Last week, Administrator Shah met with displaced families in Corozal, Sucre in Northern Colombia at a land titling event, and received a warm “thank you” from one of the community members. Read more >>
Tag archives for Colombia
Photo of the Week: Department of Choco in Colombia Celebrates 200 Years of Independence
USAID is working on several initiatives aimed at improving the living conditions of the Afro-Colombian and Indigenous population in Colombia. Read more >>
NEWEST Rice Marks Latest Milestone
Feed the Future partners from U.S. and international research communities and the private sector have teamed up to apply these tools to common challenges faced by millions of rice farmers throughout Africa. Read more >>
Outcomes are Nice, But What About Measuring Them?
In order to influence stakeholder behavior and achieve outcomes we need to engage stakeholders in the process of research itself. Read more >>
FrontLines Releases January/February 2013 Issue
Read the latest edition of USAID’s FrontLines to learn how the Agency is helping communities become more resilient to new and long standing crises, and how training to journalists and media organizations in developing countries helps create well-informed citizens. Read more >>
Trilateral Development: “We” Is Much Bigger Than “Us”
Success for Latin America and the Caribbean means that the USAID must work itself out of a job. Read more >>
Interagency Panel on Economic Statecraft to Create Competitive Foreign Markets
Last Monday, December 10, I had the opportunity to speak at an interagency panel on the topic of Economic Statecraft and Developing Partnerships with the Private Sector. Read more >>
Pounds of Prevention: Colombia
In this next installment in the Pounds of Prevention series, we travel to South America, to Colombia, a country with several active volcanoes that USAID and the U.S. Geological Survey help monitor. Read more >>
Promoting Peace and Growth in Colombia by Addressing Land Issues
Last week I had a chance to spend a day in Cartagena, Colombia with Assistant Administrator Mark Feierstein, USAID Colombia Mission staff, host government personnel and implementing partners. Read more >>
Video of the Week
In this short video, Diego Bustamante talks about his experience working as a counterpart with USAID’s Office of Transition Initiatives (OTI). Diego highlights the innovative approach OTI used in Colombia from 2007 through 2011 that led to the Colombian government adopting OTI’s strategy, which helped to reduce conflict and improve government legitimacy in former guerilla [...]
