ITAR Consultants was contracted by the French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs in 2022 to strengthen the M&E system of French food security funding.
The assignment started by a learning assessment of 27 projects implemented by NGOs in Latin America, Africa, Middle East, and Asia. This assessment identified best practices in cash assistance, nutrition, food security, and economic empowerment, while also pinpointing areas for improvement in project design, monitoring, and reporting.
Findings were then used in a series of workshops with stakeholders from the central administration in Paris, Embassy Staff, and key implementing partners (PUI, Solidarités, Action Against Hunger), in order to collectively discuss options for a new M&E system, ensuring it aligned with their capacities and operational needs.
The project concluded with the design of a set of tools to standardise project conception, selection, and reporting to French authorities—tools that are now actively used in new projects.
