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Perfect Fit

The ingredients were all there: a skilled workforce, a creative entrepreneur, and a USAID project providing technical advice. In Moldova, it was the precise recipe for success.

Farming Communities in Georgia

The USAID New Economic Opportunities project provided emergency relief to Georgian farmers affected by severe hailstorms and flooding . The project provided aid through animal feeding blocks, seedlings, and structure rehabilitation.

Lettuce Production & Distribution

The USAID New Economic Opportunities (NEO) program provided Georgian farmers with the tools needed to produce lettuce year-round, improving economic opportunities for farmers and a reduced dependency on imports nationally.

Berry Production in Bosnia

With assistance from the USAID and Sida joint Fostering Agriculture Markets Activity project, Amra Ugarak was able to start a berry production business and provide a better life for her family in Bosnia.

Justice for Adolat

One of the most effective ways to improve family incomes in the developing world is to empower women. See how one USAID project is helping tens of thousands of women in Central Asia in their fight for a better future.

Interview with Eduard Shermadini

New Economic Opportunities' agricultural value chain initiatives along administrative boundary lines in Georgia can foster rural development and create local jobs.

Giorgi Topuria: Poultry Farmer

With the help of a poultry livelihood package from New Economic Opportunities, Giorgi Topuria was able to start his own business raising poultry and earn money to continue his education.

Rural and Urban Food Security

Ahead of the 2017 Cracking the Nut Conference, Agriculture and Food Security Practice Director Rob Henning explores the difference between rural and urban food security.

Relentless

She was once the victim of injustice. Now she is using what she learned to spare other women the same fate in Central Asia.

School Based Management

The USAID Education Management Project helped the Georgian education center achieve its ambitious reform goals by increasing education management capacity and improving financial and administrative policies.

Nona Kavartskhelia: Hairdresser in Georgia

After completing a New Economic Opportunities-supported course in hairdressing in Georgia, Nona Kavartskhelia was able to find a job with a beauty salon in Kutaisi.

Nana Pipia: Head of the Strawberry Association

New Economic Opportunities grant funds helped a Georgian strawberry farming association adopt modern production practices and expand their operations.

The Story Behind the Story

Becaues most farms in Bosnia and Herzegovina are relatively small, limiting production and the amount of money farmers can earn, USAID Fostering Agricultural Market Development Activity encouraged the planting of more high value crops.

The Georgia HICD Model

This video introduces USAID's Human and Institutional Capacity Development model, which improves the performance of Georgian institutions.

Tesanj Dairy Association

The USAID and Sida joint Fostering Agriculture Markets Activity project connected the Tešanj-Usora Women’s Agricultural Association with new skills and technologies to improve the quality and quantity of their dairy products.

TB and HIV Co-management

In Ukraine, fighting HIV means fighting the threat of co-infection with tuberculosis. A USAID-funded program worked with health providers to improve detection and treatment of tuberculosis and enhance patient outcomes

Medical Workers Combatting TB

Learn how the USAID Strengthening Tuberculosis Control in Ukraine project addressed high rates of TB by developing a cascade training program to strengthen medical workers’ ability to treat and prevent the disease.

Linkages Between Producers and Markets

USAID Advancing Kosovo Together helps build local economies. For one man, raspberry seedlings provided through a municipal program helped him solidify his career as a raspberry supplier in the area.

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Supplying Safe Water to Rural Tajikistan

Better water supply and resource management in Tajikistan can improve the health and resilience of rural communities.

Promoting Quality Education in Tajikistan

The Learn Together Activity (LTA) is a five-year project which aims to improve Tajik primary students learning skills, with a focus on improving reading comprehension, critical thinking skills, and mathematics.

Developing Sustainable Tourism in Bosnia and Herzegovina

A comprehensive approach to tourism can improve Bosnia and Herzegovina’s economy and foster social harmony.

Sowing Stronger Markets in Kyrgyzstan

With stronger markets in place, Kyrgyzstan’s agricultural-led economy can flourish.

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Sprouting Opportunities in Rural Ukraine

Economic opportunities are cropping up for agricultural businesses in rural Ukraine.

Toward a More Competitive Economy in Ukraine

Through a broad-based economy and the ability to compete in international markets, Ukraine is on a path to increased economic power and political independence.

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Closing Economic and Community Divides in Pankisi

Connecting the people of Georgia’s Pankisi Valley to one another and to neighboring regions will build social cohesion, create economic opportunity, and make the region more resistant to tension.

Promoting Unity in Ukraine

Divisive pressures undermine political unity in Ukraine, particularly in eastern regions. Connecting citizens with their government can help.

Promoting National Cohesion in Ukraine

Amid a sociopolitical crisis, Ukraine and its conflict-affected eastern region needed to advance its transition to a prosperous and democratic state.

Increasing Confidence in Ukraine’s Democratic Transition

With Ukraine’s historic democratic transition underway, vulnerable communities in eastern Ukraine need greater confidence in the government, its people, and the country’s European future.

Establishing a Land Market in Tajikistan

Tajikistan is pursuing its next stage in land reform: establishing a land market to ensure the orderly transfer of land rights.

Cutting-edge Technologies in Global Health Supply Chains

To improve access to high-quality health products worldwide, the USAID Global Health Supply Chain Program-Procurement and Supply Management project employs cutting-edge technologies and industry best practices to make global health supply chains more efficient and reach more people.

Assisting Armenia’s Elderly Population Through Pension Reform

Armenia is taking steps to improve social and economic protections for its elderly citizens.

