Stella Adesina

Stella Adesina serves as a key procurement lead within USAID/Nigeria, supporting the agency’s mission to strengthen governance, public health systems, and sustainable development through technically rigorous and data-driven acquisitions. She manages the full lifecycle of professional services contracts aligned with institutional capacity building, performance monitoring and evaluation (MEL), and data science initiatives. Her portfolio primarily encompasses high-impact technical assistance, analytical services, and implementation support contracts that advance USAID’s objectives in subnational governance and health systems strengthening. Adesina ensures all procurements adhere to federal acquisition regulations while embedding performance metrics, adaptive management, and local ownership into contract design. Adesina collaborates with a diverse array of international and local professional service providers, including consulting firms, research institutions, and technical assistance contractors with deep expertise in public health analytics, data visualization, and governance diagnostics. Her contracting patterns reflect a preference for long-term, performance-based partnerships that enable iterative learning and adaptive program implementation. She consistently engages vendors with demonstrated experience in complex, context-sensitive environments, prioritizing those with established local presence and cultural competency in Nigeria’s federal-state dynamics. Adesina’s procurement portfolio reflects a strong commitment to open competition, with 100% of awards issued under the “No Set-Aside” category. While she does not currently prioritize socioeconomic set-asides such as 8(a), HUBZone, or SDVOSB, her approach emphasizes merit-based selection grounded in technical capability, past performance, and local engagement. This reflects USAID/Nigeria’s strategic focus on leveraging global expertise alongside Nigerian institutional capacity. Her primary procurement focus is on NAICS 541990—All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services—encompassing services such as MEL system design, health data analytics, policy research, and governance diagnostics. She routinely procures technical expertise in survey methodology, digital data collection platforms, and evidence-based program evaluation, ensuring acquisitions directly support USAID’s outcomes-driven programming in Nigeria.