International Consortium for Antimicrobial Stewardship in Agriculture (ICASA) Evaluation Request for Proposals

FFAR seeks to evaluate the success of ICASA. The evaluator, in collaboration with FFAR, will define criteria and standards of success (i.e. metrics); FFAR has established relevant Stages of Research, Development and Deployment that the evaluator will use to track innovations and knowledge products across the value chain and compare projects. It is important for the evaluator to capture project outputs, outcomes and where available, impacts (including how project outputs have influenced the agriculture value chain and/or informed policy development). The evaluator will assist in capturing and complementing FFAR’s 14 standard indicators to uncover project outputs, outcomes and impacts.

We desire a dual formative and summative program evaluation to assess process and implementation and to assess outcomes and impacts, as defined in the FFAR Program Evaluation FAQs — with outcomes and impact findings of vital importance. Through the evaluation, we want to better understand how efficiently and effectively the Consortium working groups are delivering on research aims and uncover whether and how project deliverables are being used to date and contributing to the U.S. food and agriculture system. We desire the evaluator to evaluate individual projects, and look across working groups, using an agreed-upon set of metrics. Finally, we desire the evaluator to create 3-5 exemplar cases (i.e. detailed case studies) using a mixed methods approach, which includes quantitative analyses and qualitative analyses to calculate and model cost-effectiveness using counterfactuals. These exemplar cases are important for capturing realized and prospective economic impacts. We expect all findings—and recommendations where applicable—to be evidence-based with references to supporting evaluation data (e.g., survey findings).

FFAR welcomes individuals or teams with animal agriculture production systems, veterinary medicine, microbiology, livestock processing and food systems, agribusiness and evaluative methods expertise to apply. If beneficial to the success of the evaluation process, FFAR may match one or more individuals into a team. A successful team will include individuals with evaluative methods experience (especially in evaluating research investments) as well as individuals with sufficient technical depth and breadth in antimicrobial stewardship research and/or practice across the animal agriculture value chain to evaluate the success of projects across a range of species focus.

The maximum bid for the project is $200,000 – $250,000.

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All proposals are to be submitted by September 19, 2025, 5 p.m. PDT. Proposals should be submitted as a Portable Document Format (PDF) via email to cgambino@foundationfar.org with the subject line “ICASA Evaluation Proposal.”

Dr. Christopher Gambino
cgambino@foundationfar.org