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Business Forecast Strengthening Provinces to Deliver Integrated Health Services (SPDIHS)
The 5-year Strengthening Provinces to Deliver Integrated Health Services activity’s goal is to contribute to the Government the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) overarching goal of improving the health of Congolese in four provinces:Lualaba, Haut-Lomami, Haut-Katanga, and Kasai Oriental. The Activity seeks to promote ownership and leadership of provinces to lead, manage, and monitor health programs (family planning, maternal, newborn and child health, nutrition, immunization, tuberculosis, malaria and global health security). The Activity supports the application of the Memorandum of Understanding for primary health care services in four provinces: Lualaba, Haut Lomami, Haut Katanga and Kasai Oriental. The Recipient will manage Fixed-price subcontracts to provincial institutions, provide managerial and technical assistance, and catalyze on civil society expertise to improve equitable quality and access to primary care health services. These Fixed-price sub-contracts shall be given based on provincial financial contributions for health. These fixed-price sub-contracts need to contribute to increased provincial domestic mobilization of financial resources for health programs within each province.
Co-creation: No
Estimated Level of Funding depending on availability of funds: $80,000,000-$85,000,000
Anticipated award time: Early 2025
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The Civic Engagement Activity is an initiative aimed at fostering a more politically engaged citizenry in Iraq, enhancing trust and participation in the country's democratic processes. This activity seeks to elevate civic literacy, empower citizens to actively engage and contribute to discussions on issues of concern. Equipping citizens with the knowledge and skills necessary to participate effectively in the democratic processes.

This includes fostering awareness of governmental processes, promoting access to accurate media content, facilitating increased engagement with government entities at various levels, and empowering citizens to participate in public life.

Overall, this activity represents a concerted effort to build a more resilient and participatory democracy in Iraq, with a particular emphasis on empowering marginalized groups.

Localization will be central to this activity, with local leadership involved in activity design and priority setting. Sub-grants will help identify potential local partners for direct awards to USAID/Iraq. The implementing partner will integrate local capacity strengthening in line with USAID's policy throughout all activities.A collaborative approach to program design with applicants before application submission ensures alignment with mission priorities and incorporates Iraqi voices.

Promote sustainable livelihoods and advance natural climate solutions in areas affected by deforestation and land degradation through greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction and mitigation efforts.

Youth Prosperity through Agricultural Pathways in Higher Education

The Secondary Success activity will build on existing structures to increase the availability, access, and quality of education, including remedial skills, lifeskills, health and leadership, mentorship, and financial inclusion.

The purpose of the contract is to raise the awareness about USAID programs and help increase their impacts in North Macedonia. The contractor will be required to provide high-quality analytics of USAID programs’ impacts and outreach, including production of creative, high-quality communications products, media engagement, and events planning and management. In addition, the contractor will be required to assess the strategic communications capacities of the USAID mission staff and USAID partners and deliver specialized training through workshops. The main audience for this activity includes the general public, mission staff, the private and the public sector.

The goal of the contract is to strengthen Armenia’s resilience by focusing on strengthening key systems against a wide range of potential threats. These key systems include: natural resource management; disaster risk management; agriculture, food security, and food production systems; water resource management; energy systems; and the systems that support climate resilient infrastructure. The goal will be achieved through provision of technical assistance, capacity building, in-kind support, and grants under contract.

Task Order Technical Requirements

Natural Resource Management
Potential task order interventions will strengthen the public and private environmental and natural resource management systems to promote self-reliance, a healthier population, sustainable livelihoods and economic opportunity, peaceful management of conflict over resources, and increased resilience. This can include interventions that address land and resource rights; environmental and plastic pollution; natural resource-related conflict and violence; urban resilience, and environmental health, and other interventions that may be relevant and appropriate.

Disaster Risk Management (DRM)
Potential task order interventions will build the resilience of communities, cities, institutions, systems and societies to shocks and stresses. This can include bolstering institutions and capabilities at the national, local, community, and civil society levels to strengthen each of the four key phases of DRM - mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery - with the emphasis on preventing new risks, reducing existing risks and strengthening resilience; engaging the whole society and all parts of the Government of Armenia to ensure shared national responsibility for DRM; applying multi-hazard approach and inclusive risk-informed decision-making; and enabling rapid deployment of funds and other resources in the event of sudden onset disasters, and other interventions that may be relevant and appropriate.

Agriculture, Food Security, and Food Production Systems
Potential task order interventions will work with the public and private sector to increase domestic production for domestic consumption and reduce dependence on imports to stabilize market systems, as well as to increase domestic production for export and export market diversification. This can include supporting agriculture sector knowledge management, increased domestic production of staple crops for domestic consumption, food systems resilience, as well as other interventions deemed necessary and appropriate to improve food security in Armenia.

Water Resource Management
Potential task order interventions will support the implementation of the U.S. Government’s Global Water Strategy in Armenia. Interventions can support strengthened sector governance, financing, and markets; increase equitable access to safe, sustainable, and climate-resilient water and sanitation services; improve climate-resilient conservation and management of freshwater resources; reduce conflict and fragility related to water, and other interventions that may be relevant and appropriate.

