DEADLINE: 29TH OCTOBER, 2025
HEIFER NIGERIA LTD/GTE
REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS FOR VILLAGE SAVINGS AND LOAN SYSTEM (TOT) CONSULTANCY SERVICES
This document is being issued to solicit applications from Village Savings and Loan Association (VSLA) service providers with key technical staff who have substantial hands-on experience in conducting Village Savings and Loan
Associations (VSLA) to conduct Training-of-Trainers (ToT) to Heifer Community Facilitators (CFs) and Implementation to farmers’ Cooperative Groups. The VSLA training of trainers is designed to build Heifers’ Community Facilitators capacity to step down such trainings to the farmers and also coordinate and support the
setting up of the VSLA in their various communities, and establishment of VSLA Management Information System (MIS) to track implementation for evidence-based reporting.
The bidder is free to seek any clarification on the methodology or expected deliverables prior to preparation and submission of the proposal. While Heifer understands that completing this assignment will require the experience
of a firm with all the requisite expertise, the successful firm can sub-contract components of the assignment to appropriate qualified firms. However, Heifer Nigeria should be duly informed of the plan from the onset, and this
should be clearly stated in the bid as appropriate. It should also be noted that Heifer Nigeria will make payments to the contractor based on submission and Heifer’s approval of deliverables. The award agreement will include a payment schedule with specific deliverables; all payments require 15 business days for processing after approval of deliverables
The purpose of this request is to support the setting of Village Savings and Loans Association (VSLA) in addition to the VBHCD training, by supporting Community Facilitators (CFs) and some selected farmers’ cooperative group to learn and adopt the VSLA methodology across one (1) targeted community each in Benue, Nasarawa, Edo, Ogun and Lagos States (Name of Communities to be provided), thereby enhancing access to formal financial services to the small holder farmer groups.
