RfA: Women and Girls Access and Agency Country Assessment

Overall Objective

UNCDF is seeking applications from qualified technical partners (e.g. non-profit organization, educational organization, consulting firm) with the capacity to (1) develop a tool to conduct a country assessment on financial inclusion access and agency issues for women and girls in advancing their economic participation and to (2) conduct country specific assessments in a minimum of three countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, ASEAN, and/or SAARC.

Minimum qualification criteria

1. At least five years in operation;
2. Having conducted similar assignments in Least Developed Countries;
3. Provide written confirmation (annex 1) that the organization has reviewed the UNCDF Grant Agreement template (available upon request), is prepared to sign it by November 1^st 2016, without revision to standard language;
4. Submit a complete application.

Other requirements and qualifications

1. Any type of organization (commercial for profit firm, educational institution, and non-profit organization) is eligible to compete;

2. Previous experience with gender, in particular, women’s and girls’ economic empowerment;

3. Previous experience in financial inclusion, highly desirable;

4. Confirmed human resources to cover all planned/required activities;

5. Evidence of experience documenting knowledge and disseminating in both English and French;

6. Evidence of a professional knowledge product production process;

7. Experience packaging knowledge products in an innovative manner;

8. Previous experience in the potential countries to be assessed, preferred.

Structure of the Application

1. The application should follow the template provided in Annex 1.
2. Only applications that follow the Submission Format and include all the necessary documentation will be accepted.

Submission of the Application​​

1. Applications and any consultation about this RFA should be submitted in PDF form via email at Power.countryassessment@uncdf.org;
2. The subject line of the email should be: PoWER Country Assessments;
3. The deadline to submit the application is October 28^th 2016 at 23:59 EST.