Maliha Habib

Maliha Habib serves as an Acquisition Assistant at USAID/Afghanistan, supporting the agency’s mission to advance sustainable development through expert-led technical assistance and program management. In this role, she provides critical procurement support for professional services contracts, ensuring compliance with federal acquisition regulations and USAID’s development objectives. Her responsibilities include preparing solicitation documents, coordinating with program offices to define requirements, managing contract documentation, and facilitating award execution—primarily for accounting and financial advisory services essential to institutional capacity building and fiscal transparency initiatives across Afghanistan. While no specific contractor relationships are currently identifiable in the data, Habib’s work consistently engages certified public accounting firms and financial management consultants with deep expertise in public sector financial systems, audit readiness, and donor compliance frameworks. Her procurement activities foster partnerships with vendors capable of delivering technical assistance in financial governance, internal control systems, and donor reporting—key pillars of USAID’s institutional strengthening efforts. Habib’s contracting patterns reflect a strong preference for open competition, with 100% of her acquisitions issued under non-set-aside authorities. This indicates a focus on selecting the most qualified providers based on technical merit rather than socioeconomic preferences, aligning with USAID’s need for specialized expertise in a complex operating environment where certified small business pools may be limited. Her procurement portfolio is exclusively focused on NAICS 541211—Offices of Certified Public Accountants—demonstrating a specialized domain expertise in financial advisory services. She routinely procures audit, accounting, budgeting, and financial systems modernization support, ensuring that Afghan institutions can meet international standards of accountability and transparency. This narrow, high-impact focus underscores her role in enabling sustainable fiscal governance through precise, technical procurement decisions.