ILO’s Microinsurance Innovation Facility

Instructional design of an e-course on “Market research for microinsurance”

Call for proposals

ILO’s Microinsurance Innovation Facility (‘the Facility’) invites proposals from individuals and companies for the instructional design of an e-course on “Market research for microinsurance”.

The details are given below:

Background

Housed at the International Labour Organization's Social Finance Programme, the Microinsurance Innovation Facility seeks to increase the availability of quality insurance for the developing world’s low-income families to help them guard against risk and overcome poverty. Launched in 2008 with the support of a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Facility has actively stimulated microinsurance development in poor countries around the world through three main activities: innovation grants, research projects, and capacity building projects. The focus of these activities is to learn about microinsurance so these lessons can be shared with the broader microinsurance sector.

The Facility developed a training module on “Market research for microinsurance” for face-to-face training in 2013. The training is comprised of 12 modules and is delivered using adult-learning methodologies to microinsurance practitioners over a period of 4 days (with a 1-day field visit included). The training materials comprise of a full training guide, set of slides for the 12 modules, and relevant participant hand outs.  

Objectives

As part of its objective of delivering capacity building activities to a broader audience, the Facility is looking at offering this training using a blended-learning approach. With this call for proposals, we seek to identify an instructional designer who can work with the Facility team and subject matter experts to leverage the existing training module and arrive at a set of storyboards that can be converted into electronic courseware.

Terms of reference

Specifically, the following are the tasks the instructional designer should perform:

1. In collaboration with the Facility, identify and propose the mix of methods and techniques for each session in the e-course. This includes assessing to what extent the methods in the classroom module can be converted into e-format, and propose alternative and more appropriate methods and delivery format for e-learning when necessary.
2. Come up with a course evaluation strategy and evaluation instruments for the whole course, as well as per module, when applicable.
3. Gather additional inputs from subject matter experts to supplement classroom materials (such as with examples, cases, more descriptions, etc) so it becomes sufficient for conversion into e-course, when necessary.
4. Develop lesson storyboards integrating all relevant content and specifying which elements (texts, images, interactive questions, other windows) will appear in each screen and which techniques will be used for each of the e-modules.
5. Develop practice and assessment tests, and propose topics for discussions, when necessary.
6. Review e-courseware produced by web/media developers and provide feedback to developers.

Deliverables

Storyboard for 11 modules of around 15-30 minutes each (the 12th session is the field work, the design of which will be retained). Storyboards should include practice and assessment tests and discussion topics/questions.

Project duration

The project is expected to be completed over a period of three months, from mid-February to mid-May at the latest, with first draft of storyboards submitted on a per module basis as they are finished and with all modules ideally completed by mid-April.

Elements of the Proposal

Bidders will be required to submit a financial and a technical proposal. Proposals arriving after the prescribed deadline for submission of Proposals will not be considered.

Technical Proposal:

• Executive Summary
• Company brief, if proponent is a company
• Delivery methodology (main ideas and how the agency will deliver on the project)
• Sample of work done on similar projects, preferably on financial inclusion topics
• Resumes of persons who will work on the project
• Breakdown of timeline of deliverables

Financial Proposal:

The bidder is required to provide a detailed price proposal for the project according to the scope of works. The price should be quoted in US Dollars.

Cost of Proposal

The bidder shall bear all costs associated with the preparation and submission of this proposal and the Facility will in no case be held responsible or liable for these costs, regardless of the conduct or outcome of the proposal process.

Clarifications on Proposal Document and Further Information

The interested bidders may contact microinsuranceknowledge@ilo.org  during the period specified above for more information about the existing face-to-face training module. Once provided, any such request shall not be entertained and it shall be presumed that the bidder has completely understood the requirement and quoted the price considering the same.

Submission of Proposals & Close of Proposal

Proposals must be sent to the Facility at microinsuranceknowledge@ilo.org and received in one email containing the financial proposal and the technical proposal, with the full name and contact details of the bidder.

This proposal will close by 15^th February at 12h00 CET (Geneva time).

The Facility reserves the right to decline acceptance of any or all proposals during this proposal call.