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Farmer-to-Farmer with ACDIVOCA West Africa The primary WA F2F goal is to generate rapid, sustained and broad-based economic growth through short-term technical assistance in the agricultural sector. A second key program goal is to increase the U.S. public's understanding of international development assistance as well as international hosts and program participants understanding of U.S. foreign assistance and the American people through the personal, people-to-people exchanges that occur via the assignments. F2F West Africa was implemented in core countries Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria and Mali and several flexible countries. The underlying strategy for our implementation of the F2F West Africa program is to raise productivity for West African farmers in a way that supportedfarmer access to markets or end use processors. Thus, we have focused activities on three themes: 1) improved access to export markets; 2) increased productivity that allowed profitable access to known domestic and regional markets; and 3) import substitution, particularly focused on increased local sales to multinational food processors and feed mills who normally import raw product.
West Africa Region Reproductive Health and Child Survival Project (AWARE-RH) The Action for West Africa Region Reproductive Health and Child Survival Project (AWARE-RH), a five-year initiative funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) aimed at improving reproductive and maternal and child health services across 21 countries in West Africa .
Regional Agriculture and Market Systems (RAMS) Task Order #01 Activities under RAMS Task Order 01 will promote increased agricultural prodcution, trade, improved policies, finance and investment, and resilience to shocks and stresses in the East Africa region by addressing agricultural issues that can only be solved o
Implementation Letter with ECOWAS/ARAA for ECOWAP Implementation Letter with ECOWAS/ARAA for ECOWAP (ECOWAS Agricultural Policy)
ENV- Planning for Resilience in East Africa through Policy, Adaptation, Research, and Economic Development (PREPARED) (USAID East Africa Regional):  .The Planning for Resilience in East Africa through Policy, Adaptation, Research, and Economic Development (PREPARED) Project is a five-year comprehensive activity aimed at mainstreaming climate-resilient development planning and program implementation into the East African Community (EAC) and its Partner States' development agendas. The overall goal of the PREPARED Project is to strengthen the resiliency and sustainability of East African economies, trans-boundary freshwater ecosystems, and communities. FY 2016 biodiversity funds will address regional trans-boundary biodiversity conservation and counter wildlife trafficking. Activities will focus on training regional organizations on biodiversity conservation in areas such as the transboundary Mara River Basin, developing counter-wildlife trafficking tools, and strengthening policies, strategies, and plans to improve the management of the region's biological significant areas..
East, Central and Southern African Health Community (ECSA-HC) East, Central and Southern African Health Community (ECSA-HC)
Economic Community of West African States West, Africa Power Pool (ECOWAS/WAPP) The West African Power Pool (WAPP) is a specialized institution of ECOWAS formed to ensure the promotion and development of power generation and transmission facilities, as well as the coordination of power trade between ECOWAS Member States.
DGC - Agile and Harmonized Assistance to Devolved Institutions (AHADI) (Kenya):  Agile and Harmonized Assistance to Devolved Institutions (AHADI) supports implementation of Kenya's constitutionally-mandated devolution process at both national and county levels. With FY 2018 funding, AHADI will strengthen the ability of national and intergovernmental entities, including the Ministry of Devolution, the Intergovernmental Relations Technical Committee, the Council of Governors, the Senate, and the Kenya School of Government to develop policy and legislation, resolve disputes, and provide technical support and training needed for counties to implement their functions. AHADI will focus on mentoring and on-the-job training of county officials in the areas of planning, public expenditure management, leadership and integrity, and legislative drafting. Activities will enhance civic engagement by encouraging participation of youth, women, and marginalized groups. Improved public participation will enhance accountability and inclusiveness of county government services and provide a check on corruption at the local level. AHADI will also strengthen intergovernmental coordination mechanisms through inter-county collaboration and peer-to-peer learning. By strengthening national and county governance institutions, citizens will have more confidence in their government and fewer grievances related to the delivery of public services, rendering them less likely to engage in violent conflict. This will contribute to greater stability for Kenya, and directly supports the U.S. government's priority to promote U.S. leadership through balanced engagement. This mechanism supports the Agnecy's self-reliance goals and the Integrated Country Strategy, Objective 4.1 (devolution effectively implemented) by improving the intergovernmental framework for devolution, while strengthening county governance and capacity to provide quality services, ensure effective oversight, and forge a stronger link between citizens and government..
