REID Consulting

About REID Consulting

Competence, the pursuit of excellence and measurable impact since 2005.

Over 20 years of shared stories
Our story

Over 20 years of shared stories

Registered in Benin in May 2005, REID Consulting was built on competence and the pursuit of excellence, drawing on more than twenty years of field experience from its experts. The firm has carried out and led major assignments across West and Central Africa : from Benin to Mali, from Togo to Burkina Faso and Côte d'Ivoire: expertise rooted in local realities, in the service of development actors.

Dr Aurélien Comlan Atidegla

Dr Aurélien Comlan Atidegla

Managing Director, REID Consulting

A word from the founder

Thirty years in the service of measurable results

« A strategic plan alone does not solve problems. What is needed is evidence of the progress made, the changes brought to development through beneficiaries. And it is the monitoring and evaluation plan that truly enables data and progress to be collected up to the deadline. »
L'Œil d'Afrique, validation of UONGTO's strategic documents (in French), 2026

Managing director of REID Consulting since its creation in May 2005, he has nearly thirty years of studies, evaluations and results-based management training behind him, from Benin to Mali, from Togo to the Democratic Republic of Congo. He chairs the Platform of Civil Society Actors in Benin and the ASCINB nutrition alliance, headed the Francophone Africa programme of Globethics.net and represented West African civil society at the Busan Forum on aid effectiveness in 2011.

His career, year by year
Two decades of impact

From 2003 to today, year by year

Every milestone points to a documented assignment, a publication or a public source.

  1. 2003Civil society

    The birth of PASCiB

    The Platform of Civil Society Actors in Benin is created in February 2003. By December 2004 Aurélien Atidegla, then president of GRAPAD-ONG, is its vice-president and contributes to the Belgian cooperation's GRAP-OSC seminar.

  2. 2005Foundation

    REID Consulting is registered in Benin

    May 2005: the firm is born in Cotonou around socio-economic studies, training and support to organisations, with particular expertise in microfinance and domestic resource mobilisation.

  3. 2006-2007European Union

    Non-state actors of the 9th and 10th EDF

    Team leader for the European Commission: mapping of non-state actors, practical EDF guides and facilitation of the thematic groups preparing the 10th EDF in Benin.

  4. 2008Pan-African

    ACORD and the OSCAF network

    Team leader of the mid-term evaluation of ACORD's pan-African programme, with missions in Kenya, Uganda and Burundi. The same year, the Francophone Africa civil society network he chairs is launched in Cotonou.

  5. 2010ECOWAS

    The Community Development Programme

    Member of the civil society steering committee formulating the ECOWAS programme and facilitator of the regional workshop on agriculture and food sovereignty. Feasibility study of the Mouila-Ndendé-Doussala road in Gabon for the AfDB.

  6. 2011Busan

    The High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness

    Accredited to the 4th Busan Forum as director of REPAOC, the network of West and Central African NGO platforms. In Togo, formulation of the GAFSP capacity project for farmer and civil society organisations.

  7. 2012International

    Global Ethics Forum and Open Forum

    Speaker at the Global Ethics Forum in Geneva; trainer at the regional workshop of African CSOs on the Istanbul Principles in Cameroon; support to 11.11.11 partners in Burundi on the post-Busan agenda.

  8. 2013Swiss Cooperation

    An 18-million-franc accountability programme

    Team leader of the formulation of the new Accountability Programme in Benin for the SDC. Lead expert for OIF and the AfDB on the responsibility of economic actors; panels at the World Social Forum in Tunis.

  9. 2014Globethics

    Director of the Francophone Africa programme

    BRICS-Africa panel at the Global Ethics Forum as director of Globethics.net Francophone Africa. Final evaluation of the PADI irrigation programme in Burkina Faso for APEFE.

  10. 2015Publication

    Benin Proverbs

    Co-edition, with Angèle Kolouchè Biao, of 96 proverbs in Yoruba, Fon, Bariba and Dendi, translated and commented in French and English (Globethics.net Praxis 3, 132 pages). Finalisation of the 2016-2027 Accountability Programme.

  11. 2016-2019Enabel

    Social engineering for agricultural value chains

    Social engineering services for the Belgian cooperation's PROFI programme; institutional capacity plans for PASCiB and PNOPPA; finance and business coaching in Mali, Côte d'Ivoire and Benin.

