DFC

Development Finance Corporation

Emerging Sun provided technical assistance to support several DFC grantees with complete work scopes and line-item budgets, predominantly in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Because the work scope and line item budget support established a blueprint for DFC’s investment in any approved activity, Emerging Sun took extra care to ensure that tasks and subtasks were organized according to a logical work breakdown structure, and ensured that each task was designed to yield discrete outputs commensurate with the anticipated level of effort. Tasks and subtasks included both activities required to complete the technical assistance as well as any compliance activities required by DFC. Accordingly, the budget was mapped to that level of effort, and it represented a labor mix that applies senior, mid-level, and junior-level resources in a logical, cost-effective way.

Sample program activities included:

  • Feasibility and project development phase to support the development of two cold chain hubs
  • Feasibility studies for the construction of green-gray infrastructure projects in coastal communities
  • Technical assistance and pilot project focused on the modernization and decarbonization of shrimp farms
  • Technical assistance facility for a debt fund focused on lending to small and medium sized enterprises in the agricultural sector
  • Technical assistance for a venture capital investment fund to build a state-of-the-art dashboard platform that provides insight into portfolio companies
  • Technical assistance for a home health care company to increase the number of trained nursing attendants and to increase outreach and access to healthcare to low-income communities via a network of women entrepreneurs