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
Countries need to mobilize private capital to finance self-reliance. This blog introduces USAID’s Five Point Framework and showcases how Chemonics is mobilizing finance for development.
Blog Post
This report provides U.S. government program designers with a basic technical understanding of the core requirements to introduce finance secured by movable property, a tool used to increase access to finance, especially for small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
Resource - Paper
Asdrubal Negrete Lebette is currently the chief of party of the Colombia Rural Finance Initiative, where he works with banks, anchor firms, and producers to design and pilot innovative value chain finance mechanisms to help smallholders,…
Person - Specialist
USAID’s Asia and Middle East Economic Growth Best Practices Project and the bureau’s technical support teams worked to identify country priorities, capture and disseminate best practices, and pilot innovative technologies and approaches to enable more-inclusive economic growth in Asia and the Middle East.
Resource - Project Report
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…
Person - Specialist
Mario Kerby has 37 years of experience in environmental management, integrated water resources management, agriculture and rural development, and public financial management. He is currently serving as the chief of party of the Tunisia FIRST project.…
Person - Specialist
Piloting and sharing approaches to job creation, public financial management, trade and customs, access to finance, enterprise and workforce development, and economic inclusion is promoting economic growth in Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa.
Project Page
Increasing access to finance in the Middle East and North Africa region is spurring economic growth through implementation of modernized secured transactions regulation.
Blog Post
USAID’s Business Regulatory, Investment, and Trade Environment program stimulated the economy and opened new economic opportunities in Moldova.
Resource - Project Report
