BAA-NIGERIA-HPNIAH-2019-Improving_Adolescent_Health_and_Well-Being_in_Urban_Areas.pdf

The United States Agency for International Development Broad Agency Announcement

For Improving Adolescent Health and Well-Being in Urban Areas

Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) Issuance Date: May 30, 2019 BAA Questions Due: June 17, 2019, 17:00 Nigeria local time Current Call for Expressions of Interest Due: June 28, 2019, 17:00 Nigeria local time Opportunity Number: BAA-NIGERIA-HPNIAH-2019

Contents:

I. Overview II. Collaboration III. Problem and Challenge Statement IV. The BAA Process:

● STAGE 1 - SUBMISSION OF EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST (EOIs)

● STAGE 2 - CO-CREATION AND CO-DEVELOPMENT OF THE CONCEPT PAPER

● STAGE 3 - TECHNICAL REVIEW

● STAGE 4 - AWARD DETERMINATION

V. Additional Considerations VI. Specific Rights Reserved for the Government under this BAA VII. Information Protection VIII. Obtaining the BAA and Addenda IX. Submission Requirements for EOIs

I. OVERVIEW

A. Introduction

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is issuing this Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) to seek participants to co-create, co-design, co-invest, and collaborate in the development, testing, and scaling of innovative, practical and cost-effective interventions and approaches that seek to improve the health and well-being of urban, poor, unmarried adolescents aged 15-19 by increasing the voluntary uptake and continued use of family planning products and services in select urban areas in Nigeria. USAID invites organizations, companies and investors to submit an Expression of Interest (EOI).

This BAA and any subsequent Addenda will allow co-design and co-creation to the maximum extent to create high-quality, effective partnerships with great efficiency in time and resources. USAID will invite selected organizations, as detailed below, to co-create Research and Development (R&D) solutions to the Problem and Challenge Statement, including those organizations that have ideas, expertise, resources and/or funding to add to potential solutions.

Co-Investing: USAID seeks to align goals with partners under this BAA to facilitate shared responsibility, shared risk, and shared resourcing. Shared resourcing requires that cash and other resources, both tangible and intangible, such as in-kind contributions, expertise, intellectual property, brand value, high-value coordination, and access to key people, places, and information, are directed towards reaching the solution to the Problem/Challenge. Co-investing does not require equal shared resources (such as 1:1 leverage), but rather resource contributions that are appropriate to the specific activity’s objectives, considering the comparative advantages brought by the participation of each party.

B. Federal Agency Name: The United States Agency for International Development (USAID)

C. Opportunity Title: Improving Adolescent Health and Well-being in Urban Areas

D. Announcement Type: Broad Agency Announcement

The current call for EOIs under this BAA must address the Problem and Challenge Statement cited in the

BAA.

USAID may issue addenda to this BAA that focus on specific problems, solutions, scalability opportunities, feasibility studies and other research and development initiatives addressing the problem and challenge statements described. Future addenda may be issued separately with additional requirements for evaluation and administrative information, such as requirements for expressions of interest, concept papers, and response deadlines. The terms of the BAA will apply to each Addendum.

E. Opportunity Number: BAA-NIGERIA-HPNIAH-2019

F. Authority: This BAA is issued under Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) Part 35.016 (c). This is not a FAR Part 15 Procurement.

G. Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) Number: 98.001 USAID Foreign Assistance

Programs for Overseas.

II. COLLABORATION

The intent of the BAA is to allow co-creation, co-design and co-investment to the maximum extent to create high quality, effective partnerships with great efficiency in time and resources. The types of collaboration include:

1.Co-creation. Co-creation occurs after an EOI is selected for further discussion, but before the activity description is developed. The potential partner, the U.S. Government, represented by the Activity Manager, and potentially others work together to determine the best course forward. This may also include one or multiple potential partners and/or industry experts. Together, USAID and potential partners will write and/or revise the concept note, and jointly present the same to USAID’s Peer and Scientific Review Board.

