Engagement of Financial Services Provider for Cash Transfer Activities at Norwegian Church Aid ('NCA')

Position Overview

This position offers a great opportunity for career growth while supporting vulnerable populations through critical cash assistance programming.

Program Objectives

The main objective of this approach is to provide self-directed, flexible cash support to Gender-Based Violence (GBV) survivors, enabling them to meet their multiple basic needs according to their own priorities and preferences. This support is designed to promote dignity, autonomy, and empowerment, ensuring survivors can decide for themselves how best to rebuild their lives.

Beneficiary Support Areas

Through this initiative, survivors will be able to address essential needs such as:

• Health services and medical expenses
• Safe shelter and protection
• Legal support to access justice and rights
• Livelihood recovery and rebuilding of economic assets
• Psychosocial support for emotional and mental well-being

Key Program Outcomes

• Providing flexible cash assistance empowers survivors to make informed choices and manage their recovery in a way that fits their context, reducing their vulnerability to further exposure to GBV risks, exploitation, and harmful coping strategies
• Assess the impact of cash assistance in supporting the healing process and rebuilding survivors' economic independence; lessons learned will inform whether this approach should be scaled up in future GBV programming
• Address barriers to accessing Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (ASRH) services by removing financial obstacles related to transportation costs and service fees, improving timely access to critical services

Scope of Work

• Provide safe and timely cash transfer services to identified beneficiaries
• Ensure confidential and secure delivery to 100 women and girls' survivors of GBV (50 in Monguno and 50 in Pulka)
• Process cash transfers at ₦43,064 per beneficiary
• Work in close collaboration with NCA program, finance, and MEAL (Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning) teams to ensure compliance and program effectiveness