Promoting Good Governance (PGG)

USAID aims to enhance good governance by strengthening institutions to provide efficient, inclusive, and citizen-responsive services that are transparent and accountable. PGG is a follow-on mechanism to the current ACES IDIQ. The Bureau for Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance (DRG) plans to issue an Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) mechanism: Promoting Good Governance (PGG IDIQ). DRG intends to procure the following services. ? Reform management and communications, including but not limited to policy and impact analysis, and technical assistance with regulatory reform and related public outreach to government and non-government stakeholders; ? Capacity strengthening, including but not limited to human and institutional capacity assessments, the design and delivery of training, the preparation of proposals for changes in institutional processes, structures, and staffing, and the design, procurement, and implementation of information technology; and ? Knowledge management, including the capture, organization, and custodianship of data and analysis to inform reform management, communications, and capacity strengthening and the dissemination of lessons learned and leading practices. These services are to be provided globally and in all thematic areas that follow. ? Public finance, including government fiscal policy and revenue management, government expenditure management, public debt management, pension system management and reform, and social protection system management and reform. ? Decentralization and subnational governance. ? Legislative strengthening, including law-making, oversight, and representation by the legislature, and deliberative democracy. ? Transparency and anti-corruption, including preventing and countering corruption, strengthening transparency, public accountability and oversight, and countering malign influence with respect to strategic corruption and narrow interest capture. ? Public administration, including effective and efficient public sector processes and management, the professionalism of the civil service, reducing employment, pay, leadership, and other disparities in the civil service with respect to gender and for marginalized populations. The PGG IDIQ aims to improve the capacity of public institutions at all levels of government and civil society in the aforementioned technical areas. The mechanism will be integral to USAID initiatives to sustain economic resilience and democratic progress, and integrate related decision making into local processes. The thematic areas covered by the PGG IDIQ are equally important to its intended effect. These include promoting locally led development approaches in which local stakeholders set their own development priorities, design relevant solutions, and bring their capacity, leadership, and resources to implement these solutions. Gender and socially inclusive development must be considered by implementers to ensure all USAID policies and strategies in these areas are implemented. Finally, collaborating, learning, and adapting in design and implementation will be important for all task orders under PGG.