The Moldova Business Regulatory, Investment, and Trade Environment (BRITE) program was funded by USAID/Moldova and implemented by Chemonics International in partnership with United States-based small business European Integration Forum. BRITE’s principal task was to demonstrate to Moldovan policymakers that reforms would yield large-scale financial returns in the short and long run, following the theory of…
The Feed the Future Uganda Youth Leadership for Agriculture Activity facilitated linkages by influencing the youth employment and workforce development ecosystem. The activity identified private sector actors looking to hire youth and determined the skills gap between private sector demand and youth ability. The facilitation approach to youth workforce development built the right relationships among…
In Nigeria, the Maximizing Agricultural Revenue and Key Enterprises in Targeted Sites (MARKETS II) project addressed constraints in the agricultural value chain to improve rural farmers’ performance, income, and food security. To change how young Nigerians view and engage in the sector, MARKETS II promoted agriculture as “agribusiness,” engaging youth not just in farming, but…
Indonesia Program Representasi (ProRep) was a five-year initiative that supported a number of civil society organizations, think tanks, and the DPR (House of Representatives) to better research and understand, articulate, and respond to citizen needs and improve public policies. Beginning in 2014, ProRep initiated a new “policy community” phase, supporting civil society, research, and government…
USAID’s Changes for Justice Project (C4J) consisted of three components within Indonesia: 1) sustaining and broadening reforms in the Supreme Court; 2) sustaining and broadening reforms in the Attorney General’s Office; and 3) special initiatives, which entail the installation of public information desks, creation of Version 1 of a new case tracking system (CTS) in…
Funded by USAID and implemented by Chemonics International, the Local Government Support Project (LGSP) worked with 32 center towns in Moldova to design policies and procedures that contributed to good governance and developed capacity to meet decentralized authorities and responsibilities for services in a transparent manner. The project also provided basic services that engendered growth of local economies and made services more cost effective and…
Comprehensive reading programs equip students with the ability to learn to read, while also providing opportunities for authentic learning to take place through methods such as interactive read-alouds. With interactive read-alouds, teachers can highlight new themes and structure opportunities for learning. By watching teachers and listening to them, young children acquire foundational skills related to…
USAID’s Pakistan Sindh Reading Program (SRP) and the Georgia Primary Education Project (G-PriEd) leveraged formative assessments to analyze learning needs of students with the greatest skill deficiencies and to help teachers individualize instruction and set goals based on assessment results. In Pakistan, SRP and the Sindh government used monthly assessments linked to progressive curricular goals…
The Water Infrastructure Support and Enhancement for Lebanon (WISE-Lebanon) program was a highly successful three-year infrastructure and capacity building project funded by USAID that improved water services for thousands of Lebanese citizens and a large Syrian refugee population living in towns and villages throughout Lebanon, while also contributing to the capacity and performance of regional water…
This document aims to help development professionals design trade capacity-building programs that respond to the clear-cut case for equalizing economic conditions for men and women. To assist development professionals in identifying appropriate areas for interventions, this paper gives an overview of the complex issues related to gender and trade, presented in five parts: Setting the…
USAID’s Human Rights Program III (HRP III) developed an innovative country strategy focused on regional efforts in Colombia, targeting eight departments and 40 municipalities and based on four core components: promotion of a culture of human rights, prevention of human rights violations, response to human rights violations, and a focus on gender issues. Never executed…
The USAID-supported Sindh Basic Education Program (SBEP), and its partner group the Pakistan Reading Program, endeavored to increase reading scores of 450,000 children in grades 1 and 2 in the province by 2019, among other goals. One of the ways this was achieved was through an activity within the SBEP Program, the smaller Sindh Reading…