PREQUALIFICATION: 2022 and 2025 – RESEARCH

Introduction

The Financial Sector Deepening Kenya (FSD Kenya) is an independent Trust dedicated to the achievement of an inclusive financial system that supports Kenya’s long-term development goals. FSD works closely with Government, the financial services industry and other partners to develop financial solutions that better address the real-world challenges faced by low-income households, enterprises and underserved groups such as women and youth.

To design impactful solutions, it is important to understand the relationship between finance and economic and social development in real-world markets. This requires deep interrogation of data and where need be, undertake further research. FSD Kenya has over the years leveraged FinAccess household survey datasets and invested in qualitative and quantitative primary research. This is in addition to mining supply-side data from various data aggregators. Some of these outputs can be accessed on the FSD Kenya website and COVID-19 Economic impact tracker Majority of these outputs have been curated in collaboration with FSD partners for long term development and posterity of the inclusive finance information market system.

To further advance this work, FSD Kenya is hereby inviting bidders to submit applications to be considered for the provision of the relevant specialised services in one or more of the following categories for the period 2023-2025.

Objective

To recruit suitable service providers that will advance ongoing inclusive finance research and data work to support FSD Kenya’s ongoing implementation of its 2022 – 2026 strategy. The outcome sought by the work is to stimulate insight & evidence generation and learning that will support the creation and delivery of value by the market for an inclusive and resilient economy for women, MSEs and other vulnerable groups.

Outcomes and deliverables

The consultant (s) is expected to work very closely with the FSD research team with outcomes and deliverables to be agreed upon over the strategy period. The overall outcomes desired are those that will be geared towards building the market information system in the inclusive finance space. Deliverables will vary as shall be discussed and agreed upon. These will include reports, videos, delivery of presentations, facilitating workshops, conversations with stakeholders, provision of data, transfer of skills or capacity building among others. However, these will be better defined in a term of reference once the specific work is commissioned.