Pakistan: Consultant (individual) for Mapping of Cash Transfer Mechanisms in Pakistan

1. PURPOSE

1. The consultant will focus on mapping out the existing financial service providers and its partners in the country of which result shall inform further the cash preparedness of the PRCS. The consultant will focus in the following during the fieldwork/scoping:

2. Mapping or “Stock taking”

   • Which service providers are present and available?

   • What are the different technologies they offer for electronic transfers?

   • What are the capacity/coverage/costs of the above?

   • What is the experience in country with PRCS or other humanitarian partners, what are the challenges and opportunities of working with various providers?

   • What are the existing national policies on electronic and other modes of payments?

3. Capacity building of the PRCS team

   • What is the extent of existing knowledge, experience and capacity for CTP transfer mechanisms (e-transfers, mobile etc.) in the PRCS NHQ and PHQs (program, support, management)

   • What are the gaps and how can the team and management address them?

4. A home-based project following the scoping study, the consultant will produce a summary mapping of major humanitarian and development donors (institutional and private), their policies, strategies and/or regulations regarding cash transfers, and brief analysis of constraints and opportunities for PRC and IFRC to engage with these donors at scale based on existing knowledge of PRCS and the scoping study.

5. KEY ACTIVITIES, OUTPUTS, DELIVERABLES

The consultant should result in the following outputs:

1. Mapping or “stock taking” of financial service providers/stakeholders and policies (50%)

2. Presentation and discussion on ideas to inform existing cash preparedness plan, identifying gaps and how the team could address them as a result of the findings of output 1. Providing visual tools aligning existing FSP partners to PRC guidelines and procedures (Logistics and Finance with respect to that of IFRC) (30%)

3. Resulting action points, recommendations and tools (including any potentially new specific language of inclusion in framework agreements for current and future partnership) (10%)

4. Desk-based donor mapping: a short summary of relevant institutional and private donor guidelines/policies on cash for country teams, bullet point advice for PRCS and IFRC Pakistan with regards to ways forward with those donors, and visually concise mapping of donors and their policies for easy reference (10%)

5. CHALLENGES TO EXPLORE

6. Financial services providers in the country, its services, coverage and cost implications, current partners and opportunities and possible risk for PRCS;

7. The resource and competency requirements to support PRCS in engaging financial service provider and rolling it out for possible emeregyc reposne on a consderbale scale;

8. Key requirements and constraints on engagements with identified donors for PRCS and IFRC planning and implementation considerations.

9. Security implications of each option of engagement in the light of the political climate

10. TEAM

    Pakistan

11. PRC – Muhammad Amin, PRCS CTP Focal Point

12. IFRC – Michael Belaro, IFRC Cash Delegate, Pakistan

13. IFRC – Abdul Basit, Disaster Risk Management Manager, Pakistan

14. TIMEFRAME

    Pakistan:

15. Engage for a period of up to 30 days (May 2017) which includes:

    • Briefing and review of documents

    • Fieldwork and interviews with key informants

    • Mapping, analysis and draft content outline for field report

    • Debriefing and presentation of content/ideas with PRC NHQ Cash TWG

    • Donor mapping

    • Preparation of final report

please forward your application material to jobs.pakistan@ifrc.org. Please mention the position applying for in subject field of the email, otherwise your application may not be considered. For detailed TORS please visithttps://sites.google.com/site/downloadforjobs/download.

Deadline for submission of applications is 30 April 2017. Application materials should include:

1. Expression of interest outlining in detail their proposed approach timeframe and budget to undertake the proposed evaluation.

2. Cover letter clearly summarizing your experience as it pertains to this assignment, your daily rate, and contact details for three professional referees

3. Curriculum Vitae (CV)

Applicants are required to provide samples of previous written work preferably similar to that described in this ToR or CTP related work. Application materials are non-returnable and we thank you in advance for understanding that only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.