Expression of Interest for Consultancy for Development Dci Extensions for the Social Registry of Rwanda Location: Kigali Deadline: Tuesday, 09/12/2025 23:59 Expression of Interest (EoI) Consultancy for Development DCI extensions for the Social Registry of Rwanda Reference number: 83494786 1. Context The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH is a federally owned international cooperation enterprise for sustainable development with worldwide operations. The GIZ Office in Kigali covers GIZs portfolio in Rwanda and Burundi. GIZ Rwanda/Burundi implements projects on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, the European Union and other commissioning authorities in the following priority areas: Sustainable Economic Development, Good Governance, Climate, Energy and Sustainable Urban Development, Digitalization and Digital Economy, Mineral Governance, Peace and Security in the Great Lakes Region. 1.1. DCI The Digital Convergence Initiative, DCI, launched in 2021 under the Global Partnership for Universal Social Protection (USP2030), seeks to accelerate universal social protection through digital transformation and interoperability. DCI is supported by the EUs multi-Donor Action, co-financed by BMZ, and implemented by GIZ with partners like Expertise France, FIIAPP, ILO, and the World Bank, DCI aims to harmonize data sharing to improve program outcomes. This initiative aligns with the goal of achieving USP2030 by standardizing and integrating social protection systems globally, fostering collaboration among stakeholders, and leveraging digital solutions for inclusive, efficient social protection. As part of DCIs commitment to enhance social protection delivery systems, DCI has been working on developing standards for the integration of seven key interfaces with Social Protection Management Information Systems. These interfaces include Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS), Integrated Beneficiary Registry (IBR), Social Registry, Disability Registry, Farmer Registry, ID-Systems, and Payment Systems. The consensus-based interoperability standards focus on common processes, data elements, and APIs to enable organizational, semantic, and technical interoperability. The standards also align with the layers of the EU interoperability framework. As part of EU Action, DCI is developing a knowledge product on best practices for consensus-based development, implementation, and management of interoperability standards. DCI is seeking one or a group of consultants with specific expertise to develop the knowledge product in collaboration with GIZ. 1.2. Social Protection in Rwanda Social protection in Rwanda became a formal sector in 2008, after the first national social protection policy was developed in 2005, and the first economic development and poverty reduction strategy (EDPRS 1) was developed shortly after in 2007. To alleviate poverty through inclusive development, citizen participation, and support for overcoming socio-economic shocks, the country developed additional social protection-enhancing instruments, such as the 2011 national social protection strategy and the updated version of the national social protection policy released in 2020. Rwandas Ministry of Local Government (MINALOC) recently updated the social protection sector strategic plan (2024 to 2029), which is still undergoing some revisions. This new SP-SSP aligns with Rwandas Vision 2050 and the new National Strategy for Transformation (NST2) and upholds Rwandas commitment to reducing poverty, as enshrined in the countrys constitution. The SP-SSP seeks to reduce poverty, empower vulnerable households, and build resilience in overcoming various socio-economic shocks. These goals are captured in the SP-SSP overarching objectives: protect people in poverty, promote people to move out of poverty and prevent people from falling (back) into poverty. The plan will halve poverty by half over the next 5 years by implementing well-defined strategic priorities (see Table 1). Strategic Priorities Brief Description Create an enabling environment that empowers households to sustainably graduate out of poverty Through the provision of safety nets, coaching, asset transfers, and financial literacy programs, the SP-SSP aims to empower households to achieve long-term economic independence. Strengthen social protection systems to provide adequate benefits, while expanding coverage for poor and vulnerable people Expanding coverage and improving benefits for vulnerable groups, including older persons, persons with disabilities, and children, is essential to achieve both coverage and poverty reduction targets. Ensure that social security is extended to all people Ensuring broader participation and coverage of social security schemes for the formal and informal sector workers, while expanding initiatives like Ejo Heza. Ensure that all populations have access to health insurance Ensuring 100% health insurance coverage, especially for the poorest, through the Community-Based Health Insurance. Strengthen the contribution of social protection to prevent and reduce malnutrition Strengthening income support and access to nutrition especially for children under five, pregnant women, and vulnerable mothers. Ensure that all vulnerable groups have access to high quality social care services Enhancing social services for vulnerable populations, including psychosocial support, reintegration packages, community-based rehabilitation and livelihood support. Strengthen shock responsive mechanisms for all vulnerable people at risk of being pushed into poverty as a result of shocks Developing disaster risk reduction strategies and shock-responsive cash and in-kind transfers to mitigate the effects of climate change and other crises. Strengthened governance, M&E systems, evidence generation and cross cutting interventions Improving institutional coordination and monitoring to track progress, ensure accountability and generate increased investment. Table 1: SP-SSP Strategic Priorities between 2024 2029 Under the protect objective, the SP-SSP intends to enforce measures that safeguard poor households without labor capacity by ensuring they have access to minimum living standards through access to essential services and income support. Similarly, the plans will, under the promote objective, foster an enabling environment that offers income-generating opportunities to households with capacity labor so that they pursue improved livelihoods and move up the poverty ladder. Additionally, poor households human capacity will be enhanced to pursue economic opportunities in the job market or as entrepreneurs. Lastly, the prevent objective ensures that no one falls back into the poverty trap. This will be achieved by putting in place mechanisms to track households progress and putting investments at their disposal to help them be resilient in the face of shocks that may affect their livelihoods. The plan also recognizes the importance of cross-sector alignment for successful and comprehensive poverty alleviation programming. It integrates aspects of private sector development, financial inclusion and access to health services. With ongoing technological advances in Rwanda, the SP-SSP recognizes the role digital technologies and data can play in its realization. More specifically, the existing digital solutions in the social protection domain are crucial to the plan monitoring and evaluation system. The plan refers to three major systems that will serve as a reference for impact measurement for social protection interventions countrywide. They include the social registry information system owned by MINALOC, the monitoring and evaluation information system owned by LODA and the soon-to-be-developed graduation management information system. 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