EOI-NGA-ABJ-2024-001_Cash Voucher Assistance Transfers.

DRC is providing support to displacement-affected communities in Nigeria, in order to have enhanced resilience through
community-based protection and socio-economic self-reliance support.
This Expression of Interest (EOI) process is the first stage of a multi-stage process. DRC intends to distribute cash and/or
vouchers up to a value of 5 000 000 USD to our beneficiaries through one or more FINANCIAL SERVICE PROVIDERS (FSPs) to
implement Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA). CVA refers to all programmes where cash transfers or vouchers for goods or
services are directly provided to recipients. The FSPs passing the evaluation of the EOI will be invited to participate in a
Request For Proposal (RFP).
The overall goal of DRC’s CVA is to enhance resilience through community-based protection and socio-economic self
reliance support; it also intends to provide choice and flexibility to beneficiaries for usage of cash as per their needs. This will
cover DRC’s programme sectors: Non-Food Items, MPCA, protection, Food Items, Livelihoods restoration and development.
DRC seeks an EOI from different FSPs to provide their services in support of the implementation of DRC’s CVA through the
signing of a framework agreement. Selected institution(s) will be required to provide the most effective and efficient cash
and/or voucher delivery mechanisms in support of DRC’s CVA. Based on the outcome of the EOI, DRC reserves the right split
the subsequent RFP into lots for different delivery mechanisms, as well as sign framework agreements with multiple FSPs,
based on programmatic necessity.
Required options to deliver cash and/or voucher to beneficiaries are as follows: -
OPTION 1: Bank accounts - - -
OPTION 2: Mobile money – via Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) or banks
OPTION 3: Smart cards and pre-paid cards – for cash grants and electronic vouchers – through banks or non-bank
FSPs
OPTION 4: Delivery through an agent/over the counter (OTC) – through a formal or informal institution acting as an
intermediary – including money transfer agents and traders