RFA: Data Driven and Gender-Smart Product Design to Increase Access to Finance and Digital Inclusion for Women in Nepal, Indonesia, Zambia and Ethiopia
Summary
The United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) makes public and private finance work for the poor in the world’s 46 least developed countries. With its capital mandate and instruments, UNCDF offers “last mile” finance models that unlock public and private resources, especially at the domestic level, to reduce poverty and support local economic development.
UNCDF invites regulated organizations to respond to this RFA which seeks to support FSPs that are developing or scaling digitally enabled gender-smart financial products/services. Through grants, UNCDF will enhance FSPs’ capacity for data management and analytics and gender-smart product design (GSPD) that follows the principles of human centric design powered by sex-disaggregated data analytics. Ultimately, the RFA aims to accelerate the transition to an inclusive digital economy by increasing access to finance for women through digital solutions.
The RFA is supported by the Dutch Entrepreneurial Development Bank (FMO), and it is implemented by UNCDF, under its ‘Leaving No One Behind in the Digital Era’ strategy,
The applicants’ proposed interventions – irrespective of the country of affiliation – should support the deployment of gender-smart products and digital solutions in the target country/countries: Nepal, Indonesia, Ethiopia, Zambia.
Candidates can apply independently or in a consortium. Please verify the eligibility conditions in Section 3.1 of this RFA.
Selected applicants will sign a Performance-Based Agreement1 (PBA) with UNCDF. The UNCDF contributions can be up to US$ 110,000 depending on the size and reach of the partner.
UNCDF will award 1 applicant, who score the highest in accordance with the Evaluation Criteria as set forth in section 3.2.
Selected applicants will be expected to fund at least 30 percent of the total project cost (for costs such as technical resources, staff, and operational expenses).
The project must be implemented by December 2024. Inquiries to this RFA may be submitted by email to rfa.ide.asia@uncdf.org cc uncdf.rfa@uncdf.org. For any email inquiries, please include in your subject line: RFA: Data Driven and Gender-Smart
Product Design to Increase Access to Finance and Digital Inclusion for Women in Nepal, Indonesia, Zambia and Ethiopia.
All applications must be submitted by 23:59 EST, the New York time zone on 13 November 2023 through the UNCDF e-investment platform
