Local Partner Capacity Development

This is to notify potential Offerors that USAID/Zambia intends to issue a request for proposal (RFP) for a five-year Local Partner Capacity Development Activity. As part of this Activity, the selected contractor must provide local Zambian partners the support they need for success in operations, income generation, and advocacy, building on lessons learned from previous local partner capacity building initiatives/interventions as well as other successful capacity building models across USAID and USAID/Zambia. The activity must support identifying, treating, and mitigating risks, providing effective and customized capacity development support for programmatic and operational excellence, and improving local organizations' networking, communication and advocacy capacity for organizational sustainability and engagements on local development agendas. There are three main components: Component 1: Increase local partners' capacity for risk identification, mitigation, and compliance to financial and operational best practice. Component 2: Enhance local partners' resource mobilization and funding diversification capacity for the purpose of organizational sustainability. Component 3: Increase networking opportunities, improve communication, monitoring, evaluation and learning capacities and enhance understanding of integrated programming. Prospective Offerors are advised that this procurement is subject to internal USAID approvals and the availability of funds. Interested parties are advised that this is not a Request for Proposal (RFP), and it in no way obligates USAID to issue an RFP or award a contract.