SEGURA Consulting LLC @ 2010

Sutherland Miller III

Chief of Party

SEGURA Partners, LLC

Tel: (202) 286-3776 (cell)

sutherland@segura-ip3.com

The U.S. Agency for International Development awarded SEGURA IP3 Partners LLC a contract in June 2007 to implement the Knowledge Sharing and Analysis (KSA) project, managed through its Africa Bureau in Washington, in support of African policymakers in advancing trade-led economic growth. The KSA project has now been extended until September 2012.

KSA supports USAID’s $200-million African Global Competitiveness Initiative (AGCI) and is the Africa Bureau’s knowledge sharing and performance monitoring project. KSA includes five major tasks:

1. •Evaluating USAID/Africa’s knowledge sharing strategy, practices, and tools in order to identify opportunities for improvement and to make recommendations for change, for the benefit of practitioners and other stakeholders. KSA assists the USAID Africa Bureau in updating and maintaining the AGCI Web site, within the USAID Web domain (http://www.usaid.gov keyword: AGCI).
   

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3. •Analyzing and synthesizing USAID and other donor program activities and best practices in trade development, overcoming infrastructure constraints, enabling environment policy reform, and enterprise development.
   

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5. •Disseminating best practice information, including through KSA publications and briefs, summaries of applied best practices, conferences, trainings, and presentations. (Visit: http://www.usaid.gov/locations/sub-saharan_africa/initiatives/publications.html).
   

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7. •Supporting USAID in the development, presentation, and execution of the annual Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) Forum. This year, KSA is assisting in the organization of the 10th AGOA Forum in Lusaka, Zambia, from 8 to 11 June. In recent years, KSA assisted USG with the AGOA Fora in Washington (2008), Nairobi (2009), and Washington and Kansas City (2010). The annual Forum brings together officials of the African nations with representatives of the international donor and the African and U.S. private sector, as well as representatives of the African civil society.
   

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9. •Monitoring the implementation and performance of the overall AGCI program across Sub-Saharan Africa and preparing annual reports on AGCI. KSA initially developed the AGCI performance monitoring plan and has been implementing it throughout the project. In 2009, KSA carried out a full-scale AGCI assessment.
   

In its third year, the Knowledge Sharing and Analysis (KSA) project conducted primary research, mission support, and training services in Botswana, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, and Zambia in support of USAID's African Global Competitiveness Initiative. This month, KSA's road trip to Zambia will help prepare for the next AGOA Forum to be held in Lusaka in June 2011.

For additional information, please visit the AGCI/KSA Web site: http://www.usaid.gov Keyword: AGCI.