Cash Based Interventions & RFPs

Crown Agents Bank, with the support of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, has produced a thought leadership paper on the selection process for CBIs. The paper provides some tools and guidelines for the design and set up of such programmes, also covering the use of RFPs when selecting financial service providers and technology partners.

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Mobilising funds to get them into the hands of those who need them is one of the most critical, and sadly most complicated aspects of international development and crisis response. For international development organisations, the final movement of funds to individual recipients or field project offices, ‘last mile payments’, is often the toughest part of the process.

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