Working under contract to the
U.S. Agency for Inter-national Development and other foreign aid donors,
Chemonics designs and implements development projects in many of the world’s
developing coun-tries. Integrating a range of consulting capabilities, we offer
solutions in finan-cial services, private sector development, health,
envi-ronmental management, gender, crisis prevention and recovery, democracy and
governance, and agri-culture. Through our work, we promote meaningful change by
helping people live healthier, more pro-ductive, and more indepen-dent lives.
Part of a larger effort to promote efficiency and automation in court administration, new information kiosks are reducing the time Russians spend waiting in line for assistance by allowing them to get the information they need quickly and easily themselves.
The Agricultural Productivity Enhancement Program is helping farmers to increase their incomes by helping them to meet buyers’ demands for quantity and quality of their product. By working with both buyers and sellers, the project creates win-win situations that benefit all.
A Moldovan businessman had the customers but not the capital he needed to expand his agribusiness company. Fortunately, his bank had teamed up with the USAID-funded Competitiveness Enhancement and Enterprise Development project to provide a new type of loan without stringent collateral requirements.
With the support of the Indonesia Control of Corruption Project, the Indonesian government is using branding to help consumers easily identify legal money changers. Tourists can now spot registered money changers by an official logo, which is affixed to signage, informational leaflets, stickers, and T-shirts.
The Zambia Threshold Project has won three Telly Awards for video documentation of its work in anticorruption and business registration. The videos won for excellence in government relations documentation, editing, and cinematography.
With the assistance from the Poverty Reduction and Alleviation project, small producers have moved from selling at low prices at local markets to selling at higher prices to food processers. Several have even signed deals to supply potatoes to Frito Lay, which now marks every bag of chips sold in the country with the slogan “Made in Peru with Pride.”
