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Focus on Results: Enhancing Capacity across Sectors in Transition
Countries (FORECAST) In 2005, AED’s Center for International Training was
awarded the USAID-funded Focus on Results: Enhancing Capacity across Sectors
in Transition Countries (FORECAST) Indefinite Quantity Contract. The contract
was awarded by USAID’s Office of Economic
Growth, Agriculture and Trade (EGAT) and is available globally to all
USAID Bureaus and Missions who are interested. FORECAST provides a unique opportunity to use a
comprehensive human and institutional capacity development (HICD) approach to
assess performance gaps and provide targeted interventions to address the
gaps within workgroups or institutions that are coping with changing
economic, political and social systems. The HICD approach can be applied to
diverse organizations from a USAID Strategic Objective Team to USAID partner
organizations. It targets two important aspects of building organizational
capacity: a holistic perspective in assessing organizational performance gaps
and interventions to address gaps, and the cyclical nature of capacity
development (from assessment to application of interventions, to monitoring
and evaluation of interventions, to re-assessment). The HICD approach garners
participation and buy-in of all stakeholders, ensuring sustainability of the
resulting performance changes. As part of the HICD approach, AED provides participant
training services, including training program development and management,
monitoring and evaluation, and all associated participant processing services
such as visas, medicals, English testing, and pre-departure orientations. Under FORECAST, AED can be asked to provide a
comprehensive range of human and institutional capacity development services
to support the achievement of USAID strategic objectives in all fields.
Services include: assessments to identify performance gaps in targeted
institutions; the design and delivery of training and non-training interventions
to address performance issues; monitoring and evaluation of these
interventions; stand-alone custom and off-the-shelf training programs; short-
and long-term academic programs; the procurement of intervention providers;
participant processing services; partnerships administration; small grants;
technical assistance; on-going monitoring and evaluation, and follow-on
activities. AED is implementing FORECAST with our partners: Management Systems
International (MSI) Associates for Global
Change (AGC) International Research and
Exchanges Board (IREX) Click Here to visit USAID’s Europe
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