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Year - 2008 - 2013
Client - Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT formerly AusAID)
The AusAID funded Enterprise Challenge Fund (ECF) for the Asia-Pacific is a six-year AUS$20.5 million pilot programme that aims to promote economic opportunities and services for the poor by supporting innovative private sector projects. Grants were awarded to private businesses ranging from AUS$100,000 to AUS$1.5 million. Grants are awarded on a cost sharing, competitive basis to support projects that were:
We were contracted to provide independent monitoring and evaluation of the Enterprise Challenge Fund's (ECF) in the following areas:
We worked with Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) to design and implement approaches that improved the management of the programme, contributed to understanding the performance of the projects and demonstrated the development impact and value for money for the programme.
Our specialist team worked to:
Working in partnership with ECF, we were able to contribute to the meeting of objectives and the overall success of this programme. This was achieved through a process of:
"The managing contractor and AusAid weren't really pushing the programme in the direction it needed. The independent monitors of the programme, IPE Triple Line, picked that up and showed how it wasn't going to achieve objectives and how it needed to change to meet the objectives."
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