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An Assessment of the Impact of the CookFund Programme
Procurement Process
RFP - Request for proposal
Office
UNCDF - TANZANIA
Deadline
10-Feb-25 @ 05:00 AM (New York time)
Published on
28-Jan-25 @ 12:00 AM (New York time)
Reference Number
UNCDF-00196
Contact
Diana Nabbanja - diana.nabbanja@uncdf.org
Introduction
About this Assignment
UNCDF seeks to hire a Research Firm or Institution aiming at assessing the impact of the CookFund programme support in programme regions. The assessment will also consolidate and analyze lessons and challenges faced by programme grantees in accelerating clean cooking solutions (fuels and technologies) in their respective areas.
The impact study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of the CookFund programme in achieving its intended goals, assess its economic, social and environmental impact, and provide recommendations for future improvements.
Specifically, the assessment has the following objectives:
· Evaluate the effectiveness of the financial and business development support: To assess how the CookFund grant has addressed investment, liquidity and operating challenges for supported enterprises and companies, including improvements in business capacity, innovation, formalization and market reach.
· Examine affordability, availability and accessibility: To analyze the impact of the programme on the affordability (initial costs to access stoves/appliances and recurrent costs of operations i.e. LPG re-fills/ electricity re-charging), of clean cooking solutions to end-users and its influence on adoption rate of supported technologies.
· Examine adoption/uptake rate of the technologies by end-users including switching from one technology to the other.
· Assess impact on job creation, employment sustenance, capitalization and financial leverage, statutory compliance, formalization and overall business turnaround and expansion etc.
· Assess socio-economic and environmental impact: Investigate the broader socio-economic and environmental outcomes of the programme, including jobs creation, effects on household savings, health outcomes, reduced emissions, reduced deforestation, gender-based violences, and gender dynamics in cooking practices.
· Identify lessons learned and provide recommendations: Extract lessons learned from the implementation of the programme and provide practical recommendations for improving the programme.
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