The Impact of Development Finance Institutions: Rapid Evidence Assessment

Year: 2019

Content-Type: Report

Description: The Department for International Development (DFID) announced a capital increase for CDC of up to £3.5 billion, funded by official development assistance (ODA). Consequently, there is a need for better understanding of the development impact of DFI investment more broadly to inform effective policy decisions on the allocation and investment of ODA and other official financial flows. The rapid evidence assessment (REA) reported in this document examines and synthesizes the evidence base on the development impact of DFI investment, the objective being to strengthen DFID’s understanding of the critical assumptions underpinning its private sector development (PSD) theory of change to inform future PSD programming decisions. The report informs on issues including: (i) the methodology, including the search criteria to identify relevant evidence and the quality assessment approach; (iii) general findings i.e. the high-level overview of the evidence base and its coverage of the three components of the research question; (iii) the thematic synthesis across five emerging themes; (iv) brief illustration of the research gaps that we have identified through this REA and the potential for further investigations.

Pages: 86 pages

Author: Samantha Attridge, Rachael Calleja, Matthew Gouett and Alberto Lemma from the Overseas Development Institute (ODI)

Publisher: Department of International Development (UKaid)

Categories: DFI’s Transformation, Finance, Investments, Policy / Governance, Private Sector

Tags: Assessment, Development impact, DFID, Private Sector Development, Rapid Evidence