Publication of Notice of Intent - PELA.pdf

Agency/Office: Overseas Missions Location: USAID/West Africa Title: Notice of Intent for a No Cost Extension (NCE) of the Peace through Evaluation, Learning, and Adaptation (PELA) Task Order, West Africa Activity

USAID/West Africa hereby provides notice of its intention to modify Task Order No.

72062418F00001, under the IBTCI IDIQ No. AID-OAA-I-15-00022 with International Business

& Technical Consultants, Inc for a No-Cost Extension using AIDAR 706.302-70(B)(5).

Under this proposed modification, the Contractor will under this action, continue to support USAID/West Africa (USAID/WA) to be a more effective, efficient, and adaptable operating unit in achieving the development objective of strengthening systems of non-violent conflict management in West Africa. USAID/WA is a knowledge hub for countering violent extremism in the West Africa region.

PELA will continue to strengthen USAID/WA’s effectiveness in implementing its projects, coordinating its activities, learning from its experiences, and serving as information, communication, and thought leader regarding peace promotion and countering violent extremism (CVE) in the West Africa region.

Under this six-month no-cost extension, IBTCI will continue to support the Regional Peace and Governance Office (RPGO) to implement: five desk studies, two complexity aware monitoring and evaluation trainings, CVE learning and sharing practitioner events, facilitate internal USAID workshops, organize learning circles on Democracy Human Rights and Governance/CVE topics, provide multimedia communications product, update RGPO’s learning agenda, provide CVE Briefings, communications products and conduct the second phase of the Community Generated Indicators Studies in Burkina Faso.

The activities to be completed are not new; they are in line with the current scope of the PELA

Task Order.

Contracting Office Address:

USAID/West Africa

No. 24 Fourth Circular Road, Cantonments, P.O. Box 1630 Accra, Ghana

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