Actionable insights.
Development impact.
We use systems-thinking to generate practical insights, addressing complex development problems.
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We work with you to integrate actionable insights throughout the project lifecycle to prove and improve meaningful results.
Where We Work
MSA blends international expertise with local partnerships. Since 2009, we have worked with a wide variety of clients and partners in dozens of countries across six continents.
Project Spotlights
Advancing Women’s Empowerment | AWE
The 5-year USAID-funded Feed the Future AWE program provides targeted technical assistance to USAID missions, implementing partners, the Bureau for Food Security, and other USAID operating units to increase women’s participation, productivity, profit, and benefit in agricultural systems. MSA is a core partner and leading on Monitoring and Learning, Good Practices and the Research Agenda.
USAID Feed the Future Market Systems and Partnerships | MSP
The Feed the Future MSP program is a flexible buy-in mechanism integrating private sector engagement and markets systems development approaches into USAID programming to accelerate agriculture-led growth and food security. MSA is proud to be a key partner with DAI on this project, holding two core staff positions: the Senior Learning and Communications Advisor as well as the Social Inclusion Advisor. The base period runs until June 2023, with a two-year option.
Greyston Bakery’s Open Hiring TM model helps marginalized people, such as formerly incarcerated, disabled, recent immigrants and underemployed by hiring willing workers without any background check, applications, resume, or references, as long as they can provide proof of United States citizenship. MSA is a learning partner and supporting a formative evaluation of the Open Hiring model and its impacts.
Learn MoreWhat We Value
Excellence
We believe in sustainable development that improves lives across the globe. Our work and productivity reflect our passion.
Disruption
We’re here to do development differently – more empowering, more systemic, and with more proof.
Humility
We see self-awareness as a prerequisite to learning. Our mistakes are a means to improve.
Hustle
We are social entrepreneurs looking to implement solutions that drive forward social impact.
Collaboration
We’re better together, drawing on each other’s viewpoints and experiences to deliver for clients. Working as a team is core to our identity.
Celebration
We work hard and life gets hectic – we take time to celebrate and enjoy the successes.
Who We Are
We are facilitators, strategists, economists, researchers and innovators. We are passionate about positioning local stakeholders at the heart of interventions to achieve lasting impact.
Publications & Learning
Doing development differently starts with better evidence and learning. Discover how we’re applying actionable insights to unlock new solutions.
Workplace Innovation: Okeba’s Return on Investment in Childcare
This second case study in the Women-Inclusive Return on Investment series examines how Okeba, a Ugandan agribusiness, provided care support to its staff and ultimately reduced costs.
Building a Team Culture for Adaptive Management in MSD: 5 Strategies MEL Managers Say Work
Brief 2 in the MSD in MEL Clinic Series draws from the experiences of four Senior MEL Managers to summarize five practical strategies to build a culture among teams that enables the use of an MSD approach.
Naatal Mbay et le Financement Intégré au Sénégal: Evaluation Ex-Post: Note de Synthese
This brief in French summarizes the scale and sustainability of changes resulting from Naatal Mbay’s introduction of an integrated finance model (IFM) in Senegal’s domestic rice sector, three and a half years after program closure.
MSA’s Commitment to Women’s Empowerment
As a woman-owned firm dedicated to supporting a more equitable world and proud signatory to the Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEP), gender equality is at the heart of everything we do.
By joining the WEP initiative, our entire team commits to integrating and promoting gender equality and women’s empowerment in our workplace, with the global clients we serve and the diverse communities with whom we work. We’re proud of our recent empowerment work and look forward to continuing to advance these issues.
