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Mid Term Evaluation of the Sida and USAID Loan Portfolio Co-Guarantee and The Mali Finance for Food Security and Women Entrepreneurs (FFSWE) programme

Mid Term Evaluation of the Sida and USAID Loan Portfolio Co-Guarantee and The Mali Finance for Food Security and Women Entrepreneurs (FFSWE) programme

Final Report

  • År: 2018

  • Publikationstyp: Central utvärdering

  • Författare: Frans van Gerwen, Hammou Haidara, Knud-Erik Rosenkrantz, Nadia Masri-Pedersen

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This report consist of a mid-term evaluation (MTE) of the the Sida and USAID Loan Portfolio Co-Guarantee and The Mali Finance forFood Security and Women Entrepreneurs (FFSWE) programme during the period 2014-2018. Sida and USAID through a jointdelegated agreement are supporting two interlinked interventions in Mali to strengthen the provision of finance to small scale,women-led enterprises in all sectors and to MSMEs in the agricultural sector.The objectives of this MTE were to analyse and assess progress of both combined interventions and the ways in which bothinterventions were mutually complementary. The evaluation has had a double focus on accountability and learning and it has used amixed- methods approach. This evaluation has considered criteria of relevance, (emerging) outcomes and impact, effectiveness,efficiency and cross cutting dimensions of gender, environment and conflict sensitivity.The report provides several findings based on the criteria mentioned, and presents recommendations for the remaining period of theGuarantee and FFSWE until 2020.

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  • Tematik: Ekonomisk utvecklingJämställdhet

  • Geografiskt område: Mali

  • Språk: Engelska

  • Publikationsnummer: 2019:10

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