Our Portfolio

Mua'akia Consulting designs and delivers monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) work across Fiji and the Pacific. Our portfolio spans MEL frameworks and systems, evaluations, research, training and capacity strengthening, strategic planning and facilitation, and partnership brokering. Our clients and program partners include the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) through its Fiji Program Support Platform, the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT), the United Kingdom Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), the iTaukei Trust Fund Board (TTFB), the Pacific Community (SPC) and the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat (PIFS).

Our people bring more than two decades of senior MEL experience from previous roles across the region and beyond. We continue to strive towards our Vision through strong partnerships with Talanoa Consulting, Solve Pacific, Iconi Consulting and La Trobe University's Centre for Human Security and Social Change.

Monitoring, Evaluation, Learning & Adaptive Management

Fiji Ministry of Housing Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Framework Development

Year: 2025-2026
Type: MEL Framework Development
Focus Area: MEL Framework, Performance Monitoring, Learning, Reporting, Adaptive Management Partners: Fiji Ministry of Housing, Talanoa Consulting Donor: Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT)

iTaukei Trust Fund Board (TTFB) Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Framework and System Design and Implementation

Year: 2025-2026
Type: MEL Framework and System Design and Implementation
Focus Area: MEL systems, results frameworks, performance monitoring, learning, adaptive management Partners: iTaukei Trust Fund Board (TTFB), Market Development Facility (MDF), Palladium Group Donor: Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) ‍

Women Leading and Influencing (WLI) MERLA Study – Leadership and Coaching Programs

Year: 2025
Type: MERLA Study / Evaluation Report
Focus Area: Monitoring, evaluation, research, learning and adaptation, women’s leadership, leadership development, ontological coaching, qualitative research, Pacific women Partners: Women Leading and Influencing (WLI), La Trobe University’s Centre for Human Security and Social Change (LTU CHSSC)

DFAT Fiji Program Support Platform MEL Research and Learning Support

Year: 2025-Current
Type: MEL Research and Learning Support
Focus Area: Monitoring, evaluation, learning, adaptive management, programme learning, reflection, programme improvement, participatory facilitation, research Partners: Fiji Program Support Platform (FPSP), Talanoa Consulting Donor: Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT)

Evaluation of the IFRC Core Cost and Financial Sustainability Initiative, 2019–2023

Year: 2024
Type: Evaluation report
Focus Area: Evaluation, MEL, core cost recovery, financial sustainability, organisational learning

Global Influence: MFAT Green Climate Fund Activity Evaluation

Year: 2023
Type: Evaluation report
Focus Area: Climate finance, evaluation, Green Climate Fund engagement, global influence


Research, Publications and Case Studies

Humanitarian Civil-Military Coordination in Emergencies: Towards a Predictable Model

Year: 2026
Type: Publication / Regional Report
Focus Area: Humanitarian response, civil-military, emergency, preparedness, Pacific regional coordination

Project Proposal Writing Manual for Civil Society Organisations

Year: 2025
Type: Manual
Focus Area: Proposal development, civil society organisation capacity strengthening

The Political Economy of Accountability Ecosystems: Charting a New Course in the Pacific

Year: 2025
Type: Research report
Focus Area: Accountability, governance, political economy analysis

Accountability Ecosystems Political Economy Analysis: FSM Country Study

Year: 2024
Type: Country study
Focus Area: Accountability, governance, political economy analysis

Accountability Ecosystems Political Economy Analysis: Tuvalu Country Study

Year: 2023
Type: Country study
Focus Area: Accountability, governance, political economy analysis

Accountability Ecosystems Political Economy Analysis: Vanuatu Country Study

Year: 2023
Type: Country study
Focus Area: Accountability, governance, political economy analysis

Securing Reserved Seats for Women in Vanuatu’s Municipal Councils

Year: 2023
Type: Report / policy brief
Focus Area: Women’s political participation, governance, representation

Contactless Aid in Tonga: Re-thinking Disaster Response in the Pacific Islands

Year: 2022
Type: Article / discussion paper
Focus Area: Humanitarian response, disaster response, locally led development

Decolonisation and Locally Led Development Discussion Paper

Year: 2021
Type: Discussion paper
Focus Area: Locally led Development, Decolonisation, Pacific Development Practice


Training and Capacity Strengthening

Empower Pacific MERL Training Workshop — Lautoka, Fiji

Year: 2026 Type: MERL Training Focus Area: Reporting, data quality, GEDSI, safeguarding, organisational learning Donor: Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT)

Climate Action for a Resilient Asia Programme Proposal Development Training — Suva, Fiji

Year: 2025
Type: Training / capacity strengthening workshop
Focus Area: Proposal development, climate resilience, CSO capacity strengthening, programme design Donor: Foreign Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO)

Climate Action for a Resilient Asia Programme Proposal Development Training — Nuku’alofa, Tonga

Year: 2025
Type: Training / capacity strengthening workshop
Focus Area: Proposal development, climate resilience, CSO capacity strengthening, programme design Donor: Foreign Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO)

Online Training on Proposal Development: Developing a Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Framework

