Libyaunited States Usaid Tender

Deadline 7 February 2019The United States Agency for International Development USAID is seeking applications from qualified U.S. and Non-U.S. organizations for a Cooperative Agreement to fund a program entitled Local Governance and Civil Society LGCS.Objectives Expected OutcomesObjective 1 Strengthen the capacity of targeted municipal institutions to deliver services and be more responsive to citizen needs.Service delivery for trash collection solid waste management education and other relevant areas is improved measured by percent coverage frequency number of citizens served public confidence and other relevant industry standard service delivery indicators.Improved technical skills of municipal councils and administrators in public administration.Increased access and dissemination of information provided to citizens on municipal services.Municipal councils have more effective and transparent internal management processes and systems in place.Municipal councils mayors and municipal-based line ministries communicate coordinate and collaborate measurably better with each other and citizen groups and civil society.Municipal councils meet regularly with their constituents and reflect their recommendationspriorities in municipal plans budgets and projects.Groundwork prepared for domestic resource mobilization in coordination with USAIDs Public Financial Management activity and private sector resources leveraged to improve service delivery.Objective 2 Build the capacity of citizens civil society organizations CSOs private sector actors and other formal and informal stakeholders to advocate and hold municipal and related national-level institutions accountable to delivering on their mandates.Increased number of citizens participating in public sector planning and decision-making processes.Program beneficiaries use organizational performance index to measure improvements.Local partners are able to collaborate aggregate citizen concerns articulate priorities and develop advocacy plans and proposals.Local partners are able to conduct analyses and public opinion research to build an evidence base to inform decision-making and policy dialogues.Local partners are better able to communicate coordinate collaborate with each other and government institutions to build and reach consensus.Local partners develop and implement social accountability tools.Participatory planning processes are more inclusive and decisions reflect input of religious and ethnic minority groups women and youth.Objective 3 Strengthen national and sub-national decentralization policies systems and coordinationProcesses for better coordination between municipalities and Ministry of Local Government clarified and expanded.Coordination among national level institutions on implementation of Law 59 and associated regulations improved including with other implementing partners.Improved performance of key ministry functions related to regulating or delivering services at the local level.National level CSOs and associations successfully apply the tools and resources including the organizational performance index to help advance sub-national governance agenda at the national level.Objective 4 Inform Programming through a Robust Learning and Analysis AgendaWeekly political updates and analysis e.g. security environment policies or decrees passed at the national or local level changes made to government personnel protests or demonstrations by citizen groups upcoming elections concerns with service delivery electricity outages etc with an annual compilation and analysis of the weekly findings.Stakeholdernetwork analysis conducted in each municipality to identify potential partners.Legal analysis of gaps in the decentralization framework and recommendations for improvement including for the drafting of bylaws and implementing regulations.Baseline mid-term and final assessments for each municipalityPublic opinion research to inform programming and government authorities on how to respond to citizen concerns and measure citizen perceptions over the course of the program. USAID anticipates in addition to the baseline public opinion survey annual public opinion surveys to measure changes and help drive work plan processes.Completed Political-Economy Analysis PEA with the data used to inform andor refine proposed program approaches. USAID anticipates that the PEA will be updated as appropriate.Completed studies andor assessments of Libyas national and sub-national governance policies and systems and self-reliance metrics.Social inclusion assessments and data collection with data applied to refine proposed program approaches to ensure that minority voices including religious ethnic women and youth are effectively integrated into the programs initiatives.Completed regular and ongoing national and municipal level context analysis.Funding InformationSubject to funding availability and at the discretion of the Agency USAID intends to provide up to 36000000 in total USAID funding over a Four 4 year period.Eligible ApplicantsU.S. and non-US organizations may participate under this NOFO. For the purposes of this NOFO Non Governmental Organizations NGOs include any incorporated entity either non-profit or for-profit other than a governmental organization. All applicants must be physically able to operate in Libya including successfully obtaining needed registrations permits and access to work in Libya.How to ApplyConcept Papers must be submitted electronically via email at the address given on the website.