Water and Watershed Training
Better Biodiversity Integration Through Geospatial Analysis
This guide describes the use of geospatial analysis for integrating biodiversity conservation with other development sectors at USAID. It consists of four chapters corresponding to the four stages of the program cycle and provides the why, when and how of…
Conservation and Law Enforcement in Gorongosa and Niassa: A Study of the Criminal Justice Process for Wildlife Crime, from Apprehension to Incarceration
In July 2019, USAID/Mozambique released a comprehensive study of the wildlife criminal justice process in Mozambique and identified key areas for improvement. Successful enforcement of wildlife trafficking laws requires apprehending perpetrators and shepherding them through the criminal justice system. This…
Biodiversity Reference Sheet
Ecosystems provide goods and services critical to human development and well-being such as food, fiber, clean water, fertile soil and pollination. Opportunities for integrating biodiversity with other development sectors exist throughout the USAID portfolio, and can be realized by the…
Food Security Reference Sheet
Ecosystems provide goods and services that support food production—including provision of wild foods and water, pest control and pollination—and biodiversity programming can have significant positive impacts on food security. Similarly, agriculture programming can sustainably increase productivity and incomes while minimizing…
Innovation Realized: Expanding the Path to Health Impact
This guide builds on successes and lays out practical ways that USAID staff can identify opportunities to apply innovation to solve real problems in the context of how we work, as well as to further innovation across the Agency.
Center for Innovation and Impact: 2019 Impact Brief
USAID’s Bureau for Global Health’s Center for Innovation and Impact (CII) introduces our 2019 Impact Brief, which features an overview of our work and progress this past year.
Unleashing Private Capital for Global Health Innovation: Innovator and Investor Support Opportunities
We are delighted to present Unleashing Private Capital for Global Health Innovation – Innovator and Investor Support Opportunities, a report outlining the need for catalyzing private capital for global health innovations and several transformative partnerships that could help us meet…
USAID Newsletter April 2019
Around the Clock: USAID Continues Post-Cyclone Aid in Southern Africa
Women and Tourism: Designing for Inclusion
This preparatory World Bank paper on tourism and gender explains the rationale for integrating a gender lens into tourism development projects. It also includes a set of resources designed to help development professionals and project managers get started and find…
Advancing Gender in the Environment: Gender in Fisheries—A Sea of Opportunities
Produced by USAID’s Office of Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment (GenDev), USAID’s Office of Forestry and Biodiversity (FAB), and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the guide provides an overview of the unique roles and contributions women make…
USAID Biodiversity Conservation and Forestry Programs, Fiscal Year 2017 Annual Report
USAID Biodiversity Conservation and Forestry Programs, Fiscal Year 2017 annual report.
Democracy, Human Rights and Governance and Biodiversity Conservation Linkages
This document provides examples of how and where USAID has advanced democracy, rights, and governance (DRG) objectives—such as participation, inclusion, transparency, and accountability. USAID’s approaches include promoting co-management approaches; tackling environmental crime and wildlife trafficking; strengthening the legal and judicial…
ABCG Career Opportunities November 2018
Apply for these positions today to contribute to the protection of nature.
Integrating Food Security and Wild Caught Fisheries Management in USAID Programming
Integrating Food Security and Wild Caught Fisheries Management in USAID Programming is an illustrative case example that demonstrates how two adaptive management programming tools—situation models and results chains—can help USAID staff and its partners to better design and implement activities…
Integrating Ecosystem Values into Cost-Benefit Analysis: Recommendations for USAID and Practitioners
This document provides recommendations for the incorporation of ecosystem service valuations into Agency cost-benefit analysis (CBA) across sectors, both for USAID staff that produce or use CBAs and for USAID as an institution. In addition, this document provides specific guidance…
Partnership for the Conservation of Amazon Biodiversity Annual Report 2017
In 2017, PCAB activities covered an area of 56 million hectares, providing direct economic benefits to more than 4,000 people and indirectly benefiting thousands. In the coming years, we would like to expand this partner network even further and increase…
Biodiversity Integration in Practice: A Case Study of USAID in Western Honduras
This case study illustrates the approach and process used by USAID’s Honduras mission to integrate its biodiversity, education, food security and nutrition, and governance sectors. In Honduras, improved conservation and management of natural resources, particularly water, has increased understanding across…
Report: The Nature of Conservation Enterprises: A 20-year retrospective evaluation of the theory of change behind this widely used approach to biodiversity conservation
USAID’s “The Nature of Conservation Enterprises: A 20-year retrospective evaluation of the theory of change behind this widely used approach to biodiversity conservation” uses a theory of change to examine the assumptions and draw lesson learned on the conditions needed…
Americans with Disabilities Act Compliant Version of Acting on the Evidence
Download this file for an accessible version of Acting on the Evidence, the interactive learning resource for Evidence in Action.