Our Core Services

Programmes without robust MEAL systems cannot demonstrate impact, satisfy donors, or improve over time. MARCO builds and manages rigorous MEAL systems that give organisations real-time visibility over what is working — and the evidence to prove it to funders.

From baseline design to final evaluation, our approach combines quantitative rigour with qualitative depth. We have led third-party monitoring for UNICEF, SOS Children's Villages, and USAID/IBTCI engagements across all five Somali Federal Member States, Kenya, and Ethiopia.

• Baseline, midterm, and endline surveys
• Third-party monitoring (TPM) and output verification
• Data quality assessments (DQA) and triangulation
• Real-time monitoring system (RTMS) design and management
• Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP) mechanisms
• Feedback, complaints, and response mechanisms (FCRM)
• OECD-DAC compliant programme evaluations
• Learning briefs and evidence-to-action reports

Programmes that do not genuinely engage communities produce poor data, poor outcomes, and poor accountability. MARCO designs and manages participation processes that are meaningful — not performative — ensuring communities shape the decisions that affect them.

With deep cultural competence across Somalia's diverse clan and community structures, and established facilitator networks in Kenya and Ethiopia, MARCO navigates sensitive engagement processes that external consultants cannot replicate.

• Stakeholder consultations and community dialogue platforms
• Focus group discussions (FGD) design, facilitation, and analysis
• Participatory needs assessments and community mapping
• AAP system design and implementation
• Feedback and complaints mechanisms (FCRM)
• Social cohesion and conflict-sensitive engagement
• Community mobilisation and participatory planning
• Community-based monitoring and social accountability tools

Institutions navigating fragile governance environments need advisors who understand the political economy — not just the policy frameworks. MARCO provides strategic advisory that is technically rigorous and contextually grounded, helping clients make decisions that are both sound and achievable.

We work at federal and state levels with equal competence — familiar with the institutional relationships, stakeholder dynamics, and decision-making processes that determine what actually gets implemented.

• Organisational strategy development and strategic planning
• Policy analysis, review, and reform advisory
• Governance diagnostics and strengthening roadmaps
• Institutional restructuring and transformation support
• Public financial management (PFM) advisory
• Stakeholder mapping and political economy analysis
• Regulatory review and compliance advisory
• Government-NGO coordination and partnership facilitation

Before investing in a programme or capital initiative, organisations need evidence that the idea is viable — technically, financially, and operationally. MARCO delivers rigorous feasibility assessments that meet the standards required by institutional investors, bilateral donors, and development finance institutions.

Our feasibility work combines field-based intelligence with financial modelling and risk analysis — producing findings that are analytically robust and contextually realistic, not optimistically biased.

• Technical feasibility studies for infrastructure and programme investments
• Financial feasibility analysis and cost-benefit assessment
• Investment readiness assessments and due diligence support
• Business case writing for programme and capital investments
• Social and environmental impact assessments (SEIA)
• Risk analysis and mitigation planning
• Pre-feasibility rapid assessments for concept note development
• Comparative options analysis and scenario planning