FCDO/BII Financial Services (FI) Evaluation: Final Synthesis
This report presents findings of an evaluation of BII's Financial Services portfolio, published as part of the FCDO-BII Evaluation and Learning Programme.
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As the UK’s development finance institution, British International Investment (BII) helps solve the biggest global development challenges by investing capital to support private sector growth and innovation. BII is 100% owned by the UK government.
Longer-term evaluations of BII’s impact are critical to help the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) and BII better understand how, and in what contexts, BII’s investments deliver tangible, sustainable development impact on people, businesses, sectors and overall economies. This information is crucial to help BII target investments and track results in those businesses and sectors where it can have the most impact.
In 2021, FCDO published an initial portfolio-wide review of BII’s financial services sector investments. This analysis highlighted several areas for deeper analysis through primary, case study research. The areas included:
- microfinance
- financial tech
- micro, small and medium-sized enterprise (MSME) finance
- trade finance.
This synthesis review presents the combined findings and lessons from the initial portfolio-wide review and five subsequent in-depth studies. This review and its outputs have been structured to facilitate learning across BII and draws out lessons across a number of themes aimed to inform the delivery of BII’s 2022 to 2026 strategy, to help BII better manage development impact within its existing investments and improve the systems it has in place for tracking the impact of its portfolio.