Embracing New Partnerships that Advance Locally Led Development through Private Sector Engagement
Channel: Agrilinks
Date: 2023-04-25

USAID’s newly launched Policy Framework aims to drive progress beyond programs through new partnerships. In support of this, USAID’s localization approach fosters locally led development that is tied to each country’s unique political, social, cultural, economic and environmental conditions, including through local systems practice and local capacity strengthening. This webinar will highlight two examples of development programming that embrace new partnerships by both advancing locally led development and deepening engagement with local communities and private sector organizations. 

In Liberia, USAID and the Africa Trade and Investment (ATI) Program created the Liberia Agribusiness Incubator to support local job creation, trade and investment. To increase locally led development, USAID/ATI made an intentional effort to reach rural communities to help identify barriers for participation and ways to overcome those barriers. A subsequent outreach campaign, including road shows, radio jingles and media messages,  was designed and tailored to local community needs, thus increasing local engagement in the program. In Guatemala, the Innovative Solutions for Agricultural Value Chains Project is implemented by a local entity, Agropecuaria Popoyán, S.A. The objective of the project is to reduce poverty and chronic malnutrition in Guatemala’s Western Highlands by providing new economic opportunities that improve the livelihoods and resilience for small-scale farmers and their families to reduce irregular migration.  

Learn more about how these programs advance localization, support new linkages, and mobilize collective action across governments, the private sector, and local organizations.