Amplify was a six-year, £10.1m Accountable Grant partnership between DFID and human-centered design firm IDEO.org, which was responsible for managing the Fund. Amplify’s goal was to put into effect a new model for solving poverty-related issues, which makes small initial investments, provides design support to organisations to test and iterate new ideas, leverages collaboration, and identifies effective solutions that respond directly to human needs.
We conducted an independent evaluation of the programme. The evaluation used a wide range of evidence sources, including an innovative case study approach, leading to both strategic and programmatic conclusions and recommendations. This enabled DFID and its development partners to better understand the benefits and value for money of more flexible, agile, design-centred approaches to programme development. The evaluation also assessed and identified the components of the Amplify programme that have the potential to achieve better and more relevant solutions, delivering greater depth and breadth of impact for people living in poverty.
