Inactive Local Area Set-Aside (FAR 26.2)

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-... 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