Antoinette Djahlin

Antoinette Djahlin serves as an Administrative Assistant within the U.S. Agency for International Development/Ghana (USAID/Ghana), providing critical procurement support to the agency’s technical and programmatic teams. In this role, she facilitates the administrative and logistical functions underpinning contract solicitations, documentation, and compliance processes, ensuring alignment with federal acquisition regulations and USAID’s mission of fostering sustainable development. While not a contracting officer, she plays an essential part in enabling the procurement lifecycle by coordinating requirements gathering, maintaining contract files, and liaising with program staff to translate technical needs into actionable acquisition packages—primarily focused on management consulting services. Djahlin collaborates closely with a network of U.S. and Ghana-based consulting firms that deliver technical assistance in institutional strengthening, market systems development, and public service innovation. Her working relationships are characterized by consistent engagement with firms experienced in adaptive program management, results-based monitoring, and capacity-building interventions. She supports a vendor ecosystem that includes both international consultants and local Ghanaian firms, ensuring alignment with USAID’s emphasis on locally led solutions and knowledge transfer. Her procurement patterns reflect a strong preference for open, non-set-aside acquisitions, with 100% of procurements conducted under general competition without socioeconomic set-asides such as 8(a), HUBZone, or SDVOSB. This indicates a focus on technical merit and institutional capacity over socioeconomic targeting, consistent with USAID/Ghana’s emphasis on high-impact, expertise-driven interventions. Djahlin’s primary procurement focus is on NAICS 541618—Other Management Consulting Services—reflecting the agency’s reliance on strategic advisory support to enhance governance, economic resilience, and systems-level change. She routinely supports acquisitions for organizational diagnostics, policy reform design, stakeholder engagement frameworks, and performance evaluation methodologies, demonstrating deep familiarity with the technical domains of development consulting and institutional capacity building.