Traditionally, donor programmes have been established using a simple formula, whereby service providers estimate the total overhead for a programme through tender, against a fixed set of inputs and workplan. In these programmes, clients need to wait months or years before assistance is deployed due to procurement procedures, by which time resource allocation, costs, and plans are inevitably incorrect due to changes in the context. By contrast, facility models have proved to be an economic and effective way for donors to deliver a complex and innovative infrastructure programme.
Approaches: The facility model
This work was carried out under the Infrastructure and Cities for Economic Development (ICED) facility.
ICED supported DFID country offices, central teams and ODA-spending Other Government Departments to deliver DFID’s Economic Development Strategy by scaling up programming and investment in infrastructure and cities. It operated between February 2016 and July 2019.
