Events

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The USAID Women’s Economic Empowerment Community of Practice (USAID WEE CoP) is pleased to announce its next learning event, “Beyond Inclusion: User Protection for Women in the Digital Economy” on Thursday, March 30, 2023, from 9:00 - 10:00 a.m. Washington, DC time (ET).  While digital financial services have delivered substantial financial inclusion benefits and opportunities for women, they have also exacerbated user risks. 

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Sustainable market systems development is rooted in its ability to achieve broad-based, inclusive economic growth. However, many markets are deeply inequitable and exclude women, older people, youth, persons with disabilities, and other marginalized groups. Humanitarian and development practitioners can help fulfill the promise that markets hold for improving livelihoods by supporting disenfranchised groups’ access to markets as a key pathway for economic empowerment.

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USAID recognizes that increased collaboration among donors, NGOs, and the private sector is crucial in driving and sustaining positive development and humanitarian outcomes. In response, USAID partnered with the LASER PULSE Consortium, in collaboration with Dalberg Global Development Advisors and Catholic Relief Services (CRS) to produce the fourth iteration of Enduring Results Study (ERS) with the objective of better understanding the drivers of sustainability and scaling results within private sector partnerships. 

The USAID Research Division and USAID's Research Technical Assistance Center (RTAC) invites USAID staff and partners to a four-part webinar series that provides an overview of our Research Translation Toolkit and a deep dive into each of its three sections.

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This webinar aims to illustrate how gender-inclusive policies are not only good for society, but good for business. The WI-ROI Framework looks at how to promote improved development outcomes for women within private sector development, including MSD, initiatives. It is a guide for development practitioners working with their business partners to calculate the likely financial returns for investing in women’s inclusion across the partner’s business operations.

The USAID Women’s Economic Empowerment Community of Practice (USAID WEE CoP) its learning event:  “Raising the Economic Power of Domestic Workers,”  on Thursday, January 19, 2023, from 9:00 - 10:00 a.m. Washington, DC time (ET). The Learning Event included remarks from Kelly M. Fay Rodríguez, U.S. Special Representative for International Labor Affairs at the U.S.

In 2019, USAID conducted a review of rigorous, causal evidence organized around common theories of change for growing small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Since then, additional studies on these outcomes have emerged, adding to existing evidence on different modalities of consulting, and beginning to fill important gaps in equity finance and women-led SMEs.

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RECONOMY is an inclusive and green economic MSD program working in the Western Balkans and Eastern Europe.  This webinar will provide insights from RECONOMY’s efforts and the challenges faced in applying an environment and climate change lens at all stages of program development - from sector selection to program design and implementation. It will explore: 

Chemonics International and the USAID Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA) held a webinar on Tuesday, November 29, 2022 to learn about market-based approaches for engaging the private sector in waste management, including lessons learned in supporting businesses to transition practices and services and specific ways that the circular economy can contribute to USAID’s localization priorities.

USAID Green Invest Asia, GIZ, and Sustainable Coconut Steering Committee (SCSC) will convene the 7th Sustainable Coconut Roundtable in-person in Makati City, Philippines, with the theme “Advancing Resilient and Sustainable Coconut Supply in Southeast Asia.” The roundtable, to be held on the sidelines of a Philippine Coconut Alliance meeting, convenes stakeholders actively involved in coconut supply chains with shared interests in sourcing and capturing investment opportunities in sustainable coconut and coconut oil value chains.

The African Development Bank estimates that up to 12 million young people enter African labor markets each year, but only three million formal jobs are created. Because most of these young people can’t afford not to work, the outcome is underemployment and working poverty on a massive scale.   As policymakers, researchers, and the donor community continue to wrestle with the youth employment challenge, does MSD offer any answers?

Through partnerships with large companies, development organizations and donors hope to achieve impact and reach with their operations, sustainability, and innovation. This will be key to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). At the same time, such collaborations carry risks since the goals and values of the unlike partners differ. What does it take to reach benefits for the poor and the companies based on the sustainable use of natural resources? And how can mutual understanding be fostered and pitfalls be avoided?

Join the Resilience Evaluation, Analysis and Learning (REAL) award for a presentation on its Interactive Dashboard, Synthesis of Evidence from Resilience Programming.

Join the Feed the Future Advancing Women’s Empowerment (AWE) program for the launch of a special learning series focused on increasing women’s empowerment in agriculture and market systems through co-creation and private sector engagement.  This learning series, newly expanded for a global audience, will help USAID missions and practitioners intentionally integrate inclusion across the project life cycle of agricultural growth and market systems development programs. This kickoff webinar will introduce the global Virtual Learning Series and its key themes:

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USAID Green Invest Asia and the Cocoa Association of Asia will host a webinar on November 2, 2022, as the follow-up to the recent CAA International Conference. The event continues discussions on strategies and actions that cocoa industry leaders are taking to reduce the impacts of climate change and increase supply chain resiliency.

On Thursday, October 27, 2022, USAID’s Private Sector Engagement Secretariat and USAID’s Rwanda and Bangladesh Missions discussed promising practices for engaging the private sector to advance and sustain inclusive, agriculture-led economic growth and a well-nourished population, especially among women and children.

On October 27, USAID and Chemonics hosted a webinar discussing key lessons from the Colombia RFI experience and explored how they overcame cultural misconceptions and structural barriers to reach Venezuelan migrant clients and mobilized $11 million in finance.

USAID is excited to launch our very first Local Capacity Strengthening (LCS) Policy. We are inviting you to participate in our virtual launch event on Wednesday, October 19 from 8:00am to 9:00am EDT, hosted by the USAID Deputy Administrator Paloma Adams-Allen. You can register for the event here.

As part of the release of USAID’s 2022-2030 Climate Strategy, Climatelinks is hosting two webinar series.