Support IGAD Committee on Early Warning and Response (CEWARN) Support IGAD Committee on Early Warning and Response (CEWARN)
Expanded Agribusiness and Trade Promotion (E-ATP) Program The Expanded Agribusiness and Trade Promotion (E-ATP) program will increase the value and volume of intra-regional agricultural trade of rice, millet/sorghum and poultry value chains along key transport corridors in seven countries in West Africa, including Ghana, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cote d'Ivoire, Mali, Niger, Nigeria and Togo, in support of the President's Global Food Security Response. E-ATP aims to increase trade by more than 30 percent in target value chains and reduce illicit charges related to regional transport by 25 percent along selected corridors.
Institute of Teacher Education and Development Support Institute of teacher education and development-transforming into a membership-based organization to impact educators and marginalized youth across west africa
USAID/OFDA Grant for West Africa/Regional Making Gender Analysis and Empowerment Accessible to Food Security and Humanitarian Actors in West Africa.
West Africa Seeds Program (WASP) (USAID West Africa Regional):  The goal of the West Africa Seed Program is to increase the production and supply of improved, certified, open-pollinated and hybrid seeds from 12 to 25 percent over the next five years.  This will be achieved by strengthening the capacity of National Agricultural Research Institutions and private sector research units to produce quality breeder seeds, and by strengthening the technical and agri-business capacities of the private sector to deliver quality foundation and certified seeds.  FY 2016 funds will support: (1) facilitating the implementation of regional seed regulations at national levels; (2) continuing to increase the production and use of breeder, foundation and certified seeds; (3) increasing the participation of the private sector in the seed industry.   Additional funds will contribute to the goals of ECOWAS' recently launched Regional Rice Initiative, which aims to substantially increase rice production and sales in West Africa to strengthen regional food security
World Food Programme El Nino response in Southern Africa World Food Programme El Nino response in Southern Africa
Trade and Investment Enabling Environment Develop and conduct needs assessments, baseline studies, targeted evaluations, special studies or other information-gathering efforts specifically for the design, monitoring and evaluation of USG-funded programs. This sub-element may also include developing and disseminating best practices and lessons learned, testing demonstration and/or pilot models, or the preparation of strategic plans and other short-term programming tasks. Note: All such activities that are carried out by partners as an integral part of their monitoring and evaluation efforts for programs funded under other sub-elements should be included within those sub-elements.
USAID/WA Trade Hub and African Partners Network Project II With funding from USAID, we work with West African businesses to boost regional and global trade by improving the capacity of West Africas private sector and business enabling environment. The Trade Hub promotes more regional trade in key commodities like maize, livestock and rice to address food security, and reduces poverty by boosting globally traded value-added exports like cashews, mango, shea, and apparel. The Trade Hub works through and in collaboration with a network of regional African partners.
AMCHAM (USAID East Africa Regional):  USAID/Kenya and East Africa will utilize FY 2022 funding in the implementation of the AmCham Kenya Support activity which aims to facilitate increased trade and investment volumes between the U.S. and Kenya by providing relevant market information and intelligence, business advisory services, and policy advocacy for a better business environment. More specifically, this activity will help businesses tap into existing opportunities as well as create mutually beneficial business-to-business (B2B) linkages with suitable partners.  The activity will also increase commercial engagements and the capacity of businesses to trade internationally and ultimately increase foreign direct investment in Kenya. The activity will focus on three key components including market intelligence, business advisory services, and an improved business enabling environment.  To improve market intelligence, the activity will support efforts to improve access and analytics around trade and investment data, statistics, trends, trade and investment opportunities, and regulatory information. To support increased investment into Kenya, the activity will support access to business advisory services that can support companies with licensing, tax, legal, and regulatory requirements. Advisory services will offer opportunities for development of B2B linkages between Kenyan and U.S. firms. The activity will also support industry groups to organize and advocate for trade and investment facilitating policies. To support a more enabling business environment, the activity will focus on policy scoping, analysis, documentation through position papers, and advocacy in priority economic sectors.  This will help to identify, assess, and address relevant policy constraints affecting trade and investment.
West Africa Fertilizer Program West Africa Fertilizer Program Objectives for South of Sahara, regional: Implementing the regional ECOWAS fertilizer regulations, technical assistance for harmonization and national level quality control to decrease adulterated fertilizer sales. Establishing a private-public sector West Africa Fertilizer Stakeholder Forum and forming a private sector-led Trade Association. Providing access to critical market information and financing for fertilizer importers, blenders and distributors. Providing up to date recommendations to suppliers, blenders and users of fertilizer for crops and conditions across West Africa. Conducting fertilizer subsidy studies and facilitating consensus-based recommendations for subsidy efficiency and policy reform.
