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 USAID Improves Local Living Conditions in Primoriye
On November 28, 2008, experts from USAID/Russia and the Fund for Sustainable Development (FSD) conducted a site visit and financial training in the town of Luchegorsk in the Pazharskiy Raion of Primoriye... Read More ...
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 USAID Supports Development in Rural Primorye
On November 28, 2008, a USAID representative visited the villages of Nagornoye and Pozharsky in the Pozharsky Raion of Primorye to learn about the impact of USAID’s Municipal Community Alliances Program... Read More ...
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 Community Development Helps Three Villages Speak with One Voice
On November 19, 2008, three Lenkaran villages with a combined population of approximately 8,100 residents inaugurated the completion of their USAID-supported Community Development Activity (CDA) road rehabilitation project... Read More ...
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 Community Action Brings Fresh Water to Moldovan Households
At a recent USAID ceremony in Porumbeni, Citizens came out to celebrate their success in beating a web of regulations to improve their water system... Read More ...
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 Srebrenica Court Gets Much-Needed Facelift
Srebrenica Basic Court President Hajrudin Halilovic has spent most of his life in the city’s court, having gotten his first job there in 1971. When he returned after the war to find the court in ruins, he was shocked... Read More ...
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 USAID Helps Serbian Communities Deal with Water Shortages
Five south-central Serbian municipalities have been severely affected by acute water shortages due to recent droughts and insufficient water reservoir capacity in this part of the country... Read More ...
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![Patricia Rader, USAID/Kosovo Mission Director [right], issued Certificates of Appreciation to partner municipalities and communities.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090509222014im_/http://www.usaid.gov/locations/europe_eurasia/images/success/2008-11-06_small.jpg) 135 Communities and 16 Municipalities Honored for Participation in Returns Project
The successful completion of 135 infrastructure projects to support returns and reintegration of minorities in Kosovo and to help local municipalities and communities improve living conditions for all citizens was celebrated with a closing ceremony on September 23, 2008, in Pristina... Read More ...
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 Kosovo Kindergartners say “Thank You, USAID!”
Five little girls holding signed that spelled out "U-S-A-I-D" stood ready to greet Michael Farbman, USAID’s departing Kosovo Mission Director, at the dedication of a kindergarten rehabilitation project in Mitrovice/Mitrovica on August 27, 2008... Read More ...
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 Road Rehab Makes Economic Growth Accessible for Remote Communities
Over 3,400 residents in Lerik, a remote mountainous district in southeastern Azerbaijan, and neighboring communities depend on a poorly maintained primary road... Read More ...
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 Irrigation Upgrades to Expand Crops, Family Income
For over 15 years, farmers and villagers in Tazakand (located in Azerbaijan’s Astara district) suffered from the lack of a reliable water supply... Read More ...
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 Projects Help Improve Living Conditions for Kosovo Serbs
In June 2008, two new projects in Kosovo Serb villages, including the rehabilitation of the Kralj Milutin School in Gracanice/a, and the construction of a playground in Dobrotin [Lipjan/Lipljan] were dedicated... Read More ...
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 Italy Joins Partnership to Develop Balkan Region
With the signing of a memorandum of understanding in Rome on July 17, Italy joined the U.S. and Greece in an innovative public-private partnership to stimulate sustainable economic growth, energy security... Read More ...
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 Irrigation Rehab to Expand Fruit Crops in Southern Azerbaijan
In June 2008, USAID hosted the inauguration of a newly-completed irrigation system rehabilitation project in Tazakand, Astara. More than 100 people, including residents from two neighboring communities... Read More ...
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 Water Company Agrees to Operations Improvement Plan
In January 2008, the Municipal Development Institute, a Ukrainian NGO and USAID implementing partner, signed an agreement with the Alchevsk City Council, the Alchevsk City Development Fund... Read More ...
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 Koryukivka Reaps Benefits of Strategic Public-Private Partnership
A small town of nearly 13,500 residents in Chernihiv Oblast, Koryukivka is home to the Koryukivka Technical Paper Factory, a public corporation that claims to be Europe's largest wallpaper manufacturer... Read More ...
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 “Roads Link People” in Kosovo Serb Villages
"Roads link people, and this road project has strengthened linkages among residents of Grace," said USAID/Kosovo Mission Director Michael Farbman said at a ribbon-cutting ceremony for a newly-asphalted road in Grace/Gracke (Vushtrri/Vucitrn municipality)... Read More ...
