Economic Growth Training
Building accountable resource governance institutions
Formal institutions are central actors in natural resource governance decisions and a key arena in which policies, laws and regulations ranging from forest concessions to trade in wildlife products are negotiated and implemented. As gatekeepers in resource management decisions, natural…
Measuring Impact: Six Years of Improving Conservation at USAID
The Measuring Impact final report highlights six years of designing and implementing evidence-based conservation practices at USAID. Learn about the project's key milestones, challenges and approaches, and development impacts at multiple levels.
Better Biodiversity Integration Through Geospatial Analysis
This guide describes the use of geospatial analysis for integrating biodiversity conservation with other development sectors at USAID. It consists of four chapters corresponding to the four stages of the program cycle and provides the why, when and how of…
Conservation and Law Enforcement in Gorongosa and Niassa: A Study of the Criminal Justice Process for Wildlife Crime, from Apprehension to Incarceration
In July 2019, USAID/Mozambique released a comprehensive study of the wildlife criminal justice process in Mozambique and identified key areas for improvement. Successful enforcement of wildlife trafficking laws requires apprehending perpetrators and shepherding them through the criminal justice system. This…
Identity in a Digital Age: Infrastructure For Inclusive Development
This report assesses the opportunities and risks of digital ID systems in development. We particularly focus on the role of project-driven ID investments and argue for a broader view of digital ID as essential development infrastructure.
Biodiversity Reference Sheet
Ecosystems provide goods and services critical to human development and well-being such as food, fiber, clean water, fertile soil and pollination. Opportunities for integrating biodiversity with other development sectors exist throughout the USAID portfolio, and can be realized by the…
Food Security Reference Sheet
Ecosystems provide goods and services that support food production—including provision of wild foods and water, pest control and pollination—and biodiversity programming can have significant positive impacts on food security. Similarly, agriculture programming can sustainably increase productivity and incomes while minimizing…
Law Enforcement and Prosecution of Wildlife Crime in Mozambique Presentation
USAID’s Supporting the Policy Environment for Economic Development (SPEED+) program seeks to to improve the judiciary system’s capacity to successfully prosecute and adjudicate wildlife criminals through customized training packages and legal tools. In June 2019, USAID held a webinar for…
Local Communities - First Line of Defence against Illegal Wildlife Trade
The First Line of Defence against Illegal Wildlife Trade (FLoD) initiative takes advantage of an iterative learning process to help local communities, project designers and implementers at site and landscape levels to understand the context-specific motivations and assumptions that underpin…
Innovation Realized: Expanding the Path to Health Impact
This guide builds on successes and lays out practical ways that USAID staff can identify opportunities to apply innovation to solve real problems in the context of how we work, as well as to further innovation across the Agency.
Center for Innovation and Impact: 2019 Impact Brief
USAID’s Bureau for Global Health’s Center for Innovation and Impact (CII) introduces our 2019 Impact Brief, which features an overview of our work and progress this past year.
Unleashing Private Capital for Global Health Innovation: Innovator and Investor Support Opportunities
We are delighted to present Unleashing Private Capital for Global Health Innovation - Innovator and Investor Support Opportunities, a report outlining the need for catalyzing private capital for global health innovations and several transformative partnerships that could help us meet…
Artificial Intelligence in Global Health: Defining a Collective Path Forward
This paper is intended to fill a key gap by identifying both barriers to artificial intelligence (AI) deployment at scale in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) and what actions can best accelerate the appropriate use of AI to improve health…
Women and Tourism: Designing for Inclusion
This preparatory World Bank paper on tourism and gender explains the rationale for integrating a gender lens into tourism development projects. It also includes a set of resources designed to help development professionals and project managers get started and find…
Advancing Gender in the Environment: Gender in Fisheries—A Sea of Opportunities
Produced by USAID’s Office of Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment (GenDev), USAID’s Office of Forestry and Biodiversity (FAB), and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the guide provides an overview of the unique roles and contributions women make…
USAID Biodiversity Integration Case Study Competition
The U. S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Bureau for Economic Growth, Education and Environment (E3)/Office of Forestry and Biodiversity (FAB) is proud to announce a case study competition that invites examples of integration from across USAID’s portfolio.
USAID Biodiversity Conservation and Forestry Programs, Fiscal Year 2017 Annual Report
USAID Biodiversity Conservation and Forestry Programs, Fiscal Year 2017 annual report.
Democracy, Human Rights and Governance and Biodiversity Conservation Linkages
This document provides examples of how and where USAID has advanced democracy, rights, and governance (DRG) objectives—such as participation, inclusion, transparency, and accountability. USAID's approaches include promoting co-management approaches; tackling environmental crime and wildlife trafficking; strengthening the legal and judicial…
Combating Wildlife Trafficking Overview
Illicit wildlife is one of the largest black markets in the world, worth tens of billions of dollars. USAID implements a comprehensive, multi-sector approach to address wildlife trafficking that supports law enforcement training and community-based conservation activities, reduces demand for…
Sharing Environment and Energy Knowledge (SEEK)
Sharing Environment and Energy Knowledge (SEEK) supports USAID’s Bureau of Economic Growth, Education and Environment (E3) in building effective processes and strategies for training, communication, knowledge management and organizational development and facilitation. SEEK works directly with four E3 offices: Energy…