Analysis of Regional Illicit Financial Flow Vulnerability
Deadline: 29-Aug-21
The Combatting Illicit Economies Programme (Latin America) is calling for bids for an Analysis of Regional Illicit Financial Flow Vulnerability.
Illicit Economies Programme (“CIEP”) is a programme funded through the UK: British Embassy, Colombia (with, and on behalf of, other British Embassies in region).
Objectives
The Combatting’s Conflict Stability and Security Fund. It partners with countries in Latin America to tackle threats including serious organised crime (from drugs to money laundering to environmental crime), grand corruption and instability/conflict.
There are various channels used to move money internationally – whether incoming or outgoing – such as, but not limited to, trade, banking positions, foreign direct investment, and portfolio investment. Each of those will have different relative levels of importance to a given country and including as illicit finance moves between countries. Each country may also experience different levels of vulnerability to the misuse of those channels by a range of actors and whether working within a country or transnationally across the region.
To better understand the vulnerability of the focus countries to illicit financial flows and relevant importance of those flows the CIEP seeks an implementing partner who will be able to analyse such vulnerability and prioritise them according to a matrix with four variables:
Channels used for illicit financial flows (e.g., international trade, foreign direct investment, etc.);
Volume of those flows;
Counterpart countries where those flows originate or are destined (not restricted to the focus countries); and
Sectors generating those flows (e.g., classification based on the Harmonised System used for international trade).
The final analysis should, at a minimum, include in relation to each focus country:
Vulnerability ranking for each of the four variables;
Composite ranking incorporating 4.a (Channel), 4.b (Volume) and 4.c (Counterpart);
Composite ranking as 5.b, plus 4.d (Sector);
The vulnerability ranking evolution over the past 10 years and their average;
List of actionable recommendations for tackling the identified vulnerabilities/shortfalls; and
Methodology used to assess/quantify each variable.
The CIEP invites Bidders to propose further channels than the four and different sectorial classifications.
The focus countries which the programme seeks analysis of are: Colombia, Peru, Panama, Venezuela, Ecuador and the Dominican Republic.
Funding Information
The project bid should not exceed GBP150,000 albeit the programme will consider bids proposing compelling activity in excess of that.
Priorities
They are seeking an implementer to carry out a series of country-specific analyses wrapped ultimately into a regional analysis.
It is anticipated the majority of the research will be able to be completed from public, open sources although some close-source interviews may also be necessary. As appropriate, Embassies in region may be able to assist the implementer in making contact with key stakeholders in State agencies/institutions and in order to provide a fuller picture of the movement of IFFs within or out of a country.
For more information, visit https://www.gov.uk/government/news/call-for-analysis-of-regional-illicit-financial-flow-vulnerability