Practice Areas

ME&A is a leading SBA-certified small business providing innovative solutions for economic development and social progress throughout the world. We focus our services in seven practice areas:

Monitoring, Evaluations and Learning
ME&A's extensive experience in performance evaluations, assessments and performance monitoring extends across the globe. From the Middle East to Eastern Europe, Africa to Latin America, our evaluation teams design and implement evaluations and assessments that provide clients with measurable results and actionable learning insights to improve their organizational performance.

Human and Institutional Capacity Development (HICD)
ME&A uses state-of-the-art HICD methodologies and tools to assist public administration and municipal development officials, businesses, civil society and other U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) partner organizations in their quests for performance excellence. Our services empower HICD recipients to better meet the needs of their countries, their citizens and their stakeholders.

Governance, Democracy and Public Administration
ME&A's team has worked extensively in transparent local governance, public administration, municipal association development, decentralization and democracy building. The solutions we create affect real change when and where it is needed most in the areas of public policy, management and organizational reform, elections and electoral systems, legislative bodies, citizen involvement and public information.

Water and Natural Resource Management
ME&A's proven track record in water and natural resources management extends across a wide spectrum of methodologies from strategic planning and design, technical support and capacity building to data collection, assessment, analysis and more. We apply these methodologies to economic growth and energy, agriculture and food security, global health, and democracy and governance.

Economic Growth through Regional and Local Economic Development Strategies, Business Development, Competitiveness and Entrepreneurship
At ME&A we believe that Regional and Local Economic Development (LED) is perhaps the most important key to sustainable growth, the reduction of poverty and the elevation of indices of wellbeing in a society. We have a long tradition of developing successful LED strategies, engaging all stakeholders to participate in the process, and promoting a sense of ownership and an ongoing commitment to long-term sustainable entrepreneurial solutions.

Communications and Knowledge Management
ME&A's creative team of communications and knowledge management professionals has extensive experience developing and disseminating messages to target audiences to get them the right knowledge at the right time. We have earned accolades for our public information campaigns and our unique, eye-catching publications and displays, award-winning programming, social media, research capabilities, and other communications and knowledge management tools.

Program and Grants Administration
ME&A is well versed in designing, managing and administrating international and domestic programs and grants from developing eligibility criteria all the way to recipient outreach and systems assessment. Our services also include program monitoring and evaluation as well as learning conferences, seminars and workshops.