Deadline: 4-Oct-21
The United States Agency of International Development (USAID) has announced the applications for Ethiopia Collaboration Learning Adapting Platform to transition Ethiopia to a more democratic, prosperous, and resilient society, with accountable institutions and private sector-led growth.
To achieve this goal, USAID/Ethiopia will partner with Ethiopian stakeholders and donors, the private sector, and civil society across sectors to address challenges in the areas of democracy, demographics, and disasters.
For the purposes of this Addendum, USAID seeks new perspectives through co-creation with a diversity of partners who possess a number of the experiences, both in the development field and private-sector innovations. More importantly, USAID/Ethiopia and USAID/Djibouti are seeking partners who have the ability to transform the way USAID and its external stakeholders understand and respond to the success or failure of their programming utilizing the following approaches:
- Systems-based approach, that is flexible and expandable based on the demands of the stakeholders addressing the objectives.
- Expose stakeholders to non-traditional monitoring, evaluation, and learning methods and cutting-edge analysis as well as support their ability and awareness to engage with nontraditional development actors for learning.
- Support to a subset of the Mission’s Learning Themes and Learning Questions:
- Learning themes: Gender, Youth, Private sector engagement, Governance, including civil society and citizen engagement, Conflict, New partnerships, Mission operations. Some are cross-cutting and target sectors. USAID and Implementing Partners need to consider the difference in how they will address cross-cutting in terms of function and focus sector/theme.
- Major learning questions:
- To what extent, and under what enabling conditions, does multi-sectoral integration lead to improved outcomes?
- How have particular programmatic or sectoral approaches to systems strengthening been designed and implemented to foster self-reliance, and which are most effective? Why?
Objectives
USAID seeks partners to engage in a co-creation process to achieve the following objectives:
- Learning to drive program results more efficiently and expediently than traditional MEL
- Generate fit-for-purpose data to adapt and improve development programs
- Increase the Speed of Collaborating, Learning, and Adaptation
- Improve data literacy, including the ability to generate, comprehend, rigorously analyze, and apply data generated by both USAID and broader development actors
- Share CLA practices and expand the use of CLA across the Mission’s implementing partners, and other Ethiopian and Djibouti partners outside of government.
Funding Information
USAID anticipates a funding of up to $60M from which they will issue one or multiple awards, depending on the co-creation process.
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=335359