Through Local Works, USAID Missions in Europe and Eurasia are working to address the following:
USAID/Albania will strengthen local agricultural communities, businesses, and the local Lezhë government to provide proof of concept of a functioning locally led market economy and create quality jobs and opportunities for youth.
USAID/Armenia is investing in increasing community leadership of the ongoing government decentralization process.
USAID/Azerbaijan is looking to strengthen partnerships with the government, civil society, and the private sector (focusing on business and professional associations) to achieve shared economic goals. In looking for creative ways to engage with these new partners, the Mission decided to host a Partnership Summit. The event featured networking opportunities for more than 160 attendees, laying the groundwork for future collaboration.
USAID/Bosnia and Herzegovina seeks to build local systems and autonomy, expand the Mission’s partner base, and unlock locally developed solutions, innovations, and resources. Through Local Works, USAID will push for a legal environment that allows philanthropy to take hold, develop the management and organizational skills of local organizations, and build relationships between local and national organizations.
USAID/Kosovo aims to bring together local communities and target stakeholders to work around a common initiative -- recycling. The Mission intends to co-design a solution for socio-economic cohesion with four targeted local stakeholder groups: youth; minority groups, including the Kosovo Roma, Egyptian and Ashkali, who often act as the informal recyclable material collectors; for-profit recyclable material processors; and local and national governments. This will provide an opportunity to test out strategies for collaboration among these different groups and to find locally led solutions to recycling.
USAID/North Macedonia is supporting local communities to establish sustainable systems and develop capacities to plan, finance and implement solutions to their own development challenges and priorities. Guided by the principles of local leadership and community ownership, USAID is facilitating partnerships and networks among local stakeholders to advance community-led development, strengthen relationships and collaboration among local actors, and enable the mobilization of resources for development purposes.
USAID/Serbia is working to increase citizen engagement in various reform efforts as part of the country's overall advancement towards European Union accession. Activities include increasing productive policy dialogue between the government and the private sector, improving community philanthropy, supporting citizen-led judicial reform, and promoting community initiatives to tackle development problems.