African Development Bank Group

Request for Expression of Interest

African Development Bank Group (AfDB)

Avenue Joseph Anoma, 01 BP 1387 Abidjan 01, Côte d’ivoire

Independent Development Evaluation Department (IDEV)

Consultancy services : Evaluation of the Additionality and Development Outcomes Assessment Framework (ADOA 2.0)

 

  1. The African Development Bank Group hereby invites individual consultants to indicate their interest in the following assignment: Consultancy services for the evaluation of the Additionality and Development Outcomes Assessment Framework, henceforth “the assignment” ;
  2. The African Development Bank developed in 2008, a pilot version of its first decision-making tool for non-sovereign operations (NSO), the Additionality and Development Outcomes Assessment (ADOA). The ADOA tool aims to ensure the quality at entry of the Bank’s NSOs, improve their value added, development effectiveness and measurement. The first ADOA framework was subsequently approved in 2009 and revised in 2015. The Independent Development Evaluation (IDEV) conducted an evaluation of the ADOA framework in 2014. The revised ADOA 2.0 was expected to incorporate lessons from this evaluation and reflect the Bank’s new priorities based on its Ten-Year Strategy (2013-2022). The ADOA framework is a living document which is revised every five years, the current version of the framework has been operational since June 2015 ;
  3. The ADOA framework assesses two essential elements to improve the quality at entry of private sector operations : Additionality: measuring the contribution from the Bank’s private sector interventions that cannot be supplied only through markets. Additionality takes several forms, notably financial and non-financial. Development outcomes resulting from a private sector project relative to a no-project scenario ;
  4. The purpose of the evaluation is to inform the planned revision of the ADOA 2.0 framework, after five years of implementation. The evaluation will cover private sector operations approved within the period 2015-2019; assess the relevance, effectiveness and efficiency of the framework in terms of its support to the NSO ecosystem in the Bank.

Finally, the evaluation will identify lessons and formulate recommendations to improve the Bank’s ADOA system. Specifically, the evaluation will address the following objectives : Assess the relevance of the ADOA Framework to the Bank’s development objectives and current operating environment in terms of : The Bank’s Development and Business Delivery Model (DBDM) and the High 5 strategic priorities ;

  1. The Private Sector and Financial Sector Development Strategies; and
  2. Consistency with the practice in other MDBs as described in the Harmonized Framework for Additionality in private sector operations.

Assess the effectiveness of the ADOA framework in terms of :

  1. Improvement of NSO project-level Development Effectiveness and Additionality; and
  2. Improvement of the Quality at Entry of NSO interventions including their evaluability.

Assess the efficiency of the ADOA institutional positioning and process, namely : 

  1. Procedures, processes and resources related to ADOA ;
  2. Organizational structure, positioning of ADOA system; and
  3. Consistency of ADOA with other NSO processes (e.g., supervision, evaluation).

Draw lessons and recommendations to inform the revision of the ADOA framework and system. The evaluation will also assess the extent to which, recommendations made in the 2014 IDEV evaluation of the ADOA tool were implemented. 

  1. The evaluation will inform the revision of the current ADOA framework, in accordance with the commitment made in the Bank’s 7th GCI document. The evaluation will assess the relevance of the ADOA framework in the current context of the Bank, relative to the changes the Bank has experience in recent years including the implementation of the New Development and Business Delivery Model (DBDM) and the Hi5 priorities, among others ;
  2. Interested candidates can request more information by writing to the emails below.

The consultant should have the following Profile

  1. Extensive experience in development evaluation, particularly private sector operations evaluation ;
  2. Proven knowledge of private sector development issues in Africa ;
  3. Specific work experience with Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) ;
  4. Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English with good knowledge of French language ;
  5. Previous work experience with AfDB is an added advantage.
  1. Expressions of interest must be received at the addresses below no later than 4th August 2020 by 17h (Abidjan time). Expressions of interest should specifically mention the name of the assignment in the title. Expressions of interest may be written in either English or French ;
  1. Based on the expressions of interest received, IDEV will create a shortlist. Request for proposals will be sent to shortlisted candidates.

For the attention of :

Latéfa Camara : [email protected] ; +225 20 26 58 69

Copied to : Henda Ayari : [email protected]; +225 20 26 31 85

Postal Address:

African Development Bank

Avenue Joseph Anoma

01 BP 1387 Abidjan 01

Côte d’Ivoire