Grant to UNICEF for Nutrition in West Africa Grant to UNICEF for Nutrition in West Africa
rasar Activity The Prasar Activity comprises eight (8) services including: 1) support to the monitoring of the cropping season and market dynamics for the timely detection of potential food crisis hazards and to supply vital data for the food crisis prevention and management system (PREGEC) and the food crisis prevention network (RPCA); 2) support the promotion of the cadre harmonis (CH) tool to measure food insecurity; 3) support the regional food system for crisis prevention and management (PREGEC) within the food crisis prevention network (RPCA) to establish a consensus-driven understanding of the food and nutrition landscape and routinely convene representatives from member countries of CILSS/Ecowas/UEMOA; 4) provide support to natural resource management/climate change activities; 5) support the implementation of harmonized seed regulations in the Sahel and West Africa to facilitate the updating of national and regional species and variety catalogs; 6) support the implementation of common biosafety regulations in the Sahel and West Africa; 7) support pesticide registration among member states through the West African pesticide registration committee (COAHP); and 8) support market access and management of cross-border trade flow through the institutionalization of road fluidity operation (RFO).
Regional Development Objective Grant Agreement (RDOAG) with East African Community (EAC) - HPN Regional Development Objective Grant Agreement (RDOAG) with East African Community (EAC) for Regional health system & Policy-EAC Sec, LVBC, HRC
USAID/OFDA Grant for West Africa/Regional To improve national capacity to address emergency preparedness for displacement
West Africa Regional Cost Recovery-funded IT - 2021 West Africa Regional Cost Recovery-funded IT - 2021
USAID/OFDA Grant for West Africa/Regional To enhance effectiveness of cash preparedness and response
Leveraging Cashew Business for Poverty Reduction (USAID West Africa Regional):  FY 2016 funds will provide support to the African Cashew Alliance (ACA), through a two year, plus one optional year extension of USAID's Global Development Alliance (GDA) grant with the ACA.  The ACA promotes the West African cashew sector by facilitating investments in value-added processing in Africa. Through this two year GDA extension, which was awarded in May 2015, companies like Intersnack, Kraft Foods, and Olam will partner with the ACA to expand the ACA quality seal program in the countries covered in the agreement. This GDA will also allow Missions managing programs  in vulnerable cashew-producing countries,  emerging from periods of conflict and/or epidemic, such as Guinea, Guinea-Bissau and Sierra Leone, to buy-in to the GDA, in the form of yearly grants, to provide technical support to the cashew industry and national cashew associations. The ACA seal requires processors to comply with international food safety, quality, and labor standards.
Service Delivery Expand sustainable provision of FP/RH service in clinical and non-clinical programs including those in the public, private, NGO and PVO sectors, and at the community level; activities that help improve the quality of the services and care provided including pre- and in-service training of providers and application of evidence-based service delivery norms and standards; and availability of a wide range of contraceptive options (temporary methods, fertility awareness methods, long-acting reversible and permanent methods) for men and women. (N.B. Commodity procurement/ supply chain assistance is HL.7.6, a separate element.) Improve responsiveness to client needs including the FP/RH needs of youth and men, women and girls affected by violence, refugees/IDP, and other underserved populations. Included are activities that integrate FP and related RH care, including integrated FP/MCH services, especially provision of postpartum FP, FP information within the ANC setting, and post-abortion care; FP in the context of HIV/AIDS/STI prevention, treatment, care and support; fistula prevention and repair; prevention and mitigation of gender-based violence in the context of FP/RH programs; and programs that encourage abandonment of female genital cutting and other harmful traditional practices associated with negative RH outcomes. Facility construction and renovation specifically for FP/RH service delivery improvements is also included in this element.
ASARECA program Regional Program of Research for Development Phase II Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central Africa (ASARECA), Regional Programme for Research for Development Phase II
Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) Activity The goal of the program is to promote peace and stability in West Africa through the application of participatory community-based projects that seek to increase social cohesion between ethnic groups and, ultimately, resilience to violent extremist (VE) influence.  The program will employ a suite of qualitative and quantitative research tools to measure the presence of social cohesion and resilience to recruitment by violent extremist organizations (VEOs) using a staggered evaluation design. The evaluation will target 40 villages across four departments of the Tillabri Region. PEACE will seek to establish a base of evidence about the relationship between social cohesion and resilience to recruitment by and support for VEOs in the region. In close collaboration of community members, the program will design small-scale social cohesion projects targeted to objectives such as increased dialogue between conflicting groups, improved collective action for local development, and better cooperation in management of natural resources. These small-scale projects will then be tested to determine their impact on social cohesion and resilience to VE influence. The program will work in close partnership with USAID, the Nigerien government, and a range of local and regional actors to disseminate program results. These results will eventually inform the design of new programming in the region to decrease VEO recruitment.
