Deadline: 25-Jun-20
For this request for applications (RFA), United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) invites applications from registered entities in Nepal that can offer innovative and scalable last-mile solutions and financial instruments targeting the rural and underserved communities by setting-up Booster Teams to ensure that full potential of UNCDF’s interventions are realized.
At the field implementation level, the Booster Team shall comprise of field-based representatives who engage with DFS stakeholders in selected rural areas, including agents, merchants, customers/farmers and agricultural/multipurpose/rural finance cooperatives. The Booster Team will be tasked with recruitment of cooperatives, agents and merchant, along with on-ground support towards handholding and monitoring, digital literacy education and exchange of learning. Working closely with UNCDF’s partners, the booster team will also work with the stakeholders and ecosystem players to drive DFS adoption and motivating them towards regular usage.
In order to setup DFS Booster Team, UNCDF is looking forward to collaborating with a firm or consortium in Nepal. Selected Firm or Consortium will be tasked with the following:
- On-boarding booster team based on selection criteria set by UNCDF and its partners;
- Managing and Supporting booster team during the project;
- Providing a comprehensive package of training and support to booster team that empowers them to provide sufficient awareness and education campaigns to create a conducive environment and enable the last mile populations to adopt DFS;
- Providing quarterly qualitative and quantitative reports regarding learning and KPIs of the Project;
- Transferring knowledge gained from forming the booster team and its management for expansion.
Selected applicants will be signing a Performance-Based Agreement (PBA) with UNCDF.
Duration
Projects are expected to have a duration of maximum 6 months duration. Activities are expected to be terminated no later than December 2020.
Geographical Scope
The geographical scope of this RFA is rural areas in Nepal.
Eligibility Criteria
- Entity registration
- The applicant / lead applicant must be a registered entity in Nepal.
- Consortiums
- Applicants may apply only once under this RFA, whether independently or in a consortium;
- Joint applications between market players in the country are encouraged if the solution proposed will expand delivery networks and promote rural and/or other lastmile access to digital finance;
- Applications from consortiums of organizations must show that the partnership was established prior to the submission to this call for applications;
- The lead applicant must be registered entity with at least one year of operations, and must have statutory accounts and audited financial statements for at least one operating year.
For more information, visit UNCDF.
