Briefing Paper – Climate Finance for a Just Transition: Blended Finance and Catalytic Strategies

Briefing Paper – Climate Finance for a Just Transition: A Forum on Blended Finance and Catalytic Strategies While still falling short of the $3.5 trillion annual investment needed to reach a net-zero future, global climate finance…

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Bakhtiyor Inamov

Chief of Party, Tajikistan Rural Water Supply (RWS) Activity

Bakhtiyor Inamov has 35 years of experience in academics, public administration agencies, business and civil sectors, project management and implementation of projects in public administration, water management, and improvement of services. While working at the USAID…

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Illuminating Lebanon in Its Darkest Times

Conflict, displacement, pandemic, and economic crises have left most of Lebanon without consistent electricity or the ability to pump running water to communities. USAID Community Support Program and local municipalities turned to the power of the sun to address this challenge.
Impact Story

Accessing Private Domestic Financing to Improve the Delivery of Urban Services

Critical to expanding and diversifying the foundation of municipal financing is meaningful, strategic engagement of the private sector.
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Dhanika De Silva

Dhanika De Silva has more than five years of experience in structuring large, multi-stakeholder international development projects focused on catalyzing private sector investment into energy projects in Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. He holds expertise in project…

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Community Support Program

Tensions in Lebanon are mounting over resources and livelihoods. Service delivery and financial resources can prevent escalation.
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Financial Series #1: Enabling Sub-Sovereign Bond Issuances

This primer, Enabling Sub-sovereign Bond Issuances, provides U.S. government (USG) program designers with a basis of technical understanding of sub-national finance as a sustainable approach to supporting local government infrastructure development and improved service delivery.
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Final Report: Financial Sector Knowledge Sharing Project

This final report provides a summary of project activities, presents results and lessons learned, and enables access to the technical resources, tools, and templates produced by the Financial Sector Knowledge Sharing (FS Share) project.
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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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