UNCDF has been operating in Myanmar since 2012 with a capital mandate to expand savings-led financial inclusion and use localized investments to drive poverty reduction and sustainable development. The country program seeks to improve financial service access and usage to achieve equitable, sustainable, and inclusive growth within the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Myanmar Sustainable Development Plan (MSDP), which includes the use of innovate solutions to bring formal services for people at the bottom of the pyramid. In 2020, a new Financial Inclusion Roadmap will be launched in conjunction with the Government of Myanmar, as the nation’s highest-level financial inclusion policy document.

In a pre-pandemic scenario, the need for digital products such as digital loan repayments or electronic cash transfers was a good accomplishment for the financial sector and humanitarian and development actors. Unfortunately, in the current COVID-19 pandemic, with an increasing number of destroyed livelihoods, restricted mobility, and a stringent need for maintaining social distancing, digital payments became critical to deliver resources to vulnerable population in hard-to-reach areas; and critical to reduce the number of contagions.

UNCDF is seeking a Policy Expert Consultant to help the Government of the Union of Myanmar to design and implement policies and regulations that support the responsible and inclusive digitization of payments in the country. The Expert will assess the needs of the regulator and industry while supporting ongoing activities such as the microfinance integration platform and the respective rules and regulations.

The consultant will advocate and support the development of policies that  transition from cash to digital payments, and drive inclusive digital payments, with the objective of decreasing inequality, reducing costs, increasing transparency, and accelerate the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals and attain social distance consequence of COVID-19 health crisis.

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