THE FINANCIAL SECTOR DEEPENING TRUST (FSDT)
REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL FOR DESIGN THINKER SERVICES FOR FINSIGHTS LAB
ABOUT FSDT
The Financial Sector Deepening Trust (FSDT) was incorporated in Tanzania on 1st July 2004. The FSDT’s overall aim is to make a contribution to All Tanzanians to (derive value) from regular use of financial services which are delivered with dignity and fairness. FSDT’s objective are:
- Advocating for an improved policy, institutional, legal and regulatory framework at national and sub-national levels of financial services
- Promoting more relevant market infrastructure and ways to reduce transaction costs between FSPs and potential clients
- Stimulating improved access to financial products and services that respond to the needs of MSMEs
- Stimulating improved access to financial products and services that respond to the needs of households and individual.
BACKGROUND
FinSights Lab is a solutions-drive interactive research platform, set up by FSDT to support financial service market actors. it will do this by working with clients in the public and private sectors to build new solutions or improve on existing ones, taking each client along a journey through understanding, designing, testing, and scaling. FinSights Lab Is designed to be flexible and nimble, providing solutions in a variety of environments at optimal speed and low cost.
OBJECTIVE OF ASSIGNMENT AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE CONSULTANT
FSDT is looking to recruit an experienced design thinker that will: Offer technical support in the FinSights Lab’s Design Pillar
A problem brought into FinSights Lab goes through 4 stages (Understand / Design / Test / Scale) in pursuit of a market solution, each of the stages form the core pillars on which FinSights Lab supports the market in developing appropriate solutions for different problems. In order to strengthen FinSights Lab as a vehicle for delivering market change, we would like to recruit a design thinker/agency to work with FSDT and the implementing partners to strengthen FinSights Lab’s design pillar. Which will assume that the selected design thinker will have reviewed the existing FinSights Lab Charter Document and previously developed design materials. Below Is the actual scope of work at the programmatic level;
The Design Thinker Is expected to develop DlY (Do IT Yourself) design sprint toolkits and programmes for three categories of market problems (E. 9. New solution, New features, Policy recommendation and Process Improvement)
The Design Thinker IS expected to provide constructive feedback to work done by other design thinker towards finaliztion of the DIY toolkits.
The Design Thinker IS expected to collaborate with coallegues and FSDT to develop final FinSights Lab design tramewbrk and programme.
The Design Thinker Is expected to train the market on how to use the toolkit during one of the Executive Education Programmes.
Offer technical support’ In the design of two market solutions
Upon the launch of FinSights Lab market players were asked to apply for a project with FinSights Lab. Through atree and fair precess, FinSights Lab selected 4 partners in the round one application.
Below are the specific responsibilities oi the design thinker] agency will take up in the development of the two solutions:
- Provide inputs to the research design and survey instruments
- Organize a design sprint programme for two market players.
- Develop content / tools for each oi the problems at hand
- Conceptualize and facilitate a design sprint for two market players
- Work with the market player and the implementing partner to design the solution
The consultants will be expected to collaborate with the second independent design thinker as highlighted above.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE
The deadline for submission of the tender documents is Friday 26th July 2019.
For more details on application requirements and full scope at work visit: www.tsdt.or.tzlopportunities. We will only consider applications that adhere to expression of interest requirements.
Source; The Guardian
Date; 27/06/2019
