Organizational Performance Improvement Program Activities in Macedonia

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Organizational Performance Improvement Program Activities in Macedonia: U.S. Agency for International Development Mission in Macedonia (USAID/Macedonia), is seeking concept papers from qualified Macedonian nonprofit or for-profit non-governmental organizations (NGOs), to carry out human and institutional capacity development activities with selected number of institutions in Macedonia. The deadline for the first round of applications is August 28, 2012. This Annual Program Statement (APS) will be open until July 12, 2013, with potential for several rounds of applications. Applicants are strongly encouraged to apply by the "First Round" published deadline of August 28, 2012 to ensure consideration. Closing dates for any subsequent rounds of applications will be determined by USAID and advertised by amendment to this APS o/a November 30, 2012. Submission review under this APS is comprised of two phases: first phase consists of concept papers from prospective Applicants and, second phase is through an invitation process to submit Full Applications from Applicants with the most highly-rated concept papers. The objective of this APS is to increase the capacity and improving the performance of key civil society organizations and independent institutions by applying holistic institutional capacity development and performance improvement methodologies. USAID/Macedonia will consider all holistic institutional capacity development and performance improvement models such as: USAID's HICD approach (please see USAID's HICD handbook at http://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PNADW783.pdf), 6σ Approach , Weisbord's Six-Box Organizational Model , Rummler-Brache's The Nine Boxes Model , Mager and Pipe's Analyzing Performance Problems Approach , The EQFM Excellence Model , and other holistic approaches as applicable. At a minimum, the proposed approaches should include structured and integrated processes to identify fundamental causes of performance gaps in selected institutions, address those gaps through a wide array of performance solutions, and enable cyclical processes of continuous performance improvements through the establishment of performance monitoring systems.The intended project result is Enhanced Performance of a Number of Organizations.