DevTech is a member of the Booz Allen Hamilton-led consortium that provides technical and advisory services, training, research, and other services to USAID missions, bureaus, and their clients through the GBTI II IQC.  The objective of the IQC is to allow missions and bureaus to continue to engage in business, trade and investment work and related sector reform projects through a structured procurement process.  This mechanism is built on earlier experience in addressing business, trade and investment constraints to economic growth in USAID-presence countries, and promotes knowledge management and best practices by making available to USAID and its GBTI implementers all contract-related experience and reports.

Services provided under GBTI II fall within ten functional areas, divided into two broad sets of technical tasks defined as Macroeconomic and Microeconomic Foundations for Growth.

Within the Macroeconomic Foundations for Growth area, GBTI services aim to improve the macro environment for business enterprise formation and growth, trade, and domestic and foreign investment through: 

• Legal and institutional reform,

• Financial sector reform and expansion,

• Privatization and private sector development,

• Economic policy and institutions,

• Trade and investment, and

• Addressing exogenous shocks, assistance to ease the adjustment to exogenous economic and financial shocks that cause short and medium-term development problems affecting the national business environment and potential to generate economic growth.

Microeconomic Foundations for Growth area services cover both developing and implementing:

• Small and medium enterprise development,
• Agribusiness and associated agriculture,
• Micro-enterprise development, and
• Addressing exogenous shocks, measures to assist supply chains, sectors, and individual firms in the event of exogenous economic and financial shocks which cause local business and financial dislocations, structural changes in the local economy, capital and labor dislocations, and decreases in output and employment.

For further information on taking advantage of this mechanism to access DevTech’s services, please contact us.