FSD Kenya Poverty Impact Virtual Team Consultant Specialists Call for Proposals

FSD Kenya (Financial Sector Deepening)
 

Poverty Impact Virtual Team Consultant Specialists
 

Call for Proposals
 

Despite the progress made in building financial inclusion in Kenya in the last decade, 25% of the adult population still remains totally financially excluded. This excluded population falls largely within the poorer segments of the population. 

Unlocking access by this lower segment of the market is key to achievement of FSD’s financial inclusion goal and is specifically targeted by a number of interventions. These initiatives are managed under FSD’s direct poverty impact theme. 

On-going work encompasses client focused initiatives, especially looking at the needs of households engaged in smallholder agriculture finance and community based forms of finance encompassing, savings groups, financial services associations and savings and credit co-operative societies (SACCOs).
 

While FSD maintains a core full-time project management team, our approach is to supplement this technical capacity through the use of technical specialists. 

For this we are seeking to assemble a small team of specialists to support us in the formulation, execution and monitoring of financial inclusion initiatives with direct impact on the poor and vulnerable. 

The consultant specialists will form a ‘virtual’ part of FSD’s poverty impact team which will encompass its core full-time staff and a small number of specialist technical advisers. 

Those selected will be pre-qualified to undertake specific assignments as they arise in the course of FSD’s work.

Support is sought in the following areas of FSD’s work:

• SACCO reformsƒ ƒ
• Savings groupsƒ ƒ
• Financial graduationƒ ƒ
• Agricultural finance

Proposals are sought from qualified consultants. 

How to Apply

Click here to download detailed Terms of Reference and application criteria

Applications should thereafter be submitted to tenders@fsdkenya.org. 

Please put “Poverty impact: technical advisers” in the subject line. 

Closing date: 4 pm Monday 6th October, 2014.
 

FSD Kenya operates as an independent Trust registered in Kenya under the supervision of professional trustees, with policy guidance from its programme investment committee. Finance is provided by a number of leading development agencies including the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID), the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA), and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation together with the Government of Kenya. Further information can be obtained from our website:www.fsdkenya.org