| Overview : Assist UNCDF and the Nepal Rastra Bank to develop an API, which will be able to communicate with the Management Information System or Core Banking Systems used by Financial Institutions to allow data to be pulled directly without the burden of manual reporting by FI staff. UNCDF is the UN’s capital investment agency for the world’s 48 least developed countries (LDCs). With its capital mandate and instruments, UNCDF offers “last mile” finance models that unlock public and private resources, especially at the domestic level, to reduce poverty and support local economic development. This last mile is where available resources for development are scarcest; where market failures are most pronounced; and where benefits from national growth tend to leave people excluded. Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) Nepal has made significant improvements over the years in terms of financial services delivery outlets/channels offered through both formal and informal financial institutions. Despite that, the level of adults Nepalese above 18 years who are excluded from financial services remains significant. The data from the Finscope Nepal survey 2014 showed that only 40% of the population are banked, with significant disparities between the regions. The central bank of Nepal, Nepal Rastra Bank had deployed various policy instruments to ensure that the financial services are able to make in-roads in remote and rural areas. Still financial services are concentrated in mostly urban and semi-urban areas, with Kathmandu valley region having the highest concentration Financial Institutions are required to report a range of data to NRB on a regular basis. Collecting, managing and analyzing key data reported by financial institutions is done by NRB’s Bank and Financial Institution Regulation Department. This is done through a basic reporting system that is managed in-house at NRB and operates on a PHP-MYSQL database system. The current system: · Allows Financial Institutions (FIs) download data reporting templates · Allows FIs to upload their data as formatted CSVs which are then housed in a MYSQL database NRB plans to develop a new system which will: · Allow Financial Institutions (FIs) to download data reporting templates · Allow FIs to upload their data in a range of forms including csv, xml, excel · Allow NRB to efficiently manage the accounts of the reporting FIs · Provide timely information on compliance to NRB staff (reports on what data has been submitted by which institution) · Generate standarised reports and send these, via various channels, to key staff on a regular basis · Provide an easy to use interface for the generation of complex, ad hoc reports · Provide an easy to use interface for FIs to upload their data · Authenticate users based on an API-Token · Provide the basis for a range of business intelligence and visualization tools that will allow users to interact dynamically with the data, including spatial data. Development of the visualizations is beyond the scope of this project but the system should be designed in such a way as to be interoperable with a wide range of data visualization tools. Location: Kathmandu, Nepal Timeline: February 01, 2017 to April 30, 2017 Location(s); Kathmandu, Nepal Total Maximum Number of Working Days for Assignment 300 Days (Multiple consultants allowed). This can be spread over a number of developers with no more than 2 simultaneous parallel processes Deliverables: - User Authentication Module
- Reporting entities management system
- API based data collection and reporting system
- Data upload mechanism
- System for query based report generation
- Geo-spatial analysis module
- Compliance checking module
- Document broadcasting or issue system
- Integration of database with front end-user interface
Application: Please refer to the annexes for the application process. Proposals may be submitted via email to mm4p@uncdf.org, Please note that the response email cannot exceed 10MB. Your Technical and Financial Proposal must be expressed in English, and valid for a minimum period of 12 months. | 
