Learning from All Children Reading Technical Briefs

The world has been facing a global learning crisis since even before the COVID-19 pandemic triggered widespread learning loss. In response, many countries are enacting reforms to improve foundational skills like reading, which require multiple coherent education system components that tightly align with learning and use cost-effective approaches to achieve and sustain outcomes at national scale.
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A Local Certification System in Georgia: Steppingstones to Meeting Market Demands

The GeoGAP experience can help groups — such as farmers’ associations and implementing partners — consider whether supporting a certification scheme is appropriate for their context and provides insights for adapting approaches.
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Donor Solicitation Analysis: Gender Equality and Social Inclusion in Solicitation Design

The donor solicitation analysis brief reveals gender equality and social inclusion trends in solicitations to which Chemonics responded between 2018-2020. It includes deeper investigation of disability and minority inclusion, and safeguarding trends in solicitation design.
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Accelerating Progress Toward HIV Epidemic Control

Chemonics is accelerating progress toward HIV epidemic control by enabling local partners to strengthen supply chains, optimize the health workforce, deliver high quality services, and develop resilient health systems.
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Blended Finance Technical Briefs

Chemonics’ Center for Private Sector Engagement, in collaboration with Dalberg and KOIS, developed technical briefs on blended finance in the areas of agricultural finance, gender lens investing, healthcare services, health supply chains, and sustainable landscapes.
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Energy Governance in Developing Countries — A New Approach

Global efforts to improve energy access and quality and to tackle climate change need a different approach to addressing poor energy governance in developing countries. Energy projects should be designed to “think and work politically.”
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How Inclusive Participation in Cattle Management Strengthens Women’s Resilience in Northern Haiti

This brief explores challenges and opportunities for women in agriculture in Haiti, effects of inclusive livestock management, and insights to inform future resilience activities.
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Applying the Innovation Adoption Measurement Approach

Chemonics has developed and tested an approach that helps capture how far along households are in adopting specific best practices that build resilience capacities.
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Resilience Programming in Support of Reforestation: Emerging Lessons from Haiti

This brief documents lessons-learned from the USAID Reforestation Project in Haiti, including the importance of social capital for resilience and establishing community buy-in.
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Applying Blended Finance to Support the Conversion to Clean Cooking

Through private sector engagement, the USAID Reforestation Project has increased household use of alternatives to fuelwood.
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