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Consultant to Evaluate Savings Groups as Financial Service Providers

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The United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) is a multilateral donor agency under the administration of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). It promotes a sector-based approach to financial inclusion and is both a facilitator and an investor in the industry. UNCDF offers a unique combination of investment capital, capacity building, and technical advisory services to promote microfinance and local development in the least developed countries (LDCs). It is channeled primarily to poor rural areas in the LDCs where poverty reduction, capacity, and governance challenges are typically the greatest.
About the Job: 
The objective of the consultancy is to:
  • Analyze the effectiveness of the savings groups (SG) approach intervention for the provision of financial services and ingraining basic financial competencies to its members with support of financial literacy;
  • Conduct a scoping exercise providing recommendations to orient its implementation on a sustainable basis.
It is a follow-up to the final evaluation of the COMPASIS joint program. The assignment will inform how the model has been applied (quality) and to what extent the SG approach contributes to member's socioeconomic empowerment, provide good quality financial services, and develop financial competencies among their members. The consultant will include recommendations on linkages and the sustainability of the intervention.
Tasks and Responsibilities: 
  • Design research methodology, tools, and implementation plan;
  • Research implementation in target communities based on methodology agreed;
  • Analyze filed information and available documentation along with project findings and recommendations based on TOR objectives;
  • Present findings and recommendations to UNDP/COMPASIS project including stakeholders for discussion and feedback;
  • Preparation of final report.
  • Providing recommendations for future implementation/second phase focused on sustainability;
  • Providing graduation options to mature SGs;
  • Providing recommendations for replication;
  • Providing recommendations to handholding organizations (UNDP and local counterpart) and potential government and local partners.
Qualifications: 
  • Master degree in Business Administration, Economics, Finance, Banking, Development, Education or related fields;
  • Minimum of 5 years of relevant professional experience in microfinance or economic development with a proven capacity on program evaluation;
  • Knowledge/experience related to community-finance projects and SGs;
  • Rigorous evaluation methodology as evidenced by the proposed methodology submitted;
  • High planning skills and ability to work independently;
  • Working experience in Timor-Leste or in the South-East Asian or Pacific Regions;
  • Language skills (English, Portuguese, Tetum, Bahasa are an asset).
Closing Date: 18 Sep 2013
How to Apply:
Interested candidates can submit following to Beatriz Marciel with cc to Procurement
  • Expression of Interest;
  • Current and complete resume in English with indication of three references;
  • Proposed methodology;
  • Work plan.
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Contact:
Beatriz Marciel
beatriz.marciel@undp.org
UN House
Caicoli Street
Dili
East Timor
Telephone: +670-7730-4037
Fax: +670-331-3534

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