2. Co-design. Co-design occurs after the Peer and Scientific Review Board recommends the activity for further development, and the Contracting Officer/Agreement Officer has determined the proposer (s) to be an Apparently Successful Partner. At this point, the Contracting Officer/Agreement Officer may determine the general nature of the award type or the specific award type, depending on the nature of the activity, to facilitate activity design. During co-design, the Apparently Successful Partner and the Activity Manager will design the technical approach, general resource requirements, and management control of the activity under the guidance of the Contracting Officer/Agreement Officer.

3. Co-invest. Co-invest refers to the U.S. Government’s strategic aim that the partnerships resulting from the individual BAA awards represent opportunities to achieve mutual or complementary development goals of the Partner, USAID, and potentially other resource partners, and therefore embrace shared responsibility, shared risk, and shared resourcing. Shared resourcing may be accomplished through funding by both or many parties, either through cash resources or the exchange of other resources, both tangible and intangible, such as in-kind contributions, expertise, intellectual property, brand value, high-value coordination, and access to key people, places, and information. Co-investing does not require equally shared resourcing (such as 1:1 leverage), but rather resource contributions that are appropriate to the specific activity objectives, considering the comparative advantages brought by the participation of each party and the award type.

III. PROBLEM AND CHALLENGE STATEMENT

PROBLEM: Two main demographics are driving the economic change in Nigeria today. There is a growing youth population under the age of 25, and an expansion of urban areas, fueled for the most part by rural residents migrating to cities.1 Nigeria’s estimated population of 195 million is now about 50 percent urban and projected to reach about 60 percent by 2030.2 The majority of the migration from rural to urban or economic centers is by young men and women aged 15-19, in search of livelihood opportunities.3 While urban centers offer numerous opportunities, such as the pursuit of education and jobs, there are also challenges for those who do not find employment and frequently end up in urban slums. The place where young people live can have a significant impact on their reproductive lives. An increasingly marginalized segment of the adolescent population—the out-of-school, unmarried, urban poor— face a high level of reproductive health risks. Compared to their rural counterparts, urban poor adolescents tend to have earlier sexual debut (average age is 16.5), lower levels of condom usage, multiple sex partners and greater exposure to gender-based violence. The combination of these factors creates a longer exposure period for pregnancies, sexually transmitted diseases, and unplanned pregnancies.4

Adolescents, however, often face many barriers in accessing accurate, reliable health information, including stigma and bias. In addition, adolescent girls often have less access to accurate information than their male counterparts. The most vulnerable populations also often lack stable family and community structures that foster support.

CHALLENGE: USAID recognizes that adolescence is a particularly vulnerable time in an individual's life as there are major shifts in terms of both emotional and physical health prior to adulthood. The variances in these attributes are influenced by the socio-cultural environments in which adolescents find themselves, with adolescents residing in poor urban areas and/or who are out of school facing the greatest vulnerabilities. Traditional health programs have struggled to meet the unique health needs of young people. There is widespread agreement that the adolescent period should be considered in a more holistic manner coupled with a deeper understanding of the susceptibilities that adolescents face. Factors such as familial and interpersonal violence, onset of sexual debut, poverty, living conditions, economic and educational opportunities, and substance abuse, among many others, should be examined carefully to identify the most appropriate solutions.

1 World Economic Forum, Prospects for Reaping a Demographic Dividend in Nigeria. A Case Study by the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Population Growth. May 2104.

2 United Nations, World Urbanization Prospects 3 United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2014). World Urbanization Prospects: The 2014 Revision, Highlights (ST/ESA/SER.A/352).

4 K.Mari and N. Astone. Urban Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health in Low -Income and Middle – Income Countries, British Medical Journal.com, March, 2014.

The purpose of this BAA is to identify, develop, and test innovative, scalable and sustainable interventions and approaches that seek to improve the health and well-being of urban, poor, unmarried adolescents aged 15-19 by increasing the voluntary uptake and continued use of family planning products and services in select urban areas in Nigeria. The BAA will investigate the challenge of how to most effectively undertake a holistic, multi-sectoral approach to adolescent programming that moves beyond facility-based health services and a siloed reproductive health focus.

