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Strengthening the role of financial institutions for micro-insurance development in Africa - Final evaluation

eval_number:

2432

eval_url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/2432

location:

country:

Africa - regional

region:

Africa

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eval_title:

Strengthening the role of financial institutions for micro-insurance development in Africa - Final evaluation

recommendations:

date:

2020-07-23 00:00:00.0

themes:

theme:

Organizational issues

category:

Planning and programme design

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comments:

We do not think that limiting to two products is the answer to achieve scale as it is difficult to know from the beginning as to which product will scale up. While many projects focused on 1-2 products only (e.g. Barry Callebaut, Kifiya, CNAAS and Equity), in others (e.g. APA, MicroEnsure) it made sense to try multiple products. But we agree with the other recommendations.

action_plan:

We are in talks with AFD about a possible Phase 2. It is possible that some of the partners from Phase 1 will get additional support, but most likely it will be with new organizations. We will try to push for a longer arrangement, but this is difficult because of funding constraints.

management_response:

Completed

progress:

Achieved

admin_units:

ENTERPRISES

title:

Recommendation 1 (from conclusions 2, 3,4, 5 and 6) proposes to ILO, partners and donors, to conduct a second phase. Should there be a second phase or a similar intervention in the future: conduct even more thorough due diligence when selecting partners, focus more on quality at scale, provide organizational capacity building to all partners and mainstream gender and disability. Priority: High / Importance: High / Resource implication: High.  R.1.1. Conduct a second phase in continuity of this intervention. If this is a new intervention, consider designing a 5 to 8-year project (should there be sufficient funding) with 3 to 4-year grants.  R.1.2. Conduct more thorough due diligence when selecting partners and other stakeholders playing a key role in the project implementation and in achieving quality at scale.  R.1.3. Project interventions shall be of limited scope to ensure quality at scale (and not only focus on product development / numerous products).  R.1.4. Provide organizational capacity building to all implementing partners.  R.1.5. Define systematically an action plan with participants for trainings (and track this specific KPI – see project logical framework / Output 2.1: “Percentage of participants that followed through their training action plans”).  R.1.6. Encourage Partners to allocate a resource to work closely with the fellow throughout the intervention to ensure smooth handover.  R.1.7. Towards the end of the Fellowship programme, review Partners’ long-term strategy and decide whether to allocate or not another fellow (based on Partners’ results and commitment and available funds).  R.1.8. Reconsider if resources allocated under Component III could serve an additional partner under Component I - providing more extensive technical assistance (TA) while reducing the risk that uncomplete TA may lead to unsuccessful outcomes (due to partners’ lack of resources and internal capacity).

project_symbols:

RAF/14/05/FRA

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/recommendations/13848

information_source:

Head Quarters

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