The Donor Committee for Enterprise Development (DCED) was a leading source of knowledge about Private Sector Development (PSD). The DCED Secretariat commissioned a consultancy to support the global roll-out of the DCED Standard, a cutting-edge tool for incorporating best practices in monitoring private sector development initiatives.

MSA released the first research performed on how to measure job creation from a project perspective, as opposed to national or regional labor market surveying. The result was a practical guide on how to measure job creation that drew from the experiences of seven projects. This research was presented at the DCED’s high-profile annual conference in 2014 that focused on job creation and employment.