IV. THE BAA PROCESS

The amount of resources made available under this BAA will depend on the concepts received and the availability of funds from USAID and other resource partners. Some award types may not include any funding. The award process under this BAA has the following steps:

STAGE 1 – Submission of Expressions of Interest (EOIs) Organizations must submit an EOI addressing the criteria below, in the format required in Section IX. More than one EOI may be submitted by an organization. USAID will review EOIs to determine the extent to which each EOI addresses the criteria/eligibility stated below. Not all organizations that submit an Expression of Interest will be invited to proceed to Stage 2. Due to the number of EOIs anticipated, USAID may be unable to provide details on why an EOI is not selected for further consideration.

Required Content for EOIs:

EOIs must indicate the research or development idea that will work towards a solution to the Problem and Challenge Statement, by increasing knowledge and understanding of potential solutions;

exploiting scientific discoveries or improvements in technology, materials, processes, methods, devices, or techniques, advancing the state of the art, or using scientific and technical knowledge in the design, development, testing, or evaluation of a potential new product or service (or of an improvement in an existing product or service).

Evaluation Criteria/Eligibility for EOI(s)

EOIs will be evaluated based on the following criteria:

1. Idea/Approach: Novelty, creativity and soundness of the research and development idea/approach and its relevance to the Problem and Challenge Statement. The idea/approach should be realistic, scalable, and reflect sound knowledge of the technical and country landscape.

2. Partnership Expectations and Value: Strengths of the organization or consortium as a partner, including ability to make a valuable contribution to the challenge issued.

3. Impact: The likelihood of generating substantial (e.g. breakthroughs, not incremental improvements), scalable and sustainable impact on the issues discussed in the Problem and Challenge Statement.

4. Co-investment Resources: Indication of what, if any, co-investment resources are available to bear on the solution, including those from the submitting organization and those from other third party businesses, donors, foundations, or other organizations. Such resources include cash and other resources, both tangible and intangible, such as in-kind contributions, expertise, intellectual property, brand value, high-value coordination, and access to key people, places, and information.

5. Past Experience: USAID also will consider the organization’s past experience in assessing the ability of the organization to contribute to the co-creation and response to the Problem and Challenge Statement.

Any awards issued under this solicitation will be for Applied Research or Development, as those terms are defined in 48 USC 35.001, as follows:

“Applied research” means the effort that:

(a) normally follows basic research5, but may not be severable from the related basic research;

(b) attempts to determine and exploit the potential of scientific discoveries or improvements in technology, materials, processes, methods, devices, or techniques;

and

(c) attempts to advance the state of the art. When being used by contractors in cost principle applications, this term does not include efforts whose principal aim is the design, development, or testing of specific items or services to be considered for sale;

these efforts are within the definition of “development,” given below.

“Development” means the systematic use of scientific and technical knowledge in the design, development, testing, or evaluation of a potential new product or service (or of an improvement in an existing product or service) to meet specific performance requirements or objectives.

For those EOIs that are not selected to move forward, USAID will send a notification indicating such.

Due to the large number of EOIs generally received, USAID may be unable to provide details on why EOIs were not selected.

STAGE 2 – Co-Creation Workshop and Co-Development of the Concept Note During stage 2, invited partners and key stakeholders will co-create potential solutions to the Problem/Challenge by brainstorming and innovating solutions and resources, potentially leading to concept notes that USAID or other resource partners will consider for funding.

Part 1: Co-Creation USAID will review EOIs and select those organizations that USAID determines have addressed the criteria/eligibility stated within the BAA to an extent that the organization will make a significant contribution to the co-creation. The co-creation will also include USAID and other co-investment organizations that may be able to contribute cash and other resources, both tangible and intangible, such as in-kind contributions, expertise, intellectual property, brand value, high-value coordination, and/or access to key people, places, and information.

Co-creation may take the form of a workshop, conference, meeting, or other method at the discretion of the USAID. For this BAA, the co-creation is expected to be in the form of a 2-3 day, in-person multi-stakeholder workshops comprised of a series of sessions. The sessions will focus on each of the areas of interest above, and, additional sessions may be held to include cross-cutting issues, such as selection of focus cities/urban areas using a set of criteria, security considerations, the regulatory environment, etc. Depending on the results of the co-creation workshop(s), additional required

5 The primary aim of basic research is a fuller knowledge or understanding of the subject under study, rather than any practical application of that knowledge. (FAR 2.101) workshops may be planned at the discretion of USAID. For more information on co-creation and its design approaches, see https://usaidlearninglab.org/library/co-creation-discussion-note-ads-201./

Unless provided otherwise, organizations are responsible for all costs incurred by the organization to participate in the co-creation. USAID does not provide funding at this stage.

