These reports, produced by USAID’s Investment Facilitation Activity in the DRC (USAID Invest, or the Activity), provide an overview of the cocoa and coffee sectors in the DRC. The reports highlight production trends, challenges, and opportunities.…
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Chemonics International’s Private Sector Engagement team, in collaboration with Dalberg and KOIS, has developed a series of technical briefs to enrich the technical knowledge of the development community around blended finance in the areas of agricultural finance, gender lens investing, healthcare services, health supply chains, and sustainable landscapes. This primer provides a targeted, high-level overview of blended finance mechanisms to contextualize these sector-specific technical briefs.
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The GeoGAP experience can help groups — such as farmers’ associations and implementing partners — consider whether supporting a certification scheme is appropriate for their context and provides insights for adapting approaches.
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Chemonics’ Center for Private Sector Engagement, in collaboration with Dalberg and KOIS, developed technical briefs on blended finance in the areas of agricultural finance, gender lens investing, healthcare services, health supply chains, and sustainable landscapes.
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This brief provides an overview of the five-step process on scaling Aflasafe through commercialization in sub-Saharan Africa and highlights lessons learned.
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This brief describes the three-phase approach to transfer and commercialize Aflasafe across different African countries, as well as the challenges and lessons learned throughout the process.
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Through five working principles, USAID’s Rural Finance Initiative served as central change agents by providing highly customized advisory services, mixing expertise from the Colombian financial sector and the development community. This reached more than 750,000 rural clients and mobilize $999 million in financial services.
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This primer explains Chemonics’ approach to work with enterprises and entrepreneurs to create, grow, and sustain businesses that stimulate economic growth.
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While the global youth unemployment gap is wide, integrating an improved the youth development model — as exemplified by the work Chemonics is doing — allows youth to learn skills that will prepare them for the job market. This technical brief discusses how these models are accomplished.
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The goal of the technical brief series on the Feed the Future Uganda Commodity Production and Marketing (CPM) activity is to share learning, scalable approaches, and practical steps for the agriculture sector growth in Uganda.
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The Feed the Future Uganda Youth Leadership for Agriculture Activity bridged the gap between youth and the private sector by using a facilitation approach.
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