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USAID’s Textbook II Printing and Distribution Project supports Afghanistan’s Ministry of Education (MoE) to expand access to and improve the quality of basic education for Afghanistan’s school-aged children. Through this project, USAID partners with the Government of Afghanistan (GoA) to print and distribute appropriate, MoE-approved textbooks and teachers’ guides.
During the month of April, active conflict and unexploded ordnances in Syria killed at least 324 people, including more than 70 children and one media worker, according to the Syria Network for Human Rights (SNHR). Casualties in April bring total civilian deaths to more than 1,100 people since the beginning of 2019, SNHR reports. Due to access and security constraints prohibiting data collection, SNHR cautions that the actual death toll may likely be higher.
The Government of the Republic of Mozambique (GRM) reported that the official count for Tropical Cyclone Kenneth-related deaths had increased to 45 people as of May 9. In addition, the GRM reports the number of people in need of assistance from Tropical Cyclone Kenneth has increased to nearly 255,000 people as humanitarian agencies access additional populations affected by the storm. Improved weather conditions have allowed relief actors to begin delivering assistance in areas impacted by Tropical Cyclone Kenneth; however, road, security, and weather conditions continue to constrain humanitarian access to some hard-to-reach areas.
HEDP supports Afghanistan’s second National Higher Education Strategic Plan (NHESP II) 2015-2020. The HEDP is organized under two components: 1) the Higher Education Development Program component; and 2) the Program Operations and Technical Support component.
EQUIP II was a follow-on program to the EQUIP I. The EQUIP II program was designed to: (1) increase access to schooling from Grades 112; (2) strengthen the capacity of communities to better manage teaching learning activities; (3) promote institutionalized district-based teacher training activities nationwide; and (4) prioritize education for girls through a household scholarship scheme and the provision of high school teachers in underserved schools.
USAID’s CBA supports the Afghan Ministry of Education (MoE) to achieve the goals of its third National Education Strategic Plan by helping build its capacity to deliver higher quality education services to the Afghan people, and to increase transparency and accountability of national and subnational MoE systems.
On April 25, Tropical Cyclone Kenneth made landfall over Mozambique’s Quissanga district, Cabo Delgado Province, with winds estimated at 140 miles per hour. As of April 30, Tropical Cyclone Kenneth had caused at least 41 deaths and affected approximately 190,000 people in the country’s Cabo Delgado and Nampula provinces, according to the UN. On April 26, U.S. Ambassador to Mozambique Dennis W. Hearne declared a disaster due to the effects of Tropical Cyclone Kenneth in Mozambique. In response, the USAID Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) in Mozambique is conducting assessments and supporting response activities in coordination with the Government of Mozambique (GRM) and humanitarian partners.
USAID’s Acquisition and Assistance (A&A) Strategy, announced in December 2018, provides guiding principles for partnering and procurement that will support the Journey to Self-Reliance by meeting individual countries on their own terms and by empowering USAID’s partners to produce results-driven solutions. Building on the many creative and entrepreneurial approaches we are developing, the Agency is moving beyond our traditional partnering approaches toward greater collaboration, co-design, and co-financing.
The New Partnerships Initiative (NPI) will help operationalize this vision and catalyze new approaches outlined in the USAID A&A Strategy and the broad priorities of the forthcoming implementation plan for Effective Partnering and Procurement Reform (EPPR) under the Agency’s Transformation. NPI also builds on USAID’s Policy Framework announced by Administrator Green on April 11, 2019. The focus of all of these efforts is on helping governments, civil society, and the private sector make progress on the Journey to Self-Reliance, achieve sustainable and resilient results, and create more-effective partnerships for impact. Under the Administrator’s direction, USAID is placing a new emphasis on adaptive partnering (designing, procuring, and managing awards).
USAID announces more than $6.8 million in additional funding for the Tropical Cyclone Idai response. Health actors report more than 6,600 cholera cases; daily number of new cholera cases continues to decline.
USAID’s Sustaining Health Outcomes Through the Private Sector Plus Activity is USAID’s flagship initiative which supports the Government of Nepal’s goal of increasing access to and use of family planning, HIV/AIDS, and maternal and child health products. The five-year (March 2016 – September 2020), $5 million, activity seeks to improve health outcomes by harnessing the full potential of the private sector and catalyzing lasting public-private engagement.
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