Deadline- 12 January 2013
Market-led solutions for financial services(MicroSave) invites proposals for quantitative research in India, commissioned by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to manage the Agent Network Accelerator (ANA) project that will conduct detailed analysis of approximately 25 of the leading digital financial services agent networks in eight countries in Africa and Asia. The ANA project will conduct two rounds of quantitative and qualitative surveys in the eight countries to derive data to assess the design and performance of agent networks over time and in different regulatory and market environments. Based on the analysis of this data the ANA project will seek to identify the factors responsible for the success or failure of agent networks in different environments and share these with practitioners building these networks around the world.
MicroSave will conduct detailed assessments of agent networks in all eight focus countries. These assessments will generate systematic qualitative and quantitative data across a wide range of agent networks. The resulting dataset will address several core questions (among others)-
- What are the factors responsible for the success (or failure) of a particular agent network?
- What are the key metrics deployments should track to evaluate the health of their agent network?
- What are appropriate quantitative benchmarks against each of these metrics and how do these benchmarks vary across deployment type (bank-led; MNO-led) and country context?
- How is the health and reach of individual agent networks evolving over time and how quickly are these networks extending into poor and rural communities?
- What are the most successful (and innovative) technologies for building and managing a viable agent network in poor and rural communities and how can these be embedded in other deployments? Potential technologies may include liquidity management & monitoring systems, performance dashboards, GIS tools, etc.
Eligibility & Criteria-
MicroSave invites suitable market research firms to submit an expression of interest, comprising a technical proposal and financial proposal.
For more information, visit this link
