WE TRAINED 439,958 participants on topics including civic engagement and government transparency, sustainable agriculture, and climate resiliency.
WE WORKED WITH 1,836 organizations in 2016, providing capacity building assistanceOctober 2018
Emerging Afghan Leader to Attend Major Youth Summit in the Netherlands
Twenty-three-year-old Mohammad Mustafa Raheal is part of a new generation of Afghan leaders who have come of age during the post-Taliban period in Afghanistan. Like …
October 2018
Banning the Phrase ‘Empowering Others’
I banned the use of empower at Counterpart. I took a red pen and deleted any sentences in proposals that read that we empower citizens …
August 2018
The Mandela Legacy: YALI and The New Generation of Remarkable Youth Leaders
The Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) launched in 2014 as a partnership between the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the Department of State, and the U.S. African …
August 2018
Forging New Partnerships in Tbilisi: Working Together Toward Open Government
Recently, at an event in D.C. focused on Democracy in the Western Hemisphere, USAID Administrator Mark Green told stories from his travels around the world …