Since literacy has been shown to lead to better health, higher incomes and more vibrant democracies, USAID and partners are seeking new solutions to an age-old problem.
Bryan Gerhart
In In the early 1960s, James Walden worked on a USAID-supported project to establish Bangladesh’s first School of Architecture as part of the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET). Walden, who now owns his own architecture firm in Stamford, Conn., recently returned to the school to deliver a keynote address at its 50th anniversary commemoration.
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Coding competition for development-savvy tech-heads breeds fresh ideas to tackle food security.
Nathaniel Manning and Kat Townsend
As a community-based policing project comes to a close after more than six years, the partnership between police and citizens offers a crime-crushing model for the Caribbean.
Kimberley Weller
Mary Rono used to fit the mold of the archetypal Kenyan dairy farmer. The 56-year-old retired government social worker living in the village of Kibomet in Kenya’s Rift Valley would milk her family’s herd of eight cows once a day.
Robin Johnson
The USAID-supported Global Give Back Circle started six years ago as a small mentoring program, but now offers a full range of crucial life support services to over 500 vulnerable women, who each vow to pay it forward.
Clara Kakai
In 2011, USAID, J.P. Morgan, and the Gates, Gatsby and Rockefeller Foundations announced a first-of-its-kind effort to invest $25 million in the African Agricultural Capital Fund, which will deliver much-needed growth capital to boost the productivity and profitability of Africa's undercapitalized agriculture sector. NUAC Farm in northern Uganda is one of the first agribusinesses to receive financing from this fund.
