Paraguay Threshold Program, Stage II
Paraguay’s recently completed Stage II Threshold Program strengthened procurement processes and accountability measures in 12 key government ministries and public offices.
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Namibia Compact
The Hai//om San are an indigenous minority group who historically hunted and gathered food in present-day Etosha National Park, the largest national park in northern Namibia. MCC is creating tourism-based livelihood opportunities for the Hai//om San.
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El Salvador Compact
MCC helped build or improve more than 220 kilometers of roads and 23 bridges in the Northern Zone, helping link El Salvador's poorest region with the rest of the country and creating opportunities for its residents.
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El Salvador Compact
Elsa Bolaños, a resident of El Salvador's Northern Zone, put her decades of experience in civil engineering to work on building a section of the Northern Transnational Highway.
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El Salvador Compact
FOMILENIO, which implemented MCC’s compact with El Salvador, demonstrated a commitment to country ownership, a focus on results and transparency—core principles essential for development to be effective.
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Jordan Compact
Jordan is among the world’s driest countries. Water scarcity impacts every aspect of daily life. In response, MCC is expanding the As-Samra wastewater treatment facility by financing a major build-operate-transfer project.
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Morocco Compact
MCC’s $32.8 million Literacy and Vocational Education Activity seeks to help fishers, smallholder farmers and artisans in the most economically disadvantaged areas of Morocco, where illiteracy is particularly prevalent.
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Morocco Compact
The Fez Medina activity is an ambitious and challenging undertaking. The project includes renovating four 14th and 15th century fondouks as well as a public square—all intended to improve livelihoods for artisans and to revitalize the medina.
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Lesotho Compact
MCC’s five-year, $363 million compact with Lesotho is helping reform the country’s land sector by register¬ing and surveying urban land parcels, which should ultimately strengthen the country’s land market and stimulate private sector investment.
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Mongolia Compact
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Construction often involves working with and around hazardous materials, which if left untreated can cause illness to workers, environmental destruction and long-term health problems. MCC is working to ensure the nationwide adoption of international standards.
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Namibia Compact
MCC is helping students from remote provinces of Namibia learn the skills needed to work in the country's vital tourism industry.
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Namibia Compact
The MCC compact in Namibia is helping individuals and communities map and register their land rights, providing increased security that will put them in a better position to invest in their individual lands and to manage and protect common resources.
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Mozambique Compact
The MCC compact in Mozambique is funding the first systematic and large-scale land regularization and titling program in the country.
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Mongolia Compact
Over the past 10 years, air pollution in the capital of Mongolia has been a growing problem—so much so that Ulaanbaatar now has the second-highest level of air pollution in the world. But the Government of Mongolia and the Millennium Challenge Corporation...
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Namibia Compact
Most rural Namibian women’s livelihoods depend substantially on harvesting and processing indigenous natural products. Through its compact with Namibia, MCC is helping Namibian women export their products to global markets.
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Ghana Compact
For ages, Ghanaians who live in the northern parts of Ghana relied on stagnant water for their main drinking supply and risked contract¬ing Guinea worm disease. Learn how MCC’s Ghana Compact helped to ensure long-term eradication of the disease.
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Mali Compact
MCC’s Mali compact is transforming the Alatona Zone of Mali’s Ségou region into a hub of rice and vegetable production that will improve the lives of farmers and strengthen the country’s food security.
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Mongolia Compact
MCC's Mongolia Compact uses an innovative approach to select project beneficiaries for one of its projects: a lottery. Learn how lottery winners are part of a pilot effort to lease land to herders for better range management.
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Ghana Compact
Diners across the world know the Bird’s Eye chili pepper for the distinctive zing it brings to dishes. Members of one Ghanaian farmer-based organization know the pepper as “green gold”—and funding from MCC is helping them turn the crop into a profitable export.
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Ghana Compact
With a cross-sector approach to transforming agribusiness development across 30 districts in Ghana, MCC’s $547 million compact undertook and completed one of Ghana’s most significant infrastructure projects: a critical section of the N1 highway.
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Namibia Compact
See how changes in land management, animal health and marketing at auction are helping northern Namibians increase their income.
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Tanzania Compact
Where many might see challenges in the Tanzanian energy sector, two American companies saw opportunity.
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Lesotho Compact
A significant portion of MCA-Lesotho’s Health Project is dedicated to rehabilitating 138 health centers that play a pivotal role in the provision of primary health care to residents in communities across the Lesotho.
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Mongolia Compact
Mongolia is a signatory to major international conventions guaranteeing equal rights to women, and gender equality objectives have been enshrined in various national laws and regulations. However, women are not always able to fully realize these rights.
