The USAID Learning, Evaluation, and Analysis Project (LEAP III) mechanism is designed for USAID field missions and bureaus. It helps to efficiently and cost-effectively access rigorous, independent, and high-quality analytical services to support economic and policy analyses, project design, monitoring and evaluation, and training across all sectors.

For details contact: Zuzanna Kurzawa 

The USAID’s Monitoring and Evaluation Services Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (EVAL ME II IDIQ) contract is designed for missions and bureaus agency-wide to procure monitoring and evaluation services across all sectors.

For details contact: Zuzanna Kurzawa 

The FCDO‘s (formerly DFID) International Multi-Disciplinary Programme Framework Agreement (IMDP) was designed to enable the FCDO to access advice and expertise in a cost-efficient and effective manner across the 11 thematic areas.

For details contact: Zuzanna Kurzawa 

The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Gender and Social Inclusion (GSI) Bulk Purchase Agreement provides support for gender and social inclusion analytical services across technical areas and sectors in multiple compact and threshold program countries. The BPA aims to increase women’s economic opportunities, contributing to MCC’s mission to reduce poverty through economic growth. Led by Limestone, our Consortium brings strong cross-sectoral analytic capabilities, experience advancing GSI across institutions, and a commitment to producing rigorous, research-based, and innovative solutions to this initiative.

For details contact: gsi-bpa@limestone-analytics.com

Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Evaluation-based CBA contract provides support for MCC’s Department of Policy and Evaluation, Economic Analysis division to design and produce independent Evaluation-Based Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA) models based on existing MCC models, independent evaluation reports, and (where applicable) underlying evaluation data.

For details contact: Shannon Davis

The UNCDF selected a pool of specialized evaluation firms with the capacity, expertise, and experience to conduct independent, external, thematic, program, and project evaluations across the entire UNCDF interventions portfolio at short notice and in full respect of the United Nations quality standards for evaluation. The evaluation specialists also offer support for the UNCDF’s attempts to strengthen the practice of evaluation within UNCDF and across the UN system by introducing innovative approaches, methods, and techniques to its evaluation work in line with evolving best practices internationally.

For details contact: Shannon Davis

The Copenhagen Consensus Center, in partnership with the National Planning Commission of Malawi and AFI-DEP (a think tank based in Malawi), is conducting the Malawi Priorities Project. The project aims to identify and promote effective interventions to address Malawi’s development challenges, informed by cost-benefit analysis. The aim is to inform both short and long-term development priorities for the country, acknowledging that there are insufficient resources to address all of Malawi’s challenges and that maximizing outcomes requires careful, evidence-based consideration of the costs and benefits of all policies. Limestone Analytics was hired to conduct the research and associated CBAs for nine research questions under the Malawi Priorities project. The nine research questions include the following sectors; education, agriculture, utilities, governance, industrialization, natural resource management, and COVID-19 economic recovery.

For details contact: Shannon Davis

The Early Analysis vehicle is a Call Order under the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Gender and Social Inclusion (GSI) Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA), where Limestone is a prime holder. Other members of our strong consortium include Social Development Direct and Causal Design. The Early Analysis Call Order will support/work with the MCC GSI team to integrate GSI considerations into MCC analyses that support the design of compacts and investments.

Integrating gender and social inclusion (GSI) is critical to MCC’s approach to achieving poverty reduction through economic growth. Therefore, MCC is working to consider GSI throughout the programs life cycle: from the initial country selection and early analysis to the development and design of projects, project implementation, the monitoring of program results, and evaluation of program impacts.

The Call Order aims to develop and implement frameworks to analyze gender and social inclusion and determine if they in and of themselves are a binding constraint to growth or a root cause of other binding constraints. 

Limestone is aiding these efforts by helping the agency incorporate GSI analyses into the early stages of project design and planning. Such actions will help MCC more effectively work towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which aim to achieve gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls, and to promote equality and social inclusion more generally. 

Led by Limestone, our Consortium brings significant experience in identifying the alignment between the business case and gender and social inclusion; understanding barriers to opportunities, and providing practical recommendations to address barriers and ensure program success. 

For details contact: Zuzanna Kurzawa