Between 2010 and 2014, the USAID-funded and Chemonics-implemented Zambia Communications Support for Health (CSH) program carried out a series of social and behavior change communications interventions under its Safe Love HIV Prevention campaign to address the key drivers of HIV prevalence. Safe Love was a national multi-channel campaign for men and women age 15-49 that…
Since the USAID Moldova CEED program began working in the textile and apparel (T&A) sectors in 2005 through implementation of CEED II in 2015, there has been an ongoing initiative to move Moldovan textile and apparel companies to higher-value-added FOB, private, and own-label product schemes. Advancement to higher value-added manufacturing has been the key to sustainable, long-term competitiveness in the…
From 2008 to 2013, the project worked to achieve this goal through: 1) improving governance and management practices in the health sector, 2) improving the quality of essential clinical and community-based health services, and 3) increasing the availability of essential commodities to achieve health and humanitarian assistance goals. In 2014, the project continued exclusively on…
The Maximizing Agricultural Revenue and Key Enterprises in Targeted Sites (MARKETS II) project trained master trainers and individuals from national and international organizations, including their beneficiaries. The project also targeted agricultural value chain segments that are more favorable for the involvement of woman and youth, such as service providers, processing, and micro-enterprises. The value of…
The Maximizing Agricultural Revenue and Key Enterprises in Targeted Sites (MARKETS II) was USAID/Nigeria’s flagship project under Feed the Future (FTF). It aimed to sustainably improve the performance, income, nutrition, and food security of poor Nigerian rural farmers or smallholders in an environmentally friendly manner. Key objectives included smallholder farmer access to increased income, ready…
Moldova’s IT sector has been seen as a catalyst for economic development with opportunity for quick growth, but assistance was needed. The sector suffered from poor infrastructure, an inexperienced labor force, and was in need of improvements to management practices. USAID’s CEED and CEED II activities have shown that the more Moldova invests in its…
The USAID Georgia Primary Education project (G-PriEd) actively supports the Ministry of Education’s initiative to engage parents in their children’s education. G-PriEd, together with the Ministry, recognizes that the earlier in a child’s educational process parent involvement begins, the more powerful the effects. G-PriEd has prepared a number of resources to extend the learning that…
USAID’s Strengthening Educational Performance-Up (STEP-Up) Zambia Project provided technical assistance to produce meaningful, measurable improvement in learner performance and literacy at the primary school level. At the heart of STEP-Up Zambia’s approach is the importance of one-on-one relationships at each level of the Ministry of Education, Science, Vocational Training, and Early Education (MESVTEE) leadership structure,…
The Higher Education Leadership Management project is USAID/Indonesia’s flagship program in higher education, designed to support the Directorate of Higher Education (Ministry of Education) to implement reforms, strengthen leadership and management and introduce special initiatives and innovations in higher education. This fact sheet summarizes the project’s objectives.
This infographic reviews Zambia’s education system and how it had achieved significant progress in enabling its students to access education, but with more children in school, the quality of education had declined. As the country’s economy continued to grow in the 2010s, the education sector strived to play a key role in ensuring that Zambians…
USAID’s Nepal Economic, Agriculture, and Trade (NEAT) Activity aimed to build capacities within Nepal’s number one industry — agriculture — to reduce poverty and food insecurity, facilitate important regulatory and ad- ministrative reforms to increase revenue generation and trade, improve access to finance, and attract investment. The project also aimed to address deficiencies in the…
The WPRR scope of work also provided for support at the ministry level to strengthen the policy, legal, and regulatory framework for the water and wastewater sector, and improve the quality of water and wastewater services and extend them to new customers. Project staff and consultants worked with the Ministry of Housing, Utilities, and Urban…