory

Turning findings into decisions. We work alongside programme teams rather than delivering a report over the wall and leaving.

  • Monitoring, evaluation and learning
  • Programme and policy analysis
  • Donor and compliance reporting
  • Training and capacity building

03

Innovation

Software built out of our own fieldwork. Both products below exist because the work needed them and nothing off the shelf fit.

  • Field data collection and validation
  • Bilingual reporting, English and Khmer
  • Route, visit and dispatch operations
  • Offline-tolerant tools for weak connectivity
02 — Software Compare both products

Two products, built for the same problem at two ends

One carries evidence from the field to a signed-off report. The other carries a sales rep from a call plan to a delivered order. Both were written for teams working with patchy connectivity, in two languages.

MESRI Data Hub Field data → donor report In development

Build a survey from a sector template, deploy it to KoboToolbox with a QR code, sync the submissions back, validate them, chart them, and publish the report — in English or Khmer, without leaving the tool.

  • 27 sector templates across 7 sectors
  • Works with KoboToolbox, ODK, CSV and paper forms keyed in by hand
  • Validation, aggregation and report prose in one pass
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Route Plan Routes, visits, dispatch Live

Route planning, live visit tracking and automatic delivery dispatch for Cambodian distributors. Reps follow a call plan; each visit raises a purchase order; orders group by area into truck routes.

  • Call plan and delivery dispatch in one loop
  • Live visit check-in, orders raised on the spot
  • Built for Cambodian distribution, bilingual throughout
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Evidence loses most of its value in transit — between the enumerator and the spreadsheet, the spreadsheet and the analyst, the analyst and the person who has to decide something. We work on the transit.

MESRI — how we think about the work
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A study to design, a programme to evaluate, a field data process that keeps falling apart in the spreadsheet stage — start there and we will tell you honestly whether we are the right people.

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