Announcements

Are you ahead of the curve? Finding local solutions to global issues, driving change, challenging business-as-usual approaches, or more — tell us! The SCALE Award wants to highlight actions that are being taken by partner organizations at the local level. Has your or a partner's program made an innovation in how you work? Tell SCALE about your creative adaptation — let them help you spread the word!

Calling all employees of development and humanitarian assistance organizations!.   USAID’s Feed the Future Market Systems and Partnerships (MSP) Activity invites you to participate in a short and important industry survey on the impacts of COVID-19 on development professionals and what employers can do about it.

Tell us about your best green adaptation!   Are you ahead of the curve? Creating green jobs, mobilizing climate finance or developing new partnerships, making adaptations more inclusive to protect communities and natural habitats—tell us! We want to highlight actions that are being taken now to adapt and protect against climate change. Has your program made an innovation in climate-resilient agriculture or green livelihoods that will have a positive impact on the environment? Tell SCALE about your creative adaptation—let us help you spread the word!

USAID’s Feed the Future Market Systems and Partnerships (MSP) Activity is conducting a rapid industry survey to document and understand the ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting workforce participation and career ambitions of current and aspiring senior leaders on market systems development programs.

Facilitated by IDEAL, the Food Security COVID-19 Learning Event will create an opportunity for emergency and non-emergency practitioners of USAID/Bureau of Humanitarian Assistance-funded activities to:  Pause and reflect on the lessons learned so far from implementing emergency and non-emergency food security activities during the COVID-19 pandemic;  Explore innovations and adaptations resulting from the response to a changing environment;  Discuss the implications and applicability o