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To build upon the customs modernization reforms currently being undertaken by the Customs Authority in Timor-Leste, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Learning, Evaluation, and Analysis Project (LEAP III), on behalf of USAID/Timor-Leste, assessed the current operational and legal environment within the customs sector. The review sought, inter alia, to determine the Authority’s adherence to international norms and best practices, with a particular focus on trade facilitation.

LEO is researching a diversity of models that implementing agencies are using to solve the issue of linking smallholders to input and output markets. The research focuses on the principles and conditions that made these models effective.

This report contains principal findings from the rice, horticulture, and aquaculture sectors, the service markets on which they depend, and the political economy in which they operate.

This assessment was commissioned by USAID/Timor-Leste to determine definable gaps between current and future “effective demand” and “effective supply” of finance in the rural agricultural sector.

Grounded in an overview of CARE’s approach to resilience, this session features evidence and lessons learned from some of CARE’s most successful market engagement initiatives.

This video podcast features key insights about the barriers to financial capability and financial education for youth shared during YouthSave's first multi-stakeholder meeting in Bogotá, Colombia.

John Guerra of DUTO in Colombia shares his insight on the trials and gratification of being a young entrepreneur.

This document reports the findings from an effectiveness assessment of the GMED project in India.

Findings from the baseline impact assessment of the GMED program in Jaipur, India.