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This report describes the findings and recommendations from a joint LEO/MPEP/BFS TDY to support USAID/Uganda in 2014. The purpose was to assist Mission staff in improving monitoring approaches for facilitation activities.

A new CARE report looks at lessons from eight innovative projects to connect poor people to banks and financial institutions using mobile phones and other means.

The USAID/East Africa Market Linkages Initiative was a two-year regional program to promote growth in food staples and food security, working alongside partners to integrate smallholder farmers into more efficient national and regional markets.

MFIs in Iraq have emerged as effective, demand-driven financial intermediaries offering a middle path–an alternative to inaccessible formal financial institutions and exploitative traditional money lenders.

This document, produced under a primer series on social safety nets, assesses the role of food aid in improving food availability and food access. It is based on a synthesis of experiences in four countries:  India, Bangladesh, Ethiopia and Zambia. It concludes that food aid does not have to create negative impacts, particularly if it is tied to the development of infrastructure that supports production and market linkages, avoids creating negative price effects for food producers, and reaches the food insecure.

This paper explores the possibility of delivering health services for clients while being cost-effective and sustainable for MFIs.