Consultancy for NORCAP Cash and Markets strategic plan

NORCAP seeks a consultant or a team of consultants to support the redesign of CashCap, leading to the development of NORCAP’s new Cash and Markets strategic plan, expected to run for three years from January 2022.

The objectives of this consultancy are to:

1. Carry out a summary analysis of the existing CashCap strategy, as the foundational pillar of NORCAP’s cash and markets work. This analysis will identify critical elements of CashCap’s existing strategic pillars and services that should be retained going forward, elements of limited value-add to the sector and elements, where strategic investment for future growth would be justified.

2. Carry out a light-touch landscape and trends analysis of CVA and broader system landscape that the strategy needs to be responsive to, taking account of views from a range of partners and stakeholders (national governments, multilateral and bilateral institutions, financial sector actors, relevant network and alliances etc).

3. Based on 1 and 2 above, develop a strategy for NORCAP Cash and Markets covering 2022-2025. This will include a mission and vision statement, theory of change, outline how this strategy responds to key trends within CVA and broader humanitarian landscape and outline operating plan for Year 1 of the new strategy.

CashCap, one of NORCAP’s flagship programmes, established in 2015/2016, aims to support humanitarian and development actors in achieving Grand Bargain commitments to radically increase the scale and quality of cash and voucher assistance (CVA) as a modality. CashCap experts provide inter-agency support at all levels and in all stages of a crisis response. The experts facilitate planning, coordination and implementation of cash programming across the sectors, without an agency-specific agenda. Every mission includes an element of knowledge exchange and learning within and for agencies involved in cash coordination, including CashCap host agencies, national and local stakeholders. Their impartiality, technical know-how and their operational experience mark the CashCap quality brand.

Please see the Terms of Reference for more details and application procedures.