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The objectives of AHARI are to:
1) Strengthen the partnership between BHA and the HBCUs and build HBCU capacity to
manage USAID awards through collaboration under AHARI.
2) Build a state-of-the-art HA curriculum at the HBCU; and 3)Establish an HA Learning Platform..

Civil Society and Media Sector Development will promote a more active civil society (including civil society advocacy issues of public concern), an improved NGO enabling environment, youth civic participation, independent media and access to information

School Feeding Program

Stability Through Economic Progress, Unity, and Peacebuilding (STEP UP)

Purpose is to improve demand and uptake of high impact, affordable FP-MCH-Malaria products through social marketing.

Services will directly enhance the ENVE team’s ability to provide mission support across multiple technical areas including: 1) biodiversity conservation, 2) adaptation and climate resilience, 3) natural climate solutions, 4) clean and renewable energy, 5) water resources management, and 6) ocean plastic pollution. Services may also support integrating these sectors across other sectors where USAID works. The contract will also allow the LAC Bureau to provide key environmental and social safeguards.

The goal of the Peace Project is to enhance the ability of communities, civil society, and local institutions in Papua New Guinea to work in partnership to prevent and peacefully respond to conflict, and further increase the safe, meaningful participation of women across society.

Theory of Change: IF the legal and regulatory environment for human rights protection is improved; and IF the human rights institutions and oversight mechanisms are strengthened; and IF the public demand and access to rights protection are improved; THEN human rights will be better protected and rights violations will be better prevented and remedied.

Goals, Components, and Expected Results:

Goal: Promote human rights and fundamental freedoms in Armenia by preventing, responding to human rights violations, and enhancing rights protection.

Activity Components and Expected Results:

Component 1: Legal and regulatory frameworks for human rights protection improved.
Expected result:
• The legal and regulatory environment for human rights protection, including for labor rights protection and anti-discrimination, is improved.

Component 2: Human rights institutions and oversight mechanisms strengthened.
Expected results:
• Human Rights Defender’s Office’s (HRDO) technical capacities, systems, and processes to promote and protect human rights are improved.
• Institutional capacities of select rights enforcement bodies are strengthened.
• Monitoring, prevention, and response mechanisms to human rights violations, including torture, trafficking in persons, child labor, and gross violations for human rights; are enhanced.

Component 3: Public demand and access to human rights protection improved.
Expected results:
• Human rights defenders’ advocacy for rights protection is bolstered.
• Adherence to human rights norms and legislation is improved through strategic litigation and advocacy efforts.
• Platforms/mechanisms for evidence-based civic oversight of human rights protection bodies, including HRDO, are strengthened.
• Public awareness and support for human rights is enhanced.

The purpose of this contract is to support USAID/Armenia and its implementing partners to improve program management and development impact through collaboration, learning and evidence-based decision-making.

USAID/Armenia is committed to fostering a learning-oriented culture and use of robust evidence and analysis, generated by non-biased qualitative and quantitative research to make strategic and programmatic decisions. The Mission seeks to ensure greater coordination and harmonization of Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) practices across the technical teams, with an explicit focus on measuring and improving development performance and progress toward achieving the overall goal of the CDCS.

Towards this end, this Contract will support greater rigor and coherence in MEL and CLA efforts, allow greater flexibility to assess changes in Armenia’s development context, support synergies between MEL activities across DOs, and bolster Mission efforts to incorporate learning and adapting throughout the program cycle.

The Contract has the following interlinked objectives:

(a) Learning and adaptive management - Strengthen the Mission’s learning and adaptive management practices and use of evidence for programming decisions by developing, adapting and integrating Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting (CLA) tools and approaches in Mission processes.

(b) Evaluations, assessments, analyses and studies - Design and conduct evaluations, analyses, assessments, and studies to meet the Mission’s need for learning and evidence-based programmatic decision-making.

(c) Performance monitoring - Strengthen the Mission’s and its implementing partners’ performance monitoring systems by developing effective monitoring tools including adoption of digital and virtual tools and geographic information system (GIS) technologies for monitoring performance at the strategy, project and activity levels.

(d) Capacity building - Strengthen Mission’s and local partners’ capacities in monitoring, evaluation, learning, and adaptive management.

To achieve the above objectives, the Contractor must support the Mission in the following areas of work:

- Assessments, analyses, studies;
Monitoring;
- Evaluations;
- Data management, analyses, visualization, and use
- CLA and adaptive management
- MEL capacity building