Feed the Future Leveraging Economic Opportunities Activity
As global youth populations and unemployment swell to unprecedented levels, it is comforting to imagine the development of a stable, secure and diversified rural economy powered by youth, with trade and services...
Uganda experiences recurrent weather, environmental and socioeconomic shocks and stressors, including drought, erratic rainfall, floods, landslides, disease, crop pests, unemployment and intercommunal conflicts. As a...
Zimbabwe’s development progress depends on the productivity of its natural resources, principally land, water and wildlife. Yet Zimbabwe’s food, forests and wildlife are in steep decline.
USAID’s assistance in South Sudan consists mostly of humanitarian aid and some long-term development programs in economic growth, education, democracy and governance and health.
Poverty and economic insecurity in Nigeria is compounded by endemic corruption, unresponsive governance, violent extremism, intergroup conflict, displacement and climate issues.
The Sahel today is marked by food insecurity, persistent poverty, corrupt governance, high population growth rates and recurrent weather shocks made worse by climate change that often drive vulnerable communities...
In Malawi, risk and exposure to shocks and stresses are driven by a confluence of over-dependence on rainfed maize and tobacco, unmodernized agriculture sector, dependence on biomass for energy resulting in...
Haiti faces multivariate recurring shocks and stresses, including natural disasters, political instability and extreme weather, making it difficult for the country to sustain long- term development gains.
To increase resilience in Ethiopia, USAID’s activities collectively aim to reduce the risk of disasters and strengthen vulnerable populations’ response to shocks.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has significant human capital and natural wealth: 68 percent of its population is under the age of 25 and its mineral reserves are worth an estimated $25 trillion.The DRC’s...
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