Energy Systems
Potential task order interventions will support efforts to increase energy system resilience by supporting market liberalization reforms; increased regional energy trade; diversified domestic generation of renewable energy; adoption of energy efficiency measures; and cybersecurity measures to protect Armenia’s energy systems. This can include strengthening relevant government and non-governmental institutions, policies, systems, workforce, and skills to further energy reforms and engagement with the private sector to promote energy system resilience, and other interventions that may be relevant and appropriate.

Systems to Support Climate-Resilient Infrastructure
Potential task order interventions will support the development of climate-resilient infrastructure and the systems that support their development. This can include the preparation of technical and economic pre-feasibility and feasibility studies; development of infrastructure design documents; development of strategies, action plans, and other documents needed to institutionalize climate-resilient infrastructure into Government of Armenia processes; developing the capacity of the Government of Armenia and the private sector to implement climate-resilient infrastructure solutions, and other interventions that may be relevant and appropriate. Potential infrastructure sectors may include transportation, water, sanitation and waste management, energy, communications, and shelter services, and others identified in the future.

Responding to Shocks and Unforeseen Events
Due to unforeseen requirements and ever changing environments, potential task orders may be issued that require technical interventions that fall within the purview of USAID/Armenia’s Economic Growth Office, but have not been identified as of yet. These task orders will be used to respond to unanticipated events impacting on or related to the achievement of overall project and Economic Growth Office objectives. Based on demonstrated need and available funding, task orders will be used to provide assistance to the Government of Armenia, and/or the private sector to better navigate and respond to these shocks.
While specific activities undertaken will be determined by the nature and scope of the economic shock, as well as the needs of the GOAM, illustrative activities that will be implemented under this objective include:

? Training and capacity building
? Assessments
? Technical Assistance
? In-kind support such as equipment purchases
? Small scale infrastructure development
? Grants Under Contract

This will be the first TO under the USAID/Armenia Resilience Single Holder IDIQ. The RFTOP will be released together with the IDIQ RFP.

Goal: Increase domestic production of critical agricultural value chains to increase food security and reduce dependence on imports.

Result Area 1: Increased efficiency and production of critical crops for domestic consumption

- Establish baseline to determine where opportunities for increased production of staple crops exist.
- Re-introduce extension services to provide knowledge support to farmers for more efficient production.
- Increase collaboration among farmers to achieve efficiencies and economies of scale.
- Support mechanization, improved seeds, storage, and other measures to improve yields and reduce post-harvest losses

Result Area 2: Agriculture sector knowledge management

- In partnership with National Agrarian University, strengthen digital agriculture capacity through development of a publicly accessible, web-based agriculture information dashboard, and productive use mapping tool.
- Data collection and maintenance, dissemination, and access for risk identification, planning, and decision making for farmers, private sector actors, and government as part of agricultural information tool above.
- Increase public and farmer awareness of economic opportunities related to agricultural production
- Content development for web-based access/social media for enhanced farmer information and training purposes.
- Bring to scale existing ANAU’s youth engagement programs and expand offerings at secondary school, vocational education, and higher education levels.

Result Area 3: Disaster Preparedness and Resilience

- Expand early warning capacity to include risk assessment related to medium to longer term threats that have an impact on food security.
- Establish coordination and risk assessment mechanism inclusive of the university, government, and private sector to consider and discuss threats and mitigations to food systems and security.
- Increase availability of public information regarding risks and threats to the food systems and improving collection of related data.
- Expand University’s capacity to improve available data for surveillance of pests and biothreats to contribute to national early warning and management.

Result Area 4: Rapid Response/Windows of Opportunity

- Support shorter term recovery from unanticipated events or disasters that threaten the food system in the transition between emergency response and development activities.
- Support grant for specific, innovative activities requested by women or youth entrepreneurs for testing purposes or bringing to scale agribusiness and digital agriculture opportunities.
- Provide studies, research, or analysis requested by government or farmers to help understand threat or risk and possible responses.
- Provide specialized technical assistance on a limited basis to address a specific risk, threat, or opportunity.

The objective of this activity is to: (1) increase resilience of the local communities in Mbomou-Uele region, (2) improve living conditions among the transhumant and sedentary population and (3) secure conservation and management of ecosystems. With the emphasis on Transhumance, Livelihoods and Gender-Based Violence, this activity will be built on the past programs.
This activity will enable local communities’ members to (i) connect and adapt to security and reduce threats for biodiversity conservation (ii) increase and promote sustainable livelihoods activities and foster economic security; (iii) foster social cohesion and rebuilt their communities from trauma; (iv) reduce gender-based violence and strengthen resilience of survivors of sexual violence.
The dynamic in the region is that armed groups and uncontrolled pastoralists, and the absence of effective good governance and security have combined to form a deadly mixture of violent crime, land-based conflict and displacement. In the recent past, LRA has had a particularly devastating effect on communities and particularly on women and youth largely because they
5 were frequent targets for abduction. Those who managed to escape, often struggle to reintegrate into their communities and must deal with the emotional trauma due to the violence they were exposed to. The Activity will address these challenges and pursue the above objective by partnering with other organizations operating in the regions.