Webinar – Extending Our Reach: Critical Actions to End Malaria

Reaching every individual with comprehensive, high-quality malaria services is complex. How do we ensure that we leave no one behind? We asked community health workers and malaria leaders from Chemonics, Malaria Consortium, the RBM Partnership to End Malaria, and the U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative in this webinar. Biographies of moderator and panelists Moderator: Judith Heichelheim,…

Webinar: Navigating the Last Mile: The Impact of Strong Health Systems

Chemonics’ Supply Chain Management Division’s Managing Director Kate Woods moderated the discussion with the following panelists: Jef Imans, Health Supply Chain/In-Country Logistics Strategic Advisor, Connexi Natacha Mugeni, Health Operations Director, Kasha Global Inc Rachel Msimuko Muyoma, Operations Manager, Zambia Medicines and Medical Supplies Agency (ZAMMSA) Nchobeni Luundu-Kagula, Community Security and Risk Management Director, USAID Program…

Webinar: Redefining Local Capacity Strengthening

April 19, 2023 This webinar convened representatives from local implementing organizations, USAID, and other key stakeholders to advance the dialogue on locally-led development in the context of USAID’s 2022 Local Capacity Strengthening Policy. Local organizations shared their perspectives and experiences on how international donor assistance supported them to define their vision for success.  This was…

Trade and Regulatory Reform

This fact sheet details our work to strengthen governments’ institutional capacities to reduce trade barriers, implement regional and bilateral trade agreements, reform border-crossing operations, and build the capacity of customs officials.

Public Financial Management

This fact sheet details Chemonics’ work to build institutional and human capacity to increase domestic resource mobilization, plan and execute budgets, and monitor, evaluate, and report on budget expenditures.

Financial Services

This fact sheet details Chemonics’ work to help institutions develop, improve, and expand the reach of a variety of financial services, including digital financial services, debt and equity financing, factoring, purchase-order financing, insurance, and savings products.

Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development

This fact sheet details Chemonics’ work to support entrepreneurship and enterprise development. Using a facilitative approach, we partner with local businesses and service providers to improve market linkages, foster innovation, develop products, increase access to new or improved inputs, and identify market opportunities.

Business Enabling Environment

This fact sheet details Chemonics’ work in fostering business enabling environments. Our approach focuses on reducing risk, lowering the costs of doing business, and building pro-investment climates. We help broker partnerships between government counterparts and the private sector to advocate for streamlined business procedures, greater competition, and more efficient tax and customs processes.

Blended Finance Technical Briefs Primer

The blended finance technical briefs provide tactical guidance and practical use cases for a variety of sectors, which will serve as a reference point for development practitioners interested in leveraging blended finance approaches in project design and delivery and improving the quality of engagement with the private sector. This primer includes a brief overview of how…

Case Study: Climate Smart Agriculture

Youth entrepreneurship in the agricultural sector can provide direct career opportunities for young innovators while also promoting a cascade of positive economic outcomes for other young people along the agricultural value chain and reducing the carbon footprint of food production.

USAID Gender and Security Sector Reform Toolkit

This toolkit, developed by Chemonics for USAID, provides individuals assessing, designing, and managing security sector reform (SSR) programs with a roadmap for incorporating gender considerations. It includes an introduction to the relationship between SSR and gender, presentation of key gender issues within the sector, and practical how-to steps for integrating gender analysis and considerations into…

USAID Solicitation and Use of Political Economy Analysis by Contractors

This report is a retrospective analysis of the implementation of political economy analyses (PEAs) solicited by USAID to assess whether PEAs are an effective tool to increase the impact of development programs. PEAs are commonly used within thinking and working politically (TWP) approaches, which seek to significantly improve development impact by understanding and responding to…