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 New Bridge Brings New Beginnings in Kosovo
“Row, row your boat,” sang children from a local kindergarten at the Viti/Vitina town bridge dedication on May 16, 2008. The bridge, a joint project of USAID, KFOR, Viti/Vitina municipality and Developing Together, was dedicated by Douglas Menarchik... Read More ...
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 School Gym Rehabilitation Project Energizes Community
The community of Hajihuseynli, Guba in northeast Azerbaijan, celebrated the opening of its new school gymnasium in January 2008. USAID partners CHF International and UMID HSSC handed the facility over to the community... Read More ...
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 Small Grants Help Armenian Communities Make Big Changes
On February 29, 2008, the U.S. Embassy in Yerevan hosted the eighth bi-annual Community Self Help Fund (CSHF) Grants award ceremony. Launched in November 2003, CSHF is a U.S. Embassy program designed to assist local communities... Read More ...
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 Coalition Earns Borrowing Authority for Albanian Cities
Less than 10 years since local governments became independent from the central government, Albania’s 65 municipalities still struggle to provide citizens with basic services, let alone finance larger infrastructure needs... Read More ...
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 Reform Project Helps Chernivtsi Take Off
Chernivtsi International Airport is both a source of pride and problems for its namesake city. The airfield was built back in 1933; and although the runway was renovated in the mid-1980s, modernization of the airport is long overdue... Read More ...
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 Budget Reforms Helps Luhansk Keep Clean
What could be more irritating than litter on the streets of your native city, especially if you have spent your lifetime trying to clean it up? “It is just impossible to win this battle all by oneself,” said Mariya Duda shrugging her shoulders... Read More ...
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 Renovations Revitalize Armenian Villages
The Integrated Community Development project is improving the quality of life in rural Armenia through an integrated approach to development and a novel model of partnership between the public and private sectors... Read More ...
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 Improved Water Management to Increase Crop Productivity
An irrigation system renovated with USAID support will increase farmland productivity by 15 percent and reduce water consumption by 25 percent at the Kanal Suv Yuli water users association in Djizzak Province... Read More ...
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 Landmark Macedonian Wireless Project Powers Down
Over the past three years, USAID’s Macedonia Connects project (MK Connects) brought free broadband internet to nearly 550 schools throughout the country, made internet affordable to local businesses and individuals... Read More ...
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 Georgian City Market Brought Back to Life
On June 1, the Ninotsminda farmers’ market opened for business for the first time in fifteen years. The local community, USAID, the Governor’s office and implementer the Urban Institute (UI) participated in the opening ceremony... Read More ...
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 Municipal Bonds Raise Development Funds for Ukraine's Cities
Ukraine’s cities need massive amounts of investment to modernize their infrastructure, and municipal bonds provide the means to help them attract long-term capital. In late 2004, the USAID-funded Access to Credit Initiative (ATCI) began working with selected cities... Read More ...
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 USAID Supports Infrastructure Strengthening in Kosovo’s North
‘With this project, you took charge, you identified your needs and priorities, and worked to find resources in cooperation with both your local government officials and the international community," said Dr. Michael Farbman... Read More ...
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 Center Eases Tensions, Improves Information Exchange in Jalalabat Oblast
On April 25, the USAID Collaborative Development Initiative (CDI), implemented by Mercy Corps, celebrated the completed rehabilitation of irrigation water system in Kyzyljyldyz Village, Nooken District, Jalalabat Oblast, Kyrgyzstan... Read More ...
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 Azerbaijani Communities Seek Partners to Sustain Development Progress
Now in its second year, USAID’s Community Development Activity (CDA) program is engaging Azerbaijan’s citizens and communities in identifying and addressing local needs... Read More ...
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 Rehabilitating Infrastructure in Kosovo’s Minority Communities
USAID and its implementing partners, Mercy Corps and the International Organization for Migration, dedicated four new rehabilitation projects in late April, as part of an ongoing effort to address the basic infrastructure needs in minority areas of Kosovo... Read More ...
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 Disabled Woman Fights to Remove Barriers in Ukraine
For seven years now, Anna Harchenko has used a wheelchair to get around in her native town of Cherkasy. At the age of 15, Anna fell and injured her spine while riding a horse... Read More ...
