Tenders are invited for Consultancy services to develop a GIS-powered solution for impact tracking and management. Introduction FSD Africa wishes to appoint a reputable firm (the "Consultant") to develop a GIS-enabled solution that enhances how the organisation tracks and manages its development impact. The tool/solution will improve our (and our partners) geospatial intelligence of our programme and investment portfolio, and our development impact. The consultant will principally work with the Development Impact pillar to fulfil this TORs. The consultancy is expected to commence in in the second half of June 2026 and will run for six months. 2. Background 2.1. About FSD Africa FCDO established FSD Africa in 2012 with a mission to make finance work for Africa. The organisation partners with governments, the private sector, and peer development actors to solve systemic challenges in Africas financial markets and enhance climate finance. FSD Africa now has programmes in 31 countries across Africa with over 100 staff who are predominantly African. The organisations work covers the entire financial sector continuum, both upstream, i.e., policy and regulatory reform, capacity strengthening, and improvement of financial infrastructure, and downstream, i.e., testing and scaling innovative financial instruments. FSD Africas current strategy (2025-2030) has three pillars Financial Markets, Adaptation & Resilience (including insurance) and Early-Stage Finance. The strategy incorporates four cross-cutting themes, i.e. nature, carbon markets, gender and energy, structured as centres of expertise and supporting thematic projects across the main pillars. FSD Africa Investments (FSDAi), our investment arm, enhances FSD Africas mission by investing risk-bearing concessional capital to drive innovation, competition and efficiency in African financial markets. Besides FCDO, FSD Africa now enjoys funding support from several philanthropies, including the Childrens Investment Fund Foundation, Gates Foundation, Mastercard Foundation, Quadrature Climate Foundation, Shell Foundation, Swiss Re Foundation, IKEA Foundation as well as the Norwegian aid agency, Norad. FSD Africas approach to development impact (DI) management is at an inflection point. Since inception we have built and continuously refined the mechanisms by which we plan for and support the delivery of impact, how we assess programme and organisational performance, and how we capture and utilise insights that inform improvements in programme design and delivery. The tools weve built to date have primarily served one funder, FCDO, and now need to evolve to also meet the needs of new funders. At the same time, we intend that, as the programme grows, we adopt more innovative DI management tools that are efficient in managing large datasets and can support improvements in our impact storytelling and learning. FSD Africa has ambitious targets to deliver by 2030: (i) to mobilise and catalyse at least GBP 10 billion (USD 12 billion), achieved through (ii) effectively deepening Africas financial sector, and enhancing the efficiency with which it allocates capital to Africas primary growth sectors. By 2030, we intend to create/sustain at least 200,000 jobs, improve access to basic services for 80 million people, and enhance economic and climate resilience of 43 million people and businesses. Why a GIS-powered solution? FSD Africa DI management system currently lacks elaborate tools and approaches to provide comprehensive geospatial visibility of where the capital weve helped crowd in is creating impact. There is an opportunity for us to develop one to support our own learning on how and where we have created impact, whilst also meeting increased transparency requirements by our funders and other stakeholders. Thus, we are looking for a reputable consultancy firm to work with us in designing a GIS-powered impact tracking solution. The tool that is built should help us: Improve impact transparency and visibility: Provide a clear map of where the GBP 10 billion, were aiming to mobilise and catalyse is being allocated, and the real sector impact being achieved. Strengthen capital allocation storytelling: Show in a simple visual way how capital is flowing, and the positive impact that it is leaving in its path. Improve accountability of outcomes: Clearly show where our investments are delivering results and make it easier to report on development impact. Enhance fund traceability and impact measurement: Track funds from start to end and link them to clear, location-based results that can be verified. Understand geographical investment patterns: Show where impact is concentrated or missing. Tender Link : https://www.developmentaid.org/#!/tenders/search
