VOA常速英语2020--美国国际开发署正在寻求新的合作伙伴（在线收听）

Under USAID’s New Partnerships Initiative, or NPI, the agency is looking to partner with organizations that are deeply connected in the communities USAID serves and that have not – or have only in a limited capacity – worked with the agency in the past. NPI simplifies access to USAID resources and makes it easier for partners to bring forward their ideas and strengthens local capacity so that partner countries can gain new knowledge and skills to address their own development challenges. Potential partners can compete for one of three forms of funding: Direct awards for organizations that enable local engagement; sub-awards designed for organizations that enable more efficient partnerships for effective local engagement; and direct awards to partners that can leverage significant private and other non-U.S. government funding to promote effective local engagement.

根据美国国际开发署的新伙伴关系倡议（NPI），该机构正在寻求合作组织，这些组织与美国国际开发署服务的社会关系密切，并且过去从未或仅以有限的能力与该机构合作。NPI简化了获得美国国际开发署资源的途径，使合作伙伴更容易提出自己的想法，并加强当地能力，从而合作伙伴国家能够获得新的知识和技能，以应对自己的发展挑战。潜在的合作伙伴可以竞争三种资助形式的其中一种：对于促进当地参与的组织采取直接奖励；为那些能够建立更有效的伙伴关系以促进有效的本地参与的组织而设立次级奖项；并对可利用大量私人和其他非美国政府资金来促进有效的本地参与的合作伙伴采取直接奖励。

In late April, USAID’s Acting Administrator John Barsa announced three new funding opportunities under NPI for potential new and underutilized USAID partners. The first of these is the YouthPower 2: Youth Excel Addendum, which aims to help develop new approaches to strengthening youth-led and youth-serving local and community-based organizations. The second award will support USAID's goals in higher education by finding new ways to create meaningful change. These may, for example, include scholarships for individuals, capacity-building for local institutions, and policy reforms. Together, these two awards are worth at least $60 million. And in the near future, USAID’s Bureau for Global Health will announce the third opportunity -- one that will support response to the COVID-19 pandemic. “We are seeking to engage new partners that are effective development actors, who were previously limited or even blocked by complex solicitation requirements,” said USAID Acting Administrator Barsa.“At the same time, through NPI, we are looking to our more experienced partners to focus on mentoring and capacity building to elevate the leadership of local organizations in the countries in which we work,” he said. “NPI is becoming a crucial part of the adaptation of our programmatic operations under these difficult conditions caused by the novel coronavirus. USAID is pursuing all options for an effective response, including by working with new or underutilized partners that can provide innovative, scalable solutions to address the pandemic.”

4月下旬，美国国际开发署代理署长约翰·巴尔萨宣布了新的NPI倡议，美国国际开发署潜在的新伙伴和未充分利用的伙伴将获得三个新的融资机会。其中第一个是YouthPower 2：Youth Excel Addendum，其目的是帮助开发新方法，以加强由青年领导和为青年服务的本地和社区组织。第二个奖项将通过寻找新的方式来创造有意义的改变来支持美国国际开发署的高等教育目标。例如，这些可能包括个人奖学金、地方机构能力建设和政策改革。这两个奖项加在一起价值至少6亿美元。并且在不远的未来，美国国际开发署的全球卫生局将宣布第三个机会——该机会将支持应对新冠状病毒。美国国际开发署代理署长巴萨表示：“我们正在寻求新的合作伙伴，他们是有效的发展行动者，他们曾经受到复杂的招标要求的限制甚至阻碍。”他说：“同时，通过NPI，我们希望我们经验丰富的合作伙伴能够专注于指导和能力建设，以提高我们工作所在国家/地区的本地组织的领导能力，在由新型冠状病毒引起了许多困难的条件下，NPI成为适应我们的程序化操作的关键部分。美国国际开发署正在寻求所有有效应对方案，包括与新的或未充分利用的合作伙伴合作，这些合作伙伴可以提供创新的，可扩展的解决方案来应对新冠状病毒。”