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Cost Recovery and Financial Sustainability of CIES

USAID/Bolivia is planning to provide field support to finance technical assistance activities for 12 to 18 months to help CIES (Centro de Investigación, Educación y Servicios) develop an aggressive plan to improve its sustainability. The focus of the activity will be the development of cost recovery scenarios that will help CIES achieve this goal. USAID requested PSP-One to assess the current situation of cost recovery and sustainability of CIES in Bolivia, and develop three scenarios that would illustrate what would be necessary for CIES to become more financially sustainable. At an initial meeting with PSP-One consultant Roy Brooks and USAID/Bolivia, it was decided that it would be useful to present a number of possible alternatives within these scenarios for CIES to attain a higher degree of cost recovery between 70% to up to or over 90% by year 2009.