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See also:
- Prosperity, Livelihoods and Conserving Ecosystems (PLACE) IQC
- Assistance to Basic Education (ABE) IQC
- Macroeconomic Policy IQC
- People, Energy, and Development (PED) IQC
- Environmental Policy and Institutional Strengthening II (EPIQ II) IQC
- Integrated Water and Coastal Resources Management IQC


General Business, Trade and Investment II (GBTI II) IQC
Start date: 12/06 - Completion date: 12/11
IQC Prime Contractor: SEGURA IP3 Partners, LLC

USAID's Bureau for Economic Growth, Agriculture, and Trade (EGAT) is
dedicated to reducing poverty and promoting prosperity in developing and
transition countries. The Economic Growth Office in EGAT assists USAID
field offices to develop and implement economic growth programs to raise
incomes, end hunger, protect the environment, and equip institutions and
people with the knowledge and skills needed to build equitable and
sustainable economies and societies.

USAID's primary program objectives for GBTI II focus on devising and
implementing robust strategies to promote real economic growth, reduce
poverty, graduate transitional countries from aid to trade, promote open
competitive markets, develop the private sector, and mobilize private
financing sources to supplement and eventually replace development
assistance. GBTI II contractors will provide a full range of services to
USAID Missions and to USAID/Washington in substantially all major
areas of business, trade, and investment development and reform.
These services include work in both macro and micro economic fields.

Within Macroeconomic Foundations for Growth, services will improve
the macro environment for business enterprise formation and growth, trade,
and domestic and foreign investment through:

1. Legal and institutional reform,
2. Financial sector reform and expansion,
3. Privatization and private sector development,
4. Economic policy and institutions,
5. Trade and investment, and
6. Addressing exogenous shocks to minimize negative impacts.

Within Microeconomic Foundations for Growth, services will cover both
developing and implementing:

1. Small and medium enterprise development,
2. Agribusiness and associated agriculture,
3. Micro-enterprise development, and
4. Addressing exogenous shocks, by assisting supply chains, sectors,
   and individual firms to respond to shocks and maintain production
   and employment.

Contractors will also capture and share the information, data, analyses and
other materials produced; contribute to the formation and strengthening of
a framework for knowledge creation and sharing; and contribute to lessons
learned, best-practices and improved development of appropriate materials.

SECID is part of the Small Business award for this IQC.