Not all organizations that participate in the co-creation may be invited to co-develop a concept note.

Part 2: Co-Development of Concept Note Working together, USAID and the potential partner(s) will collaborate on concept note(s), taking a holistic approach to addressing the Problem and Challenge Statement based on learnings from the co-creation, and identifying creative approaches to resourcing activities. Such concept note(s) will consider and include additional implementing and co-investment partners to complement the activity, including reasonable cost sharing, leverage, or other exchange of resource arrangements.

The concept note document will further detail and explain the activity.

STAGE 3 – Review by the Peer and Scientific Review Board USAID and the organization(s) connected with each concept note will present the concept note to the Peer and Scientific Review Board, comprised of experts from USAID, partners, and/or outside parties. The Peer and Scientific Review Board will review concept notes and recommend which applicants should be considered Apparently Successful Partners. Using its technical expertise, the Peer and Scientific Review Board will recommend whether to move forward with the activity, including revisions/additions to the activity, and potential partners and resources.

Not all organizations that present a concept note to the Peer and Scientific Review Board may be invited to move to Stage 4.

STAGE 4 – Award Determination USAID will review the Peer and Scientific Review Board’s recommendations and consider other information, such as resource availability and Agency priorities, and will make a determination whether to move forward with each concept note. For concept notes that demonstrate a potentially valid innovation to address the Problem and Challenge Statement, the Contracting/Agreement Officer will assess the partner’s responsibility and identify the anticipated instrument type to facilitate activity design.

Request for Additional Information. USAID will work with organizations to co-design the activity and assist the organization in providing additional information with respect to the organization’s technical approach, capacity, management and organization, past performance, and budget, as well as representations and certifications, as needed.

Final Review and Negotiation. The USAID Contract/Agreement Officer will engage in final review, negotiation, responsibility determination, price/cost reasonableness determination, and other required reviews, and will co-develop/craft an award instrument with the Apparently Successful Partner(s). If the Apparently Successful Partner(s) and USAID cannot arrive at a mutually agreeable arrangement, USAID may cancel the activity at no cost to the Government.

Award. Awards under this BAA will be made to the Apparently Successful Partner(s) on the basis of their ability to achieve solutions to the Problems/Challenges, as provided herein. The standard clauses or provisions for awards are generally prescribed by law and regulation and will vary considerably by award type. Information regarding clauses and provisions will be offered to the Apparently Successful Partner when the award type is identified.

https://usaidlearninglab.org/library/co-creation-discussion-note-ads-201./

Where USAID determines that the award of an instrument is appropriate, the USAID Contracting/Agreement Officer will award the instrument.

V. ADDITIONAL CONSIDERATIONS

EOIs will not be evaluated against other EOIs, but solely whether USAID believes that the submitter will be a valuable contributor to the co-creation process. USAID may limit the number of initial submissions selected to move forward based on efficiencies.

Concept note documents will not be evaluated against other concept note documents, but solely based on USAID’s determination that the concept note will successfully address the Problem and Challenges set forth herein. USAID may limit the number of concept notes selected to move forward based on efficiencies.

Decisions regarding USAID’s pursuit of a particular activity, technology or relationship are based on all available information, evidence, data, and resulting analysis.

Eligibility Information: Public, private, for-profit, and nonprofit organizations, as well as institutions of higher education, public international organizations, non-governmental organizations, U.S. and non-U.S. governmental organizations, multilateral and international donor organizations are eligible under this BAA. All organizations must be determined to be responsive to the BAA and sufficiently responsible to perform or participate in the final award type.

Funding availability and amounts will depend on the ideas generated during the collaboration process as well as the funding capacity of participating organizations, which is not necessarily limited to USAID.

