A. About Finance for Peace
Finance for Peace (F4P) works with companions to catalyse a marketplace for peace-positive funding. We work collectively to create requirements, market intelligence and partnerships throughout sectors to construct belief, share information and set up networks.
By means of leveraging and creating new partnerships of on the bottom neighborhood engagement and political help, Finance for Peace goals to scale what we name “Peace Finance” – funding that has an intentional and constructive affect on peace whereas selling financial improvement, job creation and higher livelihoods. Peace-positive funding generates mutual advantages of lowered dangers for buyers and communities and may obtain each bankable and peaceable outcomes.
Peace-positive funding encompasses totally different asset courses resembling Peace Bonds or Peace Fairness or related constructions, throughout a variety of sectors. To ensure that Peace Bonds and Peace Fairness like constructions to take flight, we want generally agreed requirements and steering that the market can belief and use, in addition to new partnerships and information.
Finance for Peace brings collectively buyers, non-public sector actors, improvement finance establishments and different improvement actors, governments, peacebuilders, civil society and communities, to determine progressive options that may convey true additionality to buyers, in addition to extra inclusive improvement.
Finance for Peace is supported by the German Federal Overseas Workplace (GFFO) and builds on feasibility analysis supported by the UK Overseas and Commonwealth Growth Workplace (FCDO) on a brand new sustainable funding class known as Peace Bonds.
Finance for Peace has been incubated by Interpeace, a world peacebuilding organisation that has labored on battle decision and peacebuilding all through Africa, the Center East, Asia, Europe and Latin America for 30 years. For extra data on F4P and Interpeace, please go to our web sites at https://financeforpeace.org/ and https://www.interpeace.org/
Peace Finance eHub
The Finance for Peace mission is to create a marketplace for peace-aligned funding. With this in thoughts, the initiative is at the moment targeted on community and capability constructing. The crew is creating a web based platform to reinforce engagement, enhance capacity-building and foster partnerships in Peace Finance. The platform – whose working title is “Peace Finance eHub” – shall be designed to offer customised recommendation and assets to navigate the rising discipline, for instance to:
- Bond and fairness issuers looking for help in assembly certification standards.
- Traders looking for coaching on affect assessments, or appropriate tasks for funding.
- Peace Companions looking for recommendation on tips on how to construction tasks for certification and to attach with potential buyers.
- Verifiers looking for assets to reinforce the standard and effectivity of their assessments.
In addressing these particular wants, the platform will foster a neighborhood of follow the place stakeholders can purchase information, improve their abilities, collaborate successfully and contribute to the realisation of finance as a catalyst for sustainable peace.
B. Description of the Task
Interpeace’s Finance for Peace initiative seeks the providers of a multi-person crew skilled in Studying Expertise Design (LXD), or related technical experience, to help the creation and implementation of a bespoke on-line platform.
The chosen service supplier shall be answerable for advising on the technical resolution for the eHub, creating partaking and impactful content material for numerous studying instruments, and managing the general implementation of the eHub. For a extra detailed scope of labor, please see the Phrases of Reference beneath.
The minimal viable product is anticipated to be operational by October 2024.
C. Proposal Submission
Interpeace invitations bids from certified service suppliers for the providers described within the connected Phrases of Reference, which kind an integral a part of this Name for Proposals (CFP).
The decision is open to firms or multi-person groups from across the globe. Qualifying people who apply collectively as a crew should be registered as particular person contractors.
Bidders shall bear all prices related to the preparation and submission of their proposal, and Interpeace shall not be accountable or responsible for these prices, whether or not direct or oblique, whatever the conduct or consequence of the CFP, nor if the CFP is cancelled, altered or postponed for any cause. This contains, however will not be restricted to, any and all prices incurred for pre-proposal clarifications, oral displays, web site visits, and subsequent conferences and negotiations.
All proposals shall be ready in English and embody the next paperwork:
- {Qualifications} of Service Supplier
- Overview of expertise and experience, clearly demonstrating how the crew meets the qualification necessities specified by the Phrases of Reference.
- Emphasis needs to be given to eLearning platform improvement, tutorial design, and any demonstrated information and experience associated to Peace Finance.
- A portfolio showcasing the crew’s competency in delivering related tasks, briefly describing the previous tasks in addition to their similarity/relevance for this CFP.
- Further choices or abilities the crew might contribute to counterpoint the mission.
- Technical Proposal
The technical proposal will be quick and concise, however ought to embody the next data:
- A proposed methodology and strategy for creating the Peace Finance eHub, contemplating the knowledge shared from the prevailing idea notice (see Annex B).
- The bidder ought to determine the particular parts proposed within the Phrases of Reference, describe key course of steps in direction of the tentative minimal viable product, and the way the service supplier is anticipating to work with the F4P crew.
- Any technical particulars of the proposed resolution for the Peace Finance eHub.
- Which studying administration system (LMS), studying administration ecosystem or studying vacation spot web site does the bidder suggest to make use of?
- Which instruments and plug-ins would the bidder work with, for instance for creating and managing content material?
- For social community creation, will every other neighborhood platforms or instruments be required along with the above?
- Please notice: Whereas it isn’t obligatory to submit a demo along with the preliminary proposal, short-listed bidders could also be requested to offer a visible taster of their proposed resolution in the course of the remaining stage of choice.
- Monetary Provide
The monetary provide ought to cowl all facets of the work, from content material improvement to technical deployment and ongoing help, specifically:
- The bidder’s hourly or day by day price for offering the requested service.
- The price is anticipated to be all-inclusive.
- The approximate variety of days of labor anticipated to fulfil the Phrases of Reference, bearing in mind the timelines set by F4P.
- Please notice that the price of making ready a bid and negotiating a contract will not be reimbursable nor can or not it’s included as a direct value of the project.
- A remaining settlement on the variety of days shall be negotiated between F4P and the profitable bidder primarily based on an in-depth dialogue of the scope of labor.
- Any extra prices related to the technical proposal that F4P must incur, i.e. estimated prices for annual LMS subscription, software program licenses, and so forth.
Further Feedback
F4P will notably recognize technical proposals that provide choices to decide on between a more cost effective and a extra high-end realisation of our imaginative and prescient. This may increasingly concern particular person parts of the platform (i.e. particular studying instruments) or the platform as an entire.
The project will not be anticipated to require any journey.
D. Questions?
Any inquiries relating to this name for proposals will be directed to Ms. Valérie Künzler at [email protected]. We stay up for receiving your proposals and collaborating to convey the Peace Finance eHub to life.
How you can apply
Proposals needs to be submitted electronically to [email protected] with [email protected] in copy. Please point out “Peace Finance Platform Proposal” within the topic line.
Incoming proposals shall be reviewed on a rolling foundation. The deadline for submission is 22 April 2024.
Solely proposals into consideration shall be notified.