The Treasury Dept. is embarking upon a monitoring program to ensure that certain Caribbean, Central and South American nations are using U.S. government grants as intended. Treasury's Bureau of Public Debt is overseeing the Grant Performance Monitoring Services initiative on behalf of the Inter-American Foundation (IAF), an "independent" U.S. government agency.
Treasury will carry out the endeavor via private contractors, who will train grant recipients in the use of an IAF-developed data-verification process known as the
Grassroots Development Framework.
According to a March 31 presolicitation notice obtained through a routine search of the FedBizOpps database, Treasury will assign one consultant for each of the following nations or pairs of nations: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama/Costa Rica, Uruguay/Paraguay, Peru, and Venezuela.
The contractors will be tasked with verifying the results of grantee reports. Additionally, upon the request of IAF's Evaluation Officer, the consultants "will accompany IAF staff and other contractors on field trips; provide grant results verification services in other countries; conduct peer reviews; and participate in training and/or conferences," the document says.
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