BACKGROUND While increase in the number of women delivering in health facilities has been rapid, the quality of obstetric and neonatal care continues to be poor in India, contributing to high maternal and neonatal mortality. METHODS The USAID ASSIST Project supported health workers in 125 public health facilities (delivering approximately 180,000 babies per year) across six states to use qual...

Civic education (CE) was extremely popular in the 1990s as a method for promoting democracy, especially expounded by USAID, which spent between USD 30 and 50 million per year on civic education between 1990 and 2005 (Finkel, 2011). Resultantly, much seminal work on CE is from this time period, with far fewer projects and evaluations conducted recently. Some evaluations only present anecdotal ev...

This paper was prepared by Frank Flatters under the USAID/RCSA SADC Trade Protocol Project. The views and opinions expressed here are those of the author and should not be attributed in any way to USAID, the US Government, SADC and its institutions, or any other agency or individual. Comments and suggestions are most welcome and can be sent to [email protected] and

Final report of the in-house project “Monitoring family planning providers’ compliance with the quality of care norms of Peru’s Ministry of Health”, conduced from 14 June through 30 September 1999. This study was funded by the U. S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT (USAID) under the terms of Cooperative Agreement Number HRN-A-00-98-0012-00. The opinions expressed herein are those of the aut...

In this paper we draw preliminary lessons from four large, threeto five-year-long, agriculture value chain projects being implemented by DAI among smallholder farmers with varying degrees of nutrition sensitivity. The projects are located in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Liberia, Malawi, and Tajikistan, and are supported by USAID and the U.S. Government’s Feed the Future (FTF) ini...

This report is made possible by the support of the American people through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). The contents are the sole responsibility of Tetra Tech ARD and do not necessarily reflect the views of USAID or the U.S. Government.

Egerton University. This report was prepared with financial support from the World Bank, Washington DC. We also acknowledge the long-term capacity building support by USAID/Kenya for the Tegemeo Agricultural Monitoring and Policy Analysis (TAMPA) Project, under which most of the data and background knowledge for the analysis in this study was generated.

1 Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics and Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, 2 Department of International Health and Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, 3 Department of International Health, Johns Hopkin...

About the Repor~ The purposes of this report are (1) to provide observations which may contribute to the Agricultural Sector Assessment by the Dominican Government; (2) to provide observations which may be helpful to the USAID Mission in assessing the agricultural marketing situation and related programs with emphasis on major commodities for domestic consumption;and (3) to suggest. elements of...