The Donor Committee for Enterprise Development (DCED) was a forum overseen by the International Finance Corporation that consists of bilateral and multilateral funders as well as foundations who fund economic development. In 2009, the DCED developed a cutting-edge quality standard for the monitoring of private sector development programming called the DCED Standard for Results Measurement. The DCED commissioned a consultancy to support the global roll-out of the DCED Standard.

MSA worked with the DCED Secretariat to address three key pain points inhibiting broader adoption of the DCED Standard. MSA supported the DCED to analyze potential new markets and select priority ones, developed advanced training materials to increase potential users’ understanding (including in French and Spanish), and conducted research on three key learning questions that the Secretariat had around the application of the DCED Standard.