Challenge Marginalized and underrepresented groups often do not have access to the same services and opportunities as majority populations. It is critical that international development…
Led by Making Cents International, USAID’s YouthPower Learning project closed major knowledge gaps in PYD theory and practice, yet there is a continuing need to…
Challenge Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) is currently seeing the largest share of declines in democracy-focused Sustainable Development Goals. Throughout LAC, democratic backsliding has…
Gender-based violence (GBV) is a pervasive violation of unalienable human rights and a barrier to civic, social, political, and economic participation
Challenge The U.S. Government has made investments in recent years to better understand the phenomenon of democratic backsliding and to measure threats to democratic space…
Challenge Democracy, human rights, and governance (DRG) are integral to USAID’s overall development agenda. Generating analytically sound and evidence-based DRG strategies, programs, and activities is…
Challenge Serbia’s economy has a high potential for sustained growth, and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) could be the key to that progress. However, recent…
Challenge Significant gaps remain in the areas of research and evaluation of youth programming. Apart from several known examples of success, there has been an…
Challenge The Caribbean is highly dependent on imported oil, despite great potential to generate energy via renewable and clean sources, such as solar, wind, hydropower,…
Challenge Youth economic opportunity stakeholders do not have access to many platforms that enable them to share knowledge about the field. Collection, analysis, and dissemination…
