Inova was a $21-million, USAID-funded (and former Feed the Future) initiative operating in Mozambique. Started under Feed the Future, Inova’s objectives were to improve the competitiveness of targeted agricultural sub-sectors, strengthen target agricultural value chains, and improving the livelihoods of tens of thousands of smallholder farmers spread across multiple provinces of Mozambique.

MarketShare Associates (MSA), as a subcontractor to DAI, implemented the monitoring and evaluation platform and gender programming. Inova took a systems approach in which MSA designed and implemented the results measurement system in alignment with the DCED Standard. This included designing the program’s adaptive management strategy; creating the Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) system; identifying performance indicators; designing the results chains to assess the progress of systemic changes; and incorporating gender-based measurement indicators and strategies.