activity. Table 1. Associated threshold decisions covered under this memorandum. Project/Activity Types of Activities with Threshold Determination Remarks Environmental Implications CE. No environmental This is a TEC The USAID DG M&E support impact is anticipated. increase of Democracy and Governance activity (January 2017 - April $1,183,516 2018) is tasked to complete and time Programs’ Monitoring and performance evaluations for five extension of one Evaluation DG activities: Justice for All year and (JFA), Protecting Human Rights functional Support activity (PHR), Democratic Participation expansion and Reform (DPR), within the USAID’s January 2017 - Bangladesh Counter existing April 2019 program (USAID’s BC/TIP), $2,502,808 and description and Workers’ Empowerment Award Number: Programs (WEP 1 and WEP 2). period of The current scope of work of the performance, activity also includes review of the associated Performance Management Plan of Environmental The extension the Democracy and Governance Threshold period and TEC portfolio (Annex-1: SOW of M&E Decision increase of the activity). The M&E support covered by IEE activity will be activity provides analytical support - Asia 15-041 covered by IEE to the DG office to continue with for on-going Asia 15-041 as consistent, efficient and Democracy and long as it is valid. learning process for the Governance DG portfolio. Programs’ Monitoring and The extension of DG Monitoring Evaluation and Evaluation Support Project Support activity will help to continue flexible, demand-driven technical and analytic support for DG office to monitor and evaluate activities. In addition to the evaluation tasks, the DG office is planning to extend the scope of the activity to extensive monitoring support. During the extension period, SI will also support DG office in Monitoring activities that include: Conduct Baseline survey for DG MEL indicators One case study for each DG project (currently there
activity. Table 1. Associated threshold decisions covered under this memorandum. Project/Activity Types of Activities with Environmental Implications Threshold Determination Remarks Democracy and Governance Programs’ Monitoring and Evaluation Support activity January 2017 - April 2019 $2,502,808 Award Number: The extension period and TEC increase of the activity will be covered by IEE Asia 15-041 as long as it is valid. The USAID DG M&E support activity (January 2017 - April 2018) is tasked to complete performance evaluations for five DG activities: Justice for All (JFA), Protecting Human Rights (PHR), Democratic Participation and Reform (DPR), USAID’s Bangladesh Counter (USAID’s BC/TIP), and Workers’ Empowerment Programs (WEP 1 and WEP 2). The current scope of work of the activity also includes review of the Performance Management Plan of the Democracy and Governance portfolio (Annex-1: SOW of M&E activity). The M&E support activity provides analytical support to the DG office to continue with consistent, efficient and learning process for the DG portfolio. The extension of DG Monitoring and Evaluation Support Project will help to continue flexible, demand-driven technical and analytic support for DG office to monitor and evaluate activities. In addition to the evaluation tasks, the DG office is planning to extend the scope of the activity to extensive monitoring support. During the extension period, SI will also support DG office in Monitoring activities that include: Conduct Baseline survey for DG MEL indicators One case study for each DG project (currently there CE. No environmental impact is anticipated. This is a TEC increase of $1,183,516 and time extension of one year and functional expansion within the existing program description and period of performance, associated Environmental Threshold Decision covered by IEE - Asia 15-041 for on-going Democracy and Governance Programs’ Monitoring and Evaluation Support activity
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