Inclusive Lending Product Development
Challenge In the Eastern and Southern Caribbean women have not historically been the target users of financial products and business support services. There is a…
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Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment
Latin America and Caribbean Learning and Rapid Response (LACLEARN)
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…
Inclusive Development Activity for Mission Support (IDAMS)
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…
Collective Action to Reduce Gender-Based Violence (CARE-GBV)
Gender-based violence (GBV) is a pervasive violation of unalienable human rights and a barrier to civic, social, political, and economic participation
YouthPower Learning (YouthPower: Evidence and Evaluation IDIQ)
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…
Strengthening Girls’ Financial Literacy
Challenge Women and girls often have lower financial literacy rates than men, which presents a barrier to their financial inclusion and economic well-being. Managing personal…
Incorporating Gender-Based Violence in Assessing Investment Risk
Challenge Gender inequality remains pervasive globally: One in three women have been subjected to gender-based violence (GBV) in their lifetime since the age of 15,…
Unleashing the Economic Leadership Power of Young Women: Strengthening the Evidence Base
Challenge Efforts by the international development community to improve women’s and girls’ access to quality education and training have yielded improvements over the years. Yet,…
Kenya Crops and Dairy Market Systems Activity (KCDMS), RTI International (USAID)
Challenge The majority of smallholder farmers in Kenya subsist on low-input, low-output rain-fed agriculture on very small plots. Women and youth represent a large portion…
Agribusiness Competitiveness Activity in Tajikistan (ACAT)
Challenge Tajikistan faces a number of serious economic development challenges, including market failures, lack of access to finance, a weak labor market with limited opportunities…