Swedish Cooperative Centre will initiate a civil society program (ARENA) with focus on agriculture and natural resources in Niassa Province from January 2013. Bente Consulting has elaborated the Baseline Study and Monitoring Plan, which is based on analysis of the Intervention Logic and the power relations in Niassa to allow for a specific scope on areas to be changed. The SCC strategy of working through local civil society partners posed challenges in shaping the monitoring system to partner organizations’ own systems.  50 working days.