Dear Potential Grantee,
The USAID Indonesia Urban Water, Sanitation and Hygiene, Penyehatan Lingkungan Untuk Semua (IUWASH PLUS) program is a five year-and-eight-month initiative designed to assist the Government of Indonesia (GOI) in increasing access to water supply and sanitation services as well as improving key hygiene behaviors among urban poor and vulnerable populations. USAID IUWASH PLUS works with governmental agencies, the private sector, NGOs, communities and others to achieve the following "high level" results:
1. An increase of 1,100,000 people in urban areas with access to improved water supply service quality, of which at least 500,000 are from the poorest 40% of the population (also referred to as the “Bottom 40%” or “B40”), vulnerable groups or Indonesia’s eastern provinces; and
2. An increase of 500,000 people in urban areas with access to safely managed sanitation.
To ensure that improvements in access to WASH services are sustained, USAID IUWASH PLUS is guided by a development hypothesis that focuses on strengthening service delivery systems, so they can more effectively reach the poorest and most vulnerable segments of the population. In order to achieve this at scale, the program undertakes activities through four interrelated components, including: 1) improving household WASH services; 2) strengthening city WASH institutional performance; 3) strengthening the WASH financing environment; and 4) advancing national WASH advocacy, coordination and communication. In support of these components, USAID IUWASH PLUS also implements a Local Sustainability and Innovation Component (LSIC) that is designed to stimulate WASH innovations that strengthen community, private sector and government WASH service provision.
Activity Background
Within the framework of Sanitation Marketing, USAID IUWASH PLUS plans to collaborate with Business Development Services (BDS) providers. BDS will strengthen the sanitation market, by strengthening businesses to entrepreneurs, such as masons, building material producers, sanitation business associations, banks and microfinance institutions, so that they are able to do business in this sector in a sustainable and independent manner. BDS will review the assessment document of potential areas for sanitation marketing, increase the capacity of Sanitation Entrepreneurs to run a sanitation business, develop curriculum and training materials for them, and ultimately assist these sanitation entrepreneurs to be sustainable in running their businesses.
Through this LSIC, USAID IUWASH PLUS will collaborate with 1 (one) BDS in each Region. This BDS will focus on assisting potential areas for the implementation of sanitation marketing based on data collected by USAID IUWASH PLUS, by not excluding the possibility in other areas if there is potential. USAID IUWASH PLUS will work with BDS who have experience in developing curriculum and training materials and provide assistance to entrepreneurs in the areas of marketing, business development, financial management and sales.
This RFA serves to support the program entitled "Engaging Business Development Services (BDS) to Build Business Capacity of Sanitation Entrepreneurs in East Java Region Office (EJRO) of USAID IUWASH PLUS - Phase-2" aiming to collaborate with Business Development Services (BDS) regionally. BDS will strengthen the sanitation market, by strengthening businesses and entrepreneurs, such as masons, building material producers, sanitation business associations, banks and microfinance institutions so that they are able to do business in this sector in a sustainable and independent manner. BDS will conduct an assessment of potential areas for sanitation marketing, identify sanitation entrepreneurs and increase the capacity they need to run a sanitation business, develop curriculum and training materials for them, and ultimately assist these sanitation entrepreneurs to be sustainable in running their businesses.
For those who interest to bid, USAID IUWASH PLUS inviting you to submit proposal, as the files attached or check the link as follows :
Please kindly confirm your interest to join the Pre-Application Online Meeting on Tuesday, December 1, 2020 at at 02.00pm - finished (detail link for online meeting platform will be send upon received Confirmation of Interest)
Thank you very much for your kind attention & best cooperation.
Sincerely yours,
Local Sustainability & Innovation Component (LSIC)
IUWASH PLUS Project