Inclusive economic growth creates opportunities for all people to engage through their labor and assets to meet market demand.
Employment
Mar 21, 2019
Women lead approximately one-third of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in emerging markets but remain disproportionately underserved. They often face less favorable terms for financing and limited access to essential resources needed to build, sustain, and grow their businesses.
High growth entrepreneurs are the primary job creators in any economy*, helping to create a more diversified and resilient economy that improves economic governance, donor organizations and entrepreneurial ecosystem actors still face challenges when trying to have a positive impact on growth...
Mar 12, 2019
Among the entrepreneurs supported by USAID's Partnering to Accelerate Entrepreneurship (PACE) Initiative, those businesses that were owned by women grew both revenues and jobs significantly faster.
Mar 05, 2019
USAID is accepting submissions to the annual Collaborating, Learning and Adapting (CLA) Case Competition until Friday, April 12.
Join Making Cents International and RTI International to dive deeper into a conversation started at the Global Youth Economic Opportunities Summit (GYEO) in in September 2018 about “PYD for CVE” and USAID’s Kenya Youth Employment and Skills (K-YES)program.
Feb 28, 2019
Project Background ACDI/VOCA , in partnership with Helvetas and AIRD, have been implementing a five-year USAID funded project titled “ Agro Horizon Project ” in Kyrgyzstan. The project promoted economic growth by increasing employment in the agricultural sector for women and youth, while improving...
Feb 28, 2019
ADCI/VOCA is seeking a D.C.-based Monitoring and Evaluation Advisor.
Join Mercy Corps and Save the Children for this dicussion on alternative livelihoods, including the difference between on-farm, off-farm and non-farm, and what these distinctions mean for program design, implementation and measurement.
This webinar will look at how the AgResults prize competition model can strengthen market systems to sustainably improve the lives of smallholder farmers.
It is an opportune time to be working in the fields of agriculture and nutrition. Every day, researchers are producing more evidence on the agriculture-nutrition nexus; professionals are stepping out of silos to work across sectors; and people and institutions are improving their capacity to carry...