Expression of Interest: Digital financial Savings Group Management Platform for Saving for Transformation (S4T) groups
Role Summary
Detailed description available on the official website.
Key Responsibilities
The purpose of this assignment is to identify, configure, deploy, and support an existing digital platform to address identified gaps in the digital financial inclusion requirements of World Vision Somalia's S4T groups.
World Vision is not seeking development of a new application. The selected service provider shall propose an existing, operational, and tested solution with demonstrated experience supporting digitalizing financial transactions of savings groups, Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLA), community finance groups, or microfinance initiatives.
All programme and beneficiary data shall remain the property of World Vision;
- The selected provider will be responsible for supplying, configuring, deploying, rolling out, and supporting an existing digital financial savings group platform. The provider will be expected to work closely with World Vision Somalia to assess the fit of the proposed platform against S4T operational requirements, identify any gaps, configure the solution, conduct user acceptance testing, train relevant users, support rollout, and provide post-deployment technical support.
- The proposed solution should require limited configuration or customization rather than full software development. Any proposed customization must be clearly described, justified, and agreed with World Vision before implementation. The provider shall demonstrate how the platform can be rapidly deployed and maintained over the required implementation period and beyond.
- Providers shall act only as data processors;
- World Vision shall retain unrestricted access to exported data;
- Data portability shall be supported;
- Providers shall support migration where required;
- Providers shall securely delete data upon contract completion unless legally required to retain it.
Minimum Requirements
- The proposed solution must be an existing, proven, and fully operational platform that has been successfully implemented or is currently in use by organizations managing savings groups financial transactions, VSLAs, community finance, microfinance, or comparable financial inclusion programmes.
- The provider should demonstrate relevant experience working with women, youth, urban/rural communities, vulnerable populations.
- Demonstrate how the existing platform currently addresses savings group financial transactions, savings, loans, financial records, reporting, and programme monitoring.
- The solution should require limited configuration and customization rather than full software development and should be capable of being deployed within a practical implementation timeframe.
- The proposed platform must be available for demonstration during the technical evaluation, including demonstration of core functionality, reporting, user access, security, and offline or low-connectivity capabilities where applicable.
- The provider shall provide relevant case studies, client references, or other evidence of previous successful implementations.
- The provider shall demonstrate its capacity to provide long-term technical support, maintenance, system updates, troubleshooting, and upgrades.
Working Conditions
The provider shall deliver practical training for World Vision staff and S4T facilitators on platform administration, user management, savings and loan transactions, reporting, dashboards, data security, troubleshooting, and other relevant functions. Training materials and user guidance shall be provided.
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