USAID Digital Strategy & Factsheet 2024-2034
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USAID Digital Strategy & Factsheet 2024-2034

As USAID looks to the next ten years and beyond, this Digital Policy+ will guide our efforts to innovate thoughtfully, enhance responsibility and accountability, generate reliable and usable evidence, and launch dynamic partnerships that support security, human rights, and economic prosperity for people everywhere.

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Climate Strategy Year 1 Review
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Climate Strategy Year 1 Review

Over the past year, USAID has launched a wide variety of initiatives, partnerships, and internal and interagency processes to implement the Strategy and set the foundation for achieving the goals over the eight years of the Strategy timeline.

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USAID’s Private Sector Engagement Amidst Covid-19: A Landscape Study
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USAID’s Private Sector Engagement Amidst Covid-19: A Landscape Study

In order to better understand how USAID engaged with the private sector to improve firm resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic — and to what extent the agency was successful in doing so — USAID commissioned research through the Private Sector Engagement (PSE) Hub in collaboration with the Bureau of Policy, Planning and Learning’s Office of Learning, Evaluation and Research (PPL/LER), as part of a series of learning activities related to USAID’s COVID-19 Learning Agenda.

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Feed the Future Inova Business Cases
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Feed the Future Inova Business Cases

The USAID Mozambique Feed the Future Agricultural Innovations Activity (FTF Inova) is a five-year (2017- 2022) project that takes a market systems development approach to agriculture-led economic growth in Mozambique. FTF Inova, implemented by DAI in partnership with MSA, developed the six business cases below to offer tangible proof that enterprises can profit from investing in addressing challenges experienced by smallholder farmers.

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Unlocking Finance for the Private Health Sector
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Unlocking Finance for the Private Health Sector

This brief provides USAID missions and implementing partners with an overview of the challenges around the private health sector accessing finance, definitions of blended and innovative financing, information on the US International Development Finance Corporation, illustrative examples of innovative financing, and case studies on health from multiple regions.

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USAID/Indonesia Urban Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (IUWASH PLUS) Final Performance Evaluation Report
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USAID/Indonesia Urban Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (IUWASH PLUS) Final Performance Evaluation Report

This final performance evaluation report of the USAID Indonesia Urban Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Penyehatan Lingkungan Untuk Semua (IUWASH PLUS) answers evaluation questions relating to performance indices and drivers, non-revenue water and energy efficiency interventions, the human resources roadmap, spring vulnerability assessments, and alternative financing. The evaluation team carried out a mixed-methods design remotely because of COVID-19 restrictions, using interviews and an online mini-survey. The report concludes that IUWASH PLUS made important gains in many areas and will leave important tools available to the Government of Indonesia and local partners. The evaluation team also offers a set of recommendations for the remaining time IUWASH PLUS is active, and for future USAID interventions in this sector.

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How the Private Sector Measures Social Inclusion and its Return on Investment: A Framework to Inform Future Research
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How the Private Sector Measures Social Inclusion and its Return on Investment: A Framework to Inform Future Research

This brief documents how different private sector actors understand and measure social inclusion and its return on investment (ROI) as an initial step to frame further research on the business case for social inclusion in developing countries. This work will be the foundation for building a business case and providing practical guidance on social inclusion strategies relevant to the private sector in developing countries to maximize the ROI while furthering the development objective of social inclusion.

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USAID Digital Strategy 2020-2024
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USAID Digital Strategy 2020-2024

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Digital Strategy (2020-2024) will position the Agency to advance our mission—to end the need for foreign assistance—through digitally supported programming that fosters the Journey to Self-Reliance in our partner countries and maximizes the benefits, while managing the risks that digital technology introduces into the lives of the communities we serve.

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Trends in Health Financing and the Private Health Sector in the Middle East and North Africa
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Trends in Health Financing and the Private Health Sector in the Middle East and North Africa

To understand current health financing policies and mechanisms, as well as the current role of the private sector in the health systems of the Middle East, the USAID Middle East Regional Bureau commissioned the Sustaining Health Outcomes through the Private Sector (SHOPS) Plus and Health Finance and Governance (HFG) projects to conduct a review of health financing and the private health sector in the 11 low- and middle-income countries in the region, focusing on the years 2008 to 2017.

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