Client: United States Agency for International Development

2011-2013, GBTI II

Business Environments for Agile Markets (BEAM) offers USAID missions and their local partners a broad range of services in economic growth programming, such as needs assessments, training, monitoring and evalution, identifying public-private partnerships and rapid-response support.

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Specialties include:

• Trade capacity building
• Customs reform
• Value chain optimization
• Export diversification and competitiveness
• Private-sector approaches to health, environment and food security challenges
• Business-enabling environment
• Transport and logistics
• Services trade and investment
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Managed by CARANA and its consortium partners, BEAM opens access to a wealth of economic growth expertise and uses a variety of ready-made and custom-built analytic tools to help missions achieve their goals, including BIZCLIR, TCBaseline and CARANA's own Transport and Logistics Cost Assessment Tool. 

As a time-and-materials tax order with fixed daily rates under the GBTI II IQC, BEAM can quickly deploy experts for short-term assignments--it requires no further competition. It has core funding and can also share programming costs with missions.

Find out more by downloading the BEAM brochure.

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