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 USAID Helps Improve Turkmenistan’s Infrastructure
On February 2, three communities in Boldumsaz District, Dashoguz Province celebrated the completion of infrastructural projects supported by USAID’s Water Users Association Assistance Program (WUAAP)... Read More ...
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 American Investment Helps Kosovo Rebuild, Rehabilitate
Residents of Zubin Potok gathered to celebrate the opening of their renovated Town Hall building at an opening ceremony on February 1. The day also marked the finalization of another project in this municipality... Read More ...
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 Advocacy in Action: Saving Andriyivsky Izviz
Carolers wearing Ukrainian national costumes visited each and every house on Andriyivsky Uzviz on January 20 to wish residents good fortune and prosperity in the New Year... Read More ...
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 USAID Helps Form Water Committees
In the first weeks of July, a series of meetings on how to form water committees and manage water systems were conducted in Jarbulak, Kalam, and Navbunyod - three Asht District... Read More ...
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 Rural Councils Find Solutions for Local Problems
Until recently, single mother Oksana Moskalyuk had to choose between finding a job outside of her village of Gostiv or staying home to care for her four-year-old, Alina... Read More ...
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 Community Halts Deterioration of Homes and Land Thanks to USAID
After enduring years of damage from rising groundwater, Jarbulok community in Sughd Region was finally able to address the problem when USAID’s Peaceful Communities Initiatives Project arrived in their village... Read More ...
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 USAID Enables Turkmen Farmers To Reclaim 300 Hectares of Land
A group of Turkmen farmers, supported by the USAID Water Users’ Association Assistance Program (WUAAP), celebrated the rehabilitation of an irrigation and drainage canal system in Bayramali,
Mary Velayat (region) in March... Read More ...
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 Rehabilitated Water Pump Reduces Tension Among Communities in Panjakent District
In a remote and isolated region of Tajikistan, USAID’s Peaceful Communities Initiative Project (PCI) helped end a decades-long dispute over water between two communities in Jamoat Hurmi in Panjakent District... Read More ...
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 Rescuing a Troubled Parking System
Indjija, a municipality located in northern Serbia, has long suffered from critical parking problems. In the city's downtown area, the few available public lots were filled with long-term and residential vehicles... Read More ...
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 Bosnia-Herzegovina Receives Return on US Investment of $372 Million for
Infrastructure Repair
Infrastructure repair is the most visible of all USAID’s programs in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Starting in 1995, the program targeted structures that would help restart and assist citizens to return to normal living... Read More ...
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USAID Lends Support to Bulgarian-Iraq Economic Forum
With the financial and administrative support of USAID, an Iraqi-Bulgarian business seminar was organized by the Bulgarian-Iraqi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BICCI)... Read More ...
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 Water Supply Overhaul in Montenegro Improves Tourism, Creates New
Jobs
Montenegro is a country of exquisite natural and cultural resources. Every summer, more than 600,000 tourists flock to its shores and towns... Read More ...
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 New Loan Guarantee Facility Opens New Opportunity for Bulgaria’s Municipalities
On September 28, 2005, USAID Deputy Assistant Administrator for Europe & Eurasia Thomas Fleetwood Mefford and HVB Bank Biochim Chief Executive Officer Peter Harold signed a $15 million loan portfolio guarantee agreement... Read More ...
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Georgia’s Citizens Take the Lead in Planning Their Communities’ Future
Like other Georgian cities, Poti suffers from high unemployment and poor access to basic utilities, such as electricity and water. In 2003, USAID’s local governance program, implemented... Read More ...
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 USAID Delivers Flood Relief to Western Georgia
This spring was marred by severe rainfall in the high mountainous regions of western Georgia. The resulting floods and landslides damaged houses, roads, bridges... Read More ...
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 Serbian and Iraqi Engineers Benefit from Knowledge Exchange
Based on the extensive capacity developed over the past three years in implementing USAID's large-scale Community Revitalization through Democratic Action (CRDA) program.... Read More ...
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Bridge between Srebrenica and Bajina Basta Municipalities Refurbished with U.S. Support
On Wednesday, November 3, an inauguration ceremony will be held to mark the completion of renovations of the bridge connecting Skelani, in the Municipality of Srebrenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Bajina Basta, in Serbia and Montenegro... Read More ...
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Bridge Renovation Encourages Increased Cross-border and Interethnic Cooperation
For nearly a decade, cooperation between the communities of Srebrenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Bajina Basta, Serbia and Montenegro, has been virtually non-existent... Read More ...
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