Feed the Future Global Program Evaluation for Effectiveness and Learning (PEEL)

ME&A currently holds the Feed the Future Global Program Evaluation for Effectiveness and Learning (PEEL) task order contract from USAID. ME&A is joined in this five-year, $38-million contract by its prime subcontractors: ICF International, NORC at the University of Chicago, and Abt Associates.

Together they provide support to USAID’s Feed the Future (FTF) Initiative through population based surveys and performance and impact evaluations. These services allow FTF to better understand how activities are being implemented, how well they are performing, and how they are perceived by beneficiaries. In addition, the evaluations and surveys assist USAID in knowing whether they are achieving targeted outcomes in support of FTF objectives, what impacts they have, and whether their approaches are cost-effective and successful.

ME&A’s PEEL project team is based in Washington DC. PEEL will contribute to building capacities of host country institutions, missions, and USAID implementing partners. It will also help to inform FTF stakeholders about the effectiveness and impact of FTF investments.

ME&A’s Chief of Party for PEEL is David Hughes, an agricultural development and M&E expert with over 38 years of experience managing and evaluating a variety of agriculture, food security, and health projects in some 30 countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America.