USAID
U.S. foreign assistance has always had the twofold purpose of furthering America's interests while improving lives in the developing world. USAID carried out U.S. foreign policy by promoting broad-scale human progress at the same time it expanded stable, free societies, created markets and trade partners for the United States, and fostered good will abroad.
- Storytelling site highlightingthe work of USAID around the world.
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DECfinder is a search and discovery tool built to help development professionals, researchers, and local partners easily access and use USAID’s vast library of learning — the Development Experience Clearinghouse (DEC). The DEC contains over 220,000 documents, spanning decades of U.S. foreign...
- Resilience Design is a regenerative agriculture approach for humanitarian and development practitioners that incorporates principles of permaculture, passive water harvesting, agroecology, and agroforestry. It was developedover multiple years through Mercy Corps-ledUSAID/Bureau for Humanitarian...
- USAID publications cover a range of topics. This General Publications list will be used as a first step to collecting as many USAID publications as we can and then we can easily recategorize into relevant topics. All tagging and placement in collections will follow the documents as they are...
- Purpose.TheSector Environmental Guidelinespresentinformation on commonUSAIDdevelopment actions regarding: the typical, potential adverse impacts of activities in these sectors; how to prevent or otherwise mitigate these impacts, both in the form of general activity design guidance and specific...
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View a how-to video for using natural enemies against the devastating millet head miner. Factsheet
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Feed the Future This Why Agriculture features Rob Bertram, Chief Scientist USAID. It is a teaching resource within USAID's Food Security and Agriculture Core Course, which incorporates USAID's focus for food security and agriculture development under the Global Food Security Strategy and...
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TheU.S. Global Development Lab (Lab) and theBureau for Food Securityare collaborating in an effort called “Digital Development for Feed the Future” (D2FTF) to demonstrate how leveraging digital tools holistically and according to best practices can improve the cost effectiveness and development...
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This Agricultural Transformation video is a teaching resource within USAID's Food Security and Agriculture Core Course, which incorportates USAID's focus for food security and agriculture development under the Global Food Security Strategy and expanding work in nutrition and resilience.
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1980-01-01 19 pages, illustrated, photos
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Developing Local Extension Capacity USAID’s Bureau for Food Security (BFS) and Digital Green have launched the five-yearFeed the Future Developing Local Extension Capacity (DLEC)project, in partnership with the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), CARE International, and multiple...
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- 2013-07-20 Abstract, , 2013 This field-tested, six-day curriculum responds to community development managers', program planners' and behavior change officers’ need for a practical behavioral framework that strategically aids them in planning for maximum effectiveness. This curriculum, originally adapted...
- 2012-08-20 In many African countries, women are relegated to the periphery of the decision-making ladder on important issues such as access to land and other productive resources. This traditional legacy resulted in an unequal structure of society and unequal distribution of resources. In Zimbabwe,...
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We support farmers and agribusiness professionals in developing countries to improve their livelihoods and food security. Farmer-to-Farmer sends U.S.-based volunteers on technical assignments to provide hands-on training to communities, cooperatives, agribusinesses, and educational institutions....
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This website was developed by a group of SBC practitioners with the technical and financial support ofPeople in Need (PIN). It provides humanitarian and development practitioners working in low-income settings with theknow-how required for enabling people to practice positive behaviours, such as...