Rural Consultants and Suppliers (RCS) is a consultancy firm based in Malawi with the mandate, vision and mission to provide research, training and capacity building and, project evaluation services to humanitarian and developmental programs run by the government, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and UN agencies in their quest to reduce poverty, food insecurity and undernutrition. The firm covers a broad spectrum of disciplines by sourcing out a mix of experts (to complement its staff) in different areas of agriculture, food security, maternal and child health and nutrition, water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), early childhood education and development (e.g. school meals and home grown school feeding), social protection and gender central to which is empowerment of women, girls and the youth. Over the years, besides Malawi our consultants have worked in the region in countries like South Sudan, Sudan, Somalia, Kenya, Mozambique, Tanzania, South Africa, Rwanda and Nigeria.