Attachment J.13_LED_Fact Sheet_July2019 (1).pdf
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This request for proposals solicits offers for a trade and investment facilitation activity in Lebanon to be carried out over five years. The U.S. Agency for International Development seeks to develop Lebanon's economy by supporting private sector growth, increasing local and export sales, and creating jobs. Offerors should propose solutions to meet objectives of unlocking sales potential and facilitating trade and investment. The anticipated award is a cost-plus-fixed-fee completion contract not to exceed $75 million over a base period of three years and two optional one-year extensions. Questions are due by February 26, 2020, with proposals due by March 11, 2020 and award planned for September 30, 2020. The solicitation encourages participation from local Lebanese organizations and specified business categories. The primary geographic and NAICS codes listed are for Lebanon and industry code 541990, respectively.
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USAID.GOV/LEBANON USAID LEBANON | JULY. 2019 1
LEBANON ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT
(LED) PROJECT
The Lebanon Enterprise Development (LED) is a three-year project funded by the United States
Agency for International Development (USAID) to increase employment opportunities for Lebanese citizens. Due to multiple challenges, Lebanon’s private sector is lagging in creating economic opportunities and jobs, particularly for youth and women. Through LED’s activities and impact, USAID aims to advance socioeconomic development, empower youth and women, and spur economic growth and stability.
OBJECTIVES
1. Create jobs by increasing the competitiveness and enhancing the growth of Lebanese firms.
2. Improve Lebanon’s business enabling environment.
3. Communicate results and share project knowledge with the public and private sectors.
APPROACH
LED applies a market-led approach to engage directly with private enterprises, private sector organizations, associations and other stakeholders, to identify and solve business related problems that are constraining enterprise and sector level sales (domestic and export), investment, and employment growth.
LED assists individual or groups of enterprises to identify market/s or buyer/s and understand customer requirements; to diagnose the key constraints that stand in the way of boosting sales; and to find solutions to these problems using tailored solutions. LED solutions may address sector or subsector constraints, including but not limited to deficiencies in the quality and quantity of the workforce, and/or improved market access and promotion to catalyze demand and to boost sales and exports.
USAID.GOV/LEBANON USAID LEBANON | JULY. 2019 2
Most of LED’s work is focused on making deals happen, because sales growth leads to jobs. Over time, LED will also prioritize selected business enabling environment problems and work with the private sector to analyze these issues and propose the needed solutions.
LED works throughout Lebanon, with a central project office in Beirut and regional presence covering Beirut/Mount Lebanon, Bekaa, North Lebanon, and South Lebanon. The regional offices are operated by local partner organizations. Berytech Foundation covers Beirut/Mount Lebanon, Bekaa and South Lebanon, and the Business Incubation Association in Tripoli (BIAT) covers North
Lebanon. LED’s business promotion partners employ business advisors who are primarily responsible for identifying private sector client firms; diagnosing key constraints to growth and defining, with the client firms, the solution/s needed to overcome these challenges; and monitoring the delivery of technical assistance as detailed in client enterprise growth plans, or memorandums of understandings.
EXPECTED RESULTS
LED expects to create more than 3,625 new full-time-equivalent (FTE) jobs by supporting at least
250 enterprises during the initial three-year base period.
PROJECT DURATION & BUDGET
Base Period: October 2017 – September 2020 / $14.0 million
Option Period (Pending): October 2020 - September 2022 / $10.3 million
FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT
Cubic Center, 10th Floor, Section E & D, Daoud Ammoun Str. Horch Tabet, Sin El Fil, Beirut
+961 1 421291/3
LEDinfo@lebanon-edp.com
Lebanon Enterprise Development mailto:LEDinfo@lebanon-edp.com
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