USAID in Africa - Success Stories

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Angola PSI Condom Social Marketing Program in Angola-Legal Condoms Angola Female Literacy Center-Horizonte Azul Community Assistance and Reintegration Program Benin Education: How Money Causes Problems … and Opportunities-An Example from Benin Education: Step towards More Open Management of Primary Schools in Benin Health: AIDS Prevention in Benin: "Market Mama" Makes a Difference Health: Turning Skeptics into Believers: Pediatricians in Benin Support Treating the Child, and not Just the Illness Democracy/Governance: Two Partners Working as One Additional success stories are available on the Benin mission website. Burundi Search for Common Ground Youth Project DR Congo Routine Immunization in Bas Congo Civil Society's White Paper for the Inter-Congolese Dialogue  ^ top of page Eritrea Increasing the Efficiency and Effectiveness of Malaria Control Involving Faith-Based Organizations in the Fight against HIV/AIDS Crop Production Instead of Food Aid Internet Provides a Forum for Debate University Linkage: Joint Research Uncovers Eritrea's Past Ethiopia Micro-loans from Monetized P.L. 480 Title II Enable Women to Expand Business Girls' Primary School Persistence Increased under USAID Grants' Programs Dividends from Agricultural Cooperatives in Ethiopia Reap Productive Benefits Ethiopian NGOs Keep Orphans and Vulnerable Children off the Street and Moving towards Productive Lives Pastoralist Communities Join Together to Prevent Conflict and Promote Peace Guinea C3 Reaching the Rural Poor with Micro-credit: A Sustainable Village-based Program Offers Micro-credit to Those Most in Need Madame Kanté: Making Good on USAID-Sponsored Training Empowering Local Populations Senegalese Study Mission-Lessons Learned for Women Key Players in Conflict Resolution  ^ top of page Kenya Cycling for Wealth Siongiroi Dairy Plant Fuels Development Super Moneymaker Revives Hope Farmers Increase Income By Planting Improved Varieties Mwaluganje Community Elephant Sanctuary: From Corn to Conservation Kasiagu Community Banda Enterprise Koija Group Ranch “Star Beds” Enterprise- A wilderness transformation USAID/Kenya’s Micro Private Enterprise Development project: Mwanahawa Makongolo USAID/Kenya’s Micro Private Enterprise Development project: I Have Dreams Madagascar Local Fishermen Land a Big Catch All Roads Lead to the Community STI-AIDS Education From Charcoal Making to Forest Management A Substitute for Forest-Destroying Charcoal  ^ top of page Malawi Community Based Condom Distribution Treatment without Frustration Assistance to small scale farmers Manesi Harison - A Village Savings and Loans (VS&L) Group Participant Dina Moyo, Cash for Work Participant in Khongo Olivetta Mkwenembela, A Business Loan Beneficiary Machinga and Balaka Input for Assets Project Improved survival of pregnant women and newborns Quality education through supporting teaching Community ownership and participation Chishango Condom Social Marketing Anecdotes MACRO: Meeting the growing demand for Voluntary Counseling and Testing COMPASS: Performance and Impact on local communities Growing mushrooms at Chiwembe Dam in Limbe Community-based aquaculture at Kalino Village Improving the quality of education Mali The "American" Village In Timbuktu: A "Mom" Entrepreneur Malian Solution to A Malian Problem: Educating Girls Tax Collection: Mali Style  ^ top of page Mozambique One Rural Woman Extends Benefits to Others Participatory Resolution of Dispute Increases Income Mozambican Civil Society Shows Leadership and Innovation in Battling HIV/AIDS Farmer Association, Seizing Market Opportunity, Augments Income Significantly A Typical Farmer Becomes a Force in the Local Economy Nigeria Christian Youth Prevents the Mob Killing of a Muslim Man Women Emerge as a Potent Force to be Reckoned With Women Fight for Political Representation Women Traders Successfully Lobby Local Government Female Representative's Leadership Position Saved by Women Activists Fish Farmers Expand Aquaculture Facilities Farmers Build Cooperative Memberships Rural Sector Enhancement Program Success Caregivers Supported as They Help Orphans Muslim Children Still Together Following Parents' Deaths from AIDS Church Helps Women with AIDS Rejoin Family and Community  ^ top of page Rwanda CARE-CLASSE Rwanda Savings and Loans Program Gives Hope to Rural Rwandan Residents Heifer Project International-"Cows of Peace" Rwanda Campaign The EDDI-funded Ambassador's Girls Scholarship Program is Making an Impact in Rwanda University of Quebec's Law Education Program in Rwanda Touches the Life of a Student Senegal Micro-enterprise Best Practices Make a Difference New Sources of Local Revenues for Development Quality HIV Surveillance Informs Prevention Efforts Boosting Community Involvement in Primary Schools From Housewives to Entrepreneurs Business Where It Is Needed Most - A Local Industry Gets Under Way Somalia Edna Adan Maternity Hospital  ^ top of page South Africa Legal Advice Centers Helps Poor Secure Rights USAID Trade Program Empowers Women Entrepreneurs Water and Sanitation for Rural South Africans Housing with a Difference in South Africa Additional success stories are available on the South Africa mission website (located under the heading "Progress Profiles"). Sudan Laying the Foundation for Wildlife Conservation in Southern Sudan Taking Steps towards Sustainable Management of Southern Sudan's Abundant Forest Resources Groundbreaking Nuba Mountains Airlift Honey Export Signals First Commercial Trade in the Region for Sudanese Producers Uganda Bobbie Leathers Limited Community Agroforestry The Teacher Development and Management System The Post Test Club Decentralization in Uganda Reintegration, Employment and Income Development for the North (REIN)  ^ top of page Zambia Everyone Calls Him Brother Willy SASI Investments: Light at the End of a Tunnel Kalongo Women's Club USAID'S Multisectoral Approach to HIV/AIDS Assists Widows and Orphans Overcome Food Security Now We Can Sell Our Milk: ZATAC Has Brought Us the Market Partnerships for Basic Education Through Interactive Radio Local Challenges and Local Solutions to Education through IRI Improving Maternal Health through Improved Delivery Practices Community Mobilization against Malaria Involving People Living with HIV/AIDS Legal Arbitration ADR: Story of Abha Patel The Oasis Story Additional success stories are available on the Zambia mission website. Zimbabwe Lessons Learned Implementing Voluntary Counseling and Testing (VCT) Services in Zimbabwe Silveira House National Association of Societies for the Care of the Handicapped (NASCOH) Auxilia Chimusoro Award  ^ top of page Regional Center for Southern Africa (RCSA) SADC Parliamentary Forum Introduces Election Monitoring Standards Educating Africa's Agricultural Researchers Agricultural Research and the Entrepreneurial Trader Traditional African Crops in Modern Industry Regional Economic Development Services Office/ East and Southern Africa (REDSO/ESA) Women as Ambassadors for Peace Sweet Potatoes Made Our Lives Sweeter The Conflict Early Warning and Response (CEWARN) Mechanism of the Intergovernmental Authority for Development (IGAD) West Africa Regional Programme (WARP) The Purdue Model The West African Businesswomen's Network AIDS Prevention on the Migratory Axes of West Africa (PSAMAO) Collaboration on Project Implementation Gold Circle Campaigns Civil Participation in Natural Resource Management  ^ top of page

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