Provision of Professional Consultancy Services for the Evaluation of the Alliance for Financial Inclusion (AFI) In-Country Implementation Program
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Overall Objective:
The assignment will focus on an evaluation that will generate lessons learned to inform the future direction of the AFI ICI program that further meet the needs of AFI members, through a review of the design and execution of AFI’s In-Country Implementation (ICI) program for the period of 2019 to 2023. This will be developed into recommendations for the program under AFI’s Phase IV Strategic Plan (2024-2028).
The evaluation will seek to:
Review the relevance of the AFI’s ICI program in addressing members’ policy priorities and needs, identify gaps and opportunities at the activity level to ensure AFI’s future service delivery meets members’ needs.
Review the coherence of the AFI’s ICI program within the AFI Phase III strategy, in relation to the delivery of other services and benefits provided by the AFI Management Unit (MU).
Review the effectiveness and efficiency of execution of the ICI program by the AFI MU, in view of internal policies, processes, systems and resources (i.e. ICI Management Policy, SOP, ICI Dashboard etc.).
Assess the positioning of AFI’s ICI program in the global and/or regional financial inclusion landscape, vis-à-vis similar grant-making/technical support facilities provided by other organizations that support the development and/or implementation of financial inclusion policies and regulations; This should include members’ perspectives on AFI’s ICI program in comparison to other funding organizations.
Evaluate how well the benefits of AFI’s ICI program are likely to be sustained throughout the current AFI Phase IV strategic phase and beyond.
Provide an updated assessment of members’ needs and expectations from AFI in terms of ICI support. Assess the relevance of the ICI program to member needs.
Assess the impact and evaluation framework for ICI program and its sufficiency in measuring and reporting on outcomes and impact of ICIs.
Review the extent to which the ICI program is contributing to the development and implementation of policies and regulations to advance financial inclusion across the AFI network.
Generate recommendations to enhance or adjust the ICI program going forward, based on the aforementioned:
Evaluation of the ICI program under Phase III and in light of AFI’s Phase IV Strategic Plan.
Updated needs assessment.
Position brief of AFI’s ICI program in the financial inclusion landscape and other grant-making facilities.
Provide recommendations to enhance the impact and evaluation framework and approach for the ICI program.
This assignment seeks experienced project or program evaluators who have worked in grant-making facilities. This assignment may be conducted by an individual or a firm.
Scope of Work
The Consultant is expected to review and evaluate the ICI program under the Phase III Strategic Plan (2018-2023) with recommendations for the program under AFI’s Phase IV Strategic Plan (2024-2028).