STRENGTHENING PEOPLE’S CREDIT FUND NETWORK (STEP) PROJECT
REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL
Integration of Gender Dashboards into the PRMS at the Co-opBank
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Développement international Desjardins (DID) in cooperation with the Cooperative Bank of Vietnam (Co-opBank) and with the support of Canadian and Vietnamese government representatives officially launched the implementation phase of the Strengthening the People's Credit Funds network (STEP project) in November 2017. This project - funded by Global Affairs Canada has the goal to strengthen the capacity of Co-opBank and its network of financial cooperatives, the People's Credit Funds (PCFs) in Vietnam until 2023. The overall mandate is to support and advise the Co-opBank and PCFs network in their process of transformation and modernization to increase their level of integration and performance. The ultimate outcome of STEP project is to "increased financial security for Vietnamese men and women in targeted rural and agricultural areas by a more integrated and better performing Co-opBank and PCF network.
One of the core objectives at the basis of STEP’s logic model is to provide CBV with the necessary support to improve its oversight capacity of the PCF network by most specifically reinforcing its risk monitoring framework and methodology. Considering the particularly high number of PCFs within the network, CBV and STEP must be able to effectively allocate its limited resources to achieve satisfactory results. To do so, an undeniably effective strategy is to base this resource allocation on a risk-based prioritization approach relying foremostly on the financial information provided by a remote risk monitoring system. Therefore, STEP designed, developed and deployed in close collaboration with CBV a management information system (MIS), named PCF Reporting Management System (PRMS), to answer to this specific need. The PRMS is in operation since June 2020 and has been running without any major issues since then and has been meeting STEP’s and Co-opBank’s expectations.
On the other hand, the reinforcement of gender equality within the PCF network is another important pillar of intervention of STEP. Apart from having been designed to generate a wide range of financial reports, a goal pursued in the development of the PRMS is to have access to financial information on a gender-disaggregated basis.
As of now, a complete access to gender-disaggregated data still needs to develop and is the main objective pursued by this reference for proposal.
Interested tenderers are invited to submit their proposal in bilingual, English and Vietnamesevia email only to Mr. Pham Cong Bang, E-mail: [email protected] [2]
Deadline for the submission of the tender proposal: Sunday, 22nd of August 2021, at 17:00 hrs local Vietnam time.
Qualified tenderers shall be notified of the result of their Proposals within 10 business days following the submission deadline.