Upholding the Rule of Law in Ukraine

Fighting Tuberculosis in Ukraine

In an effort to lower the extremely high rate of tuberculosis infection among its citizens, Ukraine is strengthening its health care system’s ability to detect, treat, and prevent the illness.

Strengthening Interethnic Cooperation in Kosovo

Kosovo Serbs and other minority populations must be further integrated into the country’s institutions and society to help the country become more stable.

Building Economic Opportunities in Georgia

By focusing on economic development in rural communities, Georgia was able to reduce poverty levels and improve food security for thousands of people.

Supporting Economic Development in Serbia

Serbia improved its economy by strengthening local economic administrative processes and by encouraging citizens to participate more actively in economic affairs.

Energizing Farming and Agribusiness in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Aiming to enter the European Union, Bosnia and Herzegovina must improve the economic value of the agriculture sector.

Reducing Barriers to Trade in Central Asia

Poised outside large Asian and Middle Eastern markets, Central Asian countries need assistance to negotiate and overcome constraints on trade and facilitate trade across borders.

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Securing Her Land Rights in Tajikistan

With one project’s support, 25-year-old farm owner Salomat Chorieva overcame social and administrative barriers to land registration in Tajikistan, taking ownership of her rights.

Approaching 95-95-95 HIV/AIDS Goals by Focusing on Patients

Ensuring adherence to HIV treatment can significantly improve the quality of life for people living with HIV. A patient-centric treatment approach is successfully reducing the burden and helping the global health community maintain the progress made to end AIDS by 2030 during COVID-19.

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Private Partnership Paves the Way to Better Health in Nigeria

Engaging private sector partners in Nigeria’s lab sample network has strengthened the country’s efforts to eliminate HIV/AIDS and made its global health supply chain more resilient in the face of COVID-19.

In TransIT: Enhancing Visibility Across In-Country Supply Chains

Chemonics is helping to ensure that health commodities are delivered where they are needed most by using a low-cost, easy-to-use, cloud-based transport management system that increases visibility across the in-country supply chain.

Access to Medicines Transforms Lives for HIV/AIDS Patients

Bolstering the health supply chain in Zambia equips health facilities with the medicines and other supplies needed to care for patients like Catherine Nalungwe who live with HIV/AIDS.

Making Supply Chain Data Visibility a Reality

With a new tool at their disposal, health facilities in Malawi are collecting reliable data that ensures lifesaving medicines and supplies reach their final destination.

Building a One-Stop Pension Shop in Armenia

To support an effective and trustworthy e-pension system, the Armenian government has trained civil servants and created an outreach plan to educate the public.

Strengthening Children’s Rights Guarantees in Ukraine

Increasing the professional competency of judges and attorneys who handle juvenile delinquency cases is changing the way children are treated in Ukraine’s justice system.

Tackling Ukraine’s Tuberculosis Crisis

Improved diagnostic technology is transforming how the Odesa Oblast region of Ukraine tackles its growing rate of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis.

Three Keys to Ukraine’s TB Challenge

Dr. Kartlos Kankadze offers three interventions that could help Ukraine manage its TB burden, an issue of growing concern with a rise in multidrug-resistant TB and HIV co-infection.

An Opportunity to Thrive in Georgia

From karate studios to greenhouses, rural Georgians have taken advantage of an opportunity to launch new careers and expand their businesses.

A Fruitful Future

With hands-on training that teaches local farmers modern techniques, a Georgian fruit association is jump-starting strawberry production and distribution in the Samegrelo region.

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How to Conduct Applied Political Economy Research in a Pandemic

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This post originally appeared on Devex. On August 14, while traveling back to Kabul from a meeting in Afghanistan’s northern Parwan province, Fawzia Koofi was the target of an assassination attempt. Though she was not seriously wounded and though the Taliban denied responsibility, the attack demonstrated what is at stake for Afghanistan’s women as peace…

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Two panels of development experts, along with attendees of last week’s Society for International Development – Washington Chapter’s (SID-W) Virtual Annual Conference, have recognized three Chemonics-implemented projects for their innovative approaches to development challenges. The awards were announced during the event as part of SID-W’s annual Innovation Competition. This year, SID-W members entered their innovations…

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This blog post originally appeared on the Market Systems Development Hub. Focusing Project Design on MSD ​The facilitative, systems approach required for market systems development (MSD) is not always intuitive to project staff. Those accustomed to working on traditional development programming have focused on training for beneficiaries, and those coming from the private sector have…

The Case for Practical Techniques for Inclusive Classrooms

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Making the Future Accessible: Safeguarding Women with Disabilities in the Workplace

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Many countries find themselves facing “brain drain” — mass exodus of bright young minds seeking greater opportunities for employment abroad. In the small European country Moldova, for instance, one third of the population has left to find living wages elsewhere. Fortunately, engaging the private sector in technology-related workforce development projects offers a sustainable, market-based solution.…

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Cynthia Steen serves as chief of party of the USAID Moldova High Value Agriculture Activity (HVAA) and has previously led agribusiness and enterprise development projects in multiple countries, including Egypt, Albania, Jamaica, Lebanon, Ethiopia, and Indonesia. HVAA is successfully demonstrating production, post-harvest, and marketing techniques to make Moldova a more competitive exporter, creating sustainable opportunities…

News: Innovation, Technology, and Advancing the SDGs at ICT4D 2019

Digital technology has had a profound impact on global development across sectors and in many parts of the world. From April 30 to May 3, public, private, and civil society organizations from more than 80 countries will convene for the 2019 Information and Communications Technology for Development (ICT4D) Conference in Kampala, Uganda. Now in its…

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