Activities
Resonance offers services and expertise to access PSE-related studies and analyses, including regional, country, or sectoral Private Sector Landscape Analyses (PSLAs), and to provide flexible functional support and technical assistance to strengthen USAID/BHA’s ability to integrate PSE into its operations and programming. More specifically, MAPS-H provides the following support.
Resonance Deliverables:
- Support assessments, analyses, and studies to implement the USAID/BHA PSE Implementation Plan, mainstream PSE in BHA’s response and humanitarian efforts, and build the evidence base for PSE.
- Facilitate change management by monitoring the USAID/BHA PSE Implementation Plan progress, conducting analysis, and offering recommendations to enhance internal systems that educate and encourage uptake of PSE approaches.
- Support BHA to identify potential private sector partners for humanitarian response and assistance in programming their work and facilitate partnerships when appropriate.
- Promote humanitarian PSE knowledge sharing and disseminate best practices across the humanitarian community.
Key Results
- Create an evidence base and justification for benefits of PSE activities. MAPS-H is conducting studies and PSLAs for humanitarian efforts globally, including a PSLA in Southeast Asia, an analysis in Turkiye, and a study on humanitarian response efforts from multinational corporations.
- MAPS-H will support USAID/BHA to put its PSE Implementation Plan into action. USAID/BHA developed a PSE Implementation Plan in 2021. MAPS-H is implementing the associated monitoring, evaluation, and learning plan to assess USAID/BHA’s progress toward its goals and objectives. MAPS-H also launched the BHA PSE Community of Practice (COP) and developed a PSLA Primer which serves as a reference document for USAID/BHA staff on how to conduct a PSLA and offers important considerations for conducting a PSLA for the humanitarian assistance context.
- Identify models and best practices for USAID/BHA to better consult, strategize, align, collaborate with, and implement alongside the private sector. MAPS-H initiated a first-of-its-kind After Action Review specifically focused on the role of the private sector in the large-scale, sudden-onset response to the 2023 Turkiye earthquakes. Through the Southeast Asia Supply Chain PSLA, MAPS-H will identify efficiencies and supply chain service improvements that benefit disaster-affected communities through efforts to localize the Southeast Asian regional humanitarian supply chain.
- Promotes PSE knowledge sharing and information dissemination across USAID/BHA and the humanitarian assistance ecosystem. MAPS-H designed, launched, and continues to facilitate the BHA PSE COP to disseminate lessons and promote a learning culture with the Bureau and among partners.
