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1975 |
Chemonics International is founded in Washington, D.C. by the company's first
president, Thurston F. Teele. Its mission, then and now, is to promote
meaningful change around the world, helping people live healthier, more
productive, and more independent lives.
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1975 |
Landmark agribusiness studies in Cameroon and Kenya represent Chemonics'
earliest work, earning high praise from our client, USAID.
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1977 |
Chemonics launches its first long-term effort for USAID, a rural economic
development project in Mali. The commitment to work in sub-Saharan Africa has
remained unbroken for more than 30 years.
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1978 |
The company initiates projects in two Asian
countries: one to improve financial management and marketing for the Afghan
Fertilizer Company and the other to conduct an investment analysis for
Thailand's Board of Trade.
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1981 |
A large initiative, Egypt Basic Village
Services, marks the beginning of a long and fruitful relationship between
Chemonics and the people of the Middle East. This project also represents the
company’s first major contributions to municipal governance, finance, and
infrastructure.
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1985 |
Within a decade of its founding, Chemonics is
active on four continents and in every field of international development.
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1988 |
The company adapts to rapid growth by
establishing regional divisions to respond to the priorities of individual
countries and USAID missions. This decentralized structure exists today.
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1992 |
Chemonics collaborates with a group of local
professionals to launch a management-services affiliate in Egypt. This
affiliate, Chemonics Egypt, is the first and longest-lived of many partnerships
Chemonics has formed to tap local expertise in the service of development.
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1995 |
The company begins to serve transitional
governments and nurture emerging markets in more than a dozen former Soviet
bloc countries. Chemonics specialists win praise for groundbreaking work in
privatizing banking, business, and land assets.
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1996 |
The Environment and Infrastructure Group is
launched, Chemonics' first technical incubator, to leverage growing knowledge
about urban and regional environmental issues. In addition to USAID, the Group
works with a range of U.S. government agencies, bilateral and multilateral
donors, and public institutions worldwide.
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1997 |
In what was then the largest, most-ambitious
environmental management project in USAID history, Chemonics sets out to tackle
air pollution in Cairo and reduce the impact industrial pollution was having on
the health of Egyptians.
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1999 |
Chemonics sponsors Propaganda and Dreams, an exhibition of 1930s U.S. and
Soviet photography. The exhibition is part of a series of Chemonics
grantsdesigned to highlight artwork that raises public awareness of
international development. A more recent project, Secret Games, in 2001,
featured efforts to empower children in disadvantaged communities.
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1999 |
With a new shareholder structure that grants part ownership to senior managers
of the company, Chemonics becomes an independent company.
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