Independent from Sudan since 2011 following the longest civil war in Africa (1983-2005), South Sudan has been embroiled in recurrent conflicts for much of its short history. Recognizing the spread of vulnerability and the erosion of coping capacity across South Sudan, there was a consensus among different players that development challeng...

This case describes a CLA approach that sought to disprove an often-cited claim by men in the peace process in Myanmar that "there are no qualified women to invite to discussions on peace." Hence, the USAID/OTI team embarked on a highly collaborative project that sought to identify women contributing to peace in Myanmar. This resulted in ...

RTI International works across the world in the field of international development, implementing programs in a number of different sectors such as Agriculture, Energy, Health, Governance and Education. Within the past few years RTI has focused internally on intentionally growing our efforts to share and learn from each other across the or...

In order to improve the quality of health services and health data at the community level in Madagascar, the USAID Mikolo Project worked with the Ministry of Public Health (MOPH), the private sector, other local and international implementing partners, and end users to develop a mobile health (mHealth) application. The CommCare platform u...

The USAID Regional Health Integration to Enhance Services in Eastern Uganda Activity (RHITES-E), led by IntraHealth International, supports the government of Uganda to expand access to and use of high-quality health services across 25 districts in Eastern Uganda and Karamoja region. This case illustrates the collaboration, learning and ad...

The Upscaling Technologies in Agriculture through Knowledge and Extension (UPTAKE Project) was established under USAID’s New Alliance ICT Extension Challenge Fund to expand Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) enabled extension services in Tanzania, to complement traditional extension services. Between 2016 - 2018, the IFAD ...

USAID operates in a politically, economically and socially complex environment in South Sudan. The outbreak of civil war in 2013 and widespread violence and armed conflict in 2016 has made development work in the country even more difficult. By the end of 2018, four and a half million people have been displaced, over 380,000 people have d...

Amref Health Africa in consortium with ProjectHOPE, IntraHealth and General Electric have been implementing a five-year USAID funded Activity, ‘Transform Health in Developing Regions’. The Activity is a response to equity to contribute to the effort of the Government of Ethiopia to narrow the health status disparity among the regions....

The maternal, newborn, and child health and nutrition (MNCH+N) indices in Northern Nigeria are arguably one of the poorest in the world and need creative solutions to adequately address local challenges. To do this, USAID funded Breakthrough ACTION-Nigeria project set out to identify opportunities to co-design solutions with stakeholders ...