Pipeline
| ID | INDIGO-PL-0076 |
|---|---|
| Project Name - (Value) | Rwanda Poverty Graduation and Climate Resilience Outcomes Project |
| Contact - Name - (Value) | Celeste Brubaker |
| Contact - Email - (Value) | celeste@villageenterprise.org |
| State of Development - (Value) | Current |
| State of Development - (Source ID's) | source1 |
| Stage of Development - (Value) | Scoping |
| Stage of Development - (Source ID's) | source1 |
| Type of instrument and project - Impact Bond - (Value) | Yes |
| Type of instrument and project - Outcomes Fund - (Value) | No |
| Type of instrument and project - Social Impact Incentives (SIINC) - (Value) | No |
| Type of instrument and project - Social Impact Guarantee - (Value) | No |
| Type of instrument and project - Payment-by-results (no pre-financing) - (Value) | No |
| Type of instrument and project - Technical Assistance and Market-building program (Must involve dedicated grant resources) - (Value) | No |
| (Source ID's) | source1 |
| Dates - Expected Launch Date - (Value) | Q2 - 2023 |
| Dates - Total expected project development time - (Value) | 0-6 months |
| Dates - Expected length of project (years) - (Value) | 3 |
| Dates - (Source ID's) | source1 |
| Dates - (Notes) | Expected launch date: Q2-2023 or later |
| Rationale for using outcome based finance - (Value) | By tying payment to results, we expect to encourage and provide space for innovation and the highest-quality implementer-led performance management, ensuring multiple service providers can achieve the intended results at scale. It allows implementers to further and better adapt proven solutions to various context, demographics, and populations by putting the people we serve at the program’s center. This has been proven through the success of the Village Enterprise DIB, Africa’s first for poverty alleviation, which exceeded its targets and shielded households from the worst of the Covid-19 pandemic’s economic impacts. |
| (Source ID's) | source1 |
| Key challenges to launch - (Value) | Outcomes funding |
| (Source ID's) | source1 |
| Role of the domestic government - Outcomes funder - (Value) | No |
| Role of the domestic government - Service provider - (Value) | No |
| Role of the domestic government - Member of project committee - (Value) | No |
| Role of the domestic government - No formal role - (Value) | No |
| Role of the domestic government - Other - (Value) | Currently the domestic government is a partner in codesigning the project. |
| (Source ID's) | source1 |
| Proposed financing instruments - Debt - (Value) | Yes |
| Proposed financing instruments - Equity - (Value) | No |
| Proposed financing instruments - Guarantee - (Value) | No |
| Proposed financing instruments - Grant - (Value) | Yes |
| (Source ID's) | source1 |
| Purpose and classifications - Social/Developmental challenge - (Value) | In Rwanda over 6 million people are living in extreme poverty and climate change deepens inequalities as more frequent storms, flooding, drought, and changes in rainfall patterns are impacting the poorest communities the most, making it even more difficult to secure decent livelihoods. The government of Rwanda has adopted a Graduation Policy to eliminate poverty by 2030, but in the context of global funding constraints and varying returns to graduation programming across countries, there is more we must learn about how to most cost effectively graduate households to resilience in the Rwandan context. This outcomes project will incorporate a rigorous, rapid-cycle learning agenda from the onset of the project, and by tying payment to results will provide the flexibility and incentive to iterate, learn, and scale successfully. |
| Purpose and classifications - Expected intervention model - (Value) | Village Enterprise’s approach to economic inclusion centers around or cost-effective, one-year ‘Poverty Graduation’ model. We use rigorous targeting to identify rural households living in extreme poverty, provide training around savings, loans, and microenterprise development, establish ‘Business Savings Groups’ of thirty individuals, provide seed capital grants to start group businesses, and support through mentoring. |
| Purpose and classifications - Policy sector - Employment and private sector development - (Value) | No |
| Purpose and classifications - Policy sector - Education - (Value) | No |
| Purpose and classifications - Policy sector - Social protection - (Value) | Yes |
| Purpose and classifications - Policy sector - Criminal justice - (Value) | No |
| Purpose and classifications - Policy sector - Health - (Value) | No |
| Purpose and classifications - Policy sector - Agriculture - (Value) | No |
| Purpose and classifications - Policy sector - Environment and climate change - (Value) | No |
| Purpose and classifications - Policy sector - Water, Sanitation and Hygiene - (Value) | No |
| Purpose and classifications - Policy sector - Energy - (Value) | No |
| Purpose and classifications - Policy sector - Humanitarian - (Value) | No |
| Purpose and classifications - Primary SDG goal - (Value) | 1 |
| Purpose and classifications - Secondary SDG goals - (Value) | 1,5,13 |
| Service users and beneficiaries - Target population - (Value) | Rural extreme poor households earning less than $1.90/day |
| Service users and beneficiaries - Targeted number of unique service users or beneficiaries (total) - (Value) | 54000 |
| Service users and beneficiaries - Unit type of targeted service users or beneficiaries - (Value) | Other |
| Service users and beneficiaries - Unit description of targeted service user or beneficiaries - (Value) | Households |
| Service users and beneficiaries - Country Classification of Service and beneficiaries - Low-income - (Value) | Yes |
| Service users and beneficiaries - Country Classification of Service and beneficiaries - Lower-middle-income - (Value) | No |
| Service users and beneficiaries - Country Classification of Service and beneficiaries - Upper-middle-income - (Value) | No |
| Service users and beneficiaries - Country Classification of Service and beneficiaries - High-income - (Value) | No |
| Service users and beneficiaries - (Notes) | Target population: Minimum of 54,000 households and 360,000 direct and indirectly impacted individuals in the first three years. |
| Notes - (Value) | Data for this pipeline project was last updated in April 2022. |
| Delivery Locations 1: Location - Name - (Value) | Rwanda |
| Delivery Locations 1: Location - Country - (Value) | RW |
| Sources 1: Id | source1 |
| Sources 1: Name - (Value) | Data shared by key stakeholders of the project through March 2022 GO Lab questionnaire |
| Service Provisions 1: Notes | Village Enterprise |
| Outcome Payment Commitments 1: Notes | TBD |
| Investments 1: Notes | TBD |
| Intermediary services 1: Notes | TBD |
| Outcome Metrics 1: Outcome Definition - (Value) | Effective targeting of people living in extreme poverty; Increased entry into and sustenance in quality (self)-employment ; Increased climate adaptive behaviors and outcomes (ex., reliable drinking water supply for target group during dry spells); Increased financial stability and quality of life for families |
| Outcome Metrics 1: Target Population - (Value) | Minimum of 54,000 households and 360,000 direct and indirectly impacted individuals in the first three years. |
| Outcome Metrics 1: Targeted number of service users Or beneficiaries (total) - (Value) | 54000 |
| Outcome Metrics 1: Unit type of targeted Service users or beneficiaries - (Value) | Other |
| Outcome Metrics 1: Unit description of Service user or beneficiaries - (Value) | Households |
| Outcome Metrics 1: Outcome validation Method - (Value) | Quasi-experimental |
| Outcome Metrics 1: Notes | Notes on evaluation method: The project proposes to use administrative data to validate proximate results and a quasi-experimental impact evaluation to validate household-level outcomes. |