DFID 7457 Impact Evaluation of the Samarth-Nepal Market Development Programme

Actual CPV code is ‘75211200 Foreign Economic-Aid Related Services’.

The objective of the evaluation is to: • Assess the outcome and impact level results and inform on the effectiveness of the programme in addressing its stated aims. • Contribute to the evidence base on what works in Nepal; assessing the programme with the global knowledge base on market systems programme evaluations (eg Katalyst programme in Bangladesh); and whether NMDP benefitted from the learning from Katalyst, if at all. • Inform DFID globally, the Government of Nepal and other stakeholders on the value of M4P approach, on its merits over non-M4P commercialization approach if the evaluation finds that it has superior impact.