United States Agency for International Development Mission to Madagascar (USAID/Madagascar) B.P. 5253, Antananarivo 101, Madagascar

R -- INCREASING PARTICIPATION OF CIVIL SOCIETY IN MADAGASCAR SOL 687-96-P-002 DUE 041296 POC Jackie Ramanitrera, Contract Specialist, USAID/Madagascar, Tel. 261-2- 254-89 Fax 261-2-348-83 E-Mail Address ''JRAMANITRERA@USAID.GOV''. The United States Agency for International Development Mission to Madagascar (USAID/Madagascar), is seeking applications from qualified Private Voluntary Organizations (PVO) or Cooperative Development Organizations for award of a cooperative agreement covering a period of three years, to assist in the implementation of a new project in Madagascar entitled Participation and Poverty (P&P). The project goal is to foster a national policy, regulatory and resource environment in which private action can flourish. The purposes which the project intends to achieve are to strengthen the role of civil society in this new democracy and to assist the malagasy government to design implementable public policies that emphasize poverty alleviation in a participatory and open fashion. The recipient of the cooperative agreement will support the increased capacity of Malagasy Civil Society to engage and participate in the public policy arena. Interested and qualified organizations should submit a written request for the request for application (RFA) to the Agreement Officer, Mr. David Osinski, USAID/Madagascar, B.P. 5253, Antananarivo 101, Madagascar. Requests should be accompanied by four mailing labels and telephone and fax numbers. Fax requests should be sent to 261-2-348- 83. The estimated date for receipt of applications is April 12, 1996. The exact date will be specified in the request for applications. The preferred method of distribution of USAID Procurement Information is via the Internet or by request of a solicitation on a 3.5'' Floppy disk (wordperfect 5.1). This CBD notice can be viewed and downloaded using the agency gopher. The RFA, once issued, can be downloaded from the agency gopher. The gopher address is GOPHER.INFO.USAID.GOV. Select USAID PROCUREMENT AND BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES from the gopher menu. From there, choose the heading USAID PROCUREMENTS and the DOWNLOADED AVAILABLE USAID SOLICIATIONS. The RFA can also be downloaded via Anonymous File Transfer Protocol (FTP). The FTPaddress is FTP.INFO.USAID.GOV. Logon using the user identification of ''anonymous'' and the password is your e-mail address. Look under the following directory for the rfa: pub/OP/RFA/687P02/687p02.rfa. Receipt of this RFA through INTERNET must be confirmed by written notification to the contact person noted above. It is the responsibility of the recipient of this solicitation document to ensure that it has been received from INTERNET in its entirety and USAID bears no responsibility for data errors resulting from transmission or conversion processes. (0033)

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