Request for Expressions of Interest From Individual Consultants to Support EAC Payments Systems Masterplan Implementation

About FSD Network

The Financial Sector Deepening (FSD) Network is a family of ten locally established Financial Sector Deepening programs building diverse and inclusive financial systems across Africa that enhance financial resilience and sustainable livelihoods for all and enable inclusive economic growth.

We believe that financial systems have the potential to play a major role in enabling inclusive growth and ensuring access to basic goods and services while assuring a sustainable future for low-income people. We are deeply committed to equity between men and women and supporting the vulnerable and marginalized, including refugees and people living with disability.

We have a national FSD presence in four East African Community (EAC) countries: Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, and Rwanda, with nearly two decades of experience in advancing inclusive financial ecosystems and fostering inclusive economic growth. The Democratic Republic of Congo and Somalia are exploring establishing an FSD, while Burundi and South Sudan are currently the only EAC partner States with no FSD presence (current or planned). Guided by the imperatives of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals, the FSD Network seeks to develop sustainable financial systems that work more inclusively across Africa.

About Access to Finance Rwanda

Access to Finance Rwanda (AFR) is a Rwandan not-for-profit company established in 2010 to promote financial inclusion and financial sector development. AFR is currently funded by Sweden, Jersey Overseas Aid, the MasterCard Foundation, Co-Develop, and the Gates Foundation.

AFR is part of the broader Financial Sector Deepening (FSD) Network in Africa, which seeks to create transformative impact on ending poverty by supporting efforts to improve financial inclusion and financial sector development through helping policymakers, regulators, and financial service providers.