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Across the globe, the United States prioritizes investments in development innovations that are low cost and have the power to improve millions of lives. USAID's Innovation Fund for the Americas (IFA) seeks cost-effective breakthrough solutions to development challenges in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Start date:  April 1, 2012     Duration:  Three years
Anticipated Project budget (Life of Project):  $850,000
Implementer: National Democratic Institute (NDI)


Objectives

Support an independent Parliament that will represent the citizens, create informed rules that govern the society, and monitor the work of the executives.

Start date:  December 28, 2010          End date: December 27, 2014    
Project budget (Life of Project):  $ 4.8 million
Implementer: Booz Allen Hamilton Inc.


Objectives

Improve the business policy environment to increase private sector investment and promote increased exports of Macedonian products. 

 

Grantee:  Caricom Secretariat

Duration: 3 years

Total Projected Investment: $300,000

Countries:  Barbados and OECS

Objective:  To support the Directorate of Human & Social Development to work in crime and violence prevention.

What is Yes Youth Can?                          

Yes Youth supports the empowerment of Kenyan youth as envisioned in the 2010 constitution. The program aims to develop peaceful leaders among 18-35 year-olds, with the complementary objective of improving their socioeconomic status.

What is the Support to Electoral Reforms and Processes in Kenya program?

Building on the decisions made in Bonn and Chicago, as well as the U.S.-Afghanistan Strategic Partnership Agreement, the United States joined over 70 partners in Tokyo to underline our continuing support for Afghanistan’s efforts to strengthen itself and provide a more peaceful, secure, and prosperous future for its people through the conclusion of the security transition in 2014 and into the Transformation Decade. 

Start date:  October 1, 2012      End Date: May 1, 2014 
Project budget (Life of Project):   $208,578
Additional co-funding from the Slovenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs ($208,578), Macedonian Ministry of Finance ($19,796), and the Center for Excellence in Finance ($46,036)
Implementer:  Center of Excellence in Finance (CEF)


Objectives

Develop the internal audit profession in Macedonia to improve public financial management and increase accountability, transparency and efficiency in the public sector. 

Start date:  April 19, 2011          End date:  April 17, 2014
Project budget (Life of Project):  $1,500,000
Implementer:  Habitat for Humanity Macedonia


Objectives

Increase the standard of living in collective housing units in Macedonia through demonstration projects on energy efficiency improvements that significantly decrease energy consumption and operating cost.

 

Contractor(s)/Grantee(s): Caribbean HIV/AIDS Alliance

Duration: 5 years (FY2011 - FY2014)

Total Projected Investment: $16 million over 5 years

Funding Source: USAID/Barbados- (GHCS-USAID Account)

Countries: OECS and Barbados

Objective: Increased Equitable Access to HIV Prevention, Treatment and Care Services for

most at risk populations and persons living with HIV (PLHIV) in the Eastern Caribbean:

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Last updated: May 24, 2013

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