What is MCDA?
A structured framework for smarter decisions under uncertainty
The Stratified Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (SMCDA) framework helps organisations evaluate complex policy alternatives by
combining scenario planning with weighted criteria analysis. Unlike traditional decision tools, SMCDA explicitly accounts for future
uncertainty by generating all possible combinations of future events and weighting them by probability.
SMCDA is applicable to any decision context where multiple competing criteria must be balanced and the future is uncertain.
The framework produces a ranked list of alternatives with built-in sensitivity analysis — showing whether the recommended option
remains robust even when assumptions change.
The tool below walks you through all 10 steps: defining your decision context, alternatives, criteria, and future events — then
automatically computing scenario probabilities, normalised scoring matrices, criteria weightings, and final rankings.