USAID/Armenia Resilience IDIQ (Single Holder)

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