The overall objective of the program to be formulated is to contribute to the establishment of an effective and accountable State in the service of development in Madagascar, through three specific objectives which are (i) strengthening the efficiency and transparency of public administration; (ii) promoting and protecting democracy, through the organization of free elections and citizen participation in political life; (iii) accountability and control of State action through the strengthening of counter-power actors. Support for civil society, including human rights organizations and the media, gender issues, digitalization and political economy issues are transversal to these three objectives. The requested services aim to (i) conduct an in-depth analysis of the situation, and the problems and constraints at the root of this situation, based on documentation and interviews, and (ii) make proposals for a European Union support program that are relevant, realistic, credible and adapted to the context - while taking into account EU procedures.
The consultants are responsible for collecting the information necessary to achieve these results through:

• Analysis of the documentation that will be provided in part by the DUEM;
• Briefing meetings with the DUEM and the government;
• A series of interviews with stakeholders (ministries agents, technical and financial partners, project implementation partners, civil society, etc.) in order to collect the priorities and analyses of the main stakeholders. ==A total of 20 man/days of mission in the field to be distributed between the four consultants (the mission area will be defined later, in 2 of the regions of concentration of EU support).