Each of us has been working on public goods funding and civic activism for years, and some of us for decades. Each of our collectives has been using impact reporting tools and hearing what does and doesn't work about them from our community members. Together we have a combination of on-the-ground research, protocol design and development, and networked / coalition-based research. You can see Bloom Network's research on this in the Impact Protocol section on page 12, and their team has experience publishing research for novel retroactive public goods funding approaches for the Ethereum Foundation via dOrg.tech https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xZFoS7EHlmPfnAKAOHdbK0FTHBMSrItO/view?usp=sharing
You can also see Climate Coordination Collective's research into detailed metrics reporting here: https://climatecoordination.org/datatabase/climate-round-portal/climate-solutions-metrics-garden
ReFi DAO has experience researching formal carbon credit systems and MRV, and we'll likely have participants from Celo's Regional DAOs as well who have dMRV tools. 
