Europe & Eurasia - Regional Competitiveness Initiative (RCI)

SEGURA Consulting implementing the Regional Competitiveness Initiative (RCI), a project funded by the Europe and Eurasia Bureau of USAID in Washington.  It began in October 2004 and received an extension through 2012.  RCI strives to improve competitiveness across the Europe and Eurasia region by by engaging the efforts of bilateral USAID Missions, USAID Projects and other local stakeholders, thus complementing and creating regional synergies.

RCI addresses specifically all three levels of intervention required to improve competitiveness: enterprise, industry, and policy, and encourages regional cooperation among USAID missions and projects throughout the Europe and Eurasia region. Currently, RCI's field of action spans 11 countries: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Kosovo...  Read More

Europe & Eurasia | Infrastructure Reform & Finance Project Project (IRF)

From 2004 to 2008, the IRF project provided support to the Europe & Eurasia Bureau USAID Missions in the technical area of infrastructure reform and finance and related matters. The IRF project was intended to provide the necessary data, information and analysis to support the bureau's strategy development and to provide strategy assistance, plus analytical and implementation services to E&E Missions, linking strategy development with program design, as well as initial implementation assistance and periodic activity refinement. Project activities included:

Infrastructure Country Reports:

These recommendations to Missions focused on drawing out solutions to relieving the bottlenecks presented by...  Read More

Liberia | Governance and Economic Management Assistance Program (GEMAP)

SEGURA IP3 was selected to implement one important component of GEMAP, the program created by the Government of Liberia (GOL) with the support of the international community to recover from over a decade of civil war and economic chaos. GEMAP comprises six interlocking components:

1. 1)Financial Management and Accountability
   

2. 2)Improving Budgeting and Expenditure Management
   

3. 3)Improving Procurement Practices and Granting of Concessions...  Read More

Worldwide | Development Credit Authority (DCA) Evaluations

USAID's Development Credit Authority (DCA) was created in 1999 to mobilize local private capital through the establishment of real risk sharing relationships with private financial institutions in USAID countries. The tool is available to all USAID overseas missions and can be used as a vehicle for providing much needed credit to an array of enterprises and underserved sectors.

Starting in 2008, SEGURA/IP3 Partners, under the GBTI II IQC, are implementing the Development Credit Authority (DCA) Evaluations, a set of evaluations that EGAT/DC is undertaking in different countries, to test a series of developmental hypotheses related to the...

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Africa | AGCI - Knowledge Sharing & Analysis (KSA)

SEGURA Consulting is currently implementing the Knowledge Sharing and Analysis (KSA) Project, part of USAID’s Africa Global Competitiveness Initiative. KSA supports African policymakers in advancing trade-led economic growth. It is designed to synthesize, analyze, and disseminate program and best practice information and improve AGCI data collection and knowledge sharing practices, systems, and tools.

The KSA project is designed to:

1. •  Implement AGCI's knowledge sharing strategy...  Read More

Ukraine | Public Private Partnerships (PPP) Training

The USAID/Ukraine Mission is supporting the Government of Ukraine’s (GOU) initiatives to promote public-private partnerships (PPP) at national and municipal levels.  Accordingly, it issued SEGURA/IP3 Partners LLC a Task Order under the SEGIR Privatization II IQC, to provide capacity building assistance to the GOU in the development and dissemination of its PPP program.  

The training and advisory services comprising this capacity building program were conducted through short-term technical assistance provided by a small group of international and local PPP specialists, supported administratively and logistically by a Kyiv-based local staff team...  Read More

Asia | Evaluation of AERA Project - Kenan Institute Asia

SEGURA/IP3 Partners LLC was awarded a Task Order (TO) under its SEGIR General Business Trade and Investment II (GBTI II) Indefinite Quantity Contract (IQC) for the evaluation and sustainability assessment of the AERA projects implemented by the Kenan Institute Asia (K.I.Asia) under USAID’s Accelerating Economic Recovery in Asia program (AERA), and recommendations to work with K.I.Asia for mutual development goals in the region after completion of the current cooperative agreement.

The evaluation focused on private sector, public health, and environmental activities carried out under AERA Cooperative Agreement by KIAsia between September 30, 2003 and December 31, 2007.  The evaluation team also prepared a self-sustainability assessment of KIAsia... Read More

Jordan | Amman Water Management / Commercialization Project

The Ministry of Water and Irrigation (MWI) of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and the US Agency for International Development (USAID) Mission in Jordan have retained the services of SEGURA IP3 Partners LLC to implement the Amman Water Management & Commercialization Assessment (AW-MCA) over the period September 2005 to September 2009.

