Cheryl Davis

Cheryl Davis serves as Supervisory Executive Officer for USAID/Guinea/Sierra Leone, overseeing the strategic acquisition of professional and technical services critical to advancing democratic governance, public health resilience, and conflict prevention in West Africa. In this leadership role, she guides the planning, solicitation, and award of contracts that build institutional capacity within local governments and civil society organizations. Her procurement portfolio centers on technical assistance, governance reform, and health security initiatives, ensuring alignment with USAID’s mission of sustainable, locally led development. She manages complex, performance-based acquisitions requiring high levels of subject-matter expertise and adaptive implementation frameworks. Cheryl Davis collaborates with a diverse array of international and local implementing partners, including NGOs, research institutions, and consulting firms with deep regional expertise. While no single contractor dominates her portfolio, her contracting patterns reflect a preference for organizations with proven experience in electoral integrity, gender-based violence prevention, and institutional capacity strengthening. Her working relationships are characterized by long-term engagement, performance monitoring, and adaptive management approaches, emphasizing outcomes over inputs and fostering collaborative, mission-aligned partnerships. Ms. Davis maintains a 100% non-set-aside contracting profile, reflecting a strategic focus on open competition and global best practices rather than socioeconomic set-asides. This approach prioritizes technical excellence and operational scalability over socioeconomic classifications, enabling the agency to access the broadest possible pool of qualified professionals with region-specific knowledge and adaptive management capabilities. Her primary procurement focus is on NAICS 541990 — All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services — encompassing governance diagnostics, policy advisory services, data collection and analysis, training design, and monitoring & evaluation systems. She routinely procures technical expertise in democratic institution building, health systems strengthening, and conflict-sensitive programming, ensuring that USAID’s interventions are evidence-based, locally contextualized, and sustainably institutionalized.