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USAID is helping Southeast Asian nations transform their energy sectors and power systems and improve access to clean, reliable, and affordable energy. The USAID Southeast Asia’s Smart Power Program embodies the U.S. Government’s commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and achieve global net-zero emissions by 2050.
To support the region in identifying opportunities and the best approaches to ensure inclusive socioeconomic development in Beni Mellal-Khenifra, USAID consulted with stakeholders in the region using a systems approach and convened a group of community, government, academia, and private sector representatives from across the region for co-creation workshops.
Solving structural and youth unemployment requires innovative and diverse solutions. USAID seeks to increase employability by providing cutting-edge, affordable learning solutions for skills development to help reduce youth unemployment, promote entrepreneurship, and potentially increase industrial productivity.
USAID supports locally led research in Morocco. Eight PEER grants have been awarded to Moroccan researchers who partner with a U.S. government-supported researcher to address global development challenges.
USAID conducted a review of Moroccan election processes and results, which indicated that civic engagement remains an unfulfilled priority. During interviews and focus group discussions, respondents across all categories of stakeholders were nearly unanimous in the need for increased civic education. Based on findings from the review, USAID/Morocco designed the Inclusive Civic Education (ICE) program to promote citizen participation and engagement in civic life, particularly focusing on women, youth, and persons with disabilities (PWD).
USAID Mobilizing Networks for Self-Reliance to Fight TB (or Mandiri TB, “TB Self-Reliance” in Indonesian) advances Indonesia’s self-reliance in eliminating TB by creating or strengthening support networks for DR-TB patients. These networks include the district government, health providers, TB patient advocacy organizations, and the private sector. The program promotes increases in district financing for DR-TB services through training of local civil society organizations to advocate for and access local government budgets and corporate social responsibility initiatives. The program also supports DR-TB patient care through a TB survivor organization by providing training for pre-treatment counseling and treatment adherence monitoring skills.
USAID’s MADANI Civil Society Support Initiative strengthens government accountability and promotes community tolerance at the local level in Indonesia. USAID The USAID MADANI Civil Society Support Initiative improves government accountability and promotes community tolerance at the local level in Indonesia. USAID MADANI strengthens local CSOs by improving their organizational capacity, expanding their reach and relevance, and building up sustainable means of mobilizing financial resources. USAID MADANI facilitates better collaboration between local governments, CSOs, and other partners by promoting the relationships, networks, and systems that make collaborative and engaged governance possible. USAID MADANI works in 32 districts across the provinces of East Java, Central Java, West Java, Banten, South Sulawesi, and West Kalimantan.
In 2021, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) commemorated 60 years of delivering results. Over the last six decades, USAID has spearheaded the Green Revolution; helped nations eradicate smallpox; turned the tide against HIV, malaria, tuberculosis and Ebola; helped billions escape poverty and deprivation; responded to more than 2,900 disasters, and backed democratic transitions or elections in nearly 90 countries since the end of the Cold War alone.
USAID Reducing Demand for Wildlife works to end wildlife trafficking in Southeast Asia and China, focusing on elephant ivory, rhino horn, and tiger and pangolin products, which are among the top species illegally traded in these global wildlife trafficking “hotspots.” In accordance with the U.S. Government’s Eliminate, Neutralize, and Disrupt Wildlife Trafficking Act of 2016 (END Act) and the U.S. Presidential Executive Order on Enforcing Federal Laws with Respect to Transnational Criminal Organizations and Preventing International Trafficking 2017, this program addresses wildlife trafficking as a transnational crime. Wildlife trafficking drives extinctions, spreads zoonotic diseases that threaten human lives, harms livelihoods, and has links to organized criminal networks.
In 2019, USAID began partnering with the Moroccan Ministiry of Edcuation (MOE) to launch the five-year Higher Education Partnership for Morocco program, which aims to assist the MOE in the implementation of a then-newly adopted law designed to improve pre-service training.
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Last updated: January 26, 2022
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