Research & advisory
Eight services. Most engagements combine two or three of them: a baseline study that needs an instrument built, an evaluation that ends in a donor report, a programme team that wants to run the next round themselves.
Written as the standard offering of a Mekong environmental and social research organisation. Cut anything MESRI does not do. An overstated capability list is worse than a short one.
The question, the sampling frame, the instruments and the analysis plan, settled and written down before a single household is visited. We pilot instruments with the enumerators who will actually administer them, because a question that is awkward to ask is a column of unusable data later.
Running the round: enumerator training, deployment, supervision, and validation while the team is still in the field rather than after they have gone home. We use MESRI Data Hub and KoboToolbox for this, and we can run it on your existing stack instead if you have one.
Baseline, midline and endline rounds; indicator frameworks that programme staff can actually maintain; and evaluations that report what did not work alongside what did. Where a result is inconclusive we say so rather than dressing it up.
Impact assessment and due diligence for projects that touch land, water and livelihoods in the Mekong basin: screening, baseline characterisation, affected-community consultation, and the mitigation and monitoring plans that follow from it.
Rigorous market and commercial research designed for private enterprises, investors, and sector stakeholders navigating rapid regional economic shifts. We uncover actionable intelligence to drive strategy and performance.
Quantitative and qualitative analysis written up in the format the audience reads: a donor template, a policy brief, a board paper, or a workshop with the programme team. Bilingual English and Khmer throughout, not translated as an afterthought.
Institutional strengthening so internal teams can independently execute future research rounds. We deliver hands-on training in instrument design, data collection discipline, validation, and analysis in local languages.
Custom digital tooling and data infrastructure built specifically for development partners, governments, CSOs, NGOs, donors, and private companies. We bridge field realities with robust technology to eliminate manual re-keying, streamline data flows, and automate reporting pipelines.
Programme teams who need a defensible baseline, an evaluation their donor will accept, or a data process that stops eating field staff time.
Independent studies and evaluations of funded work, with findings reported at their real level of certainty.
Applied research on environmental and social change, and support to teams building their own data capability.
Environmental and social assessment, safeguards work and monitoring for projects affecting land, water and livelihoods.
Fieldwork partnership, instrument design and data collection capacity for research programmes in the region.
Commercial field operations, the work that produced Route Plan.
Next step
Send the terms of reference, the concept note, or three sentences about the problem. We will come back with what we would actually do, what it would take, and whether it is worth doing at all.