DFID Impact Programme Mid-Term Review

The Impact Programme is a £757.3 million DFID-funded programme over 23 years set up in 2012 to catalyse the market for impact investment in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. It aims to improve the lives of at least 5 million poor and low-income people in these regions by transforming the scale of impact investments. Impact investments benefit poor people by improving their access to affordable goods and services or to income-generating opportunities.

Description

While interest in impact investing is growing in target countries, most still attract little investment. The funding gap to meet the SDGs is huge at US$2–3 trillion per year, and impact investing should be helping to fill this gap.

Impact programme investments are channeled through the Impact Fund and the Impact Accelerator, managed by CDC, the UK government’s development finance institution. A Programme Coordination Unit delivered by PwC supports CDC and DFID.

Wellspring supported DFID by conducting a mid-term review to assess how effective the programme has been in meeting its logframe targets, looking across its three main components of market building, M&E and technical assistance. We’re also advising on the future direction of the programme and how it may be best supported. And we’re assessing how adaptive the programme and its interventions have been to the state of impact investing in DFID priority regions.

Funders and clients

Private: Department for International Development

IMC Worldwide

Team members

Christopher Shyers, Aileen Lyon

Sectors

Service Areas

Partners

IMC Worldwide

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