The Manto Group was born out of the establishment of Manto Management, twenty years ago. The founding partners, Gary Moonsammy and Juliann Moodley were working as consultants for Simeka Management when the company underwent a restructuring. This created the opportunity to establish a business of their own and following a series of discussions, they decided to launch Manto Management. The name Manto Management was retained from the shelf company that was bought to establish the business. Operating from a home office, Manto Management won its first contract with the Kellogg Foundation. This set off a rapid period of growth and Manto Management rapidly grew from two people into ten people. 

Their brand of work in the early years was clearly associated with transformation and empowerment. Their Kellogg foundation work enabled us to build relationships with a range of donor organisations such as USAID, DFID, GTZ (now called GIZ). Under the leadership of Juliann, Manto Management secured a range of Monitoring and Evaluation contracts and Manto soon became known as a specialist M&E firm.