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USAID 2023 Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment Policy

April 4, 2023
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) affirms that gender equality and women’s and girls’ empowerment are fundamental for the realization of human rights and key to effective and sustainable development outcomes. For societies to thrive, women and girls, men and boys, and gender-diverse individuals must have the agency, social support, and structures to make their own choices and live free from violence and abuse. They must have equal rights and opportunities, as well as equal and safe access to and control over resources.
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Training Facilitators’ Guide: Market System Development Cartoon-Based Learning Tools

This training facilitators’ guide provides an overview of a set of USAID’s Leveraging Economic Opportunities (LEO) market development tools that focuses on market facilitation and uses storytelling in the form of storybook comics. These tools are intended to be used with development project staff to build capacity around effective market facilitation strategies and implementation. While the cartoons focus on the agricultural sector, the principles are relevant across sectors.
Banner image for Mobilizing Finance for Development Self-Paced Course depicting images of development activities.

USAID’s Mobilizing Finance for Development Course

USAID's Mobilizing Finance for Development (MF4D) self-paced course aims to equip USAID staff and development practitioners with a fundamental understanding of finance and the tool and resources to mobilize capital investment for sustainable development outcomes.
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Adaptive Learning Guide: A Pathway to Stronger Collaboration, Learning, and Adapting

This guide provides information and resources to integrate adaptive learning into the design, implementation, and improvements of programs for maternal, newborn and child health services, voluntary family planning, and reproductive health care. It offers a conceptual introduction to adaptive learning, key steps to integrating into your work using links to existing resources and real-world examples of how adaptive learning can drive continuous learning and improvement in project work.

Open-Source Digital Literacy Curriculum

USAID has an enduring commitment to support women on their journey to digital financial literacy and inclusion. In collaboration with Strategic Impact Advisors (SIA), we’ve produced a creative series of audio lessons to help women learn how to use digital financial services to better manage their financial lives.
These women from Khatlon province, Tajikistan excitedly admire tomatoes they just collected from their greenhouses. USAID Family Farming Program helped construct ten sets of greenhouses in four districts of Khatlon province. 420 people, primarily landless households, benefited from the greenhouses. The greenhouse program produced 59 metric tons of early tomatoes, of which 44 metric tons were sold at market and 15 metric tons were consumed or stored for winter use by the individual greenhouse owners. Greenho

Gender 101: Gender Equality at USAID

After completing this course, USAID staff will acquire a holistic view of gender equality — they will be able to describe what it is and the policies enacted by USAID to implement it.
Workers haul large bags of grain from a transport truck to a warehouse.

Cost-Benefit Analysis Training

A cost-benefit analysis (CBA) is an effective way to evaluate a project and quantify the relationships among a project’s inputs, outputs and purpose.

Training Manual for Using Mobile Money in Bangladesh

This training manual provides a detailed guide on how to use the mobile money products of Bangladesh’s two market leaders, bKash and DBBL. It provides a side by side comparison of the steps that users need to take in order to make transactions and perform other actions. This manual is written in Bangla.