Evaluation of UNCDF’s YouthStart Expansion – Last Mile Finance for Youth

UNCDF - GAMBIA


Procurement Process

RFP – Request for proposal

Office

UNCDF – GAMBIA

Deadline

13-May-25 @ 03:09 PM (New York time)

Published on

23-Apr-25 @ 12:00 AM (New York time)

Reference Number

UNCDF-00301,1

Contact

Myrna Lavides – [email protected]

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Introduction

UNCDF seeks the services of a firm that will conduct the final evaluation of the UNCDF YouthStart Expansion – Last Mile Finance for Youth. This evaluation is being conducted in accordance with UNCDF’s commitments under its Evaluation Plan 2022-2025 and in line with UNDP’s Evaluation Policy (to which UNCDF is party) which sets out a number of guiding principles and key norms for evaluation in the organization following the Norms and Standards of the United Nations Evaluation Group (UNEG). Countries in which the programme to be evaluated is implemented include The Gambia, Guinea, Niger, Madagascar, and Senegal.

Amongst the norms that the Policy seeks to uphold, the most important are that the evaluation exercise be independent and provide technically and methodologically credible findings that are useful and relevant to support evidence-based programme management.

With this in mind, the evaluation has been designed with the following overall objectives: (i) To allow UNCDF and partners to meet their accountability and learning objectives; (ii) To capture good practices and lessons learned; and (iii) To inform updating of UNCDF global strategies within the 2022-2025 Strategic Framework, as well as the design of the new Strategic Framework and the organizational repositioning in line with UNCDF’s mandate.

The final evaluation is expected to assess the results of the intervention to date (direct and indirect, whether intended or not) across one full theory of change in a sample of countries in which YouthStart has been active, from its first year of implementation.

The objective of the evaluation is to focus on the effectiveness, likely impact and sustainability of the programme to date; it will also revisit the question of relevance/appropriateness of design in comparison – if possible – with other approaches/programmes to increasing the ability of governments and decision makers to address key challenges of modifying regulatory practices and laws through data collection and implementation of regulatory mechanisms to provide inclusive digital economic access to all populations, specifically to benefit last-mile and vulnerable populations.

Critical to this evaluation is the assessment of the effectiveness, impact and sustainability of the intervention and instruments in promoting financial inclusion and access to finance for youth, women, men, as well as human rights and persons with disabilities.

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