Foreign economic-aid-related services

Tender description

The Supporting Indian Trade and Investment for Africa (SITA Africa) is DFID's first South-South aid for trade (AfT) and value-chain programme. The purpose of SITA is to harness Indian resources (knowledge, technology, capital) to increase higher value-added exports from selected African countries to the Indian market and also third markets. Selected programme countries are Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Rwanda. Implementation by the International Trade Centre (ITC) started in March 2014, with the first year being dedicated to design. DFID is now seeking to engage a Service Provider to deliver through a four year contract an independent evaluation that seeks to (i) Estimate SITA's contribution to programme outcomes and impact (as opposed to ‘proving’ or establishing attribution. An informed judgement on the likelihood and extent of how programme outputs have contributed to programme outcome and impact is feasible, and (ii) Learn lessons from DFID's first South-South aid for trade (AfT) and value-chain programme: finding out what works, for who, under what circumstances, why, and ‘so what’? And identify any unintended effects, both positive and negative.