Private Sector Development

[Consultancy] ACTIVATE Program Midterm Review

Phase Indicative Timing Launch a call for proposals September 21, 2026 Review and conduct selection interviews, and due diligence October 2026 Contracting and start-up November 2026 Document review and inception report November–December 2026 Tool finalization and data collection preparation December 2026 Primary data collection December 2026–January 2027 Data analysis and draft report January–February 2027 Review of Draft report and Provide feedback- WUSC February 2027 Validation workshop and report revision February 2027 Final Draft report presentation and final feedback from Project …

Senior Research Associate

ABOUT SPARK MICROGRANTS Spark MicroGrants believes in a world where everyone lives with dignity and determines their own positive future. Spark has worked in 1000+ villages in 6 countries and has pioneered a community-driven development model in sub-Saharan Africa. Spark works with NGO and Government partners to scale the model's adoption and impact on rural communities – on their own terms. Our model combines facilitated community meetings with a small, discretionary grant to catalyze local action and institution building. Read …