RfA: Lowering the Cost of Distribution in Zambia

Purpose: As part of UNCDF strategy ”Leaving no one behind in the digital era”, UNCDF is looking for legally established entities in Zambia that will be able to develop and test an innovation distribution model in a shared physical location for expansion of financial services in Zambia, especially in the rural and peri-urban areas. The proposed innovative and scalable solutions should include but not limited to:

• Area 1: Support a shared-agent model that could be a partnership between 2 or more providers sharing a physical location and providing services of these organizations in rural areas.

• Area 2: Support partnership models between financial service providers or between financial and non-financial services providers with an objective of leveraging the partnership to achieve improved access of financial services with a focus on rural areas.

• Area 3: Support partnerships or models that could leveraged to provide additional services other than financial services as determined by the target communities e.g. a financial institution offering additional services like pay-as you go solar.

Beneficiaries: The proposed intervention shall target low-income customers, rural populations, migrants, refugees, smallholder farmers, women and youth, precisely in the following provinces of Zambia: Central, Luapula, Northern, Eastern, Southern, Muchinga and Western.

Timing and Contacts: Applications about this RFA should be submitted via email mm4p.zambia@uncdf.org copying in (cc) Luis Calvo luis.calvo@uncdf.org no later the 14th of February 2020 23:59 EAT.