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Contract No. PCE-I-OO-99-00008-00
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(3) Expand access and opportunity, addressing poverty and
distributional concerns. SEGIR will provide the analytical
base for objectives (1) and (2) such as creating models for
social safety nets, developing poverty indicators to
identify and monitor at-risk groups and the impact of
corrective measures, inter alia.
An illustrative start-up agenda for SEGIR Technical Leadership during
its first year includes:
Studies on the economic impacts of financial sector development,
including, financial sector reform, capital market development,
financial system support, institution building, competitiveness
issues in developing and transition economies, defining
successful social safety nets, fiscal federalism, economic growth
and democracy, fiscal policy management and poverty alleviation,
externalities in public/private sector efficiency, and measuring
effectiveness and trade-offs of health and environmental
programs.
The findings of these studies will provide the basis for workshops,
seminars and training programs involving other agency staff.
C.l. (f) SEGIR Mission Services, financed by Missions and Regional
Bureaus under Task Orders, will supply technical experts to assist
Missions with the design, implementation and evaluation of country
regional technical assistance programs.
C.2 STATEMENT OF WORK
The Contractor shall provide to the Center for Economic Growth and
Agricultural Development (EGAD) such services as may be required under
Task Orders to be issued hereunder. The Contractor shall also
provide, as requested by field Missions and Regional Bureaus through
SEGIR, direct technical assistance and/or advisory and assistance
services to host country institutions (both governmental and nongovernmental)
to promote financial sector development as an integral
element of economic and institutional reform.
C.2. (a) Background
This Contract provides a resource that is intended to follqw and build
upon the "Financial Sector Development Project - Phase II" (FSDP),
which was awarded to Barents Group, formerly KPMG Peat Marwick, and
expires in September, 1998. Through this Contract, SEGIR will make
available to USAID a wide range of long-, medium-, and short-term
technical support and training in all areas related to financial
services. The purpose of this instrument is to promote more efficient
capital mobilization, allocation, and intermediation through improved
strategic planning, regulatory policies, institutional reform and the
creation and/or introduction of financial mechanisms and instruments
and the provision of wide dissemination of relevant, updated
information.
and