VI. SPECIFIC RIGHTS RESERVED FOR THE GOVERNMENT UNDER THIS BAA

The Government reserves specific rights, in addition to rights described elsewhere in this document or by law or regulation, including:

1. The right to award multiple awards, a single award, or no awards.

2. The right to make award without discussions, or to conduct discussions and/or negotiations, whichever is determined to be in the Government’s interest.

3. The right to accept EOIs/concept notes in their entirety or to select only portions of

EOIs/concept notes for award or co-investment.

4. The right to select for award an instrument type that is appropriate to the specific development context, partner relationship, and proposal selected for award. Instruments types include, but are not limited to, contracts, grants, cooperative agreements, public-private partnerships, Inter-Agency Agreements, Government to Government Agreements, Donor to Donor Agreements, and Memorandums of Understanding. In addition, the Government may craft a new instrument type to meet the needs of a specific relationship.

5. The right to co-create activities with one or more organizations under the BAA, when it is in the best interest of the Government.

6. The right to request any additional, necessary documentation upon initial review. Such additional information may include, but is not limited to, a further detailed proposal, budget, and representations and certifications.

7. The right to fund or co-invest in proposals in phases, with options for continued work at the end of one or more of the phases.

8. The right to award instruments under this BAA that does not commit or exchange monetary resources.

9. The right to remove organizations from the BAA process if USAID determines it is no longer in the best interests of the Government to proceed with the organization.

VII. INFORMATION PROTECTION

USAID’s goal is to facilitate research and development that will lead to innovative, and potentially commercially viable, solutions. Understanding the sensitive nature of submitters’ information, USAID will work with organizations to protect intellectual property.

EOIs should be free of any intellectual property that submitter wishes to protect, as the EOIs will be shared with USAID partners as part of the selection process. However, once organizations have been invited to advance beyond co-creation, organizations can work with USAID to identify proprietary information that requires protection. Therefore, organizations making submissions under this BAA grant to USAID a royalty-free, nonexclusive, and irrevocable right to use, disclose, reproduce, and prepare derivative works, and to have or permit others to do so to any information contained in the EOI submitted under the BAA. If USAID further engages with the organization regarding its submission, the parties can negotiate further intellectual property protection for the organization’s intellectual property.

Organizations must ensure that any submissions under this BAA are free of any third party proprietary data rights that would impact the license granted to USAID herein.

VIII. OBTAINING THE BAA AND ADDENDA

This BAA and any Addenda, if applicable, can be downloaded from http://www.grants.gov and http://www.fbo.gov. Issuance of this BAA does not constitute an award commitment on the part of USAID nor does it commit USAID or any of its funding partners to pay for costs incurred in the preparation and submission of EOIs/concept notes. Further, USAID reserves the right to reject any or all EOIs/concept notes received.

IX. SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS FOR EOIs EOIs submitted in response to this BAA must:

A. Be in English, no more than 3 pages in length, and no smaller than 12 point font;

B. Be submitted electronically to the attention of: abujasolicitations@usaid.gov with a copy to Patrice Lopez at patlopez@usaid.gov. Contain a header with the following information (included in the page count):

a. Respondent Name/Group and Contact Information

b. Response Title

c. BAA Name/Number

d. Optional graphic that fits on an 8.5”x11” or A4 piece of paper (included in the page limit)

C. Be in .pdf or .docx format

● If a respondent does not follow the instructions set forth herein, the respondent’s EOI may be eliminated from further consideration.

● USAID will not pay for any EOI preparation costs.

● EOIs submitted in response will be received by electronic submission only. Facsimile or hard copy submissions will not be accepted.

● All EOIs submitted in response to this BAA are due by the date and time indicated on page 1 of this document. Late EOIs will not be considered.

http://www.grants.gov/ http://www.fbo.gov/ mailto:abujasolicitations@usaid.gov mailto:patlopez@usaid.gov

Questions Any questions regarding this BAA should be submitted via email to this email address: abujasolicitations@usaid.gov and patlopez@usaid.gov with “Questions” in the subject line along with the BAA/Addendum Reference Number. Questions are due on the date and time indicated on page 1.

Responses to questions received prior to the deadline along with any applicable amendments to this BAA will be posted on fbo.gov and grants.gov. No questions will be accepted after the deadline.

mailto:abujasolicitations@usaid.gov