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C.2. (c) Objective
Contract No. PCE-I-00-99-00008-00
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The objective of this Contract is to make available services that are
readily accessible by USAID for the following purposes:
(1) to strengthen commercial banking systems,
institutions and supporting infrastructures in
developing countries;
(2) to support financial policy and regulatory reform;
(3) to restructure public and private banks;
(4) to develop and implement systems of prudential regulation
and supervision of financial intermediaries;
(5) to develop and strengthen capital markets for equity and
debt;
(6) to assess, examine and/or instigate fiscal and monetary
policy reform;
(7) to develop and apply innovative financial instruments;
(8) to create linkages, electronically and otherwise, between
the US financial community with cooperating country
counterparts;
(9) to establish and/or encourage broad-based participation in
formal financial sector institutions including capital
markets, banking and credit systems;
(10) to support development of sustainable models of microfinance
delivery in the context of development of a broad based
financial market, and;
(11) to create and develop innovative models and mechanisms to
link financial sector reforms to private delivery of
services such as medical pension plans.
C.2. (d) Description of Components and Tasks
The four primary financial services components are: (1) Policies,
Regulatory and Institutional Framework Development; (2) Bank
Restructuring, Transfer and Supervision of Financial Intermediaries;
(3) Capital and Credit Market Regulation, Transparency, and Back Room
Operations; and (4) Research and Information Dissemination.
When an Order is placed under this Contract, the Contractor shall be
required to perform within the following framework: