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SAMDAILY.US - ISSUE OF JUNE 11, 2021 SAM #7132
SOLICITATION NOTICE

R -- USPSC - Anti-Corruption/Illicit Finance Advisor

Notice Date

6/9/2021 6:23:41 PM
 

Notice Type

Solicitation
 

NAICS

54199 —
 

Contracting Office

USAID M/OAA WASHINGTON DC 20523 USA
 

ZIP Code

20523
 

Solicitation Number

7200AA21R00066
 

Response Due

6/23/2021 11:00:00 AM
 

Archive Date

07/08/2021
 

Point of Contact

Jonathan Bui, Phone: 2029162696
 

E-Mail Address

jbui@usaid.gov
(jbui@usaid.gov)
 

Description

As the home base for USAID�s Democracy, Human Rights and Governance (DRG) programs, the DRG Center focuses on advocating for democratic governance, driving important research, and supporting over 90 field missions worldwide to develop programs. USAID�s DRG sector includes support for good governance, rule of law, elections and political processes, civil society and media, human rights, and other DRG fields.� USAID currently manages over $1.7 billion a year on a broad range of democracy programs covering justice, human rights, citizen security, civil society, media, local government, legislatures, constitutional reform, political parties, elections, anti-corruption, and anti-trafficking in persons. These efforts are critical to improve government effectiveness, accountability, transparency and legitimacy, and to ensure citizens are empowered to play a role in public affairs and the decisions that affect their daily lives. They also underpin the sustainability of the Agency�s socio-economic development sectors. The DRG Center leads the Agency in supporting overall efforts to advance democracy, human rights, and governance. The DRG Center's annual budget is over $155 million, with a staff of over 90, comprised of U.S. Direct Hires (USDHs), contractors, and Fellows. The DRG Center has nine technical divisions: Civil Society and Media (CSM), Cross-Sectoral Programs (CSP), Elections and Political Transitions (EPT), Global and Regional Policy (GRP), Governance & Rule of Law (GROL), Human Rights (HR), Empowerment and Inclusion (EI), Learning (L), and Strategic Planning (SP). The DRG Center's goal is to promote peace, prosperity and freedom around the globe through self-reliant, citizen-responsive governance that respects human dignity and the rule of law. The DRG Center achieves this through high quality support to USAID Missions, generating and disseminating knowledge on best practices, and providing leadership on DRG to the wider USG and the international development community. As part of its core service mandate, DRG�s Governance and Rule of Law (GROL) Division provides technical expertise, support and leadership to Agency operating units, interagency teams, and multilateral partners on policy, strategy and programming to help countries build self-sustaining public institutions, systems, and processes that are responsive, transparent, effective and accountable to citizens. GROL works collaboratively with other DRG Divisions and USAID operating units to provide USAID Missions and DRG officers worldwide with innovative and integrated technical assistance. Technical experts within GROL design programs and strategies aimed at enhancing the efficiency, effectiveness, and accountability of public institutions across all branches of government and at the national and local level, including building the capacity of core public institutions to deliver public services and to fulfill their governance mandate. GROL�s technical approach is to balance and improve state capacity and responsiveness with accountability, including developing programs that increase the efficiency and effectiveness of institutions and empower civil society with the tools they need to hold the government to account. GROL bolsters the evidence base for successful governance and rule of law activities, facilitates trainings to build the capacity of Agency staff, and engages with and provides technical leadership and advice to Agency and bureau staff, inter-agency counterparts, multilateral partners, and implementing partners on key and emerging issues in governance and rule of law. Other critical division activities include the evaluation and assessment of field-based activities; dissemination of best practices; global mechanism management; and effective stewardship of centrally-managed funds. GROL�s anti-corruption work focuses on strengthening the capacity and commitment of countries to address the underlying drivers, constraints, incentives, opportunities and behaviors that allow corruption to flourish, and helping create the conditions for countries to sustainably combat corruption on their own. By bolstering the legal/regulatory anti-corruption framework; strengthening oversight institutions; enhancing public financial management and procurement processes; building the capacity of the justice sector to detect, identify and sanction corruption; and empowering communities to push for transparency, GROL-supported programs seek to assist countries to improve the accountability of public institutions to their citizens and safeguard public resources. A key aspect of this work involves strengthening the corruption prevention architecture of public sector institutions, in particular in the areas of detection, identification, monitoring and internal audit. Other pieces of the GROL portfolio aim at enhancing the public financial management and effective tax framework within countries, to ensure both transparency and accountability for public resources. Equally as important is work aimed at enhancing the ability of country-level oversight institutions - including ombudsman offices, special prosecutors, supreme audit institutions, and financial task teams - to understand, detect and track illicit finance, corruption streams, and money laundering (e.g. to �follow the money�), especially as these relate to broader transnational organized crime.� GROL supports design and strategy work aimed at enhancing these capacities at the country level, while also working closely with the State Department on broad U.S. Government policy in supporting country-level adherence and commitment to the UN Convention Against Corruption (UNCAC) and other international treaties and conventions.� While forming part of GROL�s existing anti-corruption approach, issues around safeguarding public funds/financial flows from corruption are of increased importance given the Agency�s priority on mobilizing domestic revenue and financing self-reliance. As part of GROL, the Anti-Corruption/Illicit Finance Advisor (AC/IF Advisor) will leverage her/his considerable expertise in anti-money laundering, financial flows and crimes, and sanctions regimes to help the DRG Center meet high demand for technical assistance in anti-corruption/illicit finance.� Working as a member of the GROL anti-corruption team, the AC/IF Advisor will design anti-corruption/illicit finance activities, projects and tools; support the development of strategy and country-level plans, design, and evaluation of programs; participate in the development of anti-corruption-related performance indicators; conduct DRG and other assessments; integrate best practices and lessons learned into cross-sectoral programming; deliver technical training; lead or co-lead the development of technical materials related to anti-corruption and illicit finance; and provide strategic and technical support to the Agency�s regional bureaus and field missions. The incumbent is expected to carry out work assignments using independent professional judgment to ensure the effective technical leadership and technical support for USAID�s DRG sector in Washington and overseas Missions. On TDY and in Washington D.C., s/he will work closely with USAID and Department of State colleagues to: identify opportunities for USAID to strengthen the capacity of country-level anti-corruption institutions, processes and mechanisms; design activities responding to those opportunities; work with partners to effectively implement those activities; monitor the impact of those activities; and other associated technical and managerial assistance. Under the direction of the GROL Division Chief, the AC/IF Advisor will work closely with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders, including other DRG colleagues and divisions, USAID staff in other bureaus and operating units, interagency colleagues at the Departments of State, Justice and Treasury, and implementing partners. The incumbent�s responsibilities will be geographically world-wide, varied, and dynamic to reflect changing circumstances facing USAID and the DRG Center.
 

Web Link

SAM.gov Permalink
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Place of Performance

Address: Washington, DC 20004, USA

Zip Code: 20004

Country: USA
 

Record

SN06026410-F 20210611/210609230117 (samdaily.us)
 

Source

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