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December 2023 Funding Opportunities: Mark Your Calendars
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Co-Creation: A Win-Win for Local Partners and USAID
Rebeca Frohmader
USAID’s Local Capacity Strengthening Policy: Advancing Locally Led Development in Challenging Environments
Gregory Wang
Understanding Indirect Cost Rates for U.S. Federal Awards
Partnerships Incubator
Results of the 2023 Partner Experience Survey
Matthew Johnson
December 2023 Funding Opportunities: Mark Your Calendars
Don't miss these important deadlines in December.
Partnerships Incubator
Co-Creation: A Win-Win for Local Partners and USAID
In Guatemala, USAID’s Central America Regional HIV Program took a significant step toward localization in 2020 when it awarded its first local award to the Pan American Social Marketing Organization (PASMO). In a previous blog post, we delved into PASMO's inspiring journey as a local partner, shedding light on the resources, challenges, and insights that paved their path to prime partnership with USAID. Below, we look at the co-creation process and how it addressed the challenges faced by local organizations looking to partner with USAID. As a result of a co-creation workshop held in December 2022, two local organizations stepped into prime roles for the first time. Now, local organizations are implementing 78 percent of the HIV program’s projects.
Rebeca Frohmader
The Team Sayari Partnership: Mixing Global and Local for Success
Just outside Nairobi National Park, down a bumpy, dusty road, sits WildlifeDirect’s Wildlife Warriors Field Lab. While currently the camp is composed of several temporary structures and tents, WildlifeDirect, a Kenyan non-governmental organization, has a vision: to use the power of filmmaking, media, and education to shape the next generation’s attitudes and behaviors around Africa’s environment and wildlife.
Lisa Blonder
USAID’s Local Capacity Strengthening Policy: Advancing Locally Led Development in Challenging Environments
The Agency’s renewed commitment to support locally led development and more effective and equitable capacity strengthening has particular relevance for implementation in restrictive operating environments. I arrived in Burma the day before the military overthrew the democratically elected government in a coup d’etat.
Gregory Wang
Understanding Indirect Cost Rates for U.S. Federal Awards
At the Partnerships Incubator, we know that many impactful nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) operate on a shoestring budget. Passionately committed to positive change in their communities, these development organizations pour their resources into meaningful and important work that improves lives.
Partnerships Incubator
USAID’S Local Capacity Strengthening Policy: Local Context Matters
I use a quote in my email sign-off that’s a blend of others. It encapsulates what I’ve seen over the years: “Helping a community help itself might not change the whole world, but it could change the world for that community.”
Ivica Vasev
Empowering Indigenous Collaboration: Insights from USAID’s Co-Creation Journey
How did the idea for USAID’s Learning Document on “Co-Creation with Indigenous Partners” originate? What were the key factors that contributed to its creation?
Partnerships Incubator
Learning and Networking at USAID’s Local Partner Resource Days in India
At a USAID-hosted event for new local partners in Mumbai in April, the large, carpeted conference room buzzed with excitement. Representatives of participating organizations, who were grouped at tables by field of expertise to facilitate networking, talked excitedly with one another and even had to be reminded to take lunch and tea breaks.
Rachel Chilton
USAID/Nepal Hitting the Road for Localization
When USAID/Nepal’s Mission Director, Sepideh Keyvanshad, heard about the Localization initiative announced by Administrator Power in November 2021 to direct a quarter of USAID funding to local partners, she believed that USAID/Nepal could increase it to 40 percent. What started as an Agency-wide goal for shifting power to local actors and strengthening the capacity of local organizations became a critical focus for the team in Nepal.
Pramila Dongol
November 2023 Funding Opportunities: Mark Your Calendars
Don't miss these important deadlines in November.
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