Azerbaijan, Baku, September 11 / Trend , N.Ismayilova /
Within the joint project of World Bank and Azerbaijan Government, Financial Services Development Project, which is aimed at developing institutional capacity of national postal operator - Azerpocht State Company, a tender was announced to attract consultant, the project group reported.
The task of the consultant is to translate Russian model of the survey on financial literacy into Azeri language, create script of survey, develop methodology for this survey covering the entire population, print and deliver all necessary materials to individuals conducting survey, as well as monitor the activities of persons conducting survey, provide a full report on the conducted survey in Azerbaijani and English languages, etc. Survey should cover about 1,200 respondents.
The budget of the project on advisory services totals $40,000 initially that will be paid due to grant funds provided by the Swiss Government.
The deadline of expressing interest was identified no later than September 19. The contact person is the head of the coordinating group for the project Ramazan Musaev: e-mail [email protected] or ramazan.musayev@ gmail.com, telephone: (99412) 497-39-70, 431-11-22.
The cost of the three year project, the main component of which is modernization of the postal network of the country, made up $17,5mln, with $12,25 credit allocated by the World Bank, the remaining allotted by the Azerbaijani government. One thousand new jobs will be created under the framework of the program. The government of Switzerland also provided $612,000 technical assistance for the project.
The project envisages bringing Azerpocht activities into conformity with the requirements on risk management in the field of financial services.
According to the amendments to the Law on Postal Communication, the functions of Azerpocht have already been expanded. In the near future country's post offices will provide banking services - money transfers, receiving deposits of the population, as well as issuing pensions and benefits that will be provided by post offices without any obstacles. The functions of Azerpocht not only include the opening of credit lines.
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