Resources

USAID’s 10-year Hariyo Ban Program aims to increase ecosystem and community resilience in the Chitwan-Annapurna and Terai Arc landscapes. Its name means “green forests are the wealth of Nepal”—and in addition to providing natural resources for local people, forests play a vital role sequestering carbon, regulating water flows, stabilizing steep hillsides and conserving biodiversity.

• 03/01/2021
• USAID, World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Nepal

The Forest Incomes for Environmental Sustainability (FIFES) activity was a five-year USAID initiative, implemented by ACDI/VOCA with sub awardees Pact and the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR). FIFES was designed to combat deforestation and loss of biodiversity while developing key rural forest-based enterprises that provide sustainable economic opportunities for farmers and forest-dependent communities. FIFES contributed to USAID/Liberia's overall sustainable economic growth program to promote equitable and sustainable market-led economic opportunities in Liberia, accompanied by improved natural resources management. 

• 02/26/2021
• USAID

This report summarizes the activities of the Partnership to Advance Clean Energy Deployment 2.0 (PACE-D 2.0 RE) program from June 2019 to September 2020.

• 02/08/2021
• USAID/Tetra Tech

Distributed energy resources (DER)—including smart transmission grids, energy storage and electric vehicle charging infrastructure—offer new opportunities for electricity cost savings, service reliability and quality improvements, as well as reduced pollution and greenhouse gas emissions

• 01/15/2021

In the last half of 2020, Climatelinks and the Climate Economic Analysis for Development, Investment and Resilience (CEADIR) Activity collaborated on a series of webinars presenting work completed during CEADIR’s final year.

• 12/28/2020

This Gender Equity and Social Inclusion Project Management Workbook is a new learning resource developed by the USAID Climate Ready Project. It focuses on equity and inclusion aspects of project design, management, monitoring and evaluation (M&E). While this Workbook is relevant to the design and management of projects in any sector, it has a special focus on addressing gender equity and social inclusion (GESI) in development and climate change adaptation (CCA) initiatives.

• 12/16/2020
• USAID

USAID Sustainable Landscapes Program and USDA Foreign Agricultural Service worked with Agribusiness Associates on an applied research project to enable greater investments in Food Loss and Waste (FLW) and integrate FLW into climate-smart agriculture programming.

• 12/14/2020

USAID believes that gender equality and women’s empowerment are fundamental for the realization of unalienable human rights—that is, rights inherent in all persons and that are universal and non-transferable—and key to effective and sustainable development outcomes. For societies to thrive, women and girls must have equal and safe access to resources, such as education, health care, capital, technology, water and sanitation services, land, markets, and justice.

• 12/05/2020
• USAID

This new flagship program launched by USAID and a global consortium of organizations brings together stakeholders to advance and institutionalize lasting solutions to air pollution in low- and middle-income countries.

• 11/30/2020
• USAID

This sector guidance document is based on desktop research about SL related issues among Indigenous Peoples, international standards, and USAID program experiences.

• 11/30/2020

In the Pacific region, the private sector is largely comprised of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and about 70% of them operate in the agri-tourism-related sphere.

• 11/30/2020

Africa has the least developed weather and climate observation network and it is deteriorating.

• 11/23/2020

Whether they are developed through the public or private sector, rural climate services have the potential to equally benefit women and men if they respond to gender-specific challenges.

• 11/23/2020

USAID’s Energy Efficiency for Development program is a global initiative that provides technical resources and expert advice to USAID partner countries.

• 11/17/2020

By reducing the amount of inputs needed to provide a desired energy service, energy efficiency minimizes the financial costs of energy and alleviates other negative effects.

• 11/17/2020