The main objective of the project was to recommend and implement the most suitable option for the operation and maintenance of the Greater Amman water & sanitation services, which cover approximately 40% of the country’s population.  For this purpose... 

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Georgia - Water Utility Sector Reform Project

Working with the higher level of WRC chaired by the Prime Minister, the team has been able to submit all three reports and deliver the corresponding briefing presentations.

SEGURA/IP3 Partners LLC was engaged by the USAID Mission in the Caucasus to provide the Government of Georgia (GOG) the professional support needed to address issues related to the performance of the water and sanitation sector and create conditions which could eventually attract private sector participation. Following the establishment of the Water Reform Commission (WRC), responsible for the development and elaboration of water supply and sanitation sector policy, SEGURA/IP3 provided technical assistance to the WRC to develop and prepare an overall plan for the water utility reform...  Read More

Europe & Eurasia | Kosovo AEDO

SEGURA/IP3 Partners LLC was awarded a Task Order (TO) to assess opportunities for USAID to support accelerated economic development and income generation in North Kosovo with a particular focus on North Mitrovicë/a.

The specific tasks for this assessment are:

1. Assessment of Economic Conditions in North Kosovo

The consulting team took a broad approach to assess the economic conditions and needs in the communities by considering economic policies, private sector opportunities and constraints, and related sector to economic growth for quick impact projects... Read More

Europe & Eurasia | Kosovo CRI-RIC

Kosovo has relatively enlightened free market-oriented economic policy in Balkan area. Nonetheless, many reforms are needed to improve its business environment to stimulate economic development and job creation. 

Due to historical and political reasons, there are three sets of policy makers and two sets of implementing agencies that must work together to achieve economic reform. Many areas of economic governance are reserved to the United Nations Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) and the Provisional Institutions of Self Governance (PISG). Thus, many bureaucracies and overlapping were involved in decision making process...  Read More

Europe & Eurasia | Kosovo Midterm Evaluation

In 2006, USAID/Kosovo requested SEGURA/IP3 LLC to conduct a mid-term evaluation on the Kosovo Cluster Business Support Project started in 2004, combining two major components with activities addressing three industry clusters and related business environment improvements. The cluster component addresses the livestock, fruit and vegetable, and construction materials sectors.

The evaluation team was tasked to assess the efficiency, impact, sustainability, and relevance of the project, in order to provide USAID/Kosovo with feedback for any necessary mid-course corrections and to help guide future planning.

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Ukraine | TCP Evaluation

SEGURA/IP3 has many years’ experiences in conducting program evaluations for USAID and developing recommendations for modernization of the state and improvement of good governance in the Europe and Eurasia Region, and in Ukraine.

Ukraine became eligible for the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Threshold Country Plan (TCP) in 2005. At that time it fell short of meeting the MCC Control of Corruption indicator. In response, the Government of Ukraine (GOU) and the USAID assigned a Strategic Objective Agreement to implement the TCP with the aim of reducing corruption in the public sector.

The program implemented under TCP Activity 4.2 envisions reducing corruption related to granting land owner and user rights, access to utilities, and construction permits by changing the legislative and regulatory framework for property transactions, reforming the... Read More

Egypt | Feasibility Study for PSP in the Alexandria Water & Waste Water System

The governorate of Alexandria is at the forefront of water and sanitation sector reform among developing countries. Working closely with USAID/Egypt, the Governorate undertook an ambitious program of institutional reform to both the Alexandria Water General Authority (AWGA) and the Alexandria General Organization of Sanitary Drainage (AGOSD). These reforms were bolstered by substantial support from the USAID.

From March to November 2004, SEGURA/IP3 consultants were retained by the USAID at the request of the Governorate of Alexandria (GOA) to advance the analysis of the proposed reforms exploring the feasibility of having Private Sector Participation in the operation and maintenance of the Alexandria water and wastewater system...  Read More

Africa | Sustainable Water and Sanitation in Africa (SUWASA)

SUWASA is a new regional initiative of the US Agency for International Development (USAID), implemented by ARD, Inc. with the participation of SEGURA Consulting LLC, with a mission of fostering the transformation of urban and peri-urban water and sanitation service delivery in Africa to achieve long-term financial sustainability through the application of market-based principles.

SUWASA will improve and expand the delivery of water and sanitation services in urban and peri-urban settings, with a focus on meeting the needs of the poor. It will accomplish this through a design that spreads effective models of reform at the water utility and sector levels, facilitates innovative financing approaches for African water providers...  Read More