Water and Development Strategy: Implementation Field Guide

This document is intended to serve as a reference tool to help USAID Operating Units understand and apply the agency's 2013-2018 Water and Development Strategy. By publicly sharing the document, USAID aims to ensure coordination of their efforts with the wider water sector. The Field Guide will be periodically updated and comments from readers are welcome

Promoting Fertilizer Use in Africa: Current Issues and Empirical Evidence from Malawi, Zambia, and Kenya

This study was funded jointly by the Regional Strategic Agricultural Knowledge Support System (Re-SAKSS) for Southern Africa, based at International Water Management Institute, Pretoria, South Africa, and by the United States Agency for International Development's Africa Bureau. Much of the data and analysis reported in this study was carried out under the Tegemeo Agricultural Monitoring and Policy Analysis Project, funded by USAID/Kenya; the Food Security Research Project/Markets, Trade and Enabling Environment (MATEP) Program, funded by USAID/Zambia and the Swedish International Development Agency; and by the DFID and USAID offices in Lilongwe, Malawi.fertilizer, Africa, Malawi, Zambia, Kenya, Crop Production/Industries, Q18,

Stewarding Biodiversity and Food Security in The Coral Triangle: Achievements, Challenges, and Lessons Learned

The management team of the US Agency for International Development (USAID)- supported Coral Triangle Support Partnership (CTSP) commissioned this report to take a qualitative look at the achievements, challenges, and lessons learned from investment in CTSP. CTSP is part of a broader USAID investment supporting the Coral Triangle Initiative on Coral Reefs, Fisheries, and Food Security (CTI-CFF), a six-nation effort to sustain vital marine and coastal resources in the Coral Triangle located in Southeast Asia and the Western Pacific

USAID Water and Development Strategy, 2013-2018

The first global Water and Development Strategy released by the US Agency for International Development outlines the approach that will guide USAID's water programming through 2018. The Strategy emphasizes sustainability, working through host country systems, using emerging science and technology, and learning from past efforts

External Program Evaluation: Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Program in Ethiopia

USAID/Ethiopia commissioned this study to evaluate an ongoing Millennium Water Alliance (MWA) program and to generate findings that could assist in developing monitoring and evaluation indicators for future use. As of 2008, MWA was implementing eight WASH projects in 28 districts, with stated goals of improving access to sustainable and adequate water, improving access to sanitation services, increasing community awareness, and promoting safe hygiene practices. The evaluation calls MWA's progress encouraging overall, but notes that the one to two year planning horizons used were not enough to cause internalized behavior change. Furthermore, the authors recommend investing more in research and development; adopting harmonized approaches and best practices as well as innovative methodologies; building capacity of district water, health, and education offices; and linking the MWA program with other government, USAID, WSP and UNICEF programs

Improving the chances for developing coastal country success in adapting to climate change

There is an unequivocal scientific consensus that increases in greenhouse gases in the atmosphere drive warming temperatures of air and sea, and acidification of the world’s oceans from carbon dioxide absorbed by the oceans. These changes in turn can induce shifts in precipitation patterns, sea level rise, and more frequent and severe extreme weather events (e.g. storms and sea surge). All of these impacts are already being witnessed in the world’s coastal regions and are projected to intensify in years to come. Taken together, these impacts are likely to result in significant alteration of natural habitats and coastal ecosystems, and increased coastal hazards in low-lying areas. They can affect fishers, coastal communities and resource users, recreation and tourism, and coastal infrastructure. Approaches to planned adaptation to these impacts can be drawn from the lessons and good practices from global experience in Integrated Coastal Management (ICM). The recently published USAID Guidebook on Adapting to Coastal Climate Change (USAID 2009) is directed at practitioners, development planners, and coastal management professionals in developing countries. It offers approaches for assessing vulnerability to climate change and climate variability in communities and outlines how to develop and implement adaptation measures at the local and national levels. Six best practices for coastal adaptation are featured in the USAID Guidebook on Adapting to Coastal Climate Change and summarized in the following sections. (PDF contains 3 pages

Costing of ovc service delivery in South Africa and Zambia

This item is archived in the repository for materials published for the USAID supported Orphans and Vulnerable Children Comprehensive Action Research Project (OVC-CARE) at the Boston University Center for Global Health and Development.The objective of the costing component of the FABRIC End of Project Evaluation (EoPE) was to estimate the full cost of inputs (goods and services) used to implement the FABRIC program at the level of FABRIC sub-recipient partner FBOs in Zambia and South Africa for 2009.The USAID | Project SEARCH, Orphans and Vulnerable Children Comprehensive Action Research (OVC-CARE) Task Order, is funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development under Contract No. GHH-I-00-07-00023-00, beginning August 1, 2008. OVC-CARE Task Order is implemented by Boston University. The opinions expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the funding agency

Public-Private Partnerships for Development: A Handbook for Business

CED partnered with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) on this publication, which is designed to help businesses operating in developing countries understand how to build public-private partnerships that will benefit their host country populations and the participating firms

OVC costing technical consultation meeting report

This item is archived in the repository for materials published for the USAID supported Orphans and Vulnerable Children Comprehensive Action Research Project (OVC-CARE) at the Boston University Center for Global Health and Development.The two day meeting explored the challenges and lessons learned from existing OVC program costing and outcome evaluation studies from various countries, and how these country and program specific models can lead to more robust methodologies to strengthen national OVC planning and programming.The USAID | Project SEARCH, Orphans and Vulnerable Children Comprehensive Action Research (OVC-CARE) Task Order, is funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development under Contract No. GHH-I-00-07-00023-00, beginning August 1, 2008. OVC-CARE Task Order is implemented by Boston University. The opinions expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the funding agency

Kebijakan Pemerintah Rusia Memaksa United States Agency For International Development (USAID) Keluar dari Rusia Tahun 2012

This research explains about the repressive action of Russia government to pressing development of civil society in Russia through a policy to force out USAID from Russia. USAID is the greatest donor to development democracy and civil society in Russia. This research begins by explanning about relationship USAID and Russia with development of Civil Society Organization (CSO) in Russia. This research is using State and Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) relations theory. In this matter, this research is using Containment/Sabotage/Dissolution mode, which is the Russia government as Semi-Authoritarian Regime will do anything to defend national stability, include pressing development of civil society. This research uses qualitative method with techniques of writing a literature review through secondary data already available from the literature. This research shows that Russia government policy is impact to Russia NGOs because that NGOs have received assistance from USAID. Before Forcefulness out USAID from Russia by Russia government, Russia have legalized the rule to regulate about NGOs. That rule is Foreign Agents Law have legalized in July 2012. Foreign Agents Law is reaction to increased civil society activity in last 2011 until early 2012. This research shows that Russia NGO is suffer as result Forcefulness out USAID from Russia is Golos as independent association of monitoring election is just one in Russia. Golos is association pro-democracy and opposes Putins government. Basic of government policy to USAID is debilitate all of NGOs pro-democracy and opposes Putins government.Keywords: USAID, Civil Society, Semi-Authoritarian Regime, Democratization, Foreign Agents Law, Putins Government