Humanitarian Assistance Re-examining early warning systems and humanitarian responses in pastoral areas of the Sudano-Sahel and the greater horn of africa.
HPN- Cross Border Health Integrated Partnership Project (CB-HIPP) (USAID East Africa Regional):  CB-HIPP is a regional Leader with Associates (LWA) Cooperative Agreement. With FY 2016 investments in the CB-HIPP mechanism, USAID will support sustainable African-led health sector development to improve health outcomes among mobile populations and vulnerable communities residing along eastern Africa's cross-border areas and transport corridors. CB-HIPP will continue its work with the East Africa Community (EAC) to implement a standard package of services tailored to the region's mobile and vulnerable cross-border populations; design health insurance products; and formulate relevant policies that are supportive to these populations. CB-HIPP service delivery sites include land border areas along major transport corridors and wet border areas along East Africa's major lakes, including Lake Victoria, Lake Kivu, and Lake Tanganyika..
Early Warning and Response Design Support (EWARDS) Early Warning and Response Design Support (EWARDS) programs accomplishments. EWARDS was a 28-month, $4.5 million project funded by USAID/West Africa to strengthen conflict early warning and response in West Africa. The main beneficiaries of the project were the Economic Community of West African States Early Warning Department (ECOWAS/EWD) and the West Africa Network for Peace Building (WANEP).
Regional Development Objective Grant Agreement (RDOAG) with East African Community (EAC) Once EAC became a Public International Organization, a Regional Development Objective Grant Agreement (RDOAG) was signed in 2016.  The five year agreement focuses on shared objectives of sustainable economic integration across the region and strengthening EACs in trade and investment, environment, agriculture and health. USAID also provides support to the EAC through the East Africa Trade and Investment Hub and in parallel through investment in TradeMark East Africa.
Border screening and surveillance for Ebola response Border screening and surveillance for Ebola response
Gambia-Senegal Community-Based Sustainable Fisheries Program Promoting sustainable Fisheries in the Gambia and Senegal coastal regions.
Support International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) Strengthen the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) financial and administrative capacity
Power Africa AfDB Support Power Africa's contribution under the Africa Regional Development Objective Agreement (RDOAG) with the African Development Bank (AfDB).
OEGI - Cross-Border Community Resilience Activity (USAID East Africa Regional):  .Cross-Border Community Resilience activity improves the resilience of communities that live across the borders of Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, South Sudan, and Somalia. These areas face multiple climate risks including drought, floods and heatwaves. It will support co-created, demand-driven interventions implemented by local institutions which are aligned with the priorities of target communities, government, and regional entities. It targets more than 688,000 out of the 3.2 million people domiciled in the cross border landscapes...Funds will support interventions that promote peace and stability, expanding opportunities for young men and women from various backgrounds to participate in and lead businesses and social networks that cross borders; support cross-border youth sport tournaments to foster peace and cohesion; sensitize community members on the pre- existing peace agreement; and support process of review and implementation of agreements on joint grazing and natural resource sharing. Other interventions of focus will expand conflict-sensitive and inclusive livelihood and employment opportunities and the equitable sharing of benefits from natural resources. Implementation of locally led and integrated interventions on natural resource management, peace and stability, livelihood will foster nature based climate solutions and climate resilience in the target cross border areas...It will also support cross border communities to adopt climate smart farming practices including improved grazing and fodder management, adoption of drought tolerant crops and provision of micro-irrigation kits and sustainable fishing practices. It will create at least 3000 full-time equivalent jobs. These interventions will improve the incomes and purchasing power of communities to afford food and address the challenge of malnutrition in the target dryland areas. The activity aligns with the RDCS objectives and interventions contribute to the Global Food Sec
PIO Grant for Health and WASH sectors (cholere preparedness and Mitigation ) for western Africa (Lake Chad Basin) PIO Grant for Health and WASH sectors (cholere preparedness and Mitigation ) for western Africa (Lake Chad Basin)
Maternal and Child Health - Maternal and Young Child Nutrition, Including Micronutrients Maternal and Child Health - Deliver maternal and child iron, zinc, vitamin A, iodine, and other key micronutrients through supplementation, fortification, and other delivery approaches. Support breastfeeding promotion, infant and young child feeding, community-based growth promotion, activities to increase partners/fathers knowledge and support, management of acute and severe child malnutrition, nutrition of pregnant and lactating mothers and adolescent girls, monitoring the nutrition status of maternal and child populations, and targeted supplemental feeding.