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Ghana Compact
Ayesha Otibo is the chairwoman of the Nyohini Women’s Group, a farmer-based organization comprised of 50 female entrepreneurial rice processers. These women received nine weeks of training to better develop their business and increase crop production.
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Benin Compact
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By reducing the cost of and improving access to financial resources, MCC’s Benin Compact Access to Financial Services Project aims to ensure that micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises are able to take advantage of business opportunities in the region.
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Benin Compact
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This project in MCC's Compact with Benin reduced ship waiting times and customs clearance times allowing for more international trade growth at the port and speeding imports to landlocked West African countries.
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Armenia Compact
Read about how the $150 million Irrigated Agriculture Project in MCC's Armenia compact helped farmers like Margarita better plan her growing season and guarantee more predictable irrigated water.
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Armenia Compact
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Partnering on irrigation canals, sharing studies for road construction, training on food safety and hygiene techniques are just a few examples of the value MCC finds in partnering with other donors.
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Armenia Compact
Robert Karapetyan tried the new laser leveling system—a technology improvement part of MCC's Armenia Compact—on one-third of his land. Read about his results and other tech in the compact.
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El Salvador Compact
A new group of investors—members of the Salvadoran diaspora—are slowly returning to El Salvador to provide an economic spark to local businesses and job markets.
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Mongolia Compact
To combat the growth of non-communicable diseases and injuries, the Health Sciences University of Mongolia is launching a partnership with George Washington University to establish a new master's of public health program.
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Paraguay Threshold Program, Stage II
With MCC's Threshold Program support and starting in 2009, Paraguay’s Ministry of Health developed a new, integrated system for medicines and supplies to ensure that all Paraguayans have access to essential medicines.
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Nicaragua Compact
The Rural Business Development Project in MCC's Nicaragua Compact has had an important, positive impact on the dairy sector and in the lives of many farmers, particularly those growing plantains.
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Nicaragua Compact
Before 2005 Nicaragua's road maintenance budget was $2.4 million for 500 km of roads. Discover how MCC's investment helped bolster both roads and road maintenance.
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Vanuatu Compact
This additional expertise is strengthening maintenance management of not only the MCC-funded roads, but Vanuatu’s entire road network.
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Nicaragua Compact
MCC considers environmental sustainability a core principle because improving the quality of life of beneficiaries in the long term requires responsible management of the environment and its resources.
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Vanuatu Compact
The $65.69 million compact with the Government of Vanuatu rehabilitated two critical roads on Efate and Santo Islands, Vanuatu's two largest islands. The 149.7 kilometers of rehabilitated roadways have become gateways to economic growth and community activity.
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Georgia Compact
Prior to MCC’s compact with Georgia, the nation’s north-south natural gas pipeline was poorly maintained and in danger of catastrophic failure.MCC’s $36 million investment—with other investments by Georgia—has secured and diversified the gas supply.
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Lesotho Compact
Maleribe separated from her husband and raised her children on her own. After struggling to secure a job, she saved enough money to buy property.
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Georgia Compact
The $203 million compact initiative improves a major transport network—220 km—connecting the capital city of Tbilisi to Southern Georgia and to border crossings with Armenia and Turkey.
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Honduras Compact
Honduras' new Secured Transactions Law, the first of its kind in the region, permits Honduran businesses, entrepreneurs, farmers and others to use “movable property” like equipment, shop inventory, future crops and more as collateral when applying for credit.
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El Salvador Compact
Jonathan Eliel Hernandez wakes up every weekday morning at 5:30 am to get ready for a long school day. As in many parts of rural El Salvador, public buses pass infrequently and at irregular hours. Although classes begin at 7:10 am, the earliest bus that Jonatha
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Tanzania Compact
Poor transportation infrastructure in Mbinga, Tanzania has been a contributing factor to high commodity prices and lack of access to health and education services; the MCC Compact in Tanzania includes a project upgrading the regional road from Peramiho Junction
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Burkina Faso Compact
Father Isidore Ouedraogo was pleasantly surprised to see that the BRIGHT schools project had already broken ground on the village of Tangasgo’s first school.
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Benin Compact
Benin’s MCC Compact includes a $169.5 million “Access to Markets” project that seeks to expand capacity, reduce costs, and improve the operating performance of Benin’s Port of Cotonou.
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Armenia Compact, El Salvador Compact, Honduras Compact, Mali Compact
Decades of international development experience have shown that involuntary resettlement can give rise to adverse economic, social, and environmental circumstances. MCC has implemented policies to eliminate or minimize these potential impacts.
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Morocco Compact
Morocco’s long coastline, spanning both the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, has given rise to a vibrant fishing industry.
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Cape Verde Compact
In Cape Verde, MCC and its MCA counterpart have initiated a two-part strategy designed to support Cape Verde’s long-term economic transformation through programs targeting microfinance development and improved access to credit for farmers.
