Project Scope and Services
PPAF received a grant from IFAD for the ‘National Poverty Graduation Program (NPGP)’, which aims to ‘assist the ultra-poor and very poor in graduating out of poverty on a sustainable basis; simultaneously improving their overall food security, nutritional status and resilience to climate change’. The program follows a tested social mobilization-based approach for community targeting, organization and implementation in which PPAF will engage existing and new suitable partners in target areas for the delivery of project interventions. PPAF hired services of AiD to roll out multi-tiered appraisal of potential partner organizations (PPOs).
As part of this assignment, AiD performed following services:
- Designing and issuance of Request for Expression of Interest to non-profit organizations across Pakistan
- Desk-based appraisal of 242 EOIs received and shortlisting of PPOs for the next stage of selection process
- Development and issuance of detailed Request for Proposal (RfP) to 84 shortlisted PPOs
- Desk-based appraisal of 126 technical and financial proposals received in response to RfP
- Shortlisting of PPOs for field-based appraisal i.e. capacity assessment of shortlisted organizations
- Finalization of partners for implementation of NPGP