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Project Spotlights

Road to Market, InnoVet-AMR | IDRC

TThe Innovative Veterinary Solutions for Antimicrobial Resistance (InnoVet-AMR), a collaboration between IDRC and the UK government’s Department of Health and Social Care, is a 4-year, CAD $28.4 million program funding research on innovative veterinary solutions to reduce antimicrobial use in livestock, poultry, and aquaculture industries across low- and middle-income countries. MSA was engaged by IDRC to support InnoVet-AMR grantees in commercializing their innovations, including vaccines, phages, microbial-derived products, and phytochemicals, by bridging the gap between promising research and market entry. MSA’s support spans grantee selection, market analysis, industry and investor mapping, business case development, and facilitated engagement with manufacturers and investors across 15 countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America.

Impact Evaluation| IKEA Foundation & GIZ- Women’s Employment for Development (WE4D) Kenya 

The WE4D Kenya program, funded by the IKEA Foundation and implemented in partnership with Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), is a multi-year initiative focused on generating sustainable livelihoods for women-led micro, small, and medium enterprises within Kenya’s waste management and circular economy sectors. MSA is leading a rigorous mixed-methods impact evaluation to assess how circular economy interventions contribute to inclusive green growth, covering outcomes across employment, enterprise growth, income generation, and business formalization. The evaluation spans baseline, midline, and endline stages over three years, testing key assumptions within the program’s Theory of Change to understand what works, for whom, and under what conditions. Beyond measurement, MSA is generating actionable evidence to inform adaptive management and future scaling decisions within IKEA Foundation’s stage-gated funding approach, while facilitating ongoing learning and reflection with implementing partners and stakeholders throughout the process.

USDA Post-Monetization Impact Study | TechnoServe Regrow Yirga

The USDA Food for Progress Regrow Yirga Program monetized 200,000 MT of U.S.-donated wheat across Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda in 2025, using proceeds to fund TechnoServe’s work in Ethiopia’s coffee sector. MSA is the independent third-party research partner responsible for designing and executing the post-monetization impact assessment, examining whether monetization activities disrupted local agricultural production, displaced commercial wheat trade, or affected storage, logistics, and pricing dynamics in East Africa. Using a mixed-methods approach, integrating secondary trade data, price trend analysis, and primary key informant interviews, MSA will produce both a Baseline Market Context and a final Post-Monetization Impact Report for USDA and TechnoServe stakeholders.