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CCSG Mechanisms> leader with associate awards
Capable Partners Program (CAP)
USAID created CAP to be a different kind of procurement mechanism: one that allows USAID to collaboratively design with CAP implementing agencies program activities tailored to address Mission and other USAID objectives in or across any sector.
CAP works hand in hand with USAID to design and implement interventions to strengthen NGO effectiveness and enhance results. CAP is an easy, rapid, and flexible procurement mechanism requiring no additional competition.
CAP’s unique features include:
- Competitively-awarded LWA by USAID/Washington; no additional competition needed to execute Associate Awards under CAP
- Assistance to Missions to design programs for Associate Awards
- Proven methodologies for institutional strengthening and sustainability
- Associate Awards may be executed until 7/31/08 and continue through 7/31/13
- Broad sector expertise in health, democracy and governance, conflict mitigation, and others
- Leveraging of CAP’s core-funded work in Advocacy, M&E and Public-Private Partnerships,
as well as the CAP Web portal, NGOConnect.NET
- Engagement of any local or international partner organization
What is CAP?
The Capable Partners Program (CAP) is a USAID Leader with Associates
(LWA) Cooperative Agreement to strengthen the organizational and
technical capacities and sustainability of NGOs, CBOs, FBOs, networks, and intermediate support organizations (ISOs).
CAP works with Missions to design and implement interventions that are adapted to local contexts and based on proven approaches. CAP’s Associate Awards mechanism may be used across the full range
of technical sectors.
CAP’s Programmatic Objectives:
- Strengthening the operational and technical capacity of local NGOs, networks and ISOs;
- Enhancing linkages among local organizations such as NGOs, cooperatives, networks, governments, and businesses;
- Increasing the capacity of NGOs, networks, and ISOs to engage in advocacy for key policies or programs; and
- Disseminating tested innovations, best practices, and lessons learned.
Associate Awards
The CAP Cooperative Agreement was competitively awarded
by USAID/Washington. Therefore, Associates Awards may be executed
under CAP with no further competition, making procurements signifi
cantly easier. Associate Awards may be made through July 31, 2008
and may run for an additional five years through July 31, 2013.
Each Associate Award is designed with the sponsoring Mission or operating unit, which designates its own CTO.
Examples of CAP Associate Awards:
- USAID/Kenya and USAID/Mozambique PEPFAR-funded Small Grants and Institutional Strengthening Programs
- USAID/Mexico Traffi cking in Persons (TIP) Shelter Program
- USAID/Liberia NGO Strengthening and Democracy Promotion Program
- USAID/Washington Conflict-Sensitive Monitoring and Evaluation Workshop
- USAID/Ghana and USAID/Sudan Advocacy Skills and Capacity Building Programs.
Core-funded Activities
CAP’s core-funded activities include training programs, customized technical assistance, small grants programs, a Web portal, and a learning agenda.
- Training Series: Eighteen-month training programs for local
NGOs and networks to build technical capacity and depth in:
Advocacy, Monitoring and Evaluation,
and Public-Private Partnerships.
- NGO Institutional Strengthening: Customized technical assistance and training is provided to meet priority needs for organizational development.
- Small Grants Programs: Innovation Grants
support the development of NGO networks; Action Grants
provide follow-on support for selected organizations
participating in core training.
- Interactive, Electronic Web Portal: NGOConnect.NET
provides a forum for communities to exchange information, share
best practices, build linkages, and participate in distance
learning, as well as an online library.
- Learning Agenda: Research and publications, including NGO network case studies, and organizational assessment and strengthening tools.
Expertise
CAP works in a variety of country contexts and is designed
to support activities in any technical sector – or across sectors
– to integrate organizational development into technical programs.
CAP’s extensive experience in sectors such as health, economic development,
democracy and governance, and confl ict mitigation allow for a broad
scope of work and wide range of potential activities. Sample activities
include:
Advocacy—designing a program to train
organizations to create, implement and monitor action plans for
specific advocacy campaigns.
Monitoring and Evaluation—training NGOs
to develop, use and report on M&E indicators specific to anti-trafficking
programming.
Training—facilitating a training series
for HIV/AIDS-related NGOs on financial management and resource diversification.
Technical Assistance—working with USAID
to design and implement country-specific or regional NGO-strengthening
programs.
Grants Management—designing and implementing small grants
programs to support the institutional strengthening of civil society
organizations dedicated to helping HIV/AIDS orphans and vulnerable
children.
Public-Private Partnerships—developing small grants programs
to catalyze public-private partnerships in agribusiness.
NGO/Government Partnerships—fostering
the development of effective partnerships among NGOs, business and
labor organizations, and local governments to enhance economic development.
Multi-Sectoral Programs—designing and
implementing training programs to create coalitions between education
and health NGOs to combat human trafficking.
Information Technology— applying IT as a training and education
tool for organizations supporting substance abuse and mental health
counselors.
How to Access CAP
- Contact CAP CTO Adele Liskov (aliskov@usaid.gov)
to discuss a proposed activity.
- Notify your procurement office.
- Receive e-mail “concurrence” from the CTO.
- Send a program description to CAP Director Barney Singer (bsinger@aed.org).
- Receive back from AED a draft program narrative and budget for discussion and refinement.
- Negotiate an Associate Award cooperative agreement with AED.
Contacts
Barney Singer
CAP Director
Academy for Educational Development
Tel: 202.884.8918
E-mail: bsinger@aed.org
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Adele Liskov
CAP Cognizant Technical Offi cer
USAID/DCHA/PVC/ASHA
Tel: 202.712.0690
E-mail: aliskov@usaid.gov |
Partners
CAP is implemented by AED in partnership with Management
Systems International (MSI). AED has partnered with the following
organizations, which have proven experience in supporting local
NGOs and networks across a variety of technical sectors and cross-cutting
areas. These organizations and any other local or international
partners are accessible through the Associate Awards mechanism.
- Academy for Educational Development
- The Advocacy Institute
- Aga Khan Foundation, U.S.A.
- The American Red Cross
- Citizens Development Corps
- Freedom from Hunger
- Goodwill Industries International
- The Huairou Commission
- Institute for Multi-Track Diplomacy
- International Center for Not-for-Profit Law
- The Kenan Institute
- Management Systems International
- Mercy Corps
- National Cooperative Business Association
- ORT International Cooperation
- Social Impact
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