Afghanistan Engineering Support Program Year 6 Work Plan

for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The program's primary goal is to provide engineering support to USAID's Office of Economic Growth and Infrastructure (OEGI) in Afghanistan. AESP was originally contracted for five years, ending on November 8, 2014, but was extended for one additional year due to USAID's decision to continue the program. The Year 6 Work Plan outlines planned activities for the period of October 1, 2014, through September 30, 2015. The program will focus on preserving and applying the institutional knowledge gained through the completion of 159 work orders in the first five years. AESP will also assume an expanded role in quality assurance, monitoring, and evaluation, providing services to USAID projects in the design and implementation phases. One of the most prominent projects in Year 6 is the implementation of the $450 million NEPS-SEPS electrical transmission connector between Kabul and Kandahar. The connector will be completed on budget through Afghanistan's national electric utility, Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat (DABS). The program will also continue to support the USAID OEGI mission in 2015 and strengthen its partnership with the Afghan government. The AESP Year 6 Work Plan is structured into several sections, including program approach, planning activities, design activities, technical support and consulting services, quality assurance services, capacity building, and collaboration with stakeholders. The program will also focus on closeout, program staffing, deployment, work orders, reporting, and deliverables. The program will be staffed by a team of in-country and home office personnel, including expatriate and local staff. The in-country staff will be responsible for providing technical support, while the home office will provide technical support, STTA staff coordination, administration, and personnel support. The program will also have a team of assignment staff who will be deployed to support various projects. The AESP Year 6 Work Plan outlines the program's approach to tracking work orders, including administrative work orders, long-term work orders, and additional scope requests. The program will also focus on capacity building, including technical academic resources, engineering field trips, and long-term work orders to promote capacity building. The program will provide regular reporting and deliverables, including work plans, security operation plans, performance monitoring plans, weekly meetings, quarterly progress reports, reach back hours, annual work plans, and annual reports. The final project report will be submitted at the end of the program.