Engaging the Private Sector to Achieve Health Outcomes

Private sector engagement is critical to achieving inclusive growth and ensuring sustainable health outcomes.
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Invest in Emerging Economies to Protect Our Future

Chemonics' CEO and president Jamey Butcher penned an article for Fast Company about emerging and frontier economies and their role in the game-changing solutions needed to unlock creative problem-solving to tackle the global crises of our times.
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Global Change Requires Local Leadership

Building sustainable development solutions with local communities’ experience and knowledge at their foundations.
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3 Building Blocks for Mobilizing Inclusive Climate Finance

During a time when the private sector acknowledges the economic impact of climate change, international development partners must commit to easing bottlenecks that prevent corporate participation from mobilizing towards climate solutions. These building blocks highlight methods to incentivize private sector investment in inclusive climate action.
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Building a Financial Services Market Where There Wasn’t One

How did one USAID initiative get banks on board to provide $1 billion in services in rural Colombia? How can we do that elsewhere? It takes a systemic, business-driven approach to connect supply with demand at scale.
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Heather Joffe Reyes

Director, Latin America and the Caribbean

Currently the director of the Colombia Rural Finance Initiative, Heather Joffe Reyes is an international development practitioner with more than 15 years of experience in agricultural value chains, small business development, and rural development. In addition,…

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Catherine Kannam

Chief Operating Officer

Catherine Kannam is Chemonics’ chief operating officer. Prior to this role, she was the senior vice president (SVP) for Chemonics’ Syria, Iraq, Yemen, and Afghanistan region as well as the SVP for Chemonics’ Gender, Equality, and…

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Melissa Cook

Melissa Cook formerly led Chemonics’ Digital Transformation team to create and implement a modern Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) platform.

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Brian King

Chief of Party, Lebanon Agriculture and Rural Empowerment (ARE) Activity

Brian King is currently the chief of party for USAID’s Agriculture and Rural Empowerment Activity (ARE) in Lebanon. He is an senior international development professional with more than 18 years of experience leading economic growth programming…

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