Request for Proposals For Collaborative Partnership for Action Research into Savings Product Development

Publication Date: 1998
Published by: MicroSave
Document Type: Other

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Request for proposals for collaborative partnership for action research into savings product development

MicroSave is to:

• Work on savings product development as part of a learning-by-doing agenda;
• Disseminate information on savings-related issues to microfinance institutions(MFIs) in Africa;
• Enhance the capacity of local service providers to provide training and technical assistance on market research methods to examine clients' needs for savings products;
• Prepare training curricula on savings product design, costing/pricing, pilot testing and evaluation.

• Legally permitted to mobilise savings deposits and falling within regulatory and under supervisory frameworks
• Clear commitment to and progress towards achieving sustainability;
• Three or more years of operations
• effective accounting and management systems;
• Interested in/committed to designing and implementing high-quality savings products for poor people.

• Developing staff skills in market and client perspective research techniques, saving products and conduction of cost-analysis of providing saving exercises;
• Designing and testing new client- responsive savings services;
• Receiving extensive local consultant input in support of the action research programme;
• Developing links as partners of the MicroSave- Africa programme;
• Receiving advice and some assistance with ownership, governance and management structures;
• Receiving increased profile through the Micro Save-Africa dissemination activities.

• Conduct market and client need/perspective research to examine the demand for savings products amongst the MFIs' clients and non-clients;
• Design cost and price savings products in response to the market research conducted;
• Pilot-test, monitor and evaluate (including cost analysis) the savings products