Impact Evaluation of an IFC / GAFSP PrSW Project in Pakistan: Baseline and Follow-up Survey

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Assignment Title: Impact Evaluation of an IFC / GAFSP PrSW Project in Pakistan: Baseline and Follow-up Survey

Assignment Countries:

- Pakistan ASSIGNMENT DESCRIPTION These Terms of Reference (ToR) cover two complementary components: - Impact evaluation research: Evaluate the impact of IFC-supported financial inclusion interventions implemented through HBL Microfinance Bank, including expanded access to credit for agricultural borrowers, women entrepreneurs, microenterprises, and smallholder farmers. - Job quality measurement study: With support from the Jobs MDTF, develop and test innovative approaches to measuring monetary and non-monetary dimensions of job quality in informal and semi-formal employment, particularly among self-employed workers, entrepreneurs, and agricultural households. Together, these activities will generate rigorous evidence on how financial inclusion influences livelihoods, labor-market outcomes, enterprise performance, and employment quality in Pakistan. FUNDING SOURCE The World Bank Group intends to finance the assignment / services described below under the following:

- BB: Bank Budget

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