The USAID Program for Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) Development, a five-year initiative (October 2011 – December 2016) carried out by Chemonics International, sought to improve the access of micro, small, and medium enterprises to business development services; increase their productivity and competitiveness; and expand their operations into local and export markets. Over five years,…
To bolster recent higher education reforms enacted by the Indonesian government and respond to the needs of the workforce, USAID/Indonesia launched the five-year Higher Education Leadership and Management project (HELM) in November 2011. Designed to improve the performance of Indonesia’s higher education system, HELM focused on four key management areas and five special initiatives across…
We are driven by our insistence that tomorrow’s world must be better than today’s, which is why our work with youth is central to our mission. With more than half of the world’s population under 30 years of age, it is critical that we empower young people to serve as tomorrow’s leaders. We see youth…
Rather than allowing deforestation to continue, and by extension affect the watershed of its rice-growing community, the Filipino municipality of Bago City, enacted a conservation financing model to protect the watershed and better inform the population. The Bago City government receives technical support through the Biodiversity and Watersheds Improved for Stronger Economy and Ecosystem Resilience…
Chemonics implemented the SLDP project from December 22, 2010 to August 21, 2016, and it grew to be a project rich in innovation and learning. As a beneficiary of USAID’s patience, flexibility, and creativity, SLDP changed its management methodology and approach in its third year to realize its original goals of creating economic growth in local regions. In this way, SLDP adapted, learned lessons, and adopted new solutions as it evolved.…
USAID’s Strengthening Educational Performance-Up (STEP-Up) Zambia Project was conceived to address the root causes of learner underperformance. The project worked through the education system to produce a shift in knowledge, attitudes, and practices that would contribute to improving learning outcomes, especially reading achievement at the primary education level. Rather than prescribing actions, STEP-Up supported education stakeholders…
In its first 25 years of independence from the Soviet Union, Georgia’s successes have set it apart from others in the region, yet the country still faces an array of challenges, including entrenched poverty for much of the rural population. Many impoverished rural households depend on subsistence farming and lack the technical skills and financing…
In October 2013, USAID launched the Feed the Future-funded Land Reform and Farm Restructuring Project (LRFRP). This $5.5 million, three-year project supported the continuing process of dehkan (individual or family) farm restructuring and recognition of property rights, leading to a market in land-use rights. This occurred through four key tasks: 1) legislative reform, 2) building the capacity of Tajik officials, farmers,…
USAID’s Maldives Global Climate Change (GCC) project worked to raise the public’s awareness about climate change, provide ways to adapt to its effects, and build the capacity and sustainability of stakeholders, including the Ministry of Environment and Energy (MEE), residents, the Island Council of Lhaviyani (Lh.) Hinnavaru, and the national utility company, FENAKA Corporation Limited.
USAID, in collaboration with Chemonics International, launched the 4-year, $9.4 million Rwanda LAND Project in 2012. The project strengthened the resilience of Rwandan citizens, communities, and institutions and their ability to adapt to land-related economic, environmental, and social change. This overarching goal was supported by efforts to assist the Rwandan government, civil society, and local communities to…
Teacher Learning Circles (TLCs) serves as a promising addition to the existing coaching model in Georgia, by addressing the fundamental problems of price and a lack of local ownership. The Georgia Primary Education Project (G-PriEd) has put this model to the test by using TLCs in its programming. The learning circles have already positively impacted…
USAID/OTI’s Côte d’Ivoire Transition Initiative 2 (CITI2) project, implemented by Chemonics International, ran from June 2014 through March 2016. In October 2015, during the lifetime of CITI2, Côte d’Ivoire held its first peaceful presidential election in more than 20 years. While not an indication that issues resulting in past violence in Côte d’Ivoire was fully…