R -- TRAINING FOR USAID/AFRICA PROGRAM PERSONNEL AND COLLABORATING PARTNERS ON USE AND APPLICATION OF MULTIVALENT ANALYSIS TOOLS FOR IMPROVED STRATEGIC-NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

Notice Date

May 24, 2001

Contracting Office

U.S. Agency for International Development, M/OP/HRAM/AFP, Room 7.10-40, RRB, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20523-7101

ZIP Code

20523-7101

Solicitation Number

N/A

Point of Contact

C. Susan Rupprecht, Fax: 202/216-3052 or Sheila Bumpass

E-Mail Address

http://www.usaid.gov (srupprecht@usaid.gov or sbumpass@usaid.gov)

Description

The U.S. Agency for International Development, has over 20 years of experience in Natural Resource Management. Considerable analytical effort has been spent on case studies to outline lessons learned in a localized context. At the same time, USAID has instituted a strategic planning approach to development, assigning country-level goals linked to strategic objectives that are derived by development hypotheses. The challenges to USAID is three-fold. First, the strategic planning process of the Agency, as well as many of its partners, tends to focus on achieving a consensus on objectives among various priorities which are held by groups and individuals rather and in the absence of an objective review of key issues and the complex relationships among them. Second, in order to achieve the heuristic model necessary to drive this analytical process, and approach that combines expert knowledge with the characterization of the disparate lessons learned through case studies, evaluations and ad hoc studies is needed. Finally, field personnel require training in the use of such approaches and tools and the tools themselves must be usable given the time, resource, and technological constraints present at the field level. The preferred method of distribution of USAID procurement information is via the Internet or by request of a solicitation. This CBD notice can be viewed and downloaded using the Agency Web Site. The request for proposal, once issued, can also be downloaded from the Agency web site. The Worldwide Web address is http://www.info.usaid.gov. Select Business and Procurement Opportunities from the home page, then "USAID Procurements." On the following screen, select "Download Available USAID Solicitation." The Request will be available on the USAID web-site on or about 30 days after publication of this notice. Receipt of the Request through the INTERNET must be confirmed by written notification to the contact person above. It is the responsibility of the recipient of the solicitation document to ensure that it has been received from INTERNET in its entirety and USAID bears no responsibility for data errors resulting from transmission or conversion processes.********

Web Link

http://www.usaid.gov/procurement_bus_opp/procurement/announce/cbd (http://www.usaid.gov)

Record

Loren Data Corp. 20010529/RSOL002.HTM (W-144 SN50N056)