About the Job
REQUEST FOR APPLICATION (RFA)
RFA No. RFA_AID15EthiopiaResilience002
USAID Resilience Learning Activity (RLA)
LINC is a mission-driven US-based small business organized around a commitment to local stakeholders leading their own development. Our experience shows that localization is a complex problem requiring both international and local stakeholders to shift our mindsets and change our practices. We work to achieve our mission through research on best practices, monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) to improve programming, capacity strengthening for both international practitioners and local actors, facilitating collective and collaborative processes, and implementing innovative programs. The recipient of USAID’s Small Business of the Year award in 2017, we are a team of reflective and passionate development professionals. Our country’s experience spans Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Europe. For more information on LINC, please visit www.linclocal.org.
LINC is implementing the five-year USAID-funded Resilience Learning Activity (RLA). The activity supports USAID and its resilience partners with learning, collaboration, and research around resilience issues in Ethiopia. RLA serves as a “learning sidecar” to USAID/Ethiopia and its implementing partners, helping them to better understand what relief and development interventions can help make households, communities, and systems more resilient to increasingly persistent shocks and stresses. RLA provides support with learning processes and frameworks, development and consolidation of learning and research agendas, and support to resilience partners for adaptive management, results measurement, and the increased integration of systems thinking and rapid feedback into their respective toolboxes.
The USAID Resilience Learning Activity (RLA) is looking to partner with an Ethiopian organization as a grantee to undertake a collaborative effort to explore the sustainability of home gardens in Ethiopia. USAID and its partners implemented home gardens as part of food security interventions targeting about 32,800 households in PSNP Woredas of Afar, Amhara, Oromia, and Somali regions of Ethiopia since more than a decade ago. Encouraging results in adoption of home gardening, production and consumption of vegetables and dietary diversity were recorded. However, there is a gap of evidence about the sustainability of the home gardens in the targeted areas. RLA in partnership with an Ethiopian organization (research institution, private sector firms, associations etc.) proposes’ to investigate the levels of sustainability of home gardening in targeted Woredas and to identify the associated enabling factors and barriers to understand why home gardens in some communities are sustained and not in others.
About You
SCOPE OF WORK AND DELIVERABLES
The selected grantee is invited to work in close collaboration with USAID RLA and provide the following key milestones:
- Co-creation workshop and inception Report
- Develop survey tools (in English and local languages)
- Develop Focus Group Discussion Guide (provided in English and translated into appropriate languages)
- Develop a database framework (in English) and plan for uploading data to USAID’s Development Data Library
- Analytical framework for analysis of qualitative information
- Post-test recommendations for changes to questionnaire or data collection plan (in English)
- Field report (in English)
- Complete and clean data set of final household surveys and focus groups
- Draft report and presentation of analysis and findings
- Learning and dissemination workshop
- Final full report of the study
Required Skills
- Project management
- Data visualization & pattern-finding through critical thinking
- Data Mapping
- Data collection and Analysis
APPLICATION INFORMATION AND TIMELINE
Applicants can request the full package of the RFA via email at [email protected] or download via the link. Any questions should be sent to RLA via email to [email protected] with reference to the RFA No. RFA_AID15EthiopiaResilience002 not later than July 26, 2024.
Applications must be submitted in English, with the technical and financial proposals not exceeding 20 pages. Applications should be submitted electronically via email to [email protected] with reference to the RFA No. RFA_AID15EthiopiaResilience002 in the subject line of the email. The deadline for submission is 4:00 PM local time on August 19, 2024. The eligible firm must submit the General/Administrative document, Technical Proposal documents, & Financial Proposal documents.
The anticipates awarding the contract by in September 2024. The task is expected mid of February 2025. LINC LLC has the right to adjust the timing based on the needs of the USAID Resilience Learning Activity (RLA).
APPLICATION REVIEW INFORMATION
All proposals received by the stated closing date will be evaluated and ranked according to the conditions described below.
- Technical Evaluation (80%)
- Understanding of the scope of work -10%
- Organizational Capabilities and Experience – 40%
- Staffing and partners – 30%
- Financial Evaluation (20%)
The financial proposal should be sent electronically with sufficient detail to allow evaluation of elements of costs proposed. The proposal should be
- Reasonableness of costs to complete the assignment.
- Detailed and comprehensive cost presentation, including Budget notes.
USAID RLA reserves the right to accept or reject all or any parts of the RFA at any time without assigning any reason whatsoever.
More Information
- Address Ethiopia
- Experience Level Senior
- Total Years Experience 5-10