  12. 2018Ministries

    Results-based management in fifteen ministries

    Training of the planning and finance directors of fifteen ministries, then of the monitoring and evaluation heads of nineteen ministries, in development results and rapid results initiatives. Civil society study for the European Union.

  13. 2019-2020Climate

    Formulating Benkadi

    Technical assistance to formulate the Benkadi climate programme of civil society in Benin, Burkina Faso, Mali and Côte d'Ivoire, funded by the Netherlands. In 2020, creation of ASCINB, the nutrition alliance he chairs.

  14. 2021Mali

    Three sessions for the Malian administration

    Enabel framework contract: basic results-based management training for 75 officials from ministries, Koulikoro services and the ENA. Benkadi launched in Ouagadougou on 6 May and in Cotonou on 21 June.

  15. 2022AGORA

    Operator of the AGORA programme

    The Particip-REID consortium becomes the operator of the Swiss Cooperation's local governance programme: 27 communes of northern Benin. Protocol signed on 21 December 2022, official launch on 23 February 2023.

  16. 2023ECOWAS

    A regional study on agroecology

    Team leader of the inventory of agroecology networks and platforms in West Africa for ECOWAS (150 pages, EU and AFD). 2023-2031 strategic plan of the one-stop employment office; institutional diagnosis for the Global Fund in Togo.

  17. 2024Niger

    Evaluating the media support programme

    Final evaluation of the first phase of the Swiss Cooperation's RAAYI programme in Niger. In Bohicon, ASCINB trains its partners in nutrition accountability with CARE and GAIN.

  18. 2025Recognition

    Television portrait and a global platform

    Speedline TV devotes 56 minutes to his career (16 May). He is one of the seven speakers at MCLD's global 10th anniversary (29 May). The firm is accredited by the State as a continuing-education training firm.

  19. 2026Togo

    UONGTO's 2026-2030 course

    Strategic plan, monitoring-evaluation plan and resource mobilisation plan of the Union of NGOs of Togo, validated in Atakpamé from 17 to 19 September. AGORA's phase 1 is extended to December 2026.

Our vision

To become a trusted partner of sub-regional organisations, the private sector and the major international cooperation institutions operating in Benin and Africa that share the same convictions on development effectiveness.

Our mission

To support development actors by developing products, services and methodologies that improve their performance and create positive socio-economic change with measurable and lasting impact.

Our objective

To sustainably increase the socio-economic, financial and institutional performance of our partners through capacity building geared towards a culture of results-based development management and accountability.

Nos valeurs

Ce qui guide chacune de nos missions

Excellence

Quality and methodological rigour at every step.

Results focus

Concrete, measurable and lasting impact.

Proximity

Expertise rooted in local realities.

Integrity

Transparency and accountability to our partners.

Our areas

Four core service areas

01

Development research

Socio-economic studies, institutional diagnostics, strategic plans, feasibility studies, evaluations and value-chain analyses.

02

Facilitation & events

Managing reflection processes, consultations, dialogues, and publishing proceedings of workshops and seminars.

03

Training & capacity building

Ecological agriculture, strategic planning, institutional development, entrepreneurship, micro-enterprise management, training of trainers.

04

Organisational support

NGOs, associations, microfinance institutions and SMEs in developing strategic plans and monitoring-evaluation systems.

Our impact

Interventions that drive lasting change

Capacity building for hundreds of public- and private-sector managers
Support to the formulation of regional and national programmes
Roll-out of high-performing monitoring-evaluation systems
Production of strategic institutional diagnostics
Development of benchmark strategic plans
Stronger governance and accountability
Mobilising funding from technical and financial partners
Our team

Committed experts at your side

Full team
Dr Aurélien Comlan Atidegla

Dr Aurélien Comlan Atidegla

Managing Director

Bérénice Jouvence Atidegla

Bérénice Jouvence Atidegla

Communications Officer

Christ-loisele Atidegla

Christ-loisele Atidegla

IT & systems security expert

Billa Abdel-Aziz

Billa Abdel-Aziz

Head of Evaluation Caucus & capacity building

Kadja Sènakpon Charles Hector

Kadja Sènakpon Charles Hector

Agronomist : research & training assistant

Lougbegnon Carolie

Lougbegnon Carolie

Administrative & financial manager

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