Kule Chitepo, formerly the chief of party on a transboundary cooperation for resilience-building project in Southern Africa, is a leading expert in the development of world-class policy and practice for transformative integrated natural resource management. With over 20 years of experience in East and Southern Africa, he has held strategic leadership positions that have built…
Ibrahim Osta is an international economic development expert with experience in international trade and investment promotion, youth entrepreneurship, and tourism development. He has designed, launched, and managed international development projects exceeding $140 million in donor financing with an additional quarter billion dollars in leveraged funds from public, private, and international institutions. Currently based in Washington,…
Peter Doyle has more than 25 years of experience in environmental management, alternative development, and social and community development. Peter currently serves as the chief of party for the Sustainable Environmental Governance Across Regions (SEGAR) activity in Indonesia. Previously, as the chief of party for USAID’s Oro Legal program, he led efforts to reduce the…
Changing the way that malaria is diagnosed could help to revolutionize health care in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). To this end, the Ivanhoe Fionet Partnership introduced new technology into the DRC to improve the quality of malaria data and diagnoses. The project brought Chemonics together with Fio Corporation, a health care technology…
Colombia is experiencing a gold mining boom, but approximately 80 percent of its gold mining production — with a value of $1.7 billion — is currently illegal. Uncontrolled gold mining in Colombia fuels social conflict, environmental degradation, and governance challenges. To address these issues, the Artisanal Gold Mining – Environmental Impact Reduction Activity, known as…
On March 15 and 16, the Chamber of Digital Commerce, along with Georgetown University’s Center for Financial Markets and Policy, hosts the D.C. Blockchain Summit. Taking place in Washington, D.C., the summit brings together government leaders, organizations, and innovators to discuss the blockchain technology and its applications across many contexts. Blockchain is rapidly emerging as one…
Anne Spahr is the chief of party of the USAID-funded Asia and Middle East Economic Growth (AMEG) Best Practices Project. She is a micro, small, and medium enterprise (MSME) finance and business development specialist with more than 10 years of experience working with farmers, fishers, and small business owners in Africa, Latin America, Asia, and…
On October 17, 2016, international development consulting firm Chemonics and technology company BanQu established the Blockchain for Development Solutions Lab. The lab represents the first concerted effort by a development company to build, test, and scale blockchain solutions to reduce poverty and increase aid effectiveness. “Blockchain technology represents a game-changing opportunity to alter the pace, scale, and…
Staff from USAID’s Higher Education Leadership and Management (HELM) project in Indonesia, implemented by Chemonics, will be presenting at the Higher Education Solutions Network Technical Convening (HESN TechCon) 2014, which takes place in San Francisco November 8-10, 2014. HESN is a multidisciplinary partnership between the U.S. Global Development Lab and seven universities around the world, including Duke…