While considerable progress has been made in establishing a legal and regulatory environment and the institutional infrastructure to support development of a securities market in Azerbaijan, the market remains underdeveloped and slowly developing. Notable constraints to market development include those associated with the market’s organizational and operational infrastructure, corporate governance, the protection of investors’ rights,…
Through the Financial Sector Knowledge Sharing Project (FS Share) Task Order, the USAID Bureau for Economic Growth Agriculture and Trade (EGAT) and Chemonics proactively collaborate with missions to identify financial sector priorities and develop strategies and programs to grow the financial sector. FS Share identifies financial sector best practices and aggregates them through model scopes…
The United States Agency for International Development Bureau for Economic Growth, Agriculture, and Trade (EGAT) developed the Capital Markets Assessment Tool (AT), which was derived from the Capital Markets Questionnaire for Equity and Corporate Debt Securities developed by Robert Strahota with support from USAID EGAT. The objective of the AT is to support assessment of…
This primer is designed to convert lessons learned and best practices into effective financial systems that enable long-term economic growth and expansion. It provides an overview of the technical background and rationale for secured financing reform, and a detailed description of the components a reform program should include. The diagnostic checklist is a simple tool…
The goal of this toolkit is to provide a set of standardized lending approaches for the agriculture sector and a reference guide for mid-level bank staff currently or prospectively involved in the agricultural lending process. Target staff includes client relationship staff, loan officers, risk management department staff and their managers, as well as producer associations…
Through the Financial Sector (FS) Share task order, the USAID Bureau for Economic Growth, Agriculture, and Trade (EGAT) and Chemonics proactively collaborated with missions to identify financial sector priorities and develop strategies and programs to grow the financial sector. This primer was prepared by Caroline Averch and J. Mauricio Gutierrez of Chemonics with support from USAID EGAT and The U.S. Treasury International Affairs Office of Technical…
The Financial Sector Knowledge Sharing (FS Share) project was designed by the USAID Bureau of Economic Growth, Agriculture and Trade (EGAT, now known as E3) as a vehicle to test innovative approaches to financial-sector development and facilitate the collection, analysis, and dissemination of best practices and lessons learned through implementation. Through these activities, FS Share’s…
The paper defines participatory evaluation of CVE as a process by which an implementer or researcher engages various stakeholders to design some of the indicators that they will use as proxy indicators to measure violent extremism. Given cross-contextual variation of violent extremism (VE) dynamics, a participatory approach could clear practical value. How local people experience…
Structured by a conceptual framework and taxonomy to classify the inputs, processes, and results for 45 documented supervision approaches, HRH2030 elaborated findings from the analysis, as well as two case studies of most promising approaches. This work is presented as both a summary report and as a taxonomy of approaches for use and reference by health sector…
The Mara River Basin (MRB) is home to more than 1.28 million people in Kenya and Tanzania and supports a number of critically important wildlife areas. However, pressures such as population growth and land use change threaten water resources, and the threat to water resources in turn threatens development of key economic sectors such as…
This brief highlights findings from a study that investigated how people make decisions that include uncertain climate information and attempts to articulate their application in a rapidly changing policy context. By applying behavioral psychology principles, the study explored effective means to present uncertain climate information in a way that leads to better uptake and therefore…
Most climate change adaptation and risk reduction measures require that humans modify existing behaviors or adopt new ones related to health, agriculture, natural resource management, infrastructure, and settlement patterns. Social and Behavior Change (SBC), which incorporates knowledge from across disciplines to change behaviors to address specific challenges, is a critical yet underutilized approach that can…