Evaluation Management Unit for the Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund (AECF)

General Background

The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), acting on behalf of the African Enterprise Challenge Fund Committee, seeks to appoint an Evaluation Management Unit (EMU) to carry out the independent evaluation of the Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund (AECF). The EMU will be appointed to conduct a Mid-term Evaluation of the AECF in 2014 and a Final Evaluation of the AECF in 2017 or a later date as determined by the AECF Committee.

Description of the AECF

The AECF is a US$200m challenge fund for agribusiness in Africa. It is a special partnership initiative of AGRA that supports its vision of “A food secure and prosperous Africa through rapid smallholder agricultural growth and transformation”. The Fund is hosted by the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), based in Nairobi, and is supported by the governments of Australia, Denmark, the Netherlands, Sweden and the UK as well as the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). The Fund Manager (FM) is KPMG Africa Development Advisory Services and partners. See http://www.aecfafrica.org/

Purpose and Objectives of the evaluation

The purpose of the independent evaluation is to assess the effectiveness (outputs to outcomes) of the Programme, its achievement of impact and the efficiency (inputs to outputs) of the Fund Manager in delivering the Programme. However, as this Programme involves deploying a set of interventions in a number of differing environments, the scope of the evaluation must go beyond simply assessing implementation. The evaluation will need to reinforce the process of learning from interventions and test the validity of all components of the theory of change.

Scope

The scope of the evaluation includes all past and planned AECF interventions in all participating countries. The evaluation work is divided into the following components: • Evaluation Design Phase in early 2014 • Mid-term Evaluation in 2014 • Final Evaluation in 2017

Application procedures:

Kindly obtain the request for proposal and full terms of reference from the AGRA website: http://www.agra.org/careers/jobs-careers/request-for-proposals/ 

Closing date: 6th January 2014