Antecedentes
Background UNCDF is the UN’s capital investment agency for the world’s 48 Least Developed Countries. UNCDF uses its capital mandate to support LDCs pursue inclusive growth. UNCDF promotes financial inclusion, also through digital financial services (DFS), as a key enabler of poverty reduction and inclusive growth; and it demonstrates how localizing finance outside the capital cities can accelerate growth in local economies, promote sustainable and climate-resilient infrastructure development, and empower local communities. Using capital grants, loans and credit enhancements, UNCDF tests financial models in inclusive finance and local development finance; ‘de-risks’ the local investment space; and provides proofs of concept, paving the way for larger and more risk-averse investors. With its capital mandate and instruments, UNCDF offers “last mile” financing models that unlock public and private resources, especially at the domestic level, to reduce poverty and support local development. UNCDF targets low-income and underserved populations and areas in the LDCs where resources for development are the scarcest; where market failures are most pronounced; and where increased national economic prosperity does not reach a large part of the population. UNCDF focusses on local development finance and inclusive finance, using its capital mandate paired with strong technical and policy support to help communities and individuals save, borrow and invest. UNCDF’s objective is to develop inclusive financial systems in which a range of financial products is available to all segments of society, at a reasonable cost, and on a sustainable basis. UNCDF supports a wide range of providers (e.g. microfinance institutions, banks, cooperatives, money transfer companies) and a variety of financial products and services (e.g. savings, credit, insurance, payments, and remittances).
UNCDF digital strategy The UNCDF strategy ‘Leaving no one behind in the digital era’ is based on over a decade of experience in digital finance in Africa, Asia and the Pacific. UNCDF recognizes that reaching the full potential of digital financial inclusion in support of the Sustainable Development Goals aligns with the vision of promoting digital economies that leave no one behind. The vision of UNCDF is to empower millions of people by 2024 to use services daily that leverage innovation and technology and contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals. UNCDF will apply a market development approach and continuously seek to address underlying market dysfunctions. Inclusion is at the heart of the UNCDF’s strategy to promote digital economies that leave no one behind. This can only be achieved if digital economies are widely developed at national level and if there is a key focus to make these digital economies inclusive without any new form of exclusion. UNCDF gives particular importance to youth, women, migrants, refugees and MSMEs in general which are marginalized from adopting digital innovation and technology due to social norms, status in society, limited revenue and capacity. UNCDF places these customer segments at the center of the development of innovative services in various sectors, to increase their empowerment. Our approach focuses on accelerating the development of digital economies at country level with government, private sector and academia while paying attention in developing the right services to reduce the digital divide and empower key customer segments. To achieve this objective, UNCDF will focus on understanding the intersection of six categories of digital services (finance, agriculture, energy, education, health and transport) across five categories of users (women, youth, refugees, migrants, MSMEs). Underpinning all services will be an understanding that digital financial services are foundational, in that they enable new local entrants to innovate in markets, provide sustainability to new services, and create marketplaces for a wide range of products and services, both digital and non-digital. To implement the strategy UNCDF will continue to apply a market development approach at country level. The objective of such an approach is to continuously seek to understand and intervene in select market systems to address underlying market dysfunctions that lead to improved efficiencies, effectiveness and sustainability. The approach will seek to (1) leverage the roles and behaviors of current players in the marketplace, support them to continue doing what they do better or to change their behavior, and (2) strengthen the systems and relationships among the various market and sector actors (3) work with current players to de-risk new business models to make digital solutions more inclusive for key segments and reduce the digital divide.
Pacific Financial Inclusion Programme The Pacific Financial Inclusion Programme has helped over two million Pacific islanders gain access to financial services and financial education in the last decade. It achieves these results by funding innovation with financial services and delivery channels, supports policy and regulatory initiatives, and the empowerment of consumers. It is jointly administered by the UN Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and receives funding from the Australian Government, the European Union and the New Zealand Government. PFIP operates from the UNDP Pacific Office in Suva, Fiji and has offices in Papua New Guinea, Samoa and Solomon Islands. |
Purpose, scope and objectives |
To ensure the timely and continuous sharing of lessons learned of PFIP projects through publications of various lengths to the wider financial inclusion community, as well as our Programme stakeholders, including our donors, the support of a Technical Writer is required.
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Deberes y responsabilidades
The consultant will be contracted for the following projects and activities:
Expected Outputs and Deliverables
Initial projects will be:
Institutional Arrangement
Contract Arrangement The successful individual will sign a UNDP Individual Consultant Long Term Agreement. The engagement will be on an intermittent basis with the stated duration based on the required services. UNDP will issue separate terms of reference and purchase order for each specific assignment as a call-off from this IC LTA. The TOR will outline the expected outputs, and the number of days to be engaged. There is expected to be a total of 9calls offs under this LTA.
Duty Station This assignment is home based, with regular online meetings with the PFIP Knowledge Management Specialist in Suva, Fiji. No travel foreseen.
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Competencias
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Habilidades y experiencia requeridas
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Price Proposal and Schedule of Payments Consultant must send a financial proposal based on Daily Fee. Consultant shall quote an all-inclusive Daily Fee for the contract period. The term “all-inclusive” implies that all costs (professional fees, communications, consumables, etc.) that could be incurred by the IC in completing the assignment are already factored into the daily fee submitted in the proposal. If applicable, travel or daily allowance cost (if any work is to be done outside the IC’s duty station) should be identified separately. Payments shall be done on a monthly basis based on actual days worked, upon verification of completion of deliverables and approval by the IC’s supervisor of a Time Sheet indicating the days worked in the period.
The primary contacts for reporting for this TOR shall be:
Award Criteria The contract shall be awarded to the best applicant whose offer has been evaluated and determined as: Responsive/compliant/acceptable; and Having received the highest combined weight (technical scores) 70% + financial 30%= 100%. Technical Criteria for Evaluation (Maximum 70 points)
Shortlisted candidates may be called for an interview as part of technical evaluation. Documentation required Interested individual consultants must submit the following documents/information to demonstrate their qualifications.
Incomplete, joint proposals and proposals sent to the wrong mailing address will not be accepted. Individuals applying for this consultancy should apply and will be reviewed based on their own individual capacity. The successful individual may sign an Individual Contract with UNDP or request his/her employer to sign a Reimbursable Loan Agreement (RLA) on their behalf by indicating this in the Offerors letter to Confirming Interest and Availability using Annex II.
Annexes
Proposal Submission
Incomplete applications will not be considered, and only candidates for whom there is further interest will be contacted.
Women applicants are encouraged to apply |