Violent extremism’s threat to democracy and citizens’ security is growing and changing faster than domestic and international constituencies’ ability to contain it. Countering violent extremism (CVE) experts are urgently searching for effective means both to prevent more people from embracing violent extremism and to prompt current violent extremists to abandon their efforts. Messaging and media…
From April 2013 to February 2018, USAID/Nicaragua supported 17 Nicaraguan civil society organizations (CSOs) to strengthen their organizational capacity to better advocate for citizens’ demands through the Capacity Building for Civil Society Advocacy (CBCSA) project. This contributed to achieving USAID/Nicaragua’s Development Objective 1 to increase citizens’ ability to engage in democratic governance. It also increased civil society’s capacity to advocate for transparency and accountability, and…
Chemonics works to strengthen the ties between different actors in the health system to improve its overall performance and sustainability, and this requires tackling the underlying challenges to strong and resilient health systems, from financial protection for vulnerable populations to human resources for health. We also work to improve health service delivery and strengthen information…
This information sheet provides a brief summary of the health systems approach used by Chemonics to improve efficiencies and increase resources for maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH) services. Chemonics’ programs strengthen health supply chains to ensure that commodities for mothers, newborns, and children are available when and where they are needed. The company also…
Implemented by Chemonics International, with local subcontractor Junior Achievement Georgia (JAG), the $12,565,635, six-and-a-half year Georgia Primary Education (G-PriEd) Project provided comprehensive assistance to the Georgian primary education system to improve reading and math competencies of Georgian and ethnic minority students in grades 1-6 and to introduce financial literacy through exposure to business skills.
The USAID/Morocco Reading for Success (RFS) umbrella project was developed to address the challenges that the Moroccan education system faces in Arabic reading instruction and the system’s documented lack of reading results. Following the first research phase of RFS, USAID launched the second phase of RFS: the Reading for Success – Small-Scale Experimentation (RFS – SSE) activity.…
Once broadly defined and loosely measured, the concept of resilience now shapes the development strategies of USAID, DFID, the World Bank, and an increasing number of partner government planning agencies. Resilience thinking provides the basis for a more coherent response to global crises. USAID defines resilience as the ability or capacity to mitigate, adapt to,…
One of the world’s leading international development firms, Chemonics is committed to taking on the toughest challenges in the most complex environments. Learning from the company’s multisectoral expertise, our global workforce implements programs that mitigate the effects of conflict, drive peacebuilding efforts, and support political stability. Whether supporting a peaceful democratic transition or lending a…
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) launched the Asia and Middle East Economic Growth Best Practices (AMEG) project in 2013. A five-year initiative with a shared ceiling of $69 million, AMEG enabled technical support teams in USAID’s Asia and Middle East bureaus to collaborate with USAID missions and operating units to identify and…
For mining companies to thrive, so must the communities where they operate. To improve operational efficiency and support these communities, Ivanhoe Mines partnered with Fio Corporation and Chemonics to introduce and scale an innovative technology (Fionet) for supporting the diagnosis, treatment, and tracking of malaria in and around their mine development sites in the Democratic…
Between 2010 and 2014, the USAID Zambia Communications Support for Health (CSH) program collaborated with the Zambian government to implement four health communication campaigns: the CSH-designed Safe Love HIV Prevention campaign, USAID’s STOP Malaria, Mothers Alive, and The First 1,000 Most Critical Days nutrition campaigns. To expand the reach and impact of these initiatives, CSH…
The USAID-funded, Chemonics-implemented Zambia Communications Support for Health (CSH) program aimed to strengthen the institutional capacity of organizations throughout the Zambian health sector to use communications as a tool to influence and improve critical health-seeking behaviors. To achieve this, CSH used a communications methodology called Behavior-Centered Programming (BCP), which served as a framework for selecting…