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Guyana: USAID Program Profile

The United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID) assistance to Guyana focuses on HIV awareness and prevention, improving the climate for private investment, and strengthening democracy and governance.

Guyana HIV/AIDS Youth Project: This objective is working to improve prevention efforts and slow the rate of new infections. Guyana has the second highest HIV prevalence rate in Latin America and the Caribbean. USAID works with local non-governmental organizations to provide a framework for a more consolidated, focused approach to working with youth outside the formal school setting. The project emphasizes behavior change intervention through a series of mini-campaigns with a cluster of high profile and interactive events, street theater, outreach, peer education, referral services, and provision of condoms.

Improved Climate for Private Investment: USAID’s work in this area is expanding opportunities for the poor by fostering macroeconomic policies that promote equity, fiscal stability, foreign and domestic investment, exports, labor-intensive growth and job creation. Activities include increasing capacity to implement economic policy for more equitable growth, improving the climate for private investment, strengthening the capacity of the private sector to influence public policy, and increasing services available to support small and micro-enterprises.

Democracy and Governance: This program seeks to strengthen key institutions and processes required for a vibrant, responsive and participatory democracy. The focus is on an improved and more informed law-making and regulatory process, increased capacity to adjudicate cases in a timely manner, a sustained institutional capacity to conduct free and fair elections, increased civil society influence on public policy, and strengthened local governance.

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