Technical Brief: Helping Rural Financial Institutions Expand Rural Service Delivery

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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Enterprise and Enterprise Development

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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Workforce Development: Investing in Youth

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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Intermediary Business Models for Improved Market System Processes and Relationships

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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A Facilitation Approach to Youth Workforce Development and Entrepreneurship

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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Empowering Youth to Succeed in Market-Driven Agriculture

USAID’s Maximizing Agricultural Revenue and Key Enterprises in Targeted Sites (MARKETS II) project strived to increase youth participation in agriculture. To date, the project has empowered 231,884 Nigerian youth and honed their sense of pride in the agricultural sector.
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