Deadline to submit the application: 11 March 2019, 00:00 (EDT)

The purpose of this request for applications (RFA) is to assist the Philippines achieve a better understanding of the current state of payments digitization by performing a new BTCA Diagnostic of the country. which will help update the figures and findings that resulted from the original 2015 BTCA Diagnostic of the Philippines. The new BTCA Diagnostic of the Philippines will use the best available data to measure the progress made in the digitization of payments as compared to the 2015 baseline.

The assessment will be carried out at the request of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) and will be focused on understanding the role of the payments ecosystem as part of a broader context of digitization and inclusive finance, developing recommendations and a roadmap for bolstering the transition from cash to digital payments in the country and building capabilities of local authorities (BSP, Philippine Statistics Authority and other as appropriate) to own and be able to autonomously carry out a BTCA Diagnostic in the future. The expected result is a publicly available Better Than Cash Country Diagnostic of the Philippines assessing the country’s digital payments ecosystem and one or more local authority with the technical capacity to implement the BTCA Diagnostic methodology in the country.

Applications and RFA Calendar:

1. Publication Date: 29th January
2. Application Deadline: 11 March 2019, 00:00 (EDT)
3. Negotiations and Grant Signing: March 2019
4. Duration of the project: 6 months

Applications and any consultation must be submitted to camilo.tellez@uncdf.org, copying (cc): amela.cosovic-medic@uncdf.org and rodrigo.mejia.ricart@uncdf.org.

Please include in the subject line of the email: BTCA Diagnostic of the Philippines 2019.

All queries and submitted applications will be acknowledged.