USAID/OCE/Evidence for Cost-Effectiveness (ECE)

Background
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Office of the Chief Economist (OCE) is seeking capable organizations to provide services related to evidence use and generation across USAID’s development and humanitarian objectives. The OCE supports the Agency in improving the effectiveness of its programming and broader global engagement by bringing strong economic theory and evidence to bear on USAID’s work.

Grant Details
The proposed Evidence for Cost-Effectiveness (ECE) activity aims to integrate existing, relevant evidence from high-quality evaluations into USAID activity designs and provide a platform for academics from the social and behavioral sciences to engage with USAID design teams. The grantee will be required to engage academics with several USAID design teams concurrently in different stages of development, including activity design, evidence dissemination, impact evaluation scoping, and impact evaluation implementation.

Eligibility Requirements
Responses to this RFI are strictly voluntary, and USAID will not pay respondents for information provided. Organizations responding should ensure that their response is complete and sufficiently detailed to allow USAID to determine the organization’s capabilities to perform this work.

Period of Performance
The anticipated period of performance for this award is approximately $70 to $74 million over a 5-year period.

Grant Value
The total estimated cost of the grant is approximately $70 to $74 million over a 5-year period.