The USAID/Uganda School Health and Reading Program works with the Ugandan Ministry of Education to develop a model for improving the reading in the early primary school grades. Though initial results were promising (reading achievement was significantly higher in the program compared to control schools), we wanted to do...
From the outset, the AflaSTOP project in Kenya had an ambitious vision: widespread farmer adoption of grain storage and drying technologies that impact aflatoxin – a harmful toxin to humans and animals. This case study focuses on AflaSTOP’s drying component in particular and how a CLA approach is helping us overcome...
The Kore Lavi program was designed to tackle how to reinforce social protection in Haiti while insuring that all the advancement is not lost after four years of implementation. One answer is to work in very close partnership with the government to ensure that vulnerability targeting is consistent, transparent, objective...
The Advancing Partners & Communities (APC) video storyboard depicts the story of the obstacles that Valentina has faced throughout her life. Valentina is a Trans woman living in the Dominican Republic who has been working for a community-based organization (CBO) that advocates for LGBTI rights. There are several...
The Knowledge for Health (K4Health) project, supported by USAID’s Office of Population and Reproductive Health, collaborated with Ghana Health Service and Grameen Foundation under the Concern Worldwide US, Inc. Innovations for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health project Care Community Hub to address one of the reported...
This case study examines the process by which USAID's Office of Food for Peace (FFP) and the Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA), together with USAID/Somalia, recognized the need for coordinated efforts around common challenges and the potential benefits of greater collaboration in Somalia. The three...
The USAID-facilitated Bangladesh Livestock Coordination group consists of seven livestock projects funded by seven different donor agencies whose purpose is to improve the productivity of the Bangladesh livestock sector, particularly the more than 35 million cattle in a targeted region that has significantly lagged...
This is a case story about using collaborating, learning, and adapting (CLA) to improve a community-level intervention within the Community Connector (CC) project in Uganda. CC is a USAID Feed the Future project operating in 15 districts in north and southwestern Uganda. The project provides a comprehensive and multi-...
The Sahel Resilience Learning (SAREL) is a five-year project whose purpose is to provide monitoring, evaluation, collaboration and learning support to USAID's Resilience in the Sahel-Enhanced (RISE) initiative. RISE includes 28 USAID projects that are being implemented in the Sahel Resilience Strategy's zones of...
As part of the Feed the Future India-Africa Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (NRM) Innovation Sharing Platform program, USAID/India is supporting TechnoServe, together with partners GRAVIS and Catholic Relief Services, Malawi (CRS), the local African Innovation Adopter (AIA), to transfer one such frugal...
