Urban Connect Factsheet — Philippines
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Urban Connect Factsheet — Philippines

USAID’s five-year (2023-2028), $11 million Urban Connect activity promotes resilient economic growth across nine USAID Cities Development Initiative (CDI) partner cities and surrounding localities1 by promoting economic development and supporting improved public service delivery. CDI’s purpose is to advance the development of cities outside Metro Manila as resilient engines of growth that are environmentally sustainable. USAID provides a range of technical assistance, drawing from resources in economic growth, health, energy, environment, governance, and education.

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USAID Youth-Powered Ecosystem to Advance Urban Adolescent Health (YPE4AH) Project — End of Project Dissemination Report 2020 - 2024
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USAID Youth-Powered Ecosystem to Advance Urban Adolescent Health (YPE4AH) Project — End of Project Dissemination Report 2020 - 2024

In May 2020, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)/Nigeria awarded the Youth-Powered Ecosystem to Advance Urban Adolescent Health (YPE4AH) Project to DAI Global LLC and its partners—Yellow Brick Road (YBR), Youth Empowerment and Development Initiative (YEDI), Women Friendly Initiative (WFI), and Grassroot Soccer (GRS). This five-year cooperative agreement, designed through a co-creation process, empowers young Nigerians with the skills, social capital, and resources necessary to realize their potential. The primary goal of the project is to improve the health and well-being of urban, underprivileged, out-of-school, and unmarried/ married adolescents aged 15–19 living in urban slums in Lagos and Kano States by increasing the uptake and sustained use of voluntary family planning (FP) services, using a holistic, human capital approach.

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Urban Resilience Technical Guidance
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Urban Resilience Technical Guidance

USAID can improve development outcomes by strengthening urban resilience. Through this approach USAID can guard against risks and help capture and safeguard the benefits of urbanization, especially for the most vulnerable. Concepts from this technical guidance can be applied to focused sector programming as well as integrated programming across sectors.

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