RFP_006_2026_Natl Firm to support financial institutions strengthening_FARM
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UNDP - Request for proposal
This is a services contract in the architecture and engineering, construction and civil works, agriculture and food security, education and training and health and medical services sectors. Located in Lao PDR, Asia, this opportunity is open to firms and consortiums. Proposals must be submitted before July 1, 2026.
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Agency: UNDP | Reference: UNDP-LAO-00694 | Type: Request for proposal
Name of Service: RFP_006_2026_National consultancy firm to support technical assistance for financialinstitutions strengthening, green financial product development, financialliteracy enhancement and capacity buildingProject:Financing Agrochemical Reduction and Management (FARM) in Laos.Duration of Assignment: 11 monthsThe online Pre-Bid meeting will be conducted on Thursday, 17 June at 13:30.https://undp.zoom.us/launch/jc/82080392148Meeting ID: 820 8039 2148Passcode: 505390Scope of Service.The selected firm will be responsible for the follwing traks.Task 1: Financial sector diagnostic and assessmentConduct a desk review of key project documents, national policies and legislation on agriculture, chemicals management and finance sector regulation in Lao PDR, including underlying needs assessment instruments.Conduct stakeholder mapping and consultations with financial institutions (commercial banks, microfinance institutions (MFIs), Village Development Funds (VDFs), public banks including Rural Development Bank and Agriculture Promotion Bank), insurers, government institutions (DOA, the Department of Agricultural Extension and Cooperatives (DAEC), the Bank of the Lao PDR (BoL), the Ministry of Finance (MoF), MAE), private sector actors and farmer organizations.Conduct a financial literacy diagnostic in target provinces using the established instrument and protocol to ensure data comparability across all project sites.Identify market potential for green / sustainable finance in rural and agricultural sectors, including barriers and opportunities for mainstreaming new financial products.Produce an assessment report and consolidated dashboard covering all project target areas.Task 2: Green finance product development and FI operational toolkitDevelop innovative green finance products tailored to the capacity and systems of participating FIs that incentivize sustainable agricultural practices, including low-interest loans for farmers adopting Good Agricultural Practices (GAP)/Integrated Pest Management (IPM)/agroecological/organic practices; blended-finance models linking agricultural input supply with credit; and group-lending innovations adapted to crop cycles.
Product scope may include loans, leases, and equity-participation instruments.Specify the eligible uses of loan proceeds that distinguish green agricultural loans from generic Agri-credit ā for example: biopesticides, biocontrol agents and pheromone traps; mechanical or manual weeding equipment substituting for herbicides; cover-crop seed, mulch and compost infrastructure; transition-period bridge finance covering yield dips during conversion (typically two to three seasons); certification costs (GAP, organic), which are a major barrier for smallholders; storage facilities that help avoid forced post-harvest sales; and bulk procurement of safer alternatives at cooperative level.
Where loan conditions (ticket size, tenor, risk profile) differ across these uses, the product design should specify a portfolio of use-case-specific products rather than a single one-size-fits-all green loan.Identify and assess the source(s) of concessional funding underpinning the low-interest loans and soft credit ā for example the participating FIās own balance sheet, the guarantee fund, a separate interest subsidy from the project or government, a refinancing facility from the Bank of the Lao PDR, or concessional funds from a development finance institution ā and specify the proposed mechanism within the product design.Assess supply-side readiness for the inputs that green loans are intended to finance (biopesticides, IPM-compatible inputs, organic fertilizers) in the target provinces, and either (a) include a sub-component on financing alternative-input distributors ā small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) credit, working capital for input cooperatives, and supplier-run demonstration plots ā or (b) document the dependency of this consultancy on the parallel FARM activities responsible for strengthening that supply chain, so that demand-side finance does not outpace input supply.Develop a Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (MRV) protocol for green agricultural loans, including borrower-level baseline data collection; simple application-record templates that farmers can complete (linked to the financial literacy curriculum); spot-check verification procedures; and an exit framework setting out how to manage situations where agreed agrochemical-reduction targets are not met.Draft a complete FI operational toolkit including: guidelines for Environmental and Social Risk Analysis (ESRA) integrated into the credit cycle (the ESRA shall be tiered, applying a full ESRA to loans above a defined size and a simplified checklist to smaller tickets, for which a full ESRA would be cost-prohibitive); model loan agreements and disclosure documents; underwriting and credit-scoring templates (including sex-disaggregated scoring); green portfolio reporting templates; grievance handling SO
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