by aisdevelopment | Mar 13, 2014 | Sustainable Fisheries & Aquaculture
AISD is TetraTech‘s core partner for sustainable fisheries, mariculture and aquaculture on a new USAID Indefinite Quantity Contract (IQC), Restoring the Environment Through Prosperity, Livelihoods and Conserving Ecosystems (REPLACE). REPLACE provides a framework for USAID to address local and global stresses and threats to best achieve sustained management of natural resources for future generations. It utilizes integrated approaches to landscape and seascape management to build resilient and productive communities while conserving the natural resource base, maintaining vital ecosystem goods and services and, where needed, assisting in the regeneration of degraded natural assets. These approaches will enhance livelihoods and economic options through sound resource use,improve resource governance, reduce conflicts and enhance social capital and environmental stewardship. The Nature, Wealth and Power (NWP) approach presented provides a testedUSAID paradigm to best support the potential for scaling-up & sustaining impact to address the growing demands on natural resources as a result of climate change and increased demands on land and water resources. …
by aisdevelopment | Mar 13, 2014 | Post Conflict
Under a new five year, 2.5 billion contract awarded to Management Systems International (MSI), AISD will be a partner in promoting democracy in post conflict and transitional countries. The Support Which Implements Fast Transitions IV (SWIFT IV) Indefinite Quantity Contract (IQC) is to provide the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Office of Transition Initiatives (OTI) with the means to support U.S. foreign policy objectives by helping local partners advance peace and democracy in priority countries undergoing political or post-conflict transitions. OTI’s program team, comprised of OTI and contractor personnel, will work on the ground in countries undergoing a political or post-conflict transition to provide fast, flexible, short-term assistance targeted at key political transition and stabilization needs. MSI is a subsidiary of Coffey International…
