Deadline: 10-Aug-22
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Cambodia invites interested companies or non-profit organizations to express their interest in providing Support on Sensing and Exploring.
This call for EoI aims to assess the market availability and viability of companies or non-profit organizations in relation to upcoming procurement process (Request for Proposal) of supporting on sensing and exploring for UNDP projects.
Key Services
Key services include but are not limited to:
- Lot 1: Sense
- Desk research: principles, elements, relevant case studies, stakeholders, political economy
- Horizon scanning to understand the system:
- Analyze patterns, relations, mental models, ecosystem (collective intelligence tool)
- Identify ecosystem pain-points and opportunities by analyzing drivers/barriers from different angles (political, economic, socio-cultural, technology, legal, environmental, institutional, etc.) and systemically map their impacts
- Data sources: including new/alternative data sources to capture patterns, unforeseen opportunities and under the radar insights e.g., social media listening, crowdsourcing
- Foresight analysis: possible futures starting with current trends, disruptive events, forward thinking mindset, etc.
- Lot 2: Explore
- Rapid ethnography studies: conducting field research in remote communities using rapid ethnographic evidence, behavioral insights, and/ or human centered design to identify unarticulated challenges and opportunities from grassroots. Generating live experience data to surface people/stakeholders’ emotive characteristics that can help the research team appreciate the challenges in a people-centered way. In addition, UNDP is interested to hear insights from silent, non-mainstream and often excluded groups, especially young people, women, rural communities, urban poor, persons with disabilities, indigenous people, and LGBTQI, among others.
- Solutions mapping: identify existing solutions and interventions (what works and what does not)
- What has been implemented?
- What is being used/practiced currently? Why?
- What is working well with the current practice? Who, how, why?
- What is NOT working with the current practice? Who, how, why?
- Behavioral insights: help them better understand how the complexities of the human decision-making process impact communities, which include:
- Mapping behavioral bottlenecks
- Identifying what behaviors are to be influenced
- Validating most binding constraints
- Identifying several potential interventions
- Determining the most feasible and useful interventions
Eligibility Criteria
- Entity: at least 3 years of relevant experience in the specific areas indicated below for each lot.
- Team Leader: at least 3 years of relevant experience and has a Master’s degree in social science, (social) innovation, public policy, or other related field
- Team Members: at least 1 year of relevant experience and has a Bachelor’s degree in social science, (social) innovation, public policy, or other related field
- English language: good standard of spoken and written skills for presentations and reports
- Khmer language: good standard of spoken and written skills for conducting field interviews and research
- Lot 1: Sense
- Professional experience in development programming with focus on policy and/or social innovation
- Proven experience in Foresight, Horizon Scanning, and/or Systems Thinking/Mapping
- Lot 2: Explore
- Professional experience in development programming with focus on policy and/or social innovation
- Proven experience in Ethnography, Behavioral Insights, Human Centered Design or Qualitative and Quantitative User Research
- Proven ability to engage with remote and/or vulnerable communities through action research and other engagement means
Note:
- The qualified entities will be kept on a roster and invited to bid for similar services at a later stage, as and when required.
- Interested entities can express their interest for one lot (either sensing or exploring) or for the two lots together.
For more information, visit https://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_notice.cfm?notice_id=93881