Input into USAID/Zimbabwe’s Building Locally Owned, Self-Reliant, and Effective Private Sector Associations

The purpose of this Request for Information (RFI) is to collect written information to identify the challenges, barriers and opportunities to address the diverse challenges facing Zimbabwean young people in meeting their social and economic needs and aspirations. USAID/Zimbabwe is seeking to facilitate a locally and youth-led platform to explore options for creating/facilitating/fostering a multi-sectoral support ecosystem that can assist, prepare, empower, and provide economic and social opportunities for young Zimbabweans. This RFI is published in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 10 and FAR 15.201(e). The information will be used to help make planning decisions and influence activity design to improve future development outcomes.

This is an RFI, not a Request for Proposals (RFP), and is not to be construed as a commitment by the U.S. Government to issue any solicitation or ultimately award an agreement on the basis of this RFI, nor to pay for any information submitted as a result of this request, nor does it commit the Government to pay for costs incurred in the preparation and submission of any comments.

Any funding proposals submitted in response to this request will not be considered. Responses to this notice must be received no later than the due date and time stated above in this notice. All information provided will become the property of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), will not be returned, and will not be released publicly. USAID reserves the right to use information provided by respondents for USAID’s own purposes. Proprietary information must

not be sent.