Year: 2024
Type: Online training / capacity strengthening session
Focus Area: Proposal development, MEL framework design, monitoring and evaluation, CSO capacity strengthening, program design Donor: Foreign Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO)


Panels, Talanoa and Knowledge Sharing

Insight Pasifika Webinar Series: Development Unpacked: Pacific Voices, Practical Lessons

Year: 2026
Type: Panel Session
Focus Area: Pacific-led MEL, Qualitative & Quantitative Data, Evaluation Practice and Rigor

Aotearoa New Zealand Association (ANZEA) Panel Session: Noda Ilakolako - Our Reflection on the MEL Journey with the iTaukei Trust Fund Board

Year: 2026
Type: Panel Session
Focus Area: Pacific-led MEL, CoDesign, Indigenous Institution, Western Influence

Aotearoa New Zealand Association (ANZEA) Ignite Session: Reclaiming the Pacific Way in Evaluation

Year: 2026
Type: Ignite Session
Focus Area: Pacific evaluation practice, local knowledge, Pacific ways of knowing

Australian Evaluation Society Panel Session: Centering Pacific Worldviews — Tonga and Fiji

Year: 2025
Type: Panel session / learning event
Focus Area: Pacific worldviews, evaluation practice, Tonga, Fiji, Indigenous and local knowledge

Australian Evaluation Society Panel Session: Reclaiming our Talanoa

Year: 2025
Type: Panel session / learning event
Focus Area: Talanoa, Pacific evaluation practice, local knowledge, Pacific ways of knowing

Book Launch of Sugar by Tarryn Phillips and Edward Narain

Year: 2024
Type: Book launch / public learning event
Focus Area: Pacific storytelling, public dialogue, learning and knowledge sharing

Youth Talanoa to Discuss Storytelling for Tracking Change

Year: 2022
Type: Talanoa / youth learning event
Focus Area: Storytelling, tracking change, participatory learning


Strategic Planning, Facilitation and Team Building

Technology and Governance (TAG) Unit Mini-Planning Workshop

Year: 2026
Type: Mini-planning workshop / facilitation support
Programme Context: Technology and Governance Unit, Australia Fiji Governance Program (AFGP), Fiji Program Support Platform (FPSP)
Focus Area: Governance, technology and governance, team planning, workplanning, facilitation, Fiji

Pacific Humanitarian Warehousing Program (PHWP) Work-planning Workshops

Year: 2026
Type: Workplanning workshops / facilitation support
Programme Context: Pacific Humanitarian Warehousing Program (PHWP), Pacific Community (SPC), Infrastructure Specialists Unit (ISU)
Focus Area: Humanitarian warehousing, disaster preparedness, climate resilience, workplanning, coordination, implementation

Medical Services Pacific (MSP) Strategic Planning Workshop

Year: 2025
Type: Strategic planning workshop / facilitation support
Programme Context: Medical Services Pacific (MSP), Disaster Resilience Program (DRP), Fiji Program Support Platform (FPSP)
Focus Area: Strategic planning, organisational planning, disaster resilience, facilitation, reflection, programme priorities

Disaster Community Resilience Program (DCRP) Planning Workshop

Year: 2025
Type: Planning Workshop / facilitation support
Programme Context: Disaster Community Resilience Program (DCRP), including PIEMA II, BSRP II and PHWP
Focus Area: Workplanning, reflection, planning, implementation, cross-project coordination, disaster preparedness, resilience, MERL, communications, GEDSI, localisation

Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat (PIFS) Governance and Engagement Team Building and Planning Session

Year: 2024
Type: Planning Session / Team Building
Programme Context: Pacific Islands Secretariat (PIFS) Governance and Engagement Team
Focus Area: Planning, team building, governance, engagement, facilitation

United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) Pacific Office Team Building and Planning Session

Year: 2023
Type: Planning Session / Team Building
Programme Context: UNESCAP Pacific Office
Focus Area: Team Building, organisational planning, facilitation, reflection


Partnership Brokering

Disaster Resilience Program (DRP) Partnership Brokering with Partners in Community Development Fiji (PCDF)

Year: 2026
Type: Partnership brokering / facilitation support
Programme Context: Disaster Resilience Program, Fiji Program Support Platform (DRP-FPSP) and PCDF
Focus Area: Partnership brokering, civil society engagement, locally led development, disaster resilience

Disaster Resilience Program (DRP) Partnership Brokering with Building Innate Resilience Through Hearts (BIRTH) Fiji

Year: 2025
Type: Partnership brokering / facilitation support
Programme Context: Disaster Resilience Program, Fiji Program Support Platform (DRP-FPSP) and BIRTH Fiji
Focus Area: Partnership brokering, civil society engagement, locally led development, disaster resilience

Disaster Resilience Program (DRP) Partnership Brokering with Medical Services Pacific (MSP)

Year: 2025
Type: Partnership brokering / facilitation support
Programme Context: Disaster Resilience Program, Fiji Program Support Platform (DRP-FPSP) and MSP
Focus Area: Partnership brokering, civil society engagement, locally led development, disaster resilience