Concern World Wide Consultancy Job in Kenya

Terms Of Reference

Urban Food Subsidy Programme -Financial Literacy Services

(Mombasa County)

I    Background

In an attempt to cushion the poor and vulnerable Kenyans against rising food prices, the Government of Kenya (GOK) in 2009 established a multi-sectoral Taskforce under the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM). 

The main objective of the Taskforce was to review, evaluate and critically analyze the subsidy arrangements with a view to developing a comprehensive and well-targeted programme that is efficient, accountable and minimizes opportunities for abuse while at the same time benefiting the food insecure Kenyans, including the urban and rural poor.

The taskforce proposed to target 40,000 urban poor households in Nairobi, Mombasa and Kisumu with an objective to protect vulnerable and poor households in these areas from the negative impact of food insecurity. 

The Government through the Ministry of Gender Children and Social Development (MGCSD) has embarked on the implementation of the programme and has allocated K.shs 198 million for cash transfers in Mombasa County targeting 10,000 poor and vulnerable households for a period of 8 months.

In order to ensure that the benefits of the cash transfer go beyond the duration of the programme, the Ministry of Gender has requested Concern Worldwide to provide financial literacy services so as to help beneficiaries extend the benefits of the transfer beyond the immediate household needs and facilitate a natural exit process from social assistance through small scale investments.

Financial literacy is a very important component a social assistance programme targeting poor and vulnerable households within the context of limited and unpredictable financial resources as is the characteristic of these households by helping them manage and preserve the few resources they have (or in this case receiving through the cash transfers) and work towards their economic goals.

II Purpose of this Consultancy

Concern is seeking qualified consultants to undertake the following:

1. Develop a basic financial literacy module target semi-literate poor and vulnerable households in Mombasa County. 

The module will at minimum include the following:

i)    Basic principles of money management

• Assessing your financial situation
• Setting financial goals
• Distinguishing between needs and wants

ii)    Managing cash flow

• Making a financial plan
• Developing a budget
• Following a budget
• Spending wisely

iii)    Starting and managing your own business

2. Undertake an orientation training for key government staff on the contents of the financial literacy module

3. Undertake training of facilitators to facilitate the financial literacy training based on the developed module in the urban slums of Mombasa county

4. Provide oversight in the facilitation of the financial literacy trainings at the community level targeting atleast 7000 households

III    Schedule Of Output Delivery

The main outputs expected from this assignment and the indicative time-lines for their submission are:

• Output  :  Date

• Draft financial literacy module :   July 15, 2012
• Final financial literacy module and training plan  :  July 20, 2012
• Orientation training for Ministry staff  :  July 25, 2012
• Training of field facilitators :   August 10, 2012
• Technical support to field facilitators :   November 30, 2012
• Final  report  :   December 15, 2012

IV    Expected Contract Period
The assignment is expected to be implemented over a period of 5 months

V     Reporting
The consulting agency will report to the Food, Income and Markets Coordinator within Concern.

VI    Qualifications and Required Inputs

The key qualifications of the consultancy organization or firm and consultants within the firm are as below:

• The consultant will be an organisation/firm or consortium of organisations/firms with experience in experience in provision of financial literacy services or business development services for semi-literate rural communities
• The consultant will demonstrate the capacity to field a high quality team of field staff with continuous, high quality support and quality control to be provided by the core team at all stages of the process.

Interested candidates, who meet the above requirements, should apply by sending a financial and technical proposal with subject as ‘Financial Literacy Services, Mombasa County’ to the following email address: - nairobi.hr@concern.net on or before 3rd July 2012