FoodMa
Monitoring and Evaluation will be an integral part of project management activities. A Consultant will be recruited for two (2) months in the first year of the Programme to assist with the establishment of a comprehensive monitoring and evaluation system. Internal Programme Review Meetings shall be held bi-annually to assess and review critically the progress made so far. Such sessions will be facilitated by external facilitators and shall involve all Work Package leaders, component and sub component leaders and all members of the Project Implementing Team. The proceedings from these meetings shall form the basis of the Annual Reports, which shall be submitted together with work-plans and budgets to the Annual Meetings.

In order to benchmark the success of FoodMa, a team of consultants will be engaged through open and competitive processes through advertisements to carry out a baseline survey in the first year of the programme while a mid-term review will be conducted in the final quarter of the second year. The planned baseline survey shall take advantage of the TRANSFORM baseline because the targeted implementation sites and households are the same. Furthermore, TRANSFORM has developed a database that FoodMa will take advantage of in executing its monitoring and evaluation. Enabling environment has been leveraged through the TRANSFORM MEAL Technical Working Group in which LUANAR is an active member.

Finally using the same competitive bidding methods and in liaison with the Royal Norwegian Embassy (RNE) in Lilongwe and TRANSFORM partners, Terms of References (ToRs) for the end of programme evaluation shall be developed to engage an external consultant to conduct the task. To track the progress of implementation, FoodMa has developed a comprehensive result framework (Attached) that will be updated once the baseline values have been populated.