Terms of Reference for Setting up an Automated Monitoring and Result Measurement (MRM) System for BMMDP

Swisscontact - Swiss Foundation for Technical Cooperation, is headquartered in Zurich and was founded in 1959 by leading figures from the Swiss private sector and Swiss universities. It is exclusively involved in international cooperation and since 1961 has carried out its own and mandated projects. Swisscontact currently employs over 1,400 staff worldwide and currently manages projects in 38 countries on behalf of public and private donors. Swisscontact is registered as an international non-governmental organization (INGO) in Bangladesh under the NGO Affairs Bureau, Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh.

2. BMMDP Project Background:

The Bangladesh Microinsurance Market Development Project (BMMDP) (formerly BADIP) is a project mandated by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC). Swisscontact has been appointed as the Managing Agent (MA) to assist SDC in the overall coordination, monitoring, and management of the project. Phase 1 of BMMDP will focus on piloting and testing different insurance products and distribution channels to identify and develop appropriate weather index-based crop insurance products and risk mitigation methods for the agriculture sector (initially, crop and livestock sub-sectors) in Bangladesh, reaching at least 633,000 insured farmers by 2024.

2.Project Components:

BMMDP Phase 1 is divided into three components:

2.1 Component 1: Crop insurance pilot implemented by SFSA Bangladesh (Crop Surokkha): Under Component 1, Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture Bangladesh (SFSA Bangladesh) is responsible for developing appropriate index-based crop insurance products and insurance business models with distribution channels, such as crop input suppliers, contract farming processors and traders, and MFIs; raising awareness to local risk carriers (insurance companies) in crop index insurance and their business potential; partnering with re-insurers in product development and risk pricing, and contributing to the knowledge creation and evidence gathering to improve the knowledge and capacity of public and private insurance stakeholders.

2.2 Component 2: Livestock risk mitigation pilot implemented by PKSF (Livestock Surokkha): Under Component 2, Palli Karma Sahayak Foundation (PKSF) is expected to expand and diversify the livestock mortality insurance operations by the better performing partner organizations (PO) and assess the commercial viability of its evolving social insurance business model. BMMDP will facilitate PKSF in institutionalizing its livestock insurance scheme by operationalizing its insurance unit, building the capacity of PKSF and its PO in scaling up beef-fattening mortality insurance operations, and diversifying into dairy cows, goats, and poultry. The POs will offer veterinarian services and livestock management and financial literacy training to their clients to reduce risks to make livestock insurance affordable

2.3 Component 3: Capacity Building of Insurance Sector Stakeholders in Bangladesh (Surokkha): Under Component 3, the MA of BMMDP will complement the existing donor and project interventions on crop and livestock insurance. The intention is to gather and disseminate knowledge through various means such as implementing an innovative intervention, doing research, and sharing the gained knowledge through components 1 and 2.

Submission Details

Interested bidders should submit the electronic copy of technical and financial proposals and other necessary documents to: bd.bmmdp@swisscontact.org by May 21st, 2022 before 2 PM (Bangladesh Standard Time).

BMMDP Programme reserves the right to accept or reject any or all proposals/applications without assigning any reason whatsoever. Please note that if any applicant does not meet all the above requirements, the application will be disqualified without further evaluation. If required, changes in activities, timeline, and budget, a contract may be amended, based on mutual agreement between SCBD and the contractor.

 

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