Program Evolution. 29.4.1. The Parties acknowledge and agree that there will likely be changes to the Pilot and Maintenance Training due to requirements and regulations over the course of the Term and the specification of the FSTDs and Training Service may vary over time. For greater certainty, to the extent that such changes are driven by market dynamics, regulations, and/or NAA requirements, the Parties will collaborate in good faith in adjusting the FSTD and Training Program specifications and associated terms, including reducing or increasing the related pricing, subject to the provisions of Clause 9 (Changes).
Program Evolution. The major activities being supported through the Matching Grant were pilot activities in October 2001. Many had not been thoroughly designed and none fully implemented. PVC recognized this and was supportive of their evolution. Approaches, locations, and levels of the activities were adjusted during the first two years of the grant. The initial definitions of the Business Plan Competition, Youth Entrepreneurship Training, Competitiveness Seminar, Leadership Initiative, and Volunteer Consultant assistance have not changed, but the implementation mechanisms, numbers and kinds of participants, and business sectors involved are different from those originally envisioned. USAID and TNS recognized that this was expected for such an innovative set of activities. Most of these changes are reflected in the revised Detailed Implementation Plan (Sections VIII B and IX B). Some examples of these changes illustrate the flexibility shown in implementation and use of funds. The BPC was originally conceived to be conducted in El Salvador and Peru twice each. In fact, six BPCs have been held in El Salvador and Nicaragua, and several others without the use of Matching Grant funds. In 2007 TNS and non-USAID partners will conduct over ten BPCs. The Youth Entrepreneurship training was planned for El Salvador, Tanzania, and Kenya, working with NFTE. In fact, the program has only been conducted with NFTE in El Salvador, and in Tanzania and Kenya a more regionally appropriate set-up has been installed. The Competitiveness Seminars have, as planned, been conducted in all target countries, but not every year. Initially, several addressed general issues of competitiveness, but most now are specific to a particular sub-sector /product (e.g. dairy, coffee, cashew, export horticulture, etc.). The Leadership Initiative was originally intended for implementation in East Africa and Mozambique, but was later expanded to West Africa and Central America. Local moderators are being trained for CALI and both XXXX and XXX (the latter with participants from many regions of the continent) are planning new programs for initiation in 2007. The innovative on-line consultancy program led by “ontheFrontier” was dropped in the first year as being relatively expensive and impractical for the developing world, and the NFTE-directed Youth Entrepreneur program has only been carried out in El Salvador. The Volunteer Consultant program was originally conceived as being used for six person-months per year per...
