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USAID’s Clean Cities, Blue Ocean (CCBO) program – the agency’s flagship program for combating global ocean plastic pollution – enhances solid waste systems and capabilities to make sizeable contributions to climate change mitigation and adaptation.

Empowering Women and Creating Cleaner Communities through CCBO Grantee, PCX’s, Aling Tindera Network

Economic challenges and opportunities

Empowering informal waste collectors, known as “Eco-Warriors,” for reduced plastic pollution and emissions

Empowering women and youth as ocean plastic pollution and climate leaders in their communities

In February 2020, a team of USAID staff from E3's Global Climate Change Office and MSI consultants visited a field site in Siem Reap province to conduct a focus group discussion with beneficiaries and farmers of Cambodia's Rice Field Fisheries II Project.

Solidaridad, an international civil society organization with over 50 years of experience in developing solutions to foster more sustainable supply chains, work with farmers to produce more on less land, it is what we call the coffee of the future, which protects the forest within farms and surrounding areas.

In Malawi, illegal cutting of trees for charcoal and timber production is the main driver of deforestation in the remaining natural forest reserves. In the picture, a member of the Village Natural Resources Management Committee monitors illegal activities in Kaning’ina Forest Reserve located in Nkhata Bay district, Northern Malawi.

USAID works to increase the supply and marketing of sustainable charcoal, to offset demand for illegal and unsustainably produced charcoal from Malawi's indigenous forests.

USAID/Malawi supports sustainable forest management and forestry friendly enterprises. This picture shows Pyxus Agriculture Limited concession within the Viphya Plantation, captured during a field visit with the USAID/Malawi SEG Office Director.

In Malawi, healthy forests provide critical products and services for rural communities.

USAID has partnered with the Government of Malawi, first to assess landscape restoration opportunities, then to develop a cross-sectoral strategy to achieve landscape restoration.

This picture shows a forest ranger measuring tree diameter in Namizimu Forest Reserve near a customary land in Mangochi district in Malawi’s Southern Region, during the 2021 National Forestry Inventory (NFI) exercise.

Clean water is already hard to come by in the Korogocho (Swahili for shoulder to shoulder) slums of Nairobi, but when heavy rainfall leads to flooding, it only exacerbates the situation.

Members of the Malawi National Forest Inventory team taking plot measurements inside Dzalanyama Forest Reserve situated in Malawi’s Central Region.