MPDS NOFO Amendment 1 signed.pdf

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Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) Amendment 1

Issuance Date: April 23, 2020

Application Deadline: May 30, 2020, 1400 Bangladesh Time

Subject: Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) Number: 72038820RFA0000: Amendment 1

Program Title: Multipurpose Disaster Shelter Support (MPDS) Activity

Dear Prospective Applicant:

The purpose of this Amendment 1 to the subject NOFO is provide responses to questions received and revise specific sections impacted by response to the questions. Changes made to the NOFO are as follows:

Section A.5-Results Framework: Goal (Page 12): Delete in its entirety and Replace with the following:

“ The goal of the activity is to reduce disaster risk for vulnerable communities in Cox’s Bazar and

Bandarban and increase resilience through infrastructure improvements and complementary interventions. At least twenty communities will benefit from this activity. For the purpose of this

Activity, a community is defined as a village in Cox’s Bazar, and as a para in Bandarban. Note that multiple villages or paras might benefit from the same shelter depending on population density.”

Section A.9-Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Plan (Page 20): Delete in its entirety and Replace with the following:

“ The Recipient must develop a Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Plan that permits the timely and efficient measurement of progress towards output indicators. The MEL plan will be approved by the Agreement Officer’s Representative (AOR) and reviewed annually as part of the work plan approval process. All indicators must be disaggregated by sex, geographic location, and other categories required by USAID. Activity monitoring must include a baseline assessment prior to the implementation of site interventions. A Draft MEL Plan will be developed during the

Collaboration Workshop in Phase 3 for submission as part of the full Application during Phase 4.

Final MEL Plan will be submitted to the AOR within 60 days of signing the award. The

Recipient will be responsible to collect monitoring data related to the indicators below.”

Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) Number: 72038820RFA00001, Amendment 1

Program Title: Multipurpose Disaster Shelter Support (MPDS) Activity

Section D.4-Content and Form of Application Submission: (d) Phase 4–Technical and Cost/

Business Application: 2.-Cost/Business Application Instruction: Detailed breakdown should include the following: Last bullet (Page 45): Delete in its entirety and Replace with the following:

“ A Crisis and/or Emergency Response Fund is for unanticipated and unplanned activities that have not been included in the workplans but may be determined necessary to pivot to meet

MPDS activity objectives. The amount of $1 million is a plug figure and must be used for budgeting purposes. This amount of $1 million is included in the funding amount ($13 million) mentioned in Section B.1.”

Thank you for your interest in USAID’s programs.

Sincerely, Andrew Holland

Supervisory Agreement Officer

Director, Office of Acquisition and Assistance

Attachment: Question and Answer matrix

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