REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS
Introduction and Background
The United States Institute of Peace’s Academy for International Conflict Management and Peacebuilding (The Academy) is the education and training arm of the United States Institute of Peace. Through its activities, the Academy strengthens the knowledge and skills of U.S. and international conflict management practitioners—both civilian and military—in ways that increase the impact of their actions; trains local citizens to help build peace in their own conflicts and facilitates their peacebuilding efforts; provides support for educational systems in fragile societies emerging from war; builds the capacity of other institutions and their faculties to educate and train about conflict prevention, management, and resolution; creates and disseminates supporting materials, including case studies, simulations, role plays, and other interactive exercises, reports and books, and study guides and other lessons; and develops courses and activities for U.S.-based students, teachers, and professors including the National Peace Essay Contest.
Purpose of the Request for Proposals
The Academy is currently assessing its evaluation strategy and evaluation activities. Understanding that evaluation feedback is essential to continue to offer relevant courses, improve teaching methodologies, and best allocate resources, the Academy would like to develop a robust evaluation policy and set of tools in line with the Institute’s evaluation policy. In this request for proposal, USIP’s Academy seeks an independent evaluation consultant or team to conduct an assessment of its current evaluation activities, develop a series of tools for its varied activities, develop a system for utilizing the information collected with these tools, and lead a training for Academy staff in these tools and system, which will ultimately be captured in an online training course.
RFP SUBMISSION DEADLINE- AUGUST 16, 2012-4PM