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Mozambique’s agricultural sector comprises an overwhelming majority of smallholder farmers. About 70 percent of the population is engaged in agriculture, which serves as the main economic sector in Mozambique (24 percent of GDP). Only 16 percent of the country’s 36 million hectares of arable land is currently under cultivation. In addition, due to obstacles such as lack of access to financing, markets and quality inputs, productivity of small-holder, family-based agriculture is very low. Agricultural development is the key to reducing poverty. USAID agriculture focused programs use a value chain approach to strengthen the agribusiness sector through improved linkages between smallholder farmers and large commercial agribusinesses, processors, and traders. Productivity, processing, and marketing of staple agricultural commodities are expanded by enhancing access to finance, forging public-private partnerships, providing business development services, and improving the business-enabling environment.
Military operations by Turkish Armed Forces (TAF) and Turkish-supported opposition groups that began on October 9 displaced up to 215,000 individuals in parts of northeast Syria’s Aleppo, Al Hasakah, and Ar Raqqah governorates, according to the UN. As of November 4, nearly 115,500 people had returned to areas of origin, while more than 99,600 people remained displaced. Large-scale TAF military operations subsided in mid- and late October following various political agreements, prompting some displaced individuals to return to areas of origin; however, hostilities continue to damage civilian infrastructure and exacerbate humanitarian needs, relief organizations report.
Despite strong and sustained economic growth over the past decade, the Mozambican economy has undergone minimal structural transformation. Specifically, growth has not translated into increased employment opportunities. The latest estimate of the unemployment rate is 23% overall, with more than a third of youth between 20-25 years of age unemployed. These figures have remained largely unchanged over the last decade. Coupled with Mozambique’s high population growth rate of nearly 3% per year, the employment situation suggests that most of the 300,000 new entrants into the labor market each year will not find stable employment.
The Government of the Russian Federation (GoRF) and Syrian Arab Republic Government (SARG) announced a unilateral ceasefire in Idlib Governorate on August 31 following several months of a continued GoRF and SARG offensive targeting armed opposition group (AOG)-controlled areas of the governorate. While the number of airstrikes subsided following the ceasefire announcement, relief actors continued to report instances of shelling and isolated airstrikes in southern Idlib through September. The UN reports that GoRF and SARG airstrikes killed more than 1,000 civilians in northwest Syria between April 29 and September 30.
Launched in September 2019, USAID’s Monitoring and Evaluation Support project (MEASURE II) is an extension of its first MEASURE project. The initial project evaluated the impact of USAID’s development programs in Bosnia and Herzegovina and helped build the capacity of local stakeholders to conduct evaluations and social science research to inform policymaking and programming of local organizations and institutions.
USAID-ov projekat Preduzetnice i startap osnivačice je trogodišnja aktivnost vredna 1,2 miliona dolara koja radi na izgradnji kompetencija, liderstva i uticaja preduzetnica i rodno diversifikovanih startapova. Ovaj projekat radi na unapređenju ekonomskog uticaja startapova koje vode žene jačanjem njihovog rasta i pristupa novim i alternativnim izvorima finansiranja.
Projekat za lokalni aktivizam-Tvoje mesto u Srbiji je četvorogodišnji projekat vredan 1,7 miliona dolara koji sprovodi Nacionalna koalicija za decentralizaciju (NKD), lokalna mreža 16 organizacija civilnog društva sa juga Srbije. projekat podržava razvoj lokalnih zajednica kroz mobilizaciju postojećih resursa i unapređenje lokalnog aktivizma širom Srbije. NKD pomaže u razvoju saradnje i jače povezanosti između građana, lokalnih organizacija civilnog društva, privatnog sektora i vlasti.
USAID-ov Projekat jačanja okruženja za održivost medija je četvorogodišnji projekat vredan 6,5 miliona dolara koji podržava unapređenje nezavisnosti medija unapređenjem finansijske stabilnosti medija u SrbijiProjekat pomaže medijima u Srbiji poboljšanjem poslovnog okruženja za rad medija.
USAID LocalWorks funding empowers local actors to take the lead in addressing their local development challenges.
USAID improves the identification, treatment, protection, and access to justice for victims of human trafficking.
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