USAID’s Udhyam Nepal Activity

Notice ID: 72036721R00003

Contract Award Number: 72036722C00001

Description: The purpose of this activity is to enable the Nepali private sector to become competitive globally by strengthening key agriculture and non-agriculture sectors with high potential for growth and employment creation while recovering from the impact of COVID-19. This SOO allows Offerors to propose and price a set of interventions that achieve the outlined objectives and contribute to measurable improvements in the functioning of market systems, business operations, and/or production capabilities; promote investment and increased use of improved technologies and innovations as well as financial and non-financial services to spur productivity; strengthen marketing capacities; and streamline select import and export procedures. While the interventions supported must be focused and well-tailored to firms in the targeted sectors, some interventions will yield broad-based and positive system-wide impacts for Nepali firms as a whole. The Contractor must flexibly adapt interventions and seize opportunistic actions at a firm level that increase jobs and exports, increase competitiveness in the targeted agriculture and non-agriculture sectors, and can offset losses related to COVID-19, other threats posed by pandemics or disease outbreaks, natural disasters, or political and economic instability. 

Objective One: Access to market-based financial and non-financial services improved

Objective Two: Productivity in sectors with high growth and employment potential increased

Objective Three: Improved investment climate and business enabling environment, especially for targeted sectors

OPTIONAL CLIN: Objective Four: Private sector led economic recovery supported