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Cape Verde Compact
The partnership with MCC created new incentives for Cape Verde to continue policy reforms at the national level and new opportunities to pursue them at the sector level as part of its investment program.
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Honduras Compact
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When we first wrote about Edras Mateo in 2009, he was receiving training through the $30.4 million Farmer Training and Development Activity in the Rural Development Project.
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Honduras Compact
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MCC’s compact with Honduras takes an integrated approach, linking investments in transportation and agricultural development.
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Honduras Compact
MCC and its partner countries look closely at the environment in which MCC investments are being made, and plan reforms to policies that might limit the investment’s impact and sustainability.
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Vanuatu Compact
Not too long ago, in the village of Meten on Efate Island, Vanuatu, a mother’s trip to sell her flowers and produce at the main market place in Port Vila, Vanuatu’s capital, would take hours on a narrow, dusty and pothole-ridden road.
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El Salvador Compact
In May 2009, FOMILENIO’s Board of Directors approved a $33 million contract with local subsidiaries of Arlington, Virginiabased AES Corporation. The contract involves private co-financing, construction, and operation of electricity distribution networks.
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Namibia Compact
Francina Mutilifa plans to pursue her dream of becoming a lawyer, but as a 10th grader at Rehoboth High School, she is already facing a number of challenges.
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Armenia Compact
Ashot Abrahamyan is a farmer in Armenia whose apricot orchards lie beneath picturesque purple mountains. His farm is 30 meters above the closest public canal; so in order to irrigate, he had to pump water for more than seven hours every day.
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Cape Verde Compact, Honduras Compact, Nicaragua Compact
Imagine: You live in a rural village and have a small family-run mango farm. During the rainy season, the main road to the marketplace is impassable; after hours of navigating through dangerous conditions, you have no choice but to turn around.
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Peru Threshold Program
For the Quechua indigenous groups living in Sunec, a village in Peru’s central highlands, getting medical attention is a challenge. Extreme weather changes make influenza viruses prevalent during the winter months.
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Georgia Compact
Borjomi, a town famous for its natural mineral springs located in south-central Georgia, is a gateway to national parks in the region. The town is working to promote tourism as a means to economic growth.
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Lesotho Compact
Maleribe Leleka lives in Pitseng, a village in northern Lesotho. In 1985, she married under customary law and moved in with her husband and his mother. A year later, Maleribe’s husband was unable to secure a job and support Maleribe and their two children. In r
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Tanzania Compact
Mafia Island, an archipelago of islets in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Tanzania, is internationally recognized for its biodiversity and reef complexes that make it one of the world’s most important habitats.
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Paraguay Threshold Program
Paraguayans now benefit from a modern, more secure national identification card and passport system.
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Morocco Compact
Nearly 40 percent of citizens aged 15 years and older in Morocco cannot read or write, according to the 2008-2009 Annual Report on Literacy and Non-Formal Education.
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Benin Compact
MCC's compact with Benin “Access to Land Project” will create secure property for the poor and non-poor alike through the promotion of effective, transparent governance of land and property issues.
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Morocco Compact
Artisans throughout Morocco have been using traditional kilns for centuries, and the techniques used by these artisans have been passed down through generations to produce world-renowned pottery.
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Armenia Compact
Before the development of the Armenian Agricultural Market Information System (ARMIS), launched in December 2008, farmers like Rafik Smbatyan from Armenia’s Gegharkunik region were unaware of daily market prices for fruits and vegetables.
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El Salvador Compact
Reina Aguilar has long fought to improve the opportunities for her family’s well-being. Her once-distant dream of starting her own business to support her family and provide for her home is on course to becoming a reality.
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Mongolia Compact
On July 13, 2009, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton announced a broad agenda for the U.S. Government’s commitment to global health to include maternal and infant healthcare as well as other chronic diseases that are debilitating to developing economies.
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Georgia Compact
Ms. Demetradze is an entrepreneur in the Georgian village of Tseva who owns Nektari, a company specializing in beekeeping that produces high quality honey and agriculture products.
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Ghana Compact
Why Democracy and Governance Matter: Partnerships Where Good Policies Can Facilitate Growth
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Ghana Compact
Eric Cudjo’s family has a small pineapple farm in eastern Ghana. Through a form of paid vocational training, he works for Koranco Farm, a large-scale farm, so he can receive technical assistance and gain the knowledge necessary to start his own.
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Ghana Compact
Imagine a 10-year old boy living in a rural village in Ghana. If he is lucky, his small community will have a school with walls, a roof that doesn’t leak, and will be large enough to accommodate children from his village and neighboring communities.
