Technical Areas and Activities

USAID West Africa Success Story: Civil Society Tackles Road Corruption

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USAID
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March 1, 2009
The video is shaky and the audio muffled, but the pictures still tell a story worth a thousand angry words: An unscrupulous agent of Ghana’s customs service openly celebrates as he extorts money from travelers crossing the Ghana-Togo border at Aflao, near Lome, the capital of Togo...

Local Investment and National Competitiveness (LINC) in Ukraine Project Summary

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USAID
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March 1, 2009
The Local Investment and National Competitiveness (LINC) Project aimed to increase competitiveness in Ukrainian cities and economic regions by systematically helping to improve business conditions and practices at both the local and national level.

USAID Southern Africa Success Story: New Ivestment in Mozambique Links Smallholders to U.S. market

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application/pdf iconNew Investment in Mozambique Links Smallholders to U.S. Market.pdf
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USAID
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April 1, 2009

Americans can now get a healthy dose of African heat while feeling good about what they are eating and supporting smallholder farmers in Mozambique. In 2009, the USAID Trade Hub assisted Elephant Pepper with securing a new $1.2 million investment to begin operations in Mozambique. Elephant Pepper, a chili product manufacturer in Southern Africa selling under its own brand and supplying to the United States (U.S.) Tabasco hot sauces product...

USAID West Africa Success Story: Clearing the Corridors of Commerce

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application/pdf iconClearing the Corridors of Commerce.pdf
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USAID
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April 1, 2009
On an average day at the border between Togo and Ghana, truck after truck lines the side of the road with containers full of commercial goods. Once freed from often burdensome border procedures, eastbound truckers will face more delays at the border with Benin less than 50 miles later. In addition, truckers will face even more stops in between borders. Each stop can add hours to the journey and cost the truckers, as they often have to pay a bribe to pass...

Empowering Pakistan - Trade (EPT) SOW

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USAID
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July 1, 2009

The Empower Pakistan: Trade (EPT) activity aims to improve the trade environment in Pakistan, thereby resulting in expanded exports, more competitive enterprises and increased employment opportunities.

Empowering Pakistan - Trade (EPT) Project Summary

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application/pdf iconEmpower Pakistan - Trade (EPT) Program.pdf
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USAID
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July 1, 2009
The Empower Pakistan: Trade activity improves the trade environment in Pakistan, thereby resulting in expanded exports, more competitive enterprises and increased employment opportunities. The project will accomplish this through policy level interventions, capacity building, support to duty free zones and firms in these zones engaged in export.

Regional Economic Integration in Africa: Building on Successes and Lessons Learned

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application/pdf iconRegional Economic Integration in Africa - Building on Successes and Lessons Learned.pdf
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USAID
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July 31, 2009
This TCBoost report outlines a four-pronged approach to guide USAID in increasing its support of regional economic integration in Africa.

USAID West Africa Success Story: Changing the Mentality Is the First Step

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application/pdf iconChanging the Mentalist is the First Step.pdf
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USAID
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September 1, 2009
Campaigns to raise awareness of road harassment – supported by USAID’s West Africa Trade Hub in four West African countries – are helping to change attitudes on the topic. And that is leading to real, even if modest, reductions in the number of checkpoints along primary trade corridors...

USAID West Africa Success Story: As Alliance Grows, So Does Business

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application/pdf iconAs Alliance Grows, So Does Business.pdf
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USAID
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September 2, 2009
September 2, 2009, might very well go down as a seminal mo-ment in the history of the world cashew industry: In a breakout meeting room at the African Cashew Alliance’s 4th Annual Conference in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire, representatives of the world’s leading cashew-producing countries met and laid the foundation of a world cashew alliance...

Intellectual Property Rights Protection in Bosnia and Herezegovina SOW

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application/pdf iconIntellectual Property Rights (IPR) Protection in Bosnia & Herezegovina SOW.pdf
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USAID
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Date: 
October 1, 2009
The project will have two main objectives: (1) increase the ability of the Institute for Intellectual Property of Bosnia and Herezegovina (IIP) to meet and enforce World Trade Organization (WTO) and European Union (EU) standards; and (2) to raise public awareness regarding the importance of IPR.
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