From October to December 2018, Development Works Changemakers (DWC), in partnership with Digital Frontiers Institute, conducted a rapid assessment and collected in-country data from five markets within Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The five markets visited were Mozambique (Maputo), Malawi (Blantyre), Zambia (Lusaka), Rwanda (Kigali), and Uganda (Kampala), the latter three of which were visited in 2017 (findings reported in the Digital Frontiers Institute Focus Group Report, August 2017). The purpose of these assessments was to assess the extent to which six of FSD’s SSA indicators are being met, and to assess the impact Digital Frontiers Institute's courses have had on the practitioners, their organisations and their country market to date. A mixed-method approach was utilised, incorporating both qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis methods. Primary data was collected from practitioners, line managers and/or human resource (HR) managers, community of practice (CoP) facilitators, and institution representatives using a combination of online surveys, interviews and focus group discussions (FGDs). Secondary data was collected via a document review and analysis of programme monitoring data.
Digital Frontiers Institute’s first full year of courses was in 2016. In 2017, Digital Frontiers Institute undertook focus group research to understand the impact one of its foundational courses, the Certificate in Digital Money, was having on alumni and their organisations. Data was collected from Zambia, Rwanda and Uganda. In 2018, Development Works Changemakers (DWC) was commissioned to undertake follow-up data collection. Unlike the 2017 data collection, this assessment considers the impact of all Digital Frontiers Institute's online courses, and specifically focuses on the extent to which indicators assigned by Financial Sector Deepening (FSD) Africa were being achieved.
2018 Assessment of the Impact of Digital Frontiers’s Online Courses on Practitioners in the DFS Sector