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Cape Verde Compact
João Soares lives by the road between Órgãos and Pedra Badejo in Cape Verde and his daily commute to work used to take more than one hour. During the rainy season, this road could close down due to floods and João would be forced to stay home.
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Honduras Compact
Modesta decided to relocate her home and business out of the road’s right of way and into one of the new resettlement complexes under construction by MCA-Honduras.
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Malawi Compact, Malawi Threshold Program
Following the principles of country ownership and in an effort to gain additional expertise on how to improve its compact development process, the MCA-Malawi team organized a visit to their MCA counterparts in Lesotho in February 2009.
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Cape Verde Compact
Country ownership, transparency, and accountability are founding principles of the U.S. Government’s Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) work that guide its operations worldwide.
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Ghana Compact
Barbara and her colleagues are some of over 16,750 small-holder farmers who have been trained to date and have received these incentive packages, as part of the transformational Agriculture project.
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Cape Verde Compact
MCC also ensures that its infrastructure-funded projects involve human development issues in order to build a sustainable path to improved health and education.
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Zambia Threshold Program
Prosper Chanda, a Zambian entrepreneur in Lusaka, wanted to open his own sign manufacturing company. However, he was unsure how to go about registering his business.
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Jordan Threshold Program
During a recent address in Amman, Her Royal Highness Princess Basma of Jordan cited women's participation in local government as essential in any community and critical for local development.
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Honduras Compact
Desperately looking to start a different life beyond poverty and gangs, Edras Mateo left Guatemala in 2006 to return home to Honduras. Edras had limited education, no money and was unsure what to do next.
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Lesotho Compact
A five-way partnership between two U.S. government agencies and the government of Lesotho have a goal of improving essential health services such as safe motherhood, HIV/AIDS prevention, care, and treatment for tuberculosis.
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Malawi Compact
The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) is committed to the consultative process as a key driver of compact development and successful compact implementation.
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Indonesia Threshold Program
Thanks to MCC’s support, the household immunization survey has delivered the most accurate picture of immunization coverage in Indonesia in recent years.
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El Salvador Compact
By preserving and effectively marketing their artistic traditions, artisan shops and cooperatives are making the city a go-to destination for traditional Salvadoran art in a region otherwise known as one of the country’s poorest.
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Madagascar Compact
Reinvigorating the economy of an entire region of a country can start with something as simple as taking a fresh look at a traditional crop.
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Morocco Compact
Fishing is an ancient industry in the Kingdom of Morocco. Thousands of boat owners, wholesale fish merchants and mobile fish vendors have labored for centuries to earn a living from this promising, but difficult industry.
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Mali Compact, Nicaragua Compact
Inequalities and gender differences in controlling resources play a complex role in perpetuating poverty. When we pay attention to gender, we get a better designed poverty reduction program.
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Morocco Compact
The goals of cultural preservation and poverty reduction might at first glance seem worlds apart. However, a closer look at the Moroccan city of Fez shows how they can work together in a creative partnership.
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Georgia Compact
Farmers in Kaspi, a rural district in central Georgia’s Shida Kartli region, now have access to a state-of-the-art Farm Service Center selling fertilizers, seeds, tools, veterinary preparations and disinfectants, and appropriate pest management solutions.
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Georgia Compact
Imagine having only two hours of running water per day. Now, try to picture how this situation would impact not only your own household but local services and businesses, including hospitals, restaurants, hotels and factories.
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El Salvador Compact
In El Salvador’s Northern Zone, a call for proposals from local experts triggered an impressive response, and catalyzed some creative ideas aimed at helping farmers improve their incomes and production.
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Madagascar Compact
Sylvie Faramihaja moves around her native town of Toamasina and its surrounding villages in eastern Madagascar with ease on her green moped.
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Benin Compact, Mali Compact, Mozambique Compact, Vanuatu Compact
Over fifty representatives from partner countries worldwide gathered at the Millennium Challenge Corporation’s (MCC) headquarters from 2–6 June to attend MCC University – MCC’s annual event focused on learning through exchange of on-the-ground experiences among
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Benin Compact
Representatives of eleven villages from southern Benin’s Kpomasse commune gathered at the town hall in mid-March to participate in a land tenure lottery sponsored by MCA-Benin.
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Paraguay Threshold Program
Public servants in Paraguay’s Ministry of Education and Culture have been energized by a comprehensive ethics campaign resulting in the creation of a Code of Ethics and Good Governance as well as an Ethics Office.
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Honduras Compact
One of the challenges faced by the MCA-Honduras, is ensuring that families with homes, businesses or land within the area of the road expansion are treated fairly and provided with compensation for their lost assets and income sources.
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Benin Compact, Georgia Compact, Mali Compact
An increasing number of countries partnering with the MCC are finding that sharing best practices is helpful to effective poverty reduction programs, including Benin, Mali and Georgia
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