INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Our international development work builds on nearly 20 years of experience, working in more than 25 countries with staff that have delivered work in over 120 countries, drawing from all our core service areas to deliver innovative, evidence-based, and culturally sensitive solutions to complex environmental, social, and governance challenges. We push program boundaries by identifying and mitigating environmental, social, and climatic risks while branching into new areas that define the ecological intersection of land, water, energy use, and population mobility.
In partnership with donor-funded agencies, development banks, and host nation government we strive to solve environmental and institutional management challenges in measurable ways that integrate the perspectives of people, their cultures, and impacts on the environment. By using a private-sector oriented approach to development, we drive comprehensive and insightful outcomes that are fit-for-purpose, sustainable, and create impactful returns for host nations, communities, and individuals working towards a healthier and more secure future. Through engagement with local technical experts and deployment of our own professionally diverse staff of anthropologists, archaeologists, researchers, analysts, planners, environmental scientists, natural resource managers, real estate experts, urban planners, political economists, security strategists, urban and environmental policy experts, and private-sector engagement specialists we deliver practical market-based solutions that address economic, environmental, and social needs; ignite opportunities; and mitigate effects on vulnerable communities.
Our Team
Capabilities/Services
- Performance and Impact Evaluations
- Risk Assessments
- Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
- Cost-Benefit, Constraints, and Multi-Criteria Analysis
- Climate Change Analysis and Sustainability Planning
- Livelihood Assessments
- Market and Value-Chain Analyses
- Supply-Chain Dynamics
- Growth Diagnostics
- Social and Behavior Change Communication and Planning
- Stakeholder Engagement, Awareness, Mapping, and Communications
- Full range of GIS services (to include ground-penetrating radar, FREL, MRV)
- Public-Private and Community Partnerships
- Political Economy Assessments
- Scenario Planning and Wargaming
- Facilitation and Training
- Strategic Planning and Program Design
- Strategic Environmental and Social Assessments
- Feedback, Grievance, and Redress Mechanisms
- Commercial, Legal, and Institutional Reform
- Gender and Social Inclusion Assessments and Analysis
- Illegal Wildlife Trade and Trafficking
Related Projects
- DoS, Worldwide AE Support Services IDIQ, Climate Security and Resilience Program, Capacity Building Task Order Support to AECOM
- USAID Resilient, Inclusive, and Sustainable Environment (RISE) Challenge, Gender-based Violence (GBV) and REDD+ in Fiji: Tackling Resource Conflict and Addressing Gender-based Risk in the Environment
- Institute for Security Government Defense, Institution Building Professional Management Services and Analysis Support to OSD/RAND
- USFWS Headquarters and International Affairs Program (IA) Combating Wildlife Trafficking (CWT) Strategic Planning and Partnerships Support Services
- NATO Partnership for Peace/Warsaw Initiative Fund Professional Management Services and Analysis Support
Solutions & Innovations
Full spectrum of environmental and social services: Marstel-Day staff covers the full spectrum of environmental, social, and climate risk services that can be leveraged to bolstered and deliver in complex and challenging environments around the world. Our in-country technical experts are bolstered by Marstel-Day's ready network of scientists, planners, and researchers that are able to deliver evidence-based solutions that meet regulatory requirements, are resource aware, and sustainable.
Reliance on science and evidence as the foundation of conservation: Marstel-Day provides clients and governments with cutting-edge science that helps to inform and guide sound policy decisions. Moving beyond private sector engagement, we rely on the use of sustainability metrics, impact measurement, and business models for sustained change.
Design and facilitate strategic cross-sector partnerships that amplify impact, innovation, and scale within global development initiatives and supply chains: Marstel-Day uses a private sector-oriented approach to development that focuses on sustainability and resilience. Moving beyond private sector engagement as lip-service to broker public-private partnerships that rely on the use of sustainability metrics, impact measurement, and business models for sustained change.
Examine the unintended consequences, risks not readily apparent for more resilient designs: Marstel-Day helps prepare agencies, governments, communities, and project beneficiaries for the future by understanding the complete risk profile of interventions. Our use of strategic studies, risk-based analysis, and systems-based approaches paint a more comprehensive picture of the linkages that exist between sustainable development initiatives and their far-reaching impacts.
Competing interests and compatible land use strategies: Marstel-Day identifies land conversion drivers and uses scenario planning to consider future outcomes that range from 'business as usual' to proactive application of land use controls, adaptation actions, and conservation partnering techniques. Our in-house, customizable compatible land use strategy (CLUS) model is an iterative decision support tool that leverages spatial data and stakeholder input to analyze potential scenarios and create defensible solutions. The model is customizable to local conditions, data, interests, and visions - addressing competing interests among conservation, agriculture, urban development, economics, climate change, risk management, and other systems. Outcomes result in "living" plans and innovative strategies for land use compatibility and coordinated engagement.