Ministry of Communication and IT signed a One Million USD agreement with USAID

In the past 8 years Ministry of Communications and IT has achieved huge success; the ministry has served the country with advanced and developed telecom services based on adoption of best policies. Besides these achievements ministry has also built its internal capacity by putting together capable team in the areas of finance, procurement, inspection and reporting.

During the past year USAID has conducted an evaluation of Ministry in the above areas and declared that MCIT has enough capacity to receive grant from USAID and perform direct procurement. USAID has given grant of USD 1 million on pilot bases, if MCIT invest this fund in transparent and efficient way in the area of ICT development, USAID will consider expanding the grant value in second phase of Host Country Contracting.


Ministry has contracted Grail Consulting for USD 860,000.00 out of USD 1 million for the development of 80 government websites and email system (which will be hosted in the recently established National Data Center y the Ministry of Communications and IT), Electronic Document System (on pilot bases in MCIT) and CIO (Chief Information Officer) training for the IT heads of 30 government organizations.