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STATEMENT OF WORK
Regional Analytical and Strategic Services in Southeast Asia
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE: March 2019 - June 2023
PURPOSE
The purpose of this award is to provide the PROSPECT project with analytical and strategic services to support its program aims and to help the project effectively address and respond to an evolving context. This IQC mechanism will help PROSPECT take a proactive approach to analyzing in-country and regional trends, challenges, and initiatives to inform decision-making on new strategies and initiatives and contribute to the project's adaptive management. Services requested under the task orders released will include but are not limited to research and analysis, assessments, presentations of findings, and program evaluations. Methodologies and tools employed must reflect best practices within their respective analytical fields and all tasks must be performed in compliance with ADS requirements.
BACKGROUND
The United States' Indo Pacific Strategy (IPS) and its three overarching pillars-1) enhancing shared prosperity (Economic), 2) championing good governance and civil society (Governance), and 3) ensuring peace and security (Security)-provide an overall lens through which the United States engages ASEAN.
Under the ASEAN-U.S. Strategic Partnership agreement, the U.S. government (USG) and ASEAN cooperate across mutually beneficial priority areas, including through two major 5-year projects: the ASEAN-USAID Partnership for Regional Optimization within the Political-Security and Socio-Cultural Communities (PROSPECT) project, focused on strengthening institutions to advance political-security and social-cultural integration, and the ASEAN-USAID Inclusive Growth in ASEAN through Innovation, Trade, and E-Commerce (IGNITE) project, which is focused on supporting integration efforts primarily in partnership with ASEAN's Economic Community. Through comprehensive, multi-year initiatives, PROSPECT, implemented by DAI Global, LLC, contributes to the implementation of the IPS and supports ASEAN efforts to build a more inclusive and prosperous Southeast Asia.
More specifically, PROSPECT contributes to USAID's overarching goal of helping ASEAN and AMS create more sustainable and inclusive growth and encourage rules-based systems to support a prosperous Southeast Asia. To achieve maximum impact, PROSPECT focuses its activities on three main work streams:
1. Non-Traditional Security - interventions designed to combat human and wildlife trafficking, counter violent extremism, and improve response to emerging humanitarian emergencies, particularly natural disasters;
2. Responsive and Transparent Governance - support for rule of law through engagement with judicial, legislative, and executive branches and increased citizen participation;
3. Human Rights and Opportunities for Marginalized and/or Vulnerable Groups - expanding rights and opportunities for women, youth, and other vulnerable and marginalized groups.
These work streams emphasize PROSPECT's direct and focused support across two pillars of the IPS, governance and security, while activities also lay the critical foundation for a more transparent, stable ASEAN region that remains poised for increased economic competitiveness and continued regional prosperity.
OBJECTIVE
* Assist the PROSPECT project through provision of timely analytical and strategic services to better understand the current context within ASEAN related to a number of technical focus areas, including but not limited to the following:
* Rule of Law
* Human Rights
* Violent Extremism
* Trafficking in Persons
* Labor Migration
* Cybersecurity
* Wildlife Trafficking
* Corruption
SCOPE OF WORK
Evaluations, analyses, assessments, and other work requested under this IQC will focus on the technical areas and issues described in the PROSPECT Statement of Work. The specific nature of the work to be performed will be described in individual task order scopes of work. Awardees will be asked to draw upon national- and regional-level capacity by coordinating and communicating with local organizations and engaging local experts as appropriate. Strong local relationships are essential for performing the required work. Awardees will be responsible for drawing upon their own networks and establishing new relationships as necessary. Expected analytical and strategic services are further described below:
Assessments
Assessments comprise research at the national and regional levels across countries and sectors and are used to inform strategic planning and program design for USG-funded programs, including those implemented by the PROSPECT project in the future. In addition, awardees may be requested to undertake mapping and/or political economy analyses for current PROSPECT project technical areas and/or areas of future engagement. Some potential types of requests for comprehensive assessments may include:
* Political economy analyses and/or mapping of actors
* Desktop research and studies (national-level, multi-country, or ASEAN-wide)
* Case studies on specific topic(s) at the national-level, multi-country, or ASEAN-wide
* Field-based research and studies (national-level, multi-country, or ASEAN-wide)
* Combination desktop and field-based research and studies (national-level, multi-country, or ASEAN-wide)
* Comparative country and/or regional studies on specific topic(s)
Program Evaluations
Program evaluations involve a systematic collection and analysis of information about the nature of strategies, projects, and activities conducted under a given program or programs and are conducted to assess effectiveness and to inform areas for improvement and decision-making for future programming. Awardees may be required to communicate and present findings and recommendations to relevant stakeholders, including USAID, U.S. State Department, and ASEAN as appropriate.
Other Support Services
Task orders may be released that draw upon other strategic and analytical services not specified above, such as for facilitation services for strategic planning sessions, assistance organizing conferences and events, and assistance developing survey tools and methodologies and conducting primary data collection as needed.
Questions are due no later than February 26, 2019 at 11:59 pm Western Indonesia Time (GMT+7) and must be submitted by email to prospectIQC@dai.com<mailto:pro
Proposals are due no later than March 12, 2019 at 11:59 pm Western Indonesia Time (GMT+7) and must be submitted by email to prospectIQC@dai.com<mailto:pro
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