Webinar: Securing Demand for COVID-19 Vaccinations in LMICs

As different countries start the process of vaccinating their populations against COVID-19, some struggle with critical issues like vaccine hesitancy. Securing the demand for COVID-19 vaccinations represents a leading threat to achieving herd immunity in low- and middle-income countries. On March 24, 2021, Chemonics and the Global Health Supply Chain Summit Group hosted a webinar featuring practitioners, community leaders,…

Final Deployment and Roll Out of Case Tracking System Over 360-Day Period

This final report summarizes the achievements and outcomes of the Ghana Case Tracking System (CTS) Activity, and how it supported the Government of Ghana’s ability to effectively investigate and prosecute criminal acts. It also enhanced the tracking criminal cases from their introduction into the system to their prosecution, trial, and sentencing in the courts, and…

Final Report: Tunisia Fiscal Reform for a Strong Tunisia

Recognized as the starting point of the Arab Spring movement, Tunisia’s 2011 revolution spurred unprecedented political and social transformation. This report highlights how USAID’s Fiscal Reform for a Strong Tunisia (FIRST) activity provided technical assistance and capacity building to the Tunisian Ministry of Finance, so that its fiscal institutions were positioned for sustainable growth following…

Distance Continuous Professional Development: What Have We Learned from Education Program Pivots?

The Basic Education Coalition (BEC) and Chemonics hosted a for a pause and reflect session on March 9, during which panelists from five USAID-supported early grade learning programs discussed their experiences designing, implementing, and evaluating distance continuous professional development initiatives in Senegal, Malawi, Nigeria, and the Philippines. Featured Speakers Bidemi Carrol, Senior Research Education Analyst,…

Final Report: Feed the Future Mali Climate Change Adaptation Activity

The Mali Climate Change Adaptation Activity (MCAA) built resilience to climate change by helping individuals, households, organizations, and the government of Mali adapt to shocks and stresses that come with climate change. The final report covers MCCAA’s project impact towards its key objectives, as and discusses the project’s gender and youth inclusion work, security environment…

The Politics of Peacebuilding: Engaging Elites to Resolve Conflict

The event examined how informal power drives conflict through the lens of “Elite Bargains and Political Deals” theory. By exploring the new approach’s potential, the presenters sketched a roadmap for engaging often elusive power brokers in peacebuilding programming. Panelists, drawn from across academia and implementation, discussed how “Elite Bargains and Political Deals” theory sheds new…

ACCELERE!1 Interactive Radio Lessons

The ACCELERE!1 project is a joint USAID and UKAID initiative. It aims to support the objectives of the Congolese government through the education and training sector strategy, particularly in improving access, quality and governance, and it aims to improve the educational results of boys and girls in the 26 educational sub-divisions of the 9 targeted…

Final Report: Georgia Human and Institutional Capacity Development 2020 Activity

This final report describes the accomplishments of the Human and Institutional Capacity Development 2020 Activity. HICD 2020 was designed to assist USAID/Georgia in addressing its partner organizations’ administrative limitations and performance gaps that impeded the effective implementation of all key reforms, including those related to the European Union Association Agreement, the Open Government Action Plan,…

Virtual Event Strategy Guide

This document serves as a practical guide to those engaged in combatting wildlife crime across Southern Africa and beyond, on how to continue to work collaboratively in virtual events, despite continued restricted mobility and limited in-person gatherings. The guide was prepared by the USAID Combating Wildlife Crime Southern Africa program.

Final Report: Support to Four State Assemblies in Somalia

The Somalia Stability Fund launched the Support to Four State Assemblies in Somalia (Gole-Kaab) project in 2018 to support the state assemblies of Jubbaland, South West State, Hirshabelle, Galmudug, and Puntland. The project improved legislative processes, increased oversight on the executive branch, strengthened relations between members of parliament (MPs) and constituents, established effective secretariats, increased…