The Humanitarian Impact Institute’s (HII’s) experience working with local/national actors and INGOs and UN agencies in sudden onset emergency responses, shows a consistent struggle to establish effective monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning systems at the beginning of the Response – this is the absence of Humanitarian Emergency MEAL Systems Design.

HII provides fixed price services to establish embedded MEAL systems during sudden onset emergency humanitarian responses. These MEAL systems align with organisational and donor requirements and policies and ownership of them will transfer to internal MEAL staff as they are recruited during the Response.

These are stop-gap services that plug a critical gap during all sudden onset humanitarian responses. This includes the design of program sectoral indicators, management of donor MEAL frameworks, operation of the MEAL systems and the establishment of a comprehensive community feedback mechanism (CFM) and full learning cycle that connects community voices to program decision-making. 

HII can be in-place within a few days and have a functioning MEAL system